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Savannah St. (+55)...moved to +60

Plzwork4 said:
canes1977 said:
Plzwork4 said:
canes1977 said:
riceman said:
If we score 55 I'll be pleasantly surprised. Not that we can't, but I suspect we won't.

No injuries, get some rhythm going on offense finally to build up confidence, and I'll be happy with that.
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I dont think you realize how bad Savannah State actually is. Georgia Southern beat them by 68 earlier in the year. They did however rebound nicely the following week keeping Troy within 63 points. If we cant score 55 against this team, Coley is not the right guy.
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That last sentence...read it...


/mind blown.
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Ive blown your mind because I think any competent OC with the talent we have on our our roster can score 55 points against a team that Georgia Southern scored 77 and Troy scored 66? We apparently are still Cokerized as a fan base.
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Your post is a moronic hyperbole. If we dont score 55 we will be fine. For you to suggest our OC should be fired, or anyone for that matter, as a result of this glorified scrimmage is just nonsense.

Mind continues to be blown over the stupidity of our porsters.
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If you've established it as a hyperbole why are you taking it literal?
 
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Booker T Washington high has more talent that SSU right now. Booker T would beat SSU pretty handily. That's not an exaggeration. That team is awful.
 
i have a friend who is a die hard dolphins fan. he didn't go to a college with a big football program and he cannot get into college football simply because of games like this. the ncaa has to get rid of these games.
 
They will keep playing these games until someone good really gets hurt. I see no reason for Duke to even step foot on the field this weekend. No good can come from this, only bad. THey are far and away the worst college team ever.
 
canes1977 said:
5 different players for Georgia Southern rushed for 70+ yards against them. They gave up a total of 576 rushing yards in that game. If Miami made it a goal, Duke could have 300 rushing yards by halftime.
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You have the correct idea. In Las Vegas I had a good percentage in betting the games with huge spreads. If the favorite was a relentless run oriented team, I'd generally give the points. If the favorite was a pass happy team, I'd generally take the points.

Public perception was typically the opposite so you'd get a break in the line. Invariably the passing favorites would get bet up, and the running teams would get bet down. I remember one handicapper on the Stardust Line in Las Vegas, circa late '80s: "If I'm giving points like that I want the ball in the air!" I had to chuckle. All the trends and the logic slanted the other way.

There's no surer way to ruin a drive and lessen a massive physical advantage than by throwing the football, when there's no need to do it. One sack and one dropped pass can ruin the cover. Meanwhile, the running teams continue to pound away. Their offense doesn't change markedly in the second half. The pass happy teams can score a ton in the first half and then virtually nothing in the second half. It's considerably more random.

BTW, some recent articles claim that Oklahoma State or Florida State last season sported the largest recorded pointspread ever, when hosting Savannah State. That's not true. I was working at the Horseshoe sportsbook as supervisor in 1989. The Houston/SMU game was anticipated for months, due to the certainty of a massive spread. SMU was a doormat after the death penalty. By the week of the game that spread reached as high as 73.5 at our book. I heard reports that some spots climbed briefly to as high as -74.5, which would have been enough for SMU to cover. They lost 95-21. I never saw that -74.5. The spread at our joint and at every sportsbook I looked at -- more than a dozen of them -- was in the -72.5 area for most of the week. The line dropped to 69 or 70 at game time. But -72.5 was the predominant spread all week. There are some online sources, including from the New York Times, that badly misrepresent that spread, claiming it was in the high 50s. That's nonsense. Notre Dame hosted SMU later in the season and also gave a huge number, in the high 60s. The Irish failed to cover. That was the game in which one Notre Dame running back ran out of bounds on purpose rather than score, which the SMU coach Forrest Gregg took as a slap in the face to his program. In those games I bet the favorite both times, so I ended up with a split.
 
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I doubt Duke will get 10 touches and I also do not think SM plays past the first quarter. I think we will go up early and then start using back ups fast. I do not think we cover. They have their starter at qb back, not that he is a world beater, but they may actually score on our 3rd stringers. I see us scoring more than 50 but giving up as many as 14 possibly 17. Obviously the points will come very late, just my thought...
 
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frostycane said:
I doubt Duke will get 10 touches and I also do not think SM plays past the first quarter. I think we will go up early and then start using back ups fast. I do not think we cover. They have their starter at qb back, not that he is a world beater, but they may actually score on our 3rd stringers. I see us scoring more than 50 but giving up as many as 14 possibly 17. Obviously the points will come very late, just my thought...
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You really have no idea how bad this team is.. This is the worst team in all of Div 1 AA football. They will be lucky to score 3 against our 3rd stringers..
 
Again, this team just beat a D-II team by 7 for their only win. They lost to a Sun Belt team by 63 and a I-AA team by 68. Last year their only win was against an NAIA school by 7. They lost to Okie State by 84 and FSU 55-0, but it was called with 24 minutes left due to weather and there was a running clock in the 2nd quarter.
 
I'd like to see the starters play well into the third quarter. Our guys need more reps. How can we get the offense in synch if they don't get any real game experience?
 
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GOODSEAN said:
I'd like to see the starters play well into the third quarter. Our guys need more reps. How can we get the offense in synch if they don't get any real game experience?
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lol you won't see Morris and Duke past the mid 2nd quarter of this game, maybe out at the end of the 1st. You don't want to risk injuries in a game like this. This is equal to a scrimmage for Miami. Get key reps for the starters and get them out as soon as possible. They will have alot more reps in the USF game...
 
This game had me thinking (which usually is a bad thing), and it reminded me of when I was playing in high school and we had our spring jamboree against Coral Shores. They were good, but we were better and we were looking to make a statement against them. Anyway, we convinced a kid to join the team who had no business near the football field, he was more of the class clown. He played all of spring football in converse, bright red converse. Anyway, we're up 21-0 on Coral Shores and the coach puts him in the game (it was a half in the Jamboree) and the first play the QB for CS notices the goofy kid with converse and calls a go route to the WR he is covering. Watching him try to cover the WR was one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my entire life. He was spinning in circles and eventually tackled himself around the 20 yard line while the WR took it to the house.

Point of the story? Watch Savannah State's highlights against FSU or Okie State. It's like watching 11 guys in bright red converse try to play football.
 
This team is bad. Just barely beat a division 2 team last week. They gave up 20 in that game, no way Miami only scores 55 LOL Even playing conservative the entire game we should still **** around and hit 55 LOL
 
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No injuries! Give Ryan Williams the reps. (and if we can't beat the spread with him, count him out for next year!)

We get another tune up next week. That will be a test for Coley and Morris (although an easy test, like the one they give to teachers for certification :) )
 
I'm seriously concerned we are going to hurt these guys....but I guess if FSU's stout D last year didn't kill anyone than they will be okay. I recall an article coming out after the OSU and FSU games where the writer was saying that the AD was going to get a kid killed.
 
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