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SMU Saturday, Oct. 5 Noon ESPN or ESPN2

Koeterback. This is info for you The Real Vile on free board.

Bragging rights go to Koeterback, with G-man in a solid tie, with Koeterback having closest tiebreaker score. Congrats and brag away.

A sincere TY to all of the participants and better fortune in week 5.

My choker award goes to the Cuse this week.

Biggest surprise score was the UNC massacre by JMU with the SMU stomp of rival TCU close behind. Some great games this weekend.

Breakdown:

Koeterback-9 of 12 winning by tiebreaker of 30-20
Guardman---9 of 12 with TBrkr of 45-41
cocoa--------8 of 12
Pushupman-8 of 12
Smithereen-8 of 12
cardrock----8 of 12
mayoman---8 of 12
CRTW-------7 of 12
TrealVille----7 of 12
RhinoB------6 of 12
sccard-------6 of 12
BoonCouCd-6 of 12
CardsFirst---5 of 12

Several picrs came within 2 points off of getting the score right with Boone County at 31-20 the actual closest. Great job by all. Hope all and more play week 5 which I will post shortly.

it's two weeks to go, but unless there's a light rain or it's time for the St. James Art Fair, we should have a very good crowd for Georgia Tech. About 47k and 48k for the first two games. You figure Tech will bring some fans, and there will be more interest now that we are in to conference. I predict 53k if there is good weather. 48k if not.

Koeterback. Bragging rights to him, with G-man in a solid tie, with Koeterback having closest tiebreaker score. Congrats and brag away.

A sincere TY to all of the participants and better fortune in week 5.

My choker award goes to the Cuse this week.

Biggest surprise score was the UNC massacre by JMU with the SMU stomp of rival TCU close behind. Some great games this weekend.

Breakdown:

Koeterback-9 of 12 winning by tiebreaker of 30-20
Guardman---9 of 12 with TBrkr of 45-41
cocoa--------8 of 12
Pushupman-8 of 12
Smithereen-8 of 12
cardrock----8 of 12
mayoman---8 of 12
CRTW-------7 of 12
TrealVille----7 of 12
RhinoB------6 of 12
sccard-------6 of 12
BoonCouCd-6 of 12
CardsFirst---5 of 12

Several picrs came within 2 points off of getting the score right with Boone County at 31-20 the actual closest. Great job by all. Hope all and more play week 5 which I will post shortly.

This is my biggest Q this morning.

Brohm has a lot of slow developing plays that can look good if they can block.


Thoughts?

OFFENSE

Jamari Johnson 92.5
Chris Bell 80.0
Jacorey Brooks 78.9
Tyler Shough 77.5
Monroe Mills 71.3
Jadon Thompson 69.3
Jonathan Mendoza 66.6
Donald Chaney Jr 65.6
Austin Collins 65.2
Pete Nygra 65.1
Duane Martin 62.6
Michael Gonzalez 60.6
Mark Redman 60.0
Izayah Cummings 60.0
Victor Cutler Jr. 60.0
Isaac Brown 58.8
Ahmari Huggins-Bruce 57.2
Jimmy Calloway 56.2
Nate Kurisky 55.7
Rasheed Miller 54.5
Keyjuan Brown 53.6
Duke Watson 52.7
Cataurus Hicks 48.1

Was that a record temperature for a game this late in September?

@Ty Spalding were there any heat related impacts to the team today?

Football is being ruined imo. Trying to watch the NFL and you can’t even hardly tackle anybody anymore without a flag being thrown. I never thought the woke movement that is in politics would make it to football. They need to make the padded helmets mandatory and go back to alpha rules of the old days.

Week 4 starts the in conference games in earnest as the teams have mostly finished their OOC games. I am starting late this season to run this pic um challenge for bragging rights due to some time and health issues mostly...but I hope to find the time and energy each week for the rest of the year to do this.

Please understand if I miss a week but my plan right now is to do this for the rest of the cfb season. So lets get started. Here are my best guess, chime in and I will tabulate and post the winner so he/she can brag for a week or so:

21 Sep Week 4 Games:

BC vs Michigan St - Eagles return to win column and fly over the Spartans in a hard fought close one

Cal @ FSU - Noles take down Cardinal hard...stop their losing streak....welcome to the ACC...this ain't the PAC12/6 dudes

Clemson vs NC St - Closer than expected but Tigers use that Death Valley advantage for the W

Duke @ Middle Tenn - Puke in a throwup easy victory

**GTech @ Cards - Cards in a close one all the way from start to finish just like last time-Tiebreaker game score
Cards 31 Tech 17 -- as Cards score last TD with 2 minutes to spare in 4th Q

Miami vs USF - could be an upset but Canes have home field advantage over the Bulls

UNC vs James Madison - UNC should prevaii in a not so close one but JMU has a new coach so who knows?

Pitt vs Youngstown St - Should be a cake walk for the Panthers

SMU @ TCU - the Dallas/Ft Worth rivalry game goes to the Horn Frogs in an entertaining shoot out

Stanford @ Cuse -- (20 Sep) - A very unfriendly welcome to the ACC as the Orange Crush the Cardinal,,,gets ugly

UVA @ Coastal Carolina - Cavaliers escape the upset barely; how did CC get this as a home game?

VT vs Rutgers - In this toss up game to me...this Tech upsets the Rutgirls in a close one

Wake Forrest - bye - Well Fake Worrest needs to recover from that Ole Miss whooping last week, don't sleep on the bye


Thats my pics in bold print. Now do yours and we will see who gets the bragging rights for Week 4. As always....good fortune to ya!!!
Game comments with your pics are welcome and highly encouraged. Right Wahoo? And lets have some fun with this, this year. Now go for it.

** Please remember to pic and post the score in the Tiebreaker game.

Who’s heading to South Bend, IN next Saturday?

I got 7 in my group.

How sweet Jaire pick six against Low-Class Levis

Cards set for a Top 20 Matchup at ND! My Early prediction Cards a 4 point Dog. Pull the upset at ND!!

Gotta love it

Wish he flashed him the L in the endzone

Georgia Tech at Louisville

Sept. 21, 2024 | L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium

Postgame Press Conference



UofL head coach Jeff Brohm: (Opening Statement) “I am definitely proud of our football team today. It was a good team win. It took all four quarters and a lot of different things to pull off the victory. We were definitely tested in a back-and-forth game with a lot momentum swings. We hung in there like we were able to do at some points last year, play to the end, keep our confidence, keep our fight and not give in. We found a way to make more plays. The defense wasn’t perfect, but they made some big fourth down stops and, of course, the huge turnover. The special teams gave us the advantage that was the key. A huge, blocked punt for a touchdown really won the game and closed it for us. Then the offense couldn’t run the ball really well but made a few plays here and there. It was a tough conference game, and we found a way to win.”



(About close games being a culture thing to come up clutch or personnel oriented) “I think it is both. We have really good kids and coaches. We talk about it all the time. When you play competitive football at a high level, you are not going to dominate. It is not going to happen. Now, if you play a lesser opponent, you might. When you play really good opponents, it is just not going to be that way. You have to be able to hang in there and go back and forth and try to play the perfect game, but it is not going to happen. I just think our guys do that every day in practice and compete hard against each other. Some days the defense will dominate us in the scrimmage, other days we will dominate them. That is kind of how it works when the talent level is similar. But, if you really believe in yourself and a your team and what you are doing, you can find a way to win those games. We have in the past and, of course, we needed that today.



(About the game being a stick-to-it kind of day and how much of it is resiliency) “It was definitely that. The penalties hurt us. I think what we preach is that we do not turn the ball over and that gives us the advantage. Throughout all that, we didn’t turn it over and give them points. If you look what they did, they played good games and did some things. They turned it over for a costly touchdown and then they had a kick blocked. I think, you love to go out there and dominate and do great things but when you get into conference schedules and you are playing really good teams, you just have to find a way to win the football game. We definitely had to do that today. But we have many things to clean up and we will do the best job we can with that.”



(About pressuring GT’s QB Haynes King early and then again late in the game being a product of play calling or blocking schemes.) “It was a little of both. We definitely wanted to heat them as much as we could, and we knew we had to do that some. A couple of times he scrambled and creates a lane, and you are, like, ‘gosh do I really want to do that again?’ So that is the tough part. He can run and he can scramble, and he hurt us on some of those. We had to keep being aggressive and it got us in the backfield. It was hard to get a four-man rush all the time. He did some things, and we did some things to mix it up. We gave up some big plays but I do think we played to the end. I am proud of our defense.”



(On the transfer portal) “Well, the transfer portal is here and, whether everyone loves it or not, it’s part of college football, so you have to adapt, and you have to adjust, and for us, we are going to utilize any chance to get our team better if we can. We feel like that we’re the type of coaches and we have the type of atmosphere here that if anyone wants to come and try to achieve their goals, we’re going to help them do it. Whether they just got here, whether they’ve been here, our team knows that we’re going to bring in the best teammates we can to help them win. We’re going to be as fair we can and play the best players, and of course, if you’re ready, we’re going to get you in as well. With injuries, we had some today and we had some last week. At some point you’re going to play, so you just have to trust us. We don’t shy away from the portal. We’re open, obviously we want to get the right fit. We want to get somebody who really wants to be here and make a difference. I think that even though we’ve been active, we’ve been selective, and we’re open to it. I just think that’s a part of it now and you adapt and adjust, but we embrace it.”



(On creating continuity when utilizing the portal?) “That can happen, we – through the spring, through the summer, through even our vacation, fall camp – we’re working. We’re working with these guys and we’re speeding up the process. It’s not normal college football, where you take a break in the offseason. Our offseason is active with these guys to make sure they’re getting ready and we’re going to spend as much time as they want to do that. Whether they want to get here at six or stay until midnight, obviously we want to abide by the rules, but we will work our guys to help them get better and we will utilize our offseasons or it will not be successful.”



(Assessment of the team seeming to be out of rhythm) “I think the weather affected us – we had some guys cramp up, we’ve had some guys drop out, we had some guys get injured and we didn’t communicate as well as we should have to get guys in there - that happened a few times. We had a couple of calls where we thought we had the right personnel, and we adjusted and tried to get somebody else in there and the person wasn’t standing next to us. So that’s on us, we need to do a better job of that. At that point, I didn’t want them to get a cheap play, so we took a couple of timeouts even though we may have gotten somebody out there in time, but it would have been close. So, yes, there are some things to clean up there. We need to make sure we get better at having our substitution and our next set of guys on the sideline. And we need to do a better job upstairs of counting to 11 and making sure all are ready to go, because a couple of times it shouldn’t have happened, it was the first play of the drive, and we need to be better than that.”

@Ty Spalding i have noticed over the past two games Louisville’s linebackers seem a step slow and are having difficulty covering running backs coming out of the backfield and into passing lanes. Several times Haynes was able to connect with his RB and the Cardinal LB was trailing.

Are you seeing this? Is it a speed/talent issue or a scheme problem?

What’s the talent pipeline look like for LBs?

A very tough stretch in the season looks even more difficult.

Miami
@ Boston College
@ Clemson

Miami is the class of the ACC, a playoff team with Cam Ward.

BC looks really tough at home. A nice win over Michigan State.

Clemson is now clicking after getting embarrassed by Georgia. Their running game with the QB and RB is elite.

I heard it was on Peacock. Anyone know for sure what we will have in Louisville?...

Pretty incredible to see UNC losing to James Madison 70 to 50! UNC was 3-0 with a first week win over Minnesota.

lead UNC 32/21 in 2Q LOOKING GOOD