I can't honestly remember if we started doing it to improve run blocking or to fix pass protection problems (or both), I just remember it happening sometime during Cut's tenure. It does make me miss Tielor Robinson, our last true fullback as far as I can recall. Those were dark times, but that was a hard-nosed dude. Made excellent use of him in the old NCAA Football games.
From SportsLine from CBSsports: https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...orth-carolina/
Another one of the 2019 Week 1 college football predictions from the model: No. 2 Alabama (-34.5) covers against Duke. The Tide should be on a mission after getting embarrassed in last year's national title game. On the opposite sideline, the Blue Devils will be adjusting to life without start quarterback Daniel Jones, who was picked No. 6 overall by the New York Giants in the 2019 NFL Draft.
SportsLine's model projects almost 400 yards of passing for Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa as he launches another Heisman campaign, while running back Najee Harris goes off for close to 150 on the ground. The Tide hold Duke to just two scores and cover in almost 60 percent of simulations. You can also back the over (58.5) because the model is calling for 61 combined points.
Cut show starts tomorrow.
One week until kickoff!
Jim Looks at Duke Place-Kicking:
https://www.dukebasketballreport.com...devil-football
Duke’s first fall 2019 scrimmage was open to the media. Reed made two of three field goals, Ham one of two, all within 40 yards. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t perfect and Duke wants perfect.
Bob Green
I like this prediction from Pat Forde.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/forde-y...041102253.htmlNotre Dame (4) will lose twice in November to unranked opponents. The Dash previously wrote about the difficulty the Fighting Irish have awaiting them with six games at an open-date disadvantage. That will catch up with them late in the season, when healthy and rested bodies are at a premium. Notre Dame has four straight November games at a rest/prep disadvantage: Virginia Tech, at Duke, Navy and Boston College. They’ll lose two of them — or perhaps one and the season finale at Stanford.
Of course, Duke is not included in those predicted losses, since we'll be ranked by then.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Sammy Batten at the Fayetteville Observer has written a solid Duke football preview:
https://www.fayobserver.com/sports/2...to-2019-season
Two major reasons for that optimism are the return of a proven commodity to replace Jones in senior Quentin Harris and eight starters back on a defense that might have the best secondary in the entire Atlantic Coast Conference.And in juniors Deon Jackson and Brittain Brown, Harris will have one of the league’s best running-back duos to work with.
Bob Green
Jack Sears has entered the transfer portal... he had fallen to 4th on the USC QB depth chart.