Wake Forest Football Preseason Thread

[Deacsfan27]

Also, CBS sports did an ACC season preview. 3 of 7 predict us to finish 7th in the Atlantic, 2 of 7 predict us to finish 6th, and 2 of 7 predict us to finish 5th. One guy also has BC finishing 4th, which seems absurd to me.

I don't think they look at schedule's very much when they do those.

Cuse, BC, and Wake are all the bottom 3, but we get both at home, as well as UVA. Odds are we get 2 wins there. That will keep us out of the basement for sure.

 

[CharlotteDeac1]

I agree - I was just putting it on here for info.

 

[DeacHead]

Ph, I wasn't being argumentative when I asked how you would have "simulated" the season. I really wanted to hear if there was a way that you would have done it to produce a better simulation.

Obviously the predictions were going to mimic and mirror Connelly's numbers. How would you account for variables that are unforeseen (injuries, record at time of playing, even weather)? This seemed like the best way to get a percentage basis of what each win number is based on those probabilities, which was the point of the article.

Though my post about Crystal Ball was 95% in jest to throw back to the WFU online community's old friend Mr. Lococo, it was 5% serious, since Crystal Ball utilizes Monte Carlo simulations which will provide more robust forecasts than what was described in the article.

 

[Deacsfan27]

Though my post about Crystal Ball was 95% in jest to throw back to the WFU online community's old friend Mr. Lococo, it was 5% serious, since Crystal Ball utilizes Monte Carlo simulations which will provide more robust forecasts than what was described in the article.

I don't even know how we would begin to assign worth to each player and then assess the likelihood of injuries to each player. That's just the first independent, not to mention "loss of effort" of teams once they are eliminated from bowl contention, etc.

 

[Deac94]

An interesting Clawson quote here:

"What people don't talk about is how we philosophically really changed how we blocked things last year," Clawson said. "Our line was a lot less lateral in terms of our technique with our zone combinations and that helped us. We had a lot less negative yardage plays in the run game. Part of it is, at running back, we've got to have guys make more people miss."

http://www.espn.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/93864/finally-wake-forest-has-some-optimism-for-its-ground-game

On a separate note, I just noticed that Kirk Herbstreit predicted that Wake will go bowling this year.

 

[Lohengrin]

I have a vague recollection that Herbstreit Wake predictions don't typically pan out. The first time being our game against State in the early 2000s when Phillip Rivers and team were looking ahead to Ohio State and Herbstreit said we didn't belong on the same field as State.

 

[DeacHead]

I don't even know how we would begin to assign worth to each player and then assess the likelihood of injuries to each player. That's just the first independent, not to mention "loss of effort" of teams once they are eliminated from bowl contention, etc.

I don't want to come off as a hater here. What you did is perfectly fine, especially for this purpose.

 

[PhDeac]

I don't want to come off as a hater here. What you did is perfectly fine, especially for this purpose.

I agree. I just wouldn't call it a simulation.

 

[Deacsfan27]

I agree. I just wouldn't call it a simulation.

What would you call it?

Tulane wearing these helmets next Thursday:

 

[Wakeforest22890]

Those are hideous

 

[CreamyGoodness]

What would you call it?

Tulane wearing these helmets next Thursday:

Looks like a low budget arena league helmet

 

[dcon69]

Sponge Bob's dark side. Or toilet bowl cleaner.

 

[wsc8521s]

 

[cheeseheads12]

Yikes. Surely they could've come up with something better/cooler than that. Those things will be burned in my retina forever if we somehow find a way to lose

 

[Spragoo]

As an alum of both Wake and Tulane, I love the new Tulane retro logo. The new logo is called the "Angry Wave". Tulane has a new Athletic Director named Troy Dannen. Dannen came across the old Angry Wave logo and really liked it. Now the Angry Wave has made a comeback in the athletic department and is being embraced. I believe Tulane is even putting a new, retro Angry Wave above their scoreboard at their new stadium. Tulane folks have embraced it. It's unique and a throwback. Spragoo thumbs up!

 

[Deacsfan27]

I like it too.

 

[jaybone]

It looks to me like the love child of the demon deacon and the pbs, 'I'm just a bill' bill - that then ate cake w green food coloring and took a dump. Or thereabouts

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(plus green food coloring)

 

[wsc8521s]

It is kinda growing on me. I like the one better from here where he's got the cheerleader microphone thingy. Adds to the retro vibe:

 

[DeacsOrDie]

Looks like there's a third eye down at the bottom right of the logo.

 

[D4L]

Those Tulane helmets are simply awful.