I think it was a Georgia baseball player who made the comments and was kicked off the team because of it. I'm a UGA fan and would have no hard feelings towards Fields if he transferred but using that incident as a way to play right away rings hollow with his little sister committed to play softball at Georgia next year. To further complicate Fields' decision, at this point it's not a sure thing that Jake Fromm enters the draft next year.
Apologies for the thread hijack but I find the big time QB recruit transfer/not transfer situations happening around college football fascinating. Fields committed to Georgia when both Jacob Eason (the #2 pro style QB, just behind Shea Patterson, and #5 overall) and Jake Fromm (#3 pro style QB) were already on the roster. Trevor Lawrence takes his job away from a guy who had Clemson in the playoff. Then there's the Jalen Hurts/Tua Tagovailoa made for the movies story. I love both the confidence of the guys that come to schools knowing they have a great QB in front of them that they have to beat out to win the job and the humility and unselfishness displayed by some who lose their job. I was highly impressed by both Jacob Eason and Jalen Hurts last year in how they handled being replaced. It gave me two great examples to use when talking to the players I coach about playing your role to the best of your ability no matter what that role is.
I for one will be celebrating (a toast or two just might be involved) when Cut/Duke get the win to put him over .500 coaching at Duke. That will be a magical day for one David Cutcliffe, what he's accomplished, and what he means to this program. Overlooking his football acumen for a moment, contrast and compare his public persona with some other well known coaches. I remain tickled pink that he represents Duke and the football program. It goes without saying that these are great times to be a Duke football as well as basketball fan.
Like me, CB&B is already counting the Alabama game as a win.
Excellent, needed post. A team that's been outscored 115 to 28 in the nine quarters leading up to the second half of the Independence Bowl might reasonably be expected to need another score.
Plus, as mentioned by others, I really enjoyed the way we piled on a bit after the silly bully-boy tactics employed by the Ows, where the 'l' is left out intentionally to represent the Temple players' feelings after a good butt-kickin'.
Man, if your Mom made you wear that color when you were a baby, and you're still wearing it, it's time to grow up!
Perhaps, the biggest play of the game was the decision to go for it on the fourth and one at our own 34 with 4:30 left in the first half. We were down 27-14 at the time. Harris made it “by the nose of the football”, and we continue the drive to score and make it 27-21 at halftime. The momentum is ours.
If we don’t make the first down, Temple gets the ball in great field position, and we easily could have been down 30-14 or 34-14 at half. Same is true if we punt. The momentum would have then belonged to Temple.
Props to the coaches for the decision, and to the team for the execution of the play. Game of inches indeed!
I don't think there's any doubt that was the biggest play, or biggest sequence, of the game. The third down and short call was awful and the execution wasn't good, something Cut alluded to in the presser. And yeah, QH didn't make it by much. Duke owned the entire rest of the game after that.
Duke bowl games
Margin of victory (+) or defeat (-) ... season ... bowl ... SRS rank Duke v SRS rank opponent
+29 ... 2018 ... Independence Bowl ... #42 Duke over #64 Temple
+27 ... 1954 ... Orange Bowl ... #21 Duke over #41 Nebraska
+22 ... 2017 ... Quick Lane Bowl ... #37 Duke over #65 NIU
+03 ... 2015 ... Pnstripe Bowl ... #57 Duke over #59 Indiana
+03 ... 1944 ... Sugar Bowl ... #19 Duke over #18 Alabama
+01 ... 1960 ... Cotton Bowl ... #32 Duke over #12 Arkansas
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-04 ... 1938 ... Rose Bowl ... #10 Duke lost to #5 Southern Cal
-04 ... 1941 ... Rose Bowl ... #8 Duke lost to #5 Oregon State
-04 ... 2013 ... Chik-fil-A Bowl ...#31 Duke lost to #19 TX A&M
-05 ... 2014 ... Sun Bowl ... #40 Duke lost to #16 Ariz State
-14 ... 2012 ... Belk Bowl ... #68 Duke lost to #31 Cincinnati
-14 ... 1994 ... HOF Bowl ... #27 Duke lost to #22 Wisconsin
-27 ... 1957 ... Orange Bowl ... #15 Duke lost to #2 Oklahoma
-28 ... 1989 ... All-American Bowl ... #36 Duke lost to #22 Texas Tech
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb...uke/bowls.html
Well, all 274 Manny Diaz will do this and that when he gets to Temple mentions during the second half of the game were in vain.
warm accents ... warm people ... $1.89 gas ... meat pies ... shrimp remolaude ... gumbo ... good Temple band ... beignets ... andouille & red beans ... sunshine ... rain ... 56 points ... gumbo (again) ... blues ... meat pies (again) ... 56 points! ... Doug Williams ... Rudy ... heart-sinking seeing Ben H in street clothes in warm-ups ... TJ ... Bobo ... QH ... seeing Cut's son walking off the field pre-game w/ Cut's grandson, correcting how to hold the full-size football and properly secure it ... researching Holy Angels and buying a Baptismal gift from there ... B-52s doing slow loops out the hotel window the day after ... Strawn's breakfast (thanks House G!) ...
In Cut's post-game press conference, he went on about the warm people; how it pumps up the team. Truth to that.