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Regarding gameday, it creates the Marquee match up for college football fans that day (assuming it’s not some feel good match up like Yale Harvard.
Imagine Sunday night football if folks didn’t have to work the next day.
It definitely helps recruiting and just as imprtantly it starts creating expectations…”if we go here, we will get this.”
I am exhausted…just got back from Hong Kong and brain is fried and no doubt will have that awful cold that lady in the seat in front of me had.
Mak – this is primarily a forums board now. And conversation has definitely picked up here in last 6 weeks.
Alias – I hope that’s what the domers think.
Me, I don’t think they e played a team with as good an offense and defense as us since UGA.
I do believe they are the best football team we have faced this year. Statistically, they are solid. However, they rely on turnovers and a stout running game. I think we can make them earn it, and my hope, is that our passing game is the differentiator here.
This is a huge game for us nationally. It’s the first time since we played on the “shoe” that college football fans will be intentionally tuning in to see about this team from Raleigh, NC. Unlike that year, we haven’t totally screwed the pooch with a momentum killing loss to wake Forest the week before.
We need to show up in this game. The college football playoff talk for Notre Dame after their USC blow out is a recipe for good things for us.
I will be in South Bend..and unless forecast changes so will our buddy the rain
Notre Dame game I a very interesting match up. They stink at passing and rush for over 300 yards a game. It would appear that our D sets us up to do well on this game.
It’s going to be a tough one. I will be there. I think we can do it if we handle the moment and force Notre Dame to pass. (For the record, we ate the 2nd best d they have faced. The best D they have faced this year thus far is UGA.
Rthomas – again, I think thus far our book of work is solid.
But, yep, we will have to play better football the next 5 games just to hold serve. I hate that our kicking game has regressed a bit. After making 4 of 5, I was hoping we had turned a corner.
But yea, I think we will all shake our heads if that ends up costing any game from here on out.
Whiteshoes – half of college football is hanging around quite frankly there aren’t a whole lot of teams out there with a resume as impressive as ours…the fact that we are 6-1 and a only a handful of teams playing equivalent opponents are better or equal to 6-1.
All three of those years we were very talented. Honestly, the most talented player on the field in all of those years was TA McClendon in 2002.
If we have any younger posters, they should watch you tube clips of him that season. I think even NC State fans because of his diminishing effectiveness his next 2 seasons, forget just what a revelation he was that first year.
We have great talent on this team – and I dare say, more mature talent and more depth than those other squads. However, Amato’s teams were too reckless to win consistently.
TOB’s teams didn’t have the depth and they were led by a coach that they may have respected, but there were always a couple of games each year that they lost when TOB’s conservative approach, combined with our lack of depth, kept us from reaching our goal.
Those other 3 teams were better positioned and faced less talented opposition to win a share of the conference title. The TOB team was one game away (some would argue one quart away), the amato team in 2002 was in the same position as this one when the infamous illegal procedure penalty against ga tech, resulted in a 3rd and forever conversion, and just 2 straight wins with 2 games to in 2003…we know how those ended. It’s time to break the string.
From what I have read, unlike last year I think we have the advantage in the passing game this year….Notre Dame has been a great running team and a mediocre passing team. Of course, they haven’t played our pass defense yet and I think equinomoius probably kills us.
Still, we will have the chance to get ahead of Notre Dame early and hold them off. That’s definitely what separated the big dubs this season (Louisville and FSU) from the big loss (USC.)
Our bye is pretty good timing. We have played 7 games in 7 weeks, so I am sure our guys and staff can use this week to really get stronger and better. Funny, I think if both teams play their best game, we win this one.
Rye – I agree. There aren’t too many examples of a pack team thriving in similar situations.
Going back to our last “great” season…we went 5-3 after starting 4-0 in the ACC. If memory serves correct – that year we had at home Wake, Georgia Tech, FSU and Duke @ home. UNC-CH, UVA, Umd and Clemson on the road.
The Clemson game was a Thursday night game and pretty intense.
We started out 4-0 vs Wake, Duke, Unc-ch and Clemson. To be fair, there wasn’t anything really similar to Pitt that year. Both UMd and UVa were solid and the atmosphere both games was definitely above that of Saturday’s game.
We will face a similar environment in Boston in a few weeks, hopefully with the same result.
Very glad we have a bye this week as we get ready to what I believe constitutes the 2 biggest consecutive games in our football history since 2003 we went to Tally with a 4-2 ACC record and controlling our own destiny for the ACC title with just 2 games remaining. We failed in 2003, like we failed in 2002 and so many years before when greatness was within our grasp. However, I have come to believe that the pain of last year and to a certain extent the bitter frustration of our first game this year has served us well.
Cow. You have brought up belief in the past.
And I think that’s critical that this program has won 4 straight vs teams that could beat us. It’s a huge differentiator vs his previous teams, TOB’s, and MOC’s teams.
Like I said earlier today – today’s win was very important one.
And like. I said a couple of weeks ago, big wins create more big games….and halfway through the season, we have nothing but big games left the rest of the way.
Skitchwolf – great post.
Essentially the NCAA is a club that says: we have a certain pre set rules we expect you to abide by, if you break them, you will self report. If we find out you broke our 10 Commandments- no mercy. If you have broken the golden rule: we shall rely on you to report it And admit a violation, because, that is the heart of our mission.and we know,you wouldn’t ruin your reputation based on that.
Well, UNC cheat said “Yes, we punched our neighbor. Slept with their 18 year old daughter, and dumped our garbage on their lawn. But we promise, we didn’t violate the golden rule.”
The club just said, “well, if you said so.”
Yea Bill. And to a certain point, I understand and emphathize. I mean, I have people in my family whom I love and either went there or pull for them – and get po’d about this seems and blow up st them seems to be stooping to a level that’s bothersome, but at some point, somewhere, somebody, has to make a stink.
Yea Bill… hasn’t Deb said she is retiring?
Like I said, TOB catches a lot of cwap – but he is the only person who called them to the carpet….now, DD did capture the essence of being a State man with his laundry story – which wasn’t small potatoes either.
Rye – on a day like today, what is?
Again, I return to the silence of the leader of our school and athletic department…they are screaming loud and clear – we don’t care.
Rye – there is zero evidence. Look @ the ratings. No one cares – and that’s precisely the problem. No one cares except for UNC’s big money guys and little guys who have been punished like us.
What bill says is key.
It’s really the President’s of these universities. It would be real easy for them to say “that’s it, we aren’t playing them anymore.”
But they know the system is a sham. They know there are big dogs, medium sized dogs and lapdogs.
Basically, if you’re pure as the driven snow, you can say something. Else, you better walk away. Did you notice who DIDN’T get called out in the FBI investigation? Why Louisville? Why not Kentucky?
I actually think of this scandal had occurred in the 80s UNC would have paid dearly. For a while there, no one was safe once the investigators showed up.
Kentucky was punished, Kansas was punished, Alabama was punished.
However, sometime around 2000 or so, a critical mass was reached. Heck, UNC helped create the APR which from what I can tell is the only “once in school” rule enforced. Now, no one is remotely clean – and basically every one big holds a gun to another’s head.
Again, I don’t doubt for 5 seconds that if FSU, Duke, UVa, State, Clemson, Ga Tech, Louisville, Miami, Virginia Tech and Wake said “that’s it. We are self imposing, we refuse to participate in any game against them” the Heels would cave.
But they aren’t doing that…the question is why. I think we all know the answer. Like anyone dirty in a position in power, once you got dirt on you, you suddenly become ok with lax enforcement of the rules.
Actually, I think this all goes back to 2 cases:
Miami
Penn StateIn the Penn State case, they totally out stepped their boundaries and punished them severely for something they had no business punishing them at all for.
In the Miami case, their investigators crossed the lines.
The UNC case was different.There was definitely enough there to show fraud, illegal benefits, whatever – but they never admitted academic fraud to the NCAA and fought them every step of the way. The NCAA figures – these are colleges, they will themselves in. In most cases that assumption is correct.
But with this ruling, they have just green lighted bs majors filled with correspondence courses in every major university.
But hey, like I said, the fact that our AD and Chancellor don’t say bubkus tells you all you need to know.
I would hope that UNC-Ch’s behavior would discredit it as an academic institution, but unfortunately, especially at schools dominated by liberal arts, ethics and logic are already upside down, so we all know that won’t be the case.
Zilch. Nada. They got away with it. Hopefully this ends the NCAA.
Of course, our “leadership” (sans Tom O’Brien) has had zilch to say critical…which I have always found telling.
Best start since 2002 in the ACC.
On injury front… Nicholson’s career is over due to concussions. I hate to see that for any kid, but hopefully he got out before damage is permanent.
Also, Brock Miller is gone for the year with shoulder surgery.
These injuries leave us thin at lb spot. Good thing we play 4-2 vs 4-3 or 3-4.
