Louisville vs WVU

[billybud]

I found his explanation of evolving defenses to be something we all intuitively knew....

"Peter Boulware and Reinard Wilson, in their senior years, those two guys had 40 sacks between them. Forty sacks between two guys! We led the nation with about 60 sacks and those two had 40 between them. The schemes have changed, when we played in the early to mid 90's, we changed it from read and react defense to attack on the snap. Instead of reading blockers, we read the ball. Everyone's eyes were on the ball.

We tried to create a new line of scrimmage two yards behind the line of scrimmage on every play. It was a destructive scheme for the offense, people had trouble getting the snap. We were in their backfield before they could do anything about it.

So then the shotgun came about, it helps the protection, he (quarterback) is able to get the ball and get it off. People learned how to block it and devised hot routes and converted their pattern according to their defense. We were in attack mode all the time back then and the defenses were ahead of the offense. Now it goes in cycles. Consequently, defensive coaches have had to go back to the read-and-react so we don't create big gaps. The offensive coaches have devised ways to create vertical seams in your front and there was a time period where the offenses got ahead of the defenses, but now we have gone back to a mixture of that. We would attack on the snap and read on the run, that was our philosophy in the mid to late 90's up until Mickey (Andrews) retired. "

[Swamp Daddy]

WVU
As usuall UL fans cain't stand that WVU OWNS them 11-3. I have been to every game against UL since they joined the BE and it gets blowen up every time and it usually comes from UL not all the time but 85% of the time. Everyone has bad (drunk) fans (mostly students) and trust me UL dose to.

And, I might add that UK fans share that attitude with WVU fans - always living on past statistics when all other reasoning fails. A number of schools share this attitude. The future will tell what it will tell and it probably won't be based entirely on past records.

Swamp Daddy

[wvjohn]

WVU
As usuall UL fans cain't stand that WVU OWNS them 11-3. I have been to every game against UL since they joined the BE and it gets blowen up every time and it usually comes from UL not all the time but 85% of the time. Everyone has bad (drunk) fans (mostly students) and trust me UL dose to.

And, I might add that UK fans share that attitude with WVU fans - always living on past statistics when all other reasoning fails. A number of schools share this attitude. The future will tell what it will tell and it probably won't be based entirely on past records.

Swamp Daddy

No living in the past here just the present. And you are right, the future will tell.

[Swamp Daddy]

Who could have thunk it. Louisville finds a modicum of offense where there was none earlier in the season and eases past WVU, loses to Pitt, and finds the offense again to ease past USF. And, we have a chance at the Orange Bowl, believe it or not.

Had we beat Pitt; we would now be in it. Amazing end to a crummy season start .

Swamp Daddy

[WoVeU]

I am glad to see UofL back up and running. I wish it would of came a few years earlier. I knew USF's lead yesterday was the Bull's playing with other people's money. And the Big East is tougher this year, tougher than I expected, and better than most might think. Games like yesterday with the Cards and Eers winning in come back efforts show that to me, and there have been more examples of that this year it seems. When S. Florida is your worst team and they beat ND out of conference and lost by 3 to the good version of Miami (w/ a Jacoby Harris that completes passes at 80% and throws no INTs.)

There will be a lot of eyes on the Cincy-Cuse game today. I'm not 100% sure I want WVU to win the Big East right now. Time off has for too long been Hillbilly Cryptonite...a week off is generally iced with 1 to 3 quarters of Game-Time Off! If they are going to go into hibernation I'd much rather see Louisville representing! It seems this year they have upped the ante for Bye Weeks...looking much like ye ole Bowl Break.

I want to take this opportunity to extend my thanks to DH for allowing the Mountaineers to play defense...just something I generally prefer, I guess I am just old-fashioned! But because I am greedy, I want to go ahead and put in a request to put in the best Wide Receiver on the team...you know, if you get the chance...while you ain't doin nothin!

[WoVeU]

I am happy to report that WVU is "Staying Alive!" Down to needing to win 1 against USF and Cincy to beat UConn. I have them at about 60-40 odds at the present.

I do not salivate at the thought of a BCS Bowl, to me it is just a recruiting aid. Finishing anything outside of the top is still not getting it did. But I will be a hopeful fan when next year comes around.

[Cane from the Bend]

Next year?

Now you are starting to resemble them thoughts of a Chicago Cubs fan.

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