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Post by WVUfanPHILLY on Sept 29, 2007 1:39:46 GMT -5
I think Our D played for their lives Yes, they did!!!!!
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Post by joemountaineer on Sept 29, 2007 10:46:01 GMT -5
Had a few hours to sleep on this one. Seems surreal today. I need to start drinking or something. I am damn dissapointed because I know we are the much better team. USF has our number. You can bet your ass that every BE team out there is going to try to copy USF on defense. Whether other teams have the athletes remains to be seen. USF has very good speed on defense and they used it to their advantage; on the other side of it, WVU didn't adjust to what they were doing. It's like Rod was stubborn and just refuses to give up on the short screen passes. And the fact Slaton got the ball twice in the second half is simply inexcusable!!!! I think USF just matched up well with our speed on the corners. We never tried to punch it thru the middle consistently, which I think was a USF vulnerability. AND WHEN THE HELL ARE WE GONNA START THROWING DOWNFIELD!!! ?? This loss closes some doors for us but it's not the end of the season. We will drop into the top fifteen or sixteen I am betting but there's still a Big East Championship and BCS bid up for grabs. I do NOT think USF has the offense to win it all by any means. We killed ourselves with the turnovers and the really bad o-line play. And the center play was the worst I have ever seen from any WVU team. Terrible!!!!!! The snap over the head thing was a killer. We score a TD there, I really think we end up winning and maybe by a couple scores. Instead, we f-ed it up, kicked a field goal and USF has all the MO going in at the half. We beat ourselves, bottom line. We can and will do better. I think when I get home I'll have to fire up the NCAA 08 on the xbox and pound the shit out of USF just to get this taste out of my mouth. Simply....disgusting......
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Post by wvumaryjane on Sept 29, 2007 11:59:37 GMT -5
South Florida DOES have our number..
Great post Joe!
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Post by red518irish on Sept 29, 2007 12:19:36 GMT -5
I agree that USF has our number, however I seem to remember that Maryland USED to have our number too. I don't know what was going on on that field last night, but it was not WVU football. I agree that we should have pounded the ball up the middle more. Schmitt was getting us some yards there and if you give it to Slaton there, and he gets by the blitz, then it is a TD. All I know is, is that as fans, WE must now hold the rope for the remainder of the season and let our boys know we support them NO MATTER WHAT. We may have something to say positive or negative, but that is only because we are passionate. But we are loyal and will cheer for them, so say it loud, say it proud, say it like you really mean it. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MOUNTAINEERS
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Post by joemountaineer on Sept 29, 2007 12:54:19 GMT -5
I agree that USF has our number, however I seem to remember that Maryland USED to have our number too. I don't know what was going on on that field last night, but it was not WVU football. I agree that we should have pounded the ball up the middle more. Schmitt was getting us some yards there and if you give it to Slaton there, and he gets by the blitz, then it is a TD. All I know is, is that as fans, WE must now hold the rope for the remainder of the season and let our boys know we support them NO MATTER WHAT. We may have something to say positive or negative, but that is only because we are passionate. But we are loyal and will cheer for them, so say it loud, say it proud, say it like you really mean it. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MOUNTAINEERSI can't argue that. This stings for now but I'll be fine in a couple days and when we crush the Orange Saturday I'll be even better. I am feeling pretty good watching ND get it's ass handed to it by Purdue right now. So the depression is melting away little by little. It's not like we lost to friggin' Syracuse!!! Hopefully the pollsters will look at it as two good teams playing and not sink us too far in the polls. Truth be told, the polls are no longer an issue as we are out of the NC picture, at least for the time being and until some other teams lose. I see LSU is struggling right now, if they lose to Tulane, Florida loses to Auburn (Hey, they did beat Fla last year), then who knows. I'll stand by my statment that I really don't think USF has the offense to win the Big East. We played down last night, worst game in a long, long time so we got beat by a DECENT but NOT GREAT USF team at their house. There's a lot of football left, we shouldn't get too down - yet. There's problems that got exposed, but they are fixable. Rodriguez needs to learn to be flexible and try different things earlier in the games instead of waiting until halftime or late third quarter to change up. The play calling was bad. The offensive play was horrible. Yet - we still could have won.
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Post by mountaineerinpa on Sept 30, 2007 15:09:50 GMT -5
Yes we could have still won the game and thats what hurts me the most, DAMN IT we are a better team than that. I agree that the reason it hurts us is that we are passionate about our team but we are going to be ok and still in it for a BCS spot.
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Post by mountaineerinpa on Sept 30, 2007 15:22:29 GMT -5
Had a few hours to sleep on this one. Seems surreal today. I need to start drinking or something. I am damn dissapointed because I know we are the much better team. USF has our number. You can bet your ass that every BE team out there is going to try to copy USF on defense. Whether other teams have the athletes remains to be seen. USF has very good speed on defense and they used it to their advantage; on the other side of it, WVU didn't adjust to what they were doing. It's like Rod was stubborn and just refuses to give up on the short screen passes. And the fact Slaton got the ball twice in the second half is simply inexcusable!!!! I think USF just matched up well with our speed on the corners. We never tried to punch it thru the middle consistently, which I think was a USF vulnerability. AND WHEN THE HELL ARE WE GONNA START THROWING DOWNFIELD!!! ?? This loss closes some doors for us but it's not the end of the season. We will drop into the top fifteen or sixteen I am betting but there's still a Big East Championship and BCS bid up for grabs. I do NOT think USF has the offense to win it all by any means. We killed ourselves with the turnovers and the really bad o-line play. And the center play was the worst I have ever seen from any WVU team. Terrible!!!!!! The snap over the head thing was a killer. We score a TD there, I really think we end up winning and maybe by a couple scores. Instead, we f-ed it up, kicked a field goal and USF has all the MO going in at the half. We beat ourselves, bottom line. We can and will do better. I think when I get home I'll have to fire up the NCAA 08 on the xbox and pound the shit out of USF just to get this taste out of my mouth. Simply....disgusting...... The reason we didnt use Slaton more in the 2nd hapf is that he was cramping up according to RR in his press conference.
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Post by smurph on Oct 1, 2007 11:17:49 GMT -5
Joe I agree with you for the most part. We should have lined up in a power formation and tried to blow them off the line of scrimmage (Nehlen ball) . We ran a few power runs in the first half and they were working. As far as throwing the ball downfield, we did try that in the second half and it wasn't working. USF's 2 great cornerbacks made it tough for our receivers to get open, and Jarrett was just not getting enough time to be comfortable in the pocket.
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Post by smurph on Oct 2, 2007 11:24:31 GMT -5
Shouldn't it be "Damn it" (not dame it) ?
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Post by dehayes35 on Oct 2, 2007 12:12:16 GMT -5
Yeah I wasn't sure about that either. Given our moods during the game, I can understand typo's though.
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Post by mountaineerinpa on Oct 3, 2007 20:59:35 GMT -5
I dint notice that. Im sure that what she meant though. shes a DAME huh
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Post by wvumaryjane on Oct 4, 2007 16:13:52 GMT -5
Actually the Dame didn't start the thread...
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Post by mountaineerinpa on Oct 4, 2007 16:19:29 GMT -5
Opps I got the wrong DAME sorry MJ.
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