Washington is the biggest game of the season
by OrangeBlood44 on Jul 20, 2010 9:15 PM EDT
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PrintI know it seems crazy that that much would be riding on that game, but I think it is a huge game for the Cuse, Through the whole Greggers era, I waited for the tipping point to come. That one moment where the snowball would start rolling down the mountain. Well, it never came obviously. Looking back it is easy to see that the right pieces were never in place to make that happen. Now with HCDM, things are looking up for the Orange, and with this years schedule, what a perfect opportunity for that elusive tipping point. We have a game that should be a win against Akron to start off the year, get the butterflys out, some of the early kinks worked out. Then comes the trip to Washington. It should be looked as a bowl game for us. We need to pour our blood, sweat and tears into that game to come out with a W. It is a huge game for us going against a heisman hopeful, and a nothing game for them. Start out the season 2-0 with Maine and Colgate on tap at home before the bye and the Big East schedule. 4-0 coming into Big East play could be the tipping point that gets this program turned around. 3 or 4 wins in conference could get us back to a bowl game at 7-5 or dare I say 8-4? This would help out immensely in recruiting and that extra month of practice heading into the bowl game for HCDM's young recruits is invaluable.
It may not happen but it would be sweet! GO SU! I can't wait for the season to start and for Shamarko to knock someone's head off!!
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I AM SO READY FOR FOOTBALL
God damn.
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
Seriously
I’m on vacay late next week thru about Aug. 12 with absolutely no computer access. I can’t wait to get hit with a tidal wave of football upddates when I get back.
"I'm going through a rough patch in my life right now. Syracuse is 0 and 3" - Adam Sandler
by bloodyyank44 on Jul 21, 2010 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions
I try to forget
anything that has to do with Robinson, including his Gregisms!
by OrangeBlood44 on Jul 21, 2010 8:02 AM EDT up reply actions
dream on..
the huskies are at home, with nice infusion of raw talent, ala the don james days when it was reload every year. plus they have a outstanding qb, senior year, heisman hopeful. who can run and throw big time, just like the qbs we used to recruit for the freeze opton.
Take away Locker
they’re no better than us.
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by Sean Keeley on Jul 21, 2010 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Okay, so except for Locker they're no better than us
They do have Locker, and it’s a cross-country road trip. UConn actually is better than us at football in 2010 (sigh), but we’ve got a much better chance of beating them than Washington.
Love the optimism
And on paper, SU and UW are very similar in many ways. The thing is, I just don’t have a good feeling for this game. UW might’ve been only 5-7 last year, but they were 4-2 at home. Not only were they tough to beat on their own turf SU was 0-4 on the road with some disasterous performances mixed in (UL and Pitt specifically). I’m not saying that SU doesn’t have a chance, just that a W is a lot to expect.
You’re right though, this game will have a bowl-like flavor to it. Good exposure for the team and recruiting too. Let’s hope that both teams come in at 1-0 and its a great game. GO ORANGE!!!
"I'm going through a rough patch in my life right now. Syracuse is 0 and 3" - Adam Sandler
Not expecting a W...
but I am saying this should be treated as a HUGE game by the players and coaches. I am hopeful for the win, but I know it is a tough task. I will be satisfied if they leave it all on the field that day, regardless of the outcome.
kind of like PSU last year
Thats the way I’m looking at it.
"I'm going through a rough patch in my life right now. Syracuse is 0 and 3" - Adam Sandler
by bloodyyank44 on Jul 21, 2010 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions
You are giving Washington way too much credit
They are no Penn State…WE have more wins than them the past 2 years. There are not many teams you can say that about!
Actually
I misspoke. UW was 5-2 at home in 2009, beating Idaho, USC, Arizona, Wash St. and Cal. 4 of 5 were bowl teams, 3 of 5 were ranked during the season. Losses were to LSU and Oregon.
PSU was 6-2 at home, beating Akron, SU, Temple, E. Illinois, Minnesota and Indiana. 2 bowl teams in that bunch. Losses to OSU and Iowa. I’d say thats not as impressive what UW did at home, except that I think the PAC-10 blows, so that evens things a bit.
"I'm going through a rough patch in my life right now. Syracuse is 0 and 3" - Adam Sandler
by bloodyyank44 on Jul 21, 2010 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions
True
They did beat some good teams at the beginning of the season. They still were not as good as PSU. It may have been easy to catch some teams sleeping against them at the beginning of the season after going 0-12 the year before. Plus a new coach with different schemes gave opponents no video to dissect.
It is gonna be a tough game for us to win, no doubt, but not impossible. Even during the coach P era we always won a game or 2 that we shouldn’t have on paper. Hopefully we get back to that,
by OrangeBlood44 on Jul 21, 2010 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
It's funny
b/c we also lost 1 or 2 games every year that we should have won under Coach P.
Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10
by PoetryInMoten on Jul 22, 2010 6:31 AM EDT up reply actions
grobster/herr doktor from usc... grande faux pas as usual...
recruiting? me know think so. we dont recruit players from idaho, ory-gun" or washington. in fact, least 50%of huskies usually come from where else, SoCA. kinda typical of the m indless muddled thinking of the herr doktor and grob. plus all the travel costs to seattle and back. in fact, all the ridiculous games we have been playing with Mn,northwestern et al, we dont even recruit there either. cept for mcnabb from chicago land, and northeast ohio, we dont recruit in big 11 areas. what they should have done, duh… was schedule games with temple, UVa again,maryland, navy. as well as university of central florida,fiu, etc. namely, areas we do recruit: eastern pa, md, florida, NoVa.
grob and "das sunshine reich"
tho probably by accident he did end up with a few fl players, he publicly announced that he did not have to recruit there. the only places i can think of that do not dream about recruiting florida players are say USC or Ucla, or say UT horns,areas, LA and texas where u actually dont have to go out of state at all..
Further proof
That GRob is an idiot.
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
Do we need more proof?
Michigan will learn! Haha.
by OrangeBlood44 on Jul 21, 2010 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
If they don't already know!
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
Actually...
I don’t think the UW game is all that important (except possibly in retrospect, if we lost a close game and that’s why we’re not bowling).
Akron and the FCS games are important, because losing them would be embarrassing.
Pitt, WVU, and Rutgers are important because they’re old Big East football rivalries, and it’s just painful to lose to Rutgers, so hopefully HCDM won’t be doing that.
UConn is important because the Huskies are almost as evil as the Hoyas, and actually play football now. And bizarrely, they are better than us at it right now.
BC is important because we beat them in their last Big East game, and we don’t want them getting ideas that anything’s changed.
Louisville is important, because it’s the one conference game we’re supposed to win.
Which leaves USF, Cinci, and UW. None of which are all that important. It’d be nice to win them, but I doubt it will make or break the season, and I just don’t care a lot about those teams.
Akron is the biggest game of the season
Because it’s the next one on the schedule. Equally as bad for us fans to overlook opponents as it is the players or coaches.
I think Akron is a very winnable game though, hopefully it’s a strong W and the team builds some confidence going into Seattle.
Also note that Washington opens the season @ BYU, who is #12 currently, for whatever that’s worth. That makes the home opener vs SU very dangerous for them if they win, very good medicine if they lose.
Having 3 solid RBs will be huge in Washington (assuming DC3 is suiting up this year) to keep the ball, quiet the crowd and allow Nassib to get comfortable before the crowd impacts the passing game.
Also worth noting to me is Shafer has already played against locker, from his days at Stanford. Locker ran for 97 yrds and 2 scores in that game, I’m willing to be Shafer is itching to shut him down this time around.
As I said in my post about Akron being the most important game of the season
Not just because it is next… but because it sets the tone.
It’s been a long time since we have manhandled a team. If we were able to manhandle Akron, this would at least suggest that we are turning the corner.
If we merely win, it will be the first time in a long, long time that we were 1-0. When is the last time? Never during G-Rob. Coach P’s last season was 51-0 Purdue. I don’t feel like looking it up.
More importantly, losing would be a huge setback.
Most importantly, the 2010 team has never played. We haven’t see Nassib for a whole game. Lots of question marks.
Coach P fell out of favor because he stopped being able to win the winnable games. It was bad enough to repeatedly get embarassed against good-to-great teams… but allowing Rutgers and Temple to beat us was a huge momentum killer. G-Rob losing to Miami (ugh) and Akron (ugh again) was a failure to win the winnable games.
You can’t go 12-0 if you don’t win Game 1.
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