WVU 541 yds against that hardnosed UConn defense

[Millhouse]

Congrats to P for holding them under 550.

WVU is averaging 503 ypg now

Incredible leap in one year. SIGH

hopefully our secondary got their bad game out of their system. clubber lang has a prediction for 2 weeks from now. PAIN

 

[MadNY3]

You are being waaayyy to harsh on P. After all, he had to replace TWO starters on defense.The horror...

 

[upperdeck]

yet if you watched the game they should have been losing middle of the 3rd and had fewer first downs and yards a the time.. UConn should have been up 10-17 pts at that time the way they were playing.. one fumble going in for a score and then a 2nd To and it was lights out.. the first half WV looked very average. they have play makers..

 

[Millhouse]

yet if you watched the game they should have been losing middle of the 3rd and had fewer first downs and yards a the time.. UConn should have been up 10-17 pts at that time the way they were playing.. one fumble going in for a score and then a 2nd To and it was lights out.. the first half WV looked very average. they have play makers..

when you get 500 yards, you're eventually going to score a bunch of points. you dissect things very narrowly. 541 to 275. the final score works out just the way it should

this is just a guess, but marrone has a lot more wins where we have been outgained than one would typically expect.

 

[upperdeck]

at the point where Uconn fumbled they had more yards, they were outgained like 300-50 after that.

 

[Millhouse]

at the point where Uconn fumbled they had more yards, they were outgained like 300-50 after that.

a fumble doesn't magically make an offense good. it was inevitable

 

[javadoc]

We'd probably be doing a lot better with Smith at QB.

 

[OrangePA]

You are being waaayyy to harsh on P. After all, he had to replace TWO starters on defense.The horror...

Apparently watching for and enjoying every defeat or setback that Pasqualoni suffers makes your lives a little better.

Well done sir, well done.

 

[MadNY3]

Ehhhh, not at all really.

The echoing of your "Pasqualoni didn't inherit much" from last night's post triggered that. Faith and support are admirable, admirable traits. Distorting realities to promote the cause however, are not.

 

[OrangePA]

Ehhhh, not at all really.

The echoing of your "Pasqualoni didn't inherit much" from last night's post triggered that. Faith and support are admirable, admirable traits. Distorting realities to promote the cause however, are not.

I guess it really does bother you and others when I say something positive about Pasqualoni. Still hard for me to understand that.

But, if it makes you and other happy to rub it in, and try to make me feel badly, when P suffers a defeat, that's fine - go ahead and have some fun.

The reality is that UConn was not much of a team last year. It got lucky and won a bunch of games that it should not have won and lost a lot of talent from that team.

And the reality is that whenever Pasqualoni loses or calls a TO at a bad time or says "multiple" there will be many on this board who will go after him or me - for whatever reason.

Disappointed that you apparently are one them.

The fact that WVU moved the ball against UConn shouldn't surprise anybody. WVU moved the ball against LSU and regrettably, will likely move the ball against us.

 

[swish7]

don't worry Millhouse.

I read the following on this board:

• we can beat WVU
• then contend for the BE title
• Everything is fine. Doing better than our current offensive production is just a figment of playstation imagination
• scoring points and beating teams no longer matters now that we're in the ACC. We're winners and everyone not in the ACC is losers.
• Marrone will not change things no matter how "bad" they get.

 

[MadNY3]

OPA,

I like you am a passionate Syracuse Orange(men) fan. All good.

You keep bringing up Pasqualoni. I responded to your post last night (and hours later wrote the above) about P having so little to work with when in fact nine starters were returning from a D that went to a BCS Bowl. Lucky or not, that's a deck of cards loaded quite a bit and the "cupboard is bare" assertion was, really, a bit laughable.

P had an incredible 103-win run at Syracuse. He gave a damn and is a good man. Allow me to respect what he did for the Orange, but not champion his current cause - nor McNabb's, Will Allens, etc. - when they are in situations of little relevance to Syracuse now...or perhaps in the case of P's, a situation where is job is to go against the Orange. Apologies for dealing so much in the present situation.

Onward.

 

[SWC75]

I would say the UCONN-West Virginia game is of primary interest because the Mountaineers are our next opponent and off our performance vs. Tulane it's hard to see how we will even slow them down enough to stay in the game or produce enough yards and points to keep up with them. It has nothing to do with who is coaching Connecticut.

 

[bevosu]

We only gave up an average of 8.1 yds per offensive play against Tulane (yikes).

The pessimist would say that's pretty bad against a team like Tulane. The optimist would say there's a lot of room for improvement.

 

[Millhouse]

I guess it really does bother you and others when I say something positive about Pasqualoni. Still hard for me to understand that.

But, if it makes you and other happy to rub it in, and try to make me feel badly, when P suffers a defeat, that's fine - go ahead and have some fun.

The reality is that UConn was not much of a team last year. It got lucky and won a bunch of games that it should not have won and lost a lot of talent from that team.

And the reality is that whenever Pasqualoni loses or calls a TO at a bad time or says "multiple" there will be many on this board who will go after him or me - for whatever reason.

Disappointed that you apparently are one them.

The fact that WVU moved the ball against UConn shouldn't surprise anybody. WVU moved the ball against LSU and regrettably, will likely move the ball against us.

fwiw i dread the UConn game, i can see another 10-9 loss like louisville a couple years ago. my post was more about WVU and how the air raid made them so much better. the congrats stuff was just a little needle at you, don't take everything so seriously - i get razzed allllll the time about p

agree that WVU moves the ball at will against everyone. they didn't last year. the system really helped them. I wonder if this is the best offensive improvement i've ever seen

 

[Czar]

Everything Holgorsen touches turns to gold. Tulsa, Houston, Oklahoma State, now WVU.

 

[upperdeck]

I also wonder how well the WV offense would work if they didnt have 5-6 ultra fast people at the skill positions.. they for large stretches of almost every game look clueless but these skill guys make 5-6 plays a game and that turns into huge chunks.. we need to get 1-2 of these types of players some day.

 

[OrangePA]

fwiw i dread the UConn game, i can see another 10-9 loss like louisville a couple years ago. my post was more about WVU and how the air raid made them so much better. the congrats stuff was just a little needle at you, don't take everything so seriously - i get razzed allllll the time about p

agree that WVU moves the ball at will against everyone. they didn't last year. the system really helped them. I wonder if this is the best offensive improvement i've ever seen

I knew that the "congratulations P" line was aimed at me.

It's all okay, but I do find it perplexing when some on this board rejoice at one of their losses or missteps - such as inopportune TO - and how some get so angry when defend them or explain the perceived mistake or loss.

All of it is part of what makes the board interesting and entertaining. I don't take it too seriously.

As far as WVU is concerned, it does seem that the system used by the new coach has worked well, but also remember that Geno Smith and the other talented players on that side of the ball are a year older - that makes a lot of difference.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

Everything Holgorsen touches turns to gold. Tulsa, Houston, Oklahoma State, now WVU.

Dana is running leach's system, it is based on the scheme not the talent as much. Despite what people think Gino smith is not a world beater.. None of this receivers are day one NFL draft picks contrary to what some will write

 

[Czar]

Dana is running leach's system, it is based on the scheme not the talent as much. Despite what people think Gino smith is not a world beater.. None of this receivers are day one NFL draft picks contrary to what some will write

Well yeah, of course it's Leach's system, Holgorsen is #1 in the Leach coaching tree. But Holgorsen has implemented it amazingly well everywhere he's gone, and left a lasting positive impact in those places. And you're right, people are overvaluing what WVU has in order to say that's why the system is working. Houston and Oklahoma State didn't have top line athletes either, comparable to WVU. I mean, hell, Crabtree came into Texas Tech as a QB recruit and Holgorsen made him the best WR in the country, and Blackmon was a decently regarded 3 Star who Holgorsen made into a Bilentnikoff winner.

 

[orangenirvana]

Yeah, but WVU's coach has a potty mouth and likes to drink at casinos. Heavens to betsy, we can't have that! Think of the children!

 

[Czar]

Yeah, but WVU's coach has a potty mouth and likes to drink at casinos. Heavens to betsy, we can't have that! Think of the children!

 

[Millhouse]

I knew that the "congratulations P" line was aimed at me.

It's all okay, but I do find it perplexing when some on this board rejoice at one of their losses or missteps - such as inopportune TO - and how some get so angry when defend them or explain the perceived mistake or loss.

All of it is part of what makes the board interesting and entertaining. I don't take it too seriously.

As far as WVU is concerned, it does seem that the system used by the new coach has worked well, but also remember that Geno Smith and the other talented players on that side of the ball are a year older - that makes a lot of difference.

giving up 500 to wvu doesn't make you a bad coach. i am expecting the same thing to happen to us

 

[Millhouse]

Dana is running leach's system, it is based on the scheme not the talent as much. Despite what people think Gino smith is not a world beater.. None of this receivers are day one NFL draft picks contrary to what some will write

holgorson is a little more willing to run the ball than leach, which means your defense won't suck against the run quite as much (leach spends every practice throwing all day, defense never learns to play the run) and i think holgorson throws downfield a little more. but it's all the same. all comes from mumme. i wish i'd saved those threads from 1999. it was a gimmick offense that relied on the wondrous talents of dusty bonner haa

 

[Czar]

holgorson is a little more willing to run the ball than leach, which means your defense won't suck against the run quite as much (leach spends every practice throwing all day, defense never learns to play the run) and i think holgorson throws downfield a little more. but it's all the same. all comes from mumme. i wish i'd saved those threads from 1999. it was a gimmick offense that relied on the wondrous talents of dusty bonner haa

Really need to look at that Valdosta staff in the early to mid 90's. I know Holgorsen and Leach came out of there, who else?