The live blog will start at 5:45, Box and Adam are running the show as the rest of the team will be in Lane (sorry guys). Before kickoff make sure you check out:
- the mascot mock, and all the coke jokes
- Kevin's preview
- a look at Clemson's spread offense
- what our opponent thinks
- and this
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Scott Demler, Mike O' Cain pack your fuc@$ng bags. Catch the first damn bus out of Blacksburg. Thanks for nothing.
Everyone who lined up at left tackle, join them...
I am curious how will Beckton grade this time? Hope no where near close to 80 or up
The bigger the stage...
the worse the performance.
every time.
We out-Clemson'ed Clemson in that regard tonight.
The first quarter
Our play calling was fantastic, yet we got into our old habits of running the same 3 or 4 plays every down. It killed us. Our defense did everything that it could against that offense. Definitely sucks, we'll probably drop to about 23rd or something now...
Frankly why do you care a bout rankings? We blow badly on O right now and the thing that we need to worry about is how do we fix the problems if they are even fixable at this point of the season. then we can worry about rankings.
For me it is clear we need a fresh start @ OC, it has been this way for a long time.
I could care less about the rankings. If we dropped out entirely, I'd have no problem with it. We play better with a chip on our shoulder and I hope we come out fired up next week as a result.
Routes
The 2 turnovers and 2 bad ref calls hurt our momentum in the beginning and cost points. Of course the offensive play calling was horrible as is normally the case. The goal line call should have been LT punching it in Wild Turkey style. Receivers ran terrible routes today. Danny Coales catches were short stuff not past the first down marker. Somehow I don't think Clemson's D is as good as LSU or Alabama's and that is what our offense made it look like. If Bud Foster was not our defensive coach this program would be in bad shape.
I think our horrible effort on the recruiting trail the last few years definitely showed up tonight. We may get a couple of gems and a few diamonds in the rough but overall our recruiting or lack there of showed up last night for sure.
I disagree
I think we have the soldiers to win the war but the generals have their heads completely up their asses. Kinda like in Afghanistan.
I agree at the skill positions we are more than capable to take over a game against any opponent but our offensive linemen leave something to be desired. We cannot keep converting tightends to tackles and recruiting 2 star offensive linemen. At some point we need to bring in some bigtime offensive line recruits.
I can't say I was surprised by the loss
But I was surprised we didn't score more. The signs have been there the last few weeks. I was hoping that it was just a case of lack of focus and that a bigger stage would turn things around. It seems the signs were right. But maybe we still weren't as focused as we needed to be. Was it over overconfidence, under-performance, or something else? Is it that we don't have the personnel to execute our complex, high-powered offensive scheme or is our scheme poor? I think it is a little of both. I didn't expect LT or DW would have perfectly flawless and outstanding seasons. There were bound to be growing pains. They still lack significant game experience. However there has not been much improvement the last few weeks. They have either peaked or the coaches have peaked.
Our weaknesses definitely showed up and ruled this game. The lack of red-zone success is on the coaches to figure out. Is it missed assignments and poor execution? Are our playmakers just not that good compared with who we face, or are we having problems getting the ball to our playmakers? Do they not have the skills or experience to make adjustments or to ad-lib as the play develops? To me that has been the difference. It seems our offense only succeeds against tough opponents when someone makes a play rather than because of a brilliant game plan that was flawlessly executed. We haven't had a dominant offensive line is several years. Defense is better this year but still not as dominant as I would like.
Can't dwell on this since we have Miami in 5 days.