hansen {l Wrote}:I’ll say it again... Anything less than 6 regular season wins this year is a disaster (as long as Phil is healthy).
I’ll say it again...
hansen {l Wrote}:I’ll say it again... Anything less than 6 regular season wins this year is a disaster (as long as Phil is healthy).
Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:The only two games we shouldn’t be able to stay close would be Clemson and Notre Dame—and I think Brian Kelly is more than capable of shitting the bed enough for us to stay close. The rest of the ACC is hot garbage. Dazzler would win six games with this OL and an honest to goodness D-I QB like Jurk. The over on six wins will depend entirely on whether Hafley is a good head coach. If he is a good coach, I think we win 8 games. If he is really good we will 9.
It is true that the D is still shaky, but we added some players that can patch some of those giant holes and I think we have a right to expect Hafley—the defensive wizard—will outperform Daz and staff in terms of scheming to cover deficiencies. The offense should score buckets of points this year.
twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:The only two games we shouldn’t be able to stay close would be Clemson and Notre Dame—and I think Brian Kelly is more than capable of shitting the bed enough for us to stay close. The rest of the ACC is hot garbage. Dazzler would win six games with this OL and an honest to goodness D-I QB like Jurk. The over on six wins will depend entirely on whether Hafley is a good head coach. If he is a good coach, I think we win 8 games. If he is really good we will 9.
It is true that the D is still shaky, but we added some players that can patch some of those giant holes and I think we have a right to expect Hafley—the defensive wizard—will outperform Daz and staff in terms of scheming to cover deficiencies. The offense should score buckets of points this year.
This. If Jurk is mediocre, 6 wins. If he and Hafley are home runs, there are only 2 games we should not win and only one we have no chance.
HJS {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:The only two games we shouldn’t be able to stay close would be Clemson and Notre Dame—and I think Brian Kelly is more than capable of shitting the bed enough for us to stay close. The rest of the ACC is hot garbage. Dazzler would win six games with this OL and an honest to goodness D-I QB like Jurk. The over on six wins will depend entirely on whether Hafley is a good head coach. If he is a good coach, I think we win 8 games. If he is really good we will 9.
It is true that the D is still shaky, but we added some players that can patch some of those giant holes and I think we have a right to expect Hafley—the defensive wizard—will outperform Daz and staff in terms of scheming to cover deficiencies. The offense should score buckets of points this year.
This. If Jurk is mediocre, 6 wins. If he and Hafley are home runs, there are only 2 games we should not win and only one we have no chance.
What if Jurk isn’t a savior? You guys are all believing Mike Farrell over Tommy Rees.
HJS {l Wrote}:You said mediocre... which I interpret as an average ACC QB. But, there is a chance he’s worse. I’m just saying that there is an awful lot of faith being put on a kid who has significantly less snaps than Grosel. If he’s good, it is a game changer as to how quickly Hafley will be able to accelerate the program. I’m just leaving over the possibility that he could be something short of expectations. Btw, if he is disappointing, that doesn’t mean he won’t improve and be great in two years. It just means we are looking at 4 wins for this season.
hansen {l Wrote}:Tell us who you think is going to win. no point spreads, no vegas odds, just the pure winner. feel free to add witty banter as you see fit.
9/19 at Duke W
9/26 vs Texas State W
10/3 vs North Carolina W
10/10 vs Pittsburgh W
10/17 at Virginia Tech L
10/24 vs Georgia Tech W
10/31 at Clemson W
11/7 at Syracuse W
11/14 vs Notre Dame L
11/27 vs Louisville W
12/5 at Virginia L
angrychicken {l Wrote}:hansen {l Wrote}:Tell us who you think is going to win. no point spreads, no vegas odds, just the pure winner. feel free to add witty banter as you see fit.
9/19 at Duke W
9/26 vs Texas State W
10/3 vs North Carolina W
10/10 vs Pittsburgh W
10/17 at Virginia Tech L
10/24 vs Georgia Tech W
10/31 at Clemson W
11/7 at Syracuse W
11/14 vs Notre Dame L
11/27 vs Louisville W
12/5 at Virginia L
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hansen {l Wrote}:Tell us who you think is going to win. no point spreads, no vegas odds, just the pure winner. feel free to add witty banter as you see fit.
9/19 at Duke - W
9/26 vs Texas State - W
10/3 vs North Carolina - W
10/10 vs Pittsburgh - L
10/17 at Virginia Tech - W
10/24 vs Georgia Tech - W
10/31 at Clemson - L
11/7 at Syracuse - W
11/14 vs Notre Dame - L
11/27 vs Louisville - L
12/5 at Virginia - W
Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:From what I am seeing from Miami tonight, if Jurk is merely a passable D-1 QB we will be better than the Canes. UAB is hot garbage and they are running ball more than effectively.
angrychicken {l Wrote}:Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:From what I am seeing from Miami tonight, if Jurk is merely a passable D-1 QB we will be better than the Canes. UAB is hot garbage and they are running ball more than effectively.
The U is trash. Has been for years.
Dick Rosenthal {l Wrote}:Here is what I have seen with my own eyes with respect to Jurk. His throwing motion is a bit jerky, but he has a cannon. I watched him throw a 40 yard cross field laser—left his hand six feet off the ground and hit the receiver in the chest on the opposite side of the field—while getting smashed in the sternum. He also runs better than any QB we have had—and I include Troy Murphy in that assessment. Even in garbage time behind walk-on OLs he ripped off some very nice runs at ND when everyone knew it was a run. He will gash people behind this line. And lest anyone forget, he was also an All State basketball player. We have not seen this kind of athleticism.
As for the fact that Rees and Kelly didn’t like him, who fucking cares. Brian Kelly has ruined every QB he has had except Tommy Rees (who was basically Grosel in terms of his arm and athletic ability) and Book, who has a pea shooter arm (I love Book’s attitude and the way he makes plays with his legs, but he has a below average arm). After that there is wreckage of numerous 4 and 5 star recruits destroyed by Brian Kelly—Dayne Crist and Gunner Kiel, who were destroyed before they even got a start, Everett Golson who had a fantastic freshman year when Kelly had to downsize and simplify his idiotic playbook, but who was destroyed during his second year as a starter when he was alleged to have grasped Kelly’s concepts. Ditto DeShon Kizer in almost the exact same fashion. Ditto Brandon Wimbush and ditto Malik Zaire, who actually beat a pretty damn good LSU team with Leonard Fournette in the last start of his first year and who was abandoned and discarded three games into his next year. At a certain point, all of these kids could not have been at fault and you have to look at the purple faced asshole coaching them.
I’d also note that Chip Long loved Jurk and the two reasons Kelly fired him was because (a) Long wanted Jurk to replace Book because it gave the offense the ability to stretch the field and (b) he thought they could run the ball more because Jurk was more durable and just as effective running RPOs as Book. This offended Kelly’s delicate sensibilities and most ND insiders think Rees was selected as the new OC because he would not call into question the intelligence and efficacy of Kelly’s offensive philosophy.
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