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Rivers is having a great season. His stats so far are the best ever for any SD QB through this portion of the year. Peter King of SI is saying Rivers is the mid point of the year MVP. He has no line, no running game, and is carrying a team that has struggled in recent years.
As for Wilson, not sure how he is divisive unless it is in private. I have heard nothing but positives about him and his team first attitude. The only way I see him being divisive is if some players are not doing what they should for preparation and he calls them out, which a good leader should do.
rtpack, I am glad you brought up Warren Martin – a 7 footer back in the early 80’s. That relationship angle has been pretty quiet lately.
But link the fact that Crowder did this on her own out of goodness of heart for these poor struggling players. Was her boyfriend Warren Martin one of them? Taking the next step, there is no way any one person (or two) could pull this off without help somewhere, and a lot of funds as well.
I read in one of the articles in the N&O about Crowder’s love and passion for UNC basketball. The quote stated that she was so passionate that there were days after a loss that she was so distraught she could not come to work the next day. Of course, this work day for her was helping those same players stay eligible………..
You know it is a crying shame that all this is finally coming out (OK, NOT) but yes the coaches SHOULD have known.
I was in school during the V days, and I knew of stuff going on. V claimed he did not know, and got raked over the coals. V got busted though because the authorities said he should have known what was going on.
Therefore, whether or not Roy knew it (he did) he should and the program should get the same treatment.
Cowdog, McCants did not speak was very surprising. I think it was one of two reasons: 1) A lawsuit is coming and his advisors told him to hush, or 2) someone else within the program told him to hush with some zeroes on a piece of paper.
I heard some of the press conference. While there was a lot of pointing fingers at the AFAM dept and the 2 rogues, there was other incriminating evidence. Obvious there was still some deflection and denials nad maybe some did not tell all they knew, but this sounds pretty hurtful.
In spite if how incriminating it is, my prediction is nothing further happens, but South Dakota Northeastern State will get 7 years of probation for this.
A couple points here, some of which have been implied or stated already but that some people need to let sink in.
0 for ACC – We are 0-4 in conference right now – NO ONE expected any better than 1-3 at this stage. We have played arguably the 3 best teams in the entire conference and everyone knew we would be 0-3 in those. The arguments of 0 for ACC are one game against BC this year where they jumped up and surprised us. Yes I think we all wrote down a W for that one, but BC has proven tougher than anyone thought.
No one predicted a 10 win season – most realistic people would have said between 5-7 and 7-5. We are on track to hit that mark. Would it be nice to exceed expectations? Of course, but reality says sometimes meeting expectation is good and even means progress.
Program and Ethics – coach is in a losing streak and suspends 7 players. DD is more concerned with teaching a lesson than one specific game (which was an expected L anyway). Compare to GA where Gurley was benched immediately and FSU where denials are rampant for the same offense. Or to Brokeback Hill where denials and deflection rule the day. We used to talk of TOB being an old military style disciplinarian but DD has shown several players the door, experienced guys that he could use, and been forced to use young guys in the process. I have said it before, I would rather be 8-4 and clean than 12-0 and dirty (or dirty and struggling like in Orange County). My way or the highway with DD reminds me very much of Sheridan.
1st down on the 1 Maybe the coaches saw something on film – you know they do watch some film – that they thought they could exploit and catch them off guard. The mistake was not the play call. The mistake was the QB should have thrown it into the 2nd row. Incomplete pass and now we have 3 more shots at smash mouth football. Peyton Manning has 84 career passing TD’s of less than 3 yards, or about 1 in 6 of his TD’s are short. They stuffed the middle all game long – the effective runs we had were around the corners and draw plays but very little up the middle. As someone else said, if he completes the pass or even throws it away, we are not talking about it today. It is not like we inserted a trick play or something new – it came straight from the playbook probably based on coaching homework. Throw it away JB if not there is probably what DD and Canada said when the play was called.
Patience – I hate to say it. This team is coming around. The coaches are getting through to them. Yes, the 2 back to back TO’s made no sense and are on the coaches but this team is progressing. That is what I am looking for – progress.
Yes Wulfpack, like I said earlier no such things as moral victories but these kids played hard and did not quit.
That had to be the worst onside kick in history. They covered and we had no one within 5 yards for even a shot at covering.
No such thing as a moral victory BUT these kids played hard and never gave up. Poor tackling hurt us and we need to figure that out but the heart was there today.
I actually liked the play call on 1st down IF JB knows to throw it away if not there. Catch them by surprise. Much better than the pistol wildcat wolfcat whatever that is called. Throw it away and you still have 3 shots at it.
