Wake Forest / Purdue football series in the works (mid 2020's)

[HCF3]

It was also Barclay's breakout game although it wasn't televised. 19 carries, 70 yards, 3 TDs in a 24-21 win.

Aided greatly by 3 missed purdue FGs, and a few questionable PI Calls against Purdue. If memory serves, the Big 10 reprimanded the officials for making the wrong calls after the game. hah!

 

[PhDeac]

BTW, that 2003 Purdue team was loaded. They finished 3rd in the Big 10 losing only to Ohio State and Michigan (tOSU in OT), and then played #11 UGA in the Citrus bowl losing in OT. They had 9 players drafted in the 2004 draft, including long time NFL studs Nick Hardwick, Shaun Phillips, Jaque Reeves and Landon Johnson (more than anyone except Miami and Ohio State). Orton was drafted the next year. Always puzzled me how WF fans fixated on that call as if putting WF in a position to beat a superior Purdue team deserved no credit; yet, one play call was all that mattered.

What Freak said, plus we only scored 10 points, only had 170 yards, including 56 yards rushing on 34 carries.

Here is the recap:
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=232560154

The 4th and 1 call symbolized the frustration with Lobo that starting building during that game.

iller said he subbed more on defense and kept his club fresher than last week."And we had a very, very simple game plan," he said. "That's the fewest (defensive) calls we've had available to us since I've been at Purdue. We didn't know if it was right or wrong, but we decided early in the week to cut down the defensive package than adding to it."

It worked as Wake Forest was held 125 yards under its rushing average.
"They had two guys in every gap," Wake Forest offensive lineman Tyson Claybo said. "Their whole mind-set was they were going to stop our inside runs and they did an excellent job of that."

Wake Forest couldn't even take advantage of three breaks late in the third quarter that could have changed momentum.

Purdue punter Brent Slaton fumbled a good snap and managed just an 11-yard kick, giving the Demon Deacons the ball near midfield. However, Wake Forest managed just 5 yards and had to punt it back to the Boilermakers.

They killed us all game on inside runs and then on 4th and 1, Lobo went with an inside run. The whole stadium knew it was coming.

 

[liveanddiedeac]

I hated the call, maybe in normal circumstances it was our best running play, who knows. However, when it's 4th and 1 and the defense is stacking the box to stop you, handing the ball off on a delay 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage is stupid. Line up under center in the I, man up and get a freaking yard!

 

[PhDeac]

Hadn't looked at that in a long time. That was 4th and a foot. That was a QB sneak.

 

[liveanddiedeac]

Hadn't looked at that in a long time. That was 4th and a foot. That was a QB sneak.

Can't sneak it when you won't line up under center. It drives me insane when teams act like they can't line up the QB under center, "because the QB isn't used to taking the snap that way."

 

[Pilchard]

What Freak said, plus we only scored 10 points, only had 170 yards, including 56 yards rushing on 34 carries.

Here is the recap:
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=232560154

Purdue's defense that year held the following opponents to:

Arizona - 7
Notre Dame - 10
Illinois - 10
Ohio State - 13 (in regulation)
Penn State - 14
Iowa - 14

The point is that in 2003 Purdue was simply a better team than WF with a very strong defense full of future NFL players. It was typical for WF fans to blame the loss and scoring 10 points on Lobo's incompetence. When the fact was that Purdue was a better team with better players that shut down a lot of really good offenses that year.

 

[Deacfreak07]

What Freak said, plus we only scored 10 points, only had 170 yards, including 56 yards rushing on 34 carries.

Here is the recap:
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=232560154

Purdue's defense that year held the following opponents to:

Arizona - 7
Notre Dame - 10
Illinois - 10
Ohio State - 13 (in regulation)
Penn State - 14
Iowa - 14

The point is that in 2003 Purdue was simply a better team than WF with a very strong defense full of future NFL players. It was typical for WF fans to blame the loss and scoring 10 points on Lobo's incompetence. When the fact was that Purdue was a better team with better players that shut down a lot of really good offenses that year.

It was still a bad playcall.

 

[lokisapocalypse]

What Freak said, plus we only scored 10 points, only had 170 yards, including 56 yards rushing on 34 carries.

Here is the recap:
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=232560154

Purdue's defense that year held the following opponents to:

Arizona - 7
Notre Dame - 10
Illinois - 10
Ohio State - 13 (in regulation)
Penn State - 14
Iowa - 14

The point is that in 2003 Purdue was simply a better team than WF with a very strong defense full of future NFL players. It was typical for WF fans to blame the loss and scoring 10 points on Lobo's incompetence. When the fact was that Purdue was a better team with better players that shut down a lot of really good offenses that year.

Just because they were a better team with better players that shut down good offenses doesn't mean that it was still a terrible call.

 

[wsc8521s]

The shotgun draw is when we all realized we no longer had an excellent OC, and instead had a terrible one. It's not that hard to understand

 

[siff]

Purdue has a beautiful campus, def worth a trip. You can also hit South Bend and the NFL HOF, same highway.

Also, White Castle.

 

[DownEastDeac]

Was this not also the game where we played their receivers about 8 yards off the line of scrimmage (including on 3rd and 7) so Orton just repeatedly did 2 step drops for 7 yards at a clip?

 

[Go]

Didn't we have Ovie at the time? The shotgun snap is what made zero sense.

 

[PhDeac]

2003 Notre Dame was 93rd in scoring. Illinois was 107. Ohio State was 74 and Penn State was 99. Iowa was solid at 41. Arizona was 113.

So Purdue held bad offenses to low production.

By anyway, it was a bad playcall.

 

[deacfreke2]

The shotgun draw is when we all realized we no longer had an excellent OC, and instead had a terrible one. It's not that hard to understand

Exactly right. And then we had to endure how many more years of his incompetence? Unbelievable.

 

[HONDO2]

We all recall the 4th & 1 call but how many remember our first play ( I think ) from scrimmage that day ?

HINT: As previously mentioned, Purdue had an AA safety named Schwigart(sp)....

 

[Bluegrass Deac]

It was a play action throw deep that I believe got picked off. Which made Grobe overcompensate by going way too conservative after that. We had a dual threat QB in Randolph, should've utilized his running more.