Where is the team hotel? Anyone know?
A nice, generally warmer location!
Let's Go Duke!
https://www.dukechronicle.com/articl...-shreveport-la
-jk
Last edited by Bob Green; 12-27-2018 at 05:10 PM.
Where is the team hotel? Anyone know?
Looking at Sagarin, and Temple record and opponents, looks like it will be a good game and a tough matchup.
Generally, but you never know:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=40h2f-gzTvE
There's a $26 Greyhound bus trip available at 12:40 pm on 12/26 from Dallas to Shreveport: https://www.greyhound.com/en/ecommerce/schedule
Shreveport weather: https://www.bestplaces.net/climate/c...ana/shreveport
Temple is 8-4 with some good wins and close losses. They appear to be a tough team so we need to get some players healthy and prepare for a tough team.
Raw statistics without context can be misleading, and I haven't watched any film clips yet, but the Temple quarterbacks have thrown 19 TDs and 18 INTs. That jumps out at me...
http://www.espn.com/college-football...stats/_/id/218
Starting quarterback Anthony Russo did not play in the season finale and was on the sidelines with a cast on his right hand. I did a Google search but couldn't find any updated information on his status.
Bob Green
Had forgotten this story -- in 1974, Terry Bradshaw's Steelers beat Joe Ferguson's Bills in a playoff game -- Ferguson had succeeded Bradshaw as QB at Shreveport's Woodlawn High.
Apparently the early line is Temple -6. Isn’t that our specialty—a road dog?
Margin of victory/defeat ... opponent ( opponent rank in SRS) ... [ordered by best outcome to worst]
Duke is the 48th best team in the SRS (https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb...8-ratings.html
+42 NCCU (FCS)
+20 Army (#39)
+14 @NU (#37)
+14 @GT (#47)
+13 @Baylor (#66)
+08 @Miami (#29)
+07 UNC (#95)
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-09 @Pitt (#41)
-14 UVa (#44)
-17 VT (#79)
-29 @Clemson (#2)
-52 WFU (#69)
Duke had no games with margins from -08 to +06 ... if we get in a tight one, will our kicking game come through?
We got a #22 AP ranking at one point.
Duke beat four teams that ended up ranked above it: Miami, NU, Army, GT.
Duke lost to two teams that ended up ranked below it: VT, WFU.
Temple is the 49th best team in the SRS
+50 @UConn (#128)
+43 ECU (#111)
+21 @MD (#56)
+14 Tulsa (#104)
+10 @Houston (#54)
+10 USF (#93)
+07 Cincy (#31)
+07 @Navy (#102)
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-02 Villanova (FCS)
-07 Buffalo (#59)
-10 @BC (#46)
-12 @UCF (#8)
Temple beat one team that ended up above it: Cincy.
Temple lost to two teams that ended up below it: Villanova, Buffalo.
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On Sagarin, Temple is #46 and Duke #59 (https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/
Looks like we have to try to stop #7 ... 4 straight 100-yard games at one point this season: https://owlsports.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10762
Pop Warner coached at Temple. He also coached at Pitt, where one of his QBs was James DeHart, who coached at Duke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Warner
This is about all I got for this one:
https://www.google.com/search?q=shre...hrome&ie=UTF-8
No reviews/knowledge of any of these joints.
I'll be no help with tatoo parlors and/or body-piercing establishments, either.
Sorry, OPK.
[redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.
Going for largest pot of gumbo http://independencebowl.org/walk-ons...bowl-fan-fest/
Maybe a milk stout, it can double as ointment.
DaughterPk’s school is in the playoffs, gotta choose between our bowl or gambling on making the Natty game with her the next week. Oddly, I would miss more work doing our game than hers. I hate to miss our bowl game, but since we are going to whoop Alabama to start next season I figure I may should go root for them to end this season.
Nothing easy in this world.