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Coach K is about to surpass Bob Knight. The pupil has become the master.
My take is that we typcially aren't as talented as our better opponents but we often develop a gameplan that lulls them to sleep/takes advantage of their mistakes and lets us get a lead or stay in the game. But when it is crunch time and they are really focused, they usually get the better of play.
Lots of close losses to bowl teams and traditional football powers on that list.
Seems like we are doing what it takes to have a chance to win against teams that have better talent than we do.
Coach K is about to surpass Bob Knight. The pupil has become the master.
Navy, Baylor, Syracuse?
That sounds like a copout, to be honest.My take is that we typcially aren't as talented as our better opponents but we often develop a gameplan that lulls them to sleep/takes advantage of their mistakes and lets us get a lead or stay in the game. But when it is crunch time and they are really focused, they usually get the better of play.
Lots of close losses to bowl teams and traditional football powers on that list.
I'm not going to take the time to look up the rankings and all that, but even if I am incorrect with those three teams, it makes a lot of sense.
Cuse and Baylor are probably aberrations, and Navy runs a completely different offense than we are used to.
Fair enough, but we played Navy 4 times over 3 years and went 1-3. I don't think a lack of familiarity was the problem, especially when you add two contests against Georgia Tech over that same period (which we lost in similar fashion).
I'm at a loss as to what this has to do with us losing close games. Didn't realize that K or BK coached football against or for Wake Forest...
Just tweaking my main man BKF. :thumbsup: By the way, how many students were at the game Friday and what would you guess was the total attendance? Someone on here guessed 500 people. I guessed anywhere from 2,500-3,000. Oh shit, this also has nothing to do with the original post.
During that same time we won 12 games by a touchdown or less.....with 4 of those coming against Duke:
2007: Maryland-7, Duke-5, FSU-3
2008: Mississippi-2, Clemson-5, Duke-3
2009: Stanford-7, NC State-6
2010: Duke-6
2011: NC State-7, FSU-5, Duke-1
By the way, I'm just throwing this stuff out for discussion. I don't have any hidden agenda. I'm 100% behind Jim Grobe. However, I think we have been losing a lot of games during the last five years that we should've won. We don't seem to be very effective at closing wins in the 4th quarter.....and I just thought this thread might offer up some reasons why posters think this has been the case.