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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3948678, member: 1145"]
Do you recall how much trouble a large number of FSU players made when Norvell was hired and even after Spring practice? Do you recall that they all were black and some of them made race the issue?

The reasons, in order, that FSU lost:

1. Travis played QB for FSU more than 3/4ths of the game. He is yet another in the massive tide of top rate athletes who are far from top level QBs. Hamilton looked like the best Safety in maybe ever precisely because he could read Travis and jump on his wobbly ducks.
2. The ND OL provided text book Grade A pass protection.
3. ND QB Coan played a fundamentally flawless game.
4. The FSU LBs and DBs could not come close to slowing ND TE Mayer.

ND kept the game close by a stupid strategy of having the D give full respect to the FSU passing game when Travis was playing. It lead to 3 INTs, but it meant that ND did not totally shut down FSU running and hit Travis hard every single time a pass was called.

Or perhaps Kelly wanted that type D to keep Milton on the bench as long as possible.

Here is the take away: if Norvell gives the keys to Milton, and the FSU players don't have another round of hissy-fits, the Noles could cause some real damage.
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