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SuperJon wrote:I'm not making excuses by any means, but one thing I noticed a lot of was our defensive players slipping. They would get to MacDowell, he would cut one way, and they just couldn't keep their feet underneath them to reverse direction. It was the first game we played this year on grass and the dew set pretty heavily so that may have been a reason, but that's one thing I noticed over and over, especially in the second half.CCU's sideline reporter (who does not compare to Samantha Steele in ANY category) made the same observation about the dew. It was one of her few cogent comments.
Champion wrote:To me the difference may be in the polls. Beating a 3-3 team by five does not rest well with the voters.I can pretty much guarantee you that, on 3rd and short with one first down needed to win a huge conference game, absolutely no one on our sideline is thinking about the polls. If they are, they ought to be tasered.
RagingTireFire wrote:I understand you guy's reasoning for not scoring the TD. But, our theme this year is "Unfinished Business". I thought that meant getting to the playoffs. What makes you think we don't need to impress the voters in the polls? I guess everyone is okay with playing Elon on Nov 22 and calling it a season. There are a lot of good teams out there that would love to be in our position. Coach Rocco talked this past week about putting teams away. That did not happen at Coastal.Champion wrote:To me the difference may be in the polls. Beating a 3-3 team by five does not rest well with the voters.I can pretty much guarantee you that, on 3rd and short with one first down needed to win a huge conference game, absolutely no one on our sideline is thinking about the polls. If they are, they ought to be tasered.
olldflame wrote:I get a kick out of people saying we couldn't "put them away". What does that mean anyway? How early do we expect the game to be "over"? When the clock showed 00:00 at the end of the 4th quarter we were ahead 43-38. It could have been 50-38 if we had chosen, but either way, we had "put them away" at the only point in the game that counts.You're right. The large yellow font made a difference there! I need to start using that tactic to get my point across from now on.
olldflame wrote:If you are seriously worrying about those 7 points making the difference between our being in the playoffs or not, you are a sick man. Our "business" is to win football games anyway, not to impress voters in a poll. If we TCB there, the polls will be fine.You are Old if you don't think majors polls for D-1 football don't have an effect on coaches and where teams rank each week. The problem is some voters on those polls didn't and wont watch this game. However when they see a 5 point win vs. a 12 pt win, sad or not it could very well make a difference in the vote we get. Our business according to Rocco was not to win football games but make the playoffs and win the conference outright.......to make the playoffs, those polls like it or not have an effect.
over a young whipper-snapper every time.olldflame wrote:As far as age is concerned. let's just say If I have to decide who's judgement I'm going to trust, give me anLike my dad always says...."old age and tretchery will overcome youth and enthusiasum every time."
olldflame wrote:If you are seriously worrying about those 7 points making the difference between our being in the playoffs or not, you are a sick man. Our "business" is to win football games anyway, not to impress voters in a poll. If we TCB there, the polls will be fine.What you are saying just doesn't make any sense. It's not a matter of whether those 7 points makes a difference or not, it's whether we can compete as a playoff caliber team. This was another game where we could not put the team away. That was not a dominating win. Maybe you should look at the teams that have made it to the playoffs in the past and how they have dominated games. That way you won't make such idiotic statements. We don't get the autobid so be better impress someone.
olldflame wrote:You honestly believe that when Danny Rocco coined the phrase "Unfinished Business", he was talking about running up the score on our opponents to impress poll voters rather than taking games one at a time and doing what it takes to win? I DON"T.I hardly think scoring in the last two minutes when you're only up by five is "running up the score". Now, if LU was ahead by 20 or 30 in the same situation I might agree with you. I don't think you have any idea what "running up the score" means.
As far as age is concerned. let's just say If I have to decide who's judgement I'm going to trust, give me an
olldflame wrote:I guess we need to bench RJ and fire Rocco, since they are both obviously out of touch with the realities of FCS football.Rocco had nothing to do with it and RJ just made a questionable decision. I don't think you need to go to exremes here.
Champion wrote:Did you actually think I was SERIOUS???????????????????????olldflame wrote:I guess we need to bench RJ and fire Rocco, since they are both obviously out of touch with the realities of FCS football.Rocco had nothing to do with it and RJ just made a questionable decision. I don't think you need to go to exremes here.
olldflame wrote:I guess we need to bench RJ and fire Rocco, since they are both obviously out of touch with the realities of FCS football.No. You are out of touch. I'm sure they had there reasons for doing what they did and we are all are just giving our opinion on how we feel about it. We all have our own views of what should have happened or would have liked to happen. Let's move on to SBU and beat them by 3 next week because we will be a lock for the playoffs. Might as well rest RJ, BS, DB,J five and a few more starters. We don't want to show what we are capable of.
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