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There is increased parity in college ball but this is not what I (and probably Peacone) are pointing at. There are games where superiority is plainly on display. What we tend to see from the superior team is dramatically uneven play due to a lack of competitive stamina and focus due to the...

To feel good about games like this the team needs to demonstrate a killer instinct, which has been historically rare for GT teams to do. Usually teams get-up and lose focus, discipline and to some degree play down to the competition. Maybe the thing I envied most about the Duke program under...

I would love to make predictions, but I feel my true calling was to write the definitive treatise on the biology of the larval stages of Barnacles. Alas, I have had to dedicate my productive years putting my little brother, who is prone to seizures, through Clown College. My confidence...

Okay, this made me laugh... Kids, are you reading this? All predictions should come with this kind of preamble. Now I will be disappointed if we are not 20-11 (11-9), which I will take.

Duke's issue in recent years is to get all the new 5* players to want to dig-in and play D the way they used to under K.

I think there were timing issues here. Philo's ball got on them way faster than what they were used to.

Stoudamire was an elite high school player, high profile college and NBA player. He's grown up under scrutiny. It wouldn't be surprising that he would have a deep insight into the facets of public scrutiny and how to manage them. He is unlikely to fall for the temptation of the spotlight...

Succinct and spot-on assessment. The play of Philo and the defense had me feeling okay after the loss. A QB that has pocket presence, can see the field, has a gun of an arm and has the moxie to throw into the middle of the field ... there is no more prized commodity in the game. It doesn't...

When players who have a history of playing well are playing poorly, it is usually because they are not 100% physically. I bet he is nursing an injury.

I think the team did pretty well hanging with an obviously physically superior team, especially without our starting QB and star MLB. I think the story of this season has been sloppiness. The way we approach games, emphasizing a ball control attack necessitating long drives, requires...

Nothing is what it used to be. The older I get the more sensitive are my perceptions of how things change over time. Some look at all change as corruption, others see it as an opportunity. Some were better adapted for the way things were, some find themselves blossom under the new...

I don't like for the ACC to lose a top coach. Hopefully it is not due to personal crisis but only a professional one. There have been dramatic changes to the sport in the last few years and that change will only naturally benefit some coaches and alienate others. It is peak recruiting...

To be clear, I wasn't trying to be dismissive of your point but just making general conversation about the stat. While I am sure that there are individual player stats that are correlative with wins and losses, e.g., when player z has less than x number of turnovers, the team wins at y%. I...

For those who would like an explanation of "Drtg," you can find the formula here Personally, the stat requires a lot of sweat to produce an assessment that would take just a few minutes of watching a game to see if a player is a good defender or not. The value of he stat is further obscured by...

Must be close to the season because the posts are starting to get a little chippy. We need some recruiting news.

We'll see how our lines of scrimmage hold up. If they can we can be competitive. With our QB laboring, I think we are a long shot. We need to come out on the positive side of the ledger in terms of big plays. We will have to steal a possession or two and maybe make a big play on special...

A Player's "position" is pretty much just designating what guy on the opposing team that player is defending. Even in switching defenses, offenses want mismatches and defenses don't. Defenses basically want big on big, quick on quick. Offenses want Big on Small down low, and Quick on Big on...

That is along the lines of what I was talking about with regards to our wings that can create spacing with their shooting but not being our best defenders. Reeves and O'Brien can shoot the corner three but can they defend and rebound adequately? Powell has the body and athleticism to be a more...

That tactic is rampant throughout society. Take subjective information, stick number values on it, subject the numbers to statistical analyses, display the output in graphs and tables aaaaannnddd ... VIOLA! Science! Yeah, no. Sadly. most people just can't tell the difference.

I wish my typos were this good :LOL: