the future looks bright

[extremeVillefan]

I was looking at Louisville's depth chart for Wake Forest today. There is only 3 seniors on the offensive depth chart, and they are all O linemen. The D also only has 3 seniors (Sheldon Rankins, Pio Vatuvei, & James Burgess). Talk about a youth movement.

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

We got stung by some early entrants last year and the same figures to happen again.

But I agree with you OP I like a lot of things.

I will do a table dance for my lady if our special teams ever improve.

 

[zipp]

hop, I haven't focused much on ST play or dived into those stats. But I wouldn't think our ST play overall was below average before doing that check. Why do you suspect otherwise?...

 

[zipp]

Agree with the OP. I'm more convinced now than I have been all year that our offense is improving. And that the head guy is the reason.

The defense is already there. Give Grantham another raise...

 

[nccardfan]

Zipp,

Guess you missed Ipart's other post about stats on ST play. Not like you to miss an opportunity to discount someone but then I guess you still too focused on SOS...

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

hop, I haven't focused much on ST play or dived into those stats. But I wouldn't think our ST play overall was below average before doing that check. Why do you suspect otherwise?...

Check my stats thread I entered some stats for ST in that thread. I believe we are 117th on a key ST category, I forget which one.

 

[cardstud1]

Agree with the OP. I'm more convinced now than I have been all year that our offense is improving. And that the head guy is the reason.

The defense is already there. Give Grantham another raise...

Zipp, I've been in agreement with you from the beginning...but that Sh*t- eatin-grin has got to go...lol!

 

[L1c4tillidie]

Extremely bright. We have the best freshman QB in the country. Just wait till he puts it all together.

 

[zipp]

Zipp, I've been in agreement with you from the beginning...but that Sh*t- eatin-grin has got to go...lol!

As much as it bugs you, I'll bet my frequent antagonists dislike it even more. Probably see that ugly mug on me!...

 

[zipp]

Check my stats thread I entered some stats for ST in that thread. I believe we are 117th on a key ST category, I forget which one.

Saw the thread but read through that... The NCAA reports nine ST stats (if I counted right) on their site, but you picked out just four. The composite of those four is a little below average.

You may be correct. But before I would single out our ST play as a problem area, I'd want a gauge of all of those stats...

 

[zipp]

Zipp,

Guess you missed Ipart's other post about stats on ST play. Not like you to miss an opportunity to discount someone but then I guess you still too focused on SOS...

Fortunately for you, I can focus on all of those things without "missing an opportunity", esp. the important stuff like SOS...

 

[Louisvillian]

Check my stats thread I entered some stats for ST in that thread. I believe we are 117th on a key ST category, I forget which one.

It was kickoff coverage which ranked 117th and we also ranked low in punt returns.

To me when you talk about special teams there are obviously 4 categories that are most important. They are Kicking, punting, kick coverage and punt coverage. Wallace and Appleby have been pretty solid although Wallace blew an important kick vs Clemson.

The kickoff coverage is bothersome while our punt coverage has been good which can partly be attributed to Appleby's hang time. By the same token some of our kick return woes can be blamed on Wallace's notoriously short kick offs.

The 2 categories that mean less to me are kick returns and punt returns. While it's nice to get a long run back its more important to just make sure you hang on to the ball and know when to fair catch on punt returns. On kick returns, with most kick offs not being returned nowadays I'm happy when we don't get pinned inside our own 20 yard line.

All in all it seems our special teams are average.