I think we will. I don't have any delusions that next year will even be a winning one, but I do think we'll have less losses. And when those losses come, if they aren't the blowouts that we sadly became accustomed to of late, the culture of Duke football should change in the same way that it did with Cut's arrival.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
My understanding is that Johns likes to run up tempo but that doesn't necessarily mean pass-first. He had more than one 1,000 yard rusher at Memphis I believe.
As far as the QB situation I don't think we can glean too much from the performances last year positive or negative for either guy. That season was just too much of a mess.
Yet another transfer as NIU safety (and FCS all-american) Darius Joiner will be joining us for the upcoming season! Huge get! (don't let the FCS pedigree fool you)
https://twitter.com/Darius_joiner24/...VfrCF66Q0zXa5A
247 listed him as their 5th best available transfer, and the best DB. They also quoted him, “the coaches had great experiences dealing with safeties and developing safeties and I wanted to learn as much as I could.”
This is the program’s strength, at least for the next year or two. Most of our players haven’t experienced a lot of college success, but the coaches have.
https://247sports.com/college/duke/A...ent-187767461/
I also liked Joiner’s comment on Twitter: “everything you thought was tryna drown you was actually tryna teach you to swim.”
Another one! This time a transfer from Cornell, Eric Gallman II. Listed as WR/PR/KR, looks like his most productive seasons at WR came in 2018/2019. Welcome aboard!
https://twitter.com/ericgallmanII/st...aahGa1NBqaGs_g
Welcome!
Coach Elko said he wasn’t going to make a living in the Portal but rather, use it as a tool. He seems to be using the Portal quite judiciously as he patches craters in the roster.
So looking forward to seeing what this all looks like on the field.
Here’s some tape on Gallman from 2013.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0qIhG6sBLrI