Duke football notes, 8-2-18

[OldPhiKap]

I’m not worthy to start the game thread for Army, but — its only a week away!!!!!!

[Acymetric]

Did you ask the name of the player that did it? If you did and got a factual answer you probably would have found something like this:

"Florida's only touchdowns came when Duke Dawson and CJ Henderson returned interceptions for touchdowns. Those came on consecutive throws by Speight in the second quarter."

"After Steven Taylor returns an interception to the house for Houston, on the next Cincinnati snap it's Howard Wilson getting in on the act with a pick-six of his own to make it 40-16 Houston."

Excellent clarification! So still the only school where the same player had back to back pick sixes.

[Indoor66]

I’m not worthy to start the game thread for Army, but — its only a week away!!!!!!

I love a little phoney humility on DBR. 🤣😉😎

[devildeac]

I’m not worthy to start the game thread for Army, but — its only a week away!!!!!!

Paging Bob Green. Please report to the EK Forum. Your services are required.

[OldPhiKap]

Paging Bob Green. Please report to the EK Forum. Your services are required.

Bob should have the honor of throwing out the first cadet.

[OldPhiKap]

I love a little phoney humility on DBR. 🤣😉😎

Okay, you caught me. ;-)

[devildeac]

Bob should have the honor of throwing out the first cadet.

Bob would likely keelhaul the first cadet.

[Bob Green]

Paging Bob Green. Please report to the EK Forum. Your services are required.

Work got in the way of life once again.

[HereBeforeCoachK]

Excellent clarification! So still the only school where the same player had back to back pick sixes.

...AND a KO return for a TD to boot!

[cato]

Why isn't that ironic? The only player in the group without another P5 offer appears likely to become the best player of the group.

What am I missing?

Going back to the original point. Christian Harris and Zach Harmon are redshirt seniors. Zach Baker is a redshirt junior. Julian Santos is a true junior.

Those are the only recruited upper-class offensive linemen.

That's not a lot.

What happened?

Jake Sanders and Kammeron Schroeder never played a down for Duke due to injuries. Trip McNeil played a little but also suffered from knee issues.

All three were in the same class as Harmon and Harris and would be redshirt seniors had they stayed healthy and been productive.

Reno Rosene didn't pan out and left the program.

He would have been a redshirt junior.

Rosene and Baker were the only recruited OL in their class and Duke certainly didn't set out with the goal of bringing in only two offensive linemen. There were some misses.

Santos in 2016 and Chambers in 2017 were the first two recruited OL during Cut's Duke tenure to play as true freshmen. Certainly, they were/are pretty good but they also came into a program that had playing time available that perhaps should not have been available to true freshmen.

Sorry Jim. An attempt at humorous wordplay gone wrong!