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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-16-2013 03:17 PM)BleedsGreen33 Wrote: Where is ours?
Saving the best for last
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BleedsGreen33
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-16-2013 06:04 PM)Dorrej Wrote: (04-16-2013 03:17 PM)BleedsGreen33 Wrote: Where is ours?
Saving the best for last
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-16-2013 03:17 PM)BleedsGreen33 Wrote: Where is ours?
Good things come to those who wait....
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-14-2013 01:10 PM)T_Won1 Wrote: (04-14-2013 11:16 AM)WinOrLoseEAGLE Wrote: (04-14-2013 10:57 AM)T_Won1 Wrote: (04-13-2013 07:56 PM)Funslinger Wrote: (04-12-2013 10:31 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: Well, the entire LA Tech article is about USM.
Skip Holtz isn't the greatest, but comparing him to Ellis Johnson is just low. I'm thinking Skip must have snubbed whoever wrote this article somehow.
Actually, the author stated up front that it was probably an unfair comparison.
VERY unfair.
Ellis Johnson's career:
Gardner Webb: 5-6
The Citadel: 12-22
USM: 0-12
Total: 17-40
Skip Holtz's career:
UConn: 34-23
ECU: 38-27 (2 CUSA championships)
USF: 16-21
Total: 88-71
Read it with your head and not your heart. Unfair to compare Johnson and Holtz, yes - and it was stated as such. But he wasn't comparing those two specifically, he was comparing schools gaining a measure of success with a high octane offense only to lose their coaches and replace them with something quite a bit more defensive minded. THAT's the comparison the writer was trying to make.
He needed to look a little deeper. Tech was high octane in only 1 of Dykes's 3 seasons (2012). We won the WAC championship in 2011 by playing good defense. Plus, 95% of the players that made us high octane last year have graduated. It was a lazy piece all around.
Wasn't it also your most high profile year of Sonny Dykes as well?
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-16-2013 07:47 PM)WinOrLoseEAGLE Wrote: (04-14-2013 01:10 PM)T_Won1 Wrote: (04-14-2013 11:16 AM)WinOrLoseEAGLE Wrote: (04-14-2013 10:57 AM)T_Won1 Wrote: (04-13-2013 07:56 PM)Funslinger Wrote: Actually, the author stated up front that it was probably an unfair comparison.
VERY unfair.
Ellis Johnson's career:
Gardner Webb: 5-6
The Citadel: 12-22
USM: 0-12
Total: 17-40
Skip Holtz's career:
UConn: 34-23
ECU: 38-27 (2 CUSA championships)
USF: 16-21
Total: 88-71
Read it with your head and not your heart. Unfair to compare Johnson and Holtz, yes - and it was stated as such. But he wasn't comparing those two specifically, he was comparing schools gaining a measure of success with a high octane offense only to lose their coaches and replace them with something quite a bit more defensive minded. THAT's the comparison the writer was trying to make.
He needed to look a little deeper. Tech was high octane in only 1 of Dykes's 3 seasons (2012). We won the WAC championship in 2011 by playing good defense. Plus, 95% of the players that made us high octane last year have graduated. It was a lazy piece all around.
Wasn't it also your most high profile year of Sonny Dykes as well?
Perhaps. We were ranked in the Top 25 for a few weeks, beat 2 AQ teams on the road, and lost by 2 pts to Texas A&M. But at the end of the day, the defense was as bad as the offense was good, and we came in 3rd in the WAC.
In 2011, we lost to #20 USM by 2 pts, #14 Houston by 1 pt, #18 TCU by 7 pts and at Mississippi St in OT. Plus we blew out Ole Miss on the road. (Hawaii blew us out at home). 8-5 isn't as pretty as 9-3, but the 2011 team brought home the WAC championship. I prefer a strong defense over a strong offense. Whats the old saying... "defense wins championships."
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-16-2013 03:04 PM)200yrs2late Wrote: (04-16-2013 12:34 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: 2013 ECU football's 10 things to know: Pirates have experience and momentum
A fair assessment. It really does hinge on the secondary. Getting off the field, getting the offense another possession or two per game, and letting the offense know they can play loose and trust the defense is the difference in a 7 win and 10 win season.
ODU will be a test out of the block, but after a 2-0 start ECU may have enough momentum to squeeze out a win with VPI at home. 3-0 and coming off a big win could propel ECU to another win at UNC. At that point MTSU and Tulane should be a slight breather though ECU won't take either lightly. At 6-0 ECU could face So Miss at home, and that rarely turns out well for ECU but this year should go the Pirates way. If so, a win at FIU would put ECU at 8-0 with Tulsa coming to Greenville. Even if ECU stumbles, UAB the following week would give ECU 9-1 record with two to play. NCSU looks absolutely terrible from what I've heard, and a win there (where ECU has had recent success) would leave the CUSA East showdown with Marshall to determine the East if Marshall hasn't slipped up. 10-2 or 11-1 to finish the regular season, both of which I hope would be good enough to host the championship game.
On the other hand....
ECU struggles with ODU but manages a close win, followed by a more comfortable win against FAU. VPI hasn't played well the last couple trips to Greenville, but could escape with a win, one deflating enough that ECU forgets to board the bus to UNC the next week and ends up 2-2 after the first four games. MTSU and Tulane hang close with ECU due to a not very improved defense, but ECU manages a couple wins to get to 4-2. USM is up to their old tricks, winning on ECU's home field again, sending the Pirates to 4-3. The grumbling begins.... A road trip to FIU puts ECU one win from bowl eligibility, but Tulsa leaves Greenville with a win and ECU at 5-4 UAB folds and ECU rallies late in 13 as they did this past year, beating NCSU to get to 7-4 with a showdown at Marshall to decide the East. A slightly better offense than in 12, and hopefully an improved defense get the win to finish 8-4 again, but this time in the CCG.
Hopefully more along the lines of the first prediction, but seeing as how the spring game hasn't been played yet I think I'm a little more than premature.
Tulsa won't be as nearly as good this year as we were last year. Our Defense took a considerable beating due to graduation. Offensive line lost several too. More likely eight or nine wins for Tulsa this year unless we get very lucky in a couple of games this fall season.
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
2013 Marshall football's 10 things to know: Your future overlords
Quote:Doc Holliday has done a rather stunning job of amassing star recruits in three years at Marshall, but he only has 20 wins to show for it. If a breakthrough is going to come, it should come pretty quickly; and if it does, the Thundering Herd could become the preeminent power in the Future C-USA. Peace, love, and pannkaka blockeras.
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-17-2013 01:03 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: 2013 Marshall football's 10 things to know: Your future overlords
Quote:Doc Holliday has done a rather stunning job of amassing star recruits in three years at Marshall, but he only has 20 wins to show for it. If a breakthrough is going to come, it should come pretty quickly; and if it does, the Thundering Herd could become the preeminent power in the Future C-USA. Peace, love, and pannkaka blockeras.
I think the east is going to come down to who finds more defense Marshall or ECU. I think both are going to be up in the high 30's low 40's per game, and it's going to come down to which one shows a pulse on defense.
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
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Who is ellis johnson? sounds like an incompetant, $ec loving, blame everyone but himself, run your team into the ground bast@rd who would only be hired by a school who that was scared to take a chance on a decent coach because they were afraid he would use them as a stepping stone like the last coach did.
glad we didnt make that mistake.
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Dude sounds like a real c*ck sucker.
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He probably is......probably married to a transvestite he/she who forced him to apply for a head coaching job to elevate its he/she status & would go on message boards pretending to be someone else & defend dumb@ss coaching decisions its whipped coach husband made...... Just sayin'
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
Quote:He probably is......probably married to a transvestite he/she who forced him to apply for a head coaching job to elevate its he/she status & would go on message boards pretending to be someone else & defend dumb@ss coaching decisions its whipped coach husband made...... Just sayin'
I feel like there's a story here.
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-17-2013 02:39 PM)gdunn Wrote: Quote:He probably is......probably married to a transvestite he/she who forced him to apply for a head coaching job to elevate its he/she status & would go on message boards pretending to be someone else & defend dumb@ss coaching decisions its whipped coach husband made...... Just sayin'
I feel like there's a story here.
Not from me, but i do have a friend that had a "crying game" moment a few years ago after picking one up @ one of the bars in jackson.
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-17-2013 02:39 PM)gdunn Wrote: Quote:He probably is......probably married to a transvestite he/she who forced him to apply for a head coaching job to elevate its he/she status & would go on message boards pretending to be someone else & defend dumb@ss coaching decisions its whipped coach husband made...... Just sayin'
I feel like there's a story here.
I think it's about the last play of the Louisville game.
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
That should be the last one, unless we add more teams before August
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-18-2013 12:30 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: That should be the last one, unless we add more teams before August
28 teams or GTFO!
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RE: C-USA Football Previews from SB Nation
(04-18-2013 12:30 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote: That should be the last one, unless we add more teams before August
I'm kinda hoping they'll do a preview of ODU and UNC-C, but I doubt that'll happen.
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