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Scott "Rufio" Feather
It really surprises me how low bowl committee's expectations are for Wake. The Deacs travel and play well in bowl games.
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It really surprises me how low bowl committee's expectations are for Wake. The Deacs travel and play well in bowl games.
Well I missed the entire first half due to cable outage. Now that I watched us hold them off in a lame second half, it'll be awesome to watch the first half tomorrow.
Wait why are we giving up on a healthy hinton so easily?
Wendell Dunn is back next year. Two senior defensive ends for the new DC.
Just reviewing the stats
Temple had -20 yds rushing for the whole game.
Have we ever held a team to negative yds for a whole game?
Awesome defense.
This is a surprise. Alamance sticking up for Alamance.
Hope. Newman ends up being good. He has a long way to go.
Admittedly a very small sample, but I saw Newman in a playoff game his junior year and was disappointed with his accuracy, in fact would guess he was maybe 4-20. However, he also played linebacker showed a lot of athleticism. His high school teams were pretty bad, and usually an elite QB at that level can make up for a lot of deficiencies around him. Did anyone see him play this year and see the upside that I missed? IIRC NCSU made him an offer; any other P5's?
Going conservative and relying on our defense was frustrating to watch, but a smart strategy with a green backup QB. If our offense puts up 30+ points, we should win the game, and we won the game.
Probably because odds are he won't stay healthy. Counting on him as anything more than a bonus would be stupid.
I'm not sure how smart it was. We needed either a defense or special teams score to win with that strategy. We effectively got it with the long KR, but it was a frightening way to play.
That FG gave us the breathing room that we couldn't lose in regulation, but they still had to put the ball in the EZ to win the game, and they didn't come close to doing that their last drive.
Opening it up with Kearns you risk a play blowing up and giving them a huge momentum swing.
I would hope that after another year of high school, one year of being in our program, spring ball and camps, etc., his skills as a QB will have improved greatly by next fall.
Obviously we won, but they were moving the ball with ease in the 2nd half. We essentially decided to stop playing offense for a good chunk of the 2nd half. I'm just not sold that was a great way to play. But it worked so I'm happy with the result.
Even still, they only had 1 TD in the 2nd half.