Duke Football 2024

budwom said:
I’ve never thought they had an inferiority complex at all. We’re just another football team they want to beat.
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People above said SMU really wants this more than most as the school fashions itself to be Duke-like

I’m saying the same thing you are, that even if the students and administrators care more than normal, the players on the field probably don’t. Many could have played for us in all likelihood if they so chose.

Any potential inferiority complex (which is the implication of “they want it more than normal” from how I read it) that folks are saying SMU the institution has likely doesn’t extend to the football team

We’re saying the same thing
 
RoseBowl1942 said:
People above said SMU really wants this more than most as the school fashions itself to be Duke-like

I’m saying the same thing you are, that even if the students and administrators care more than normal, the players on the field probably don’t. Many could have played for us in all likelihood if they so chose.

Any potential inferiority complex (which is the implication of “they want it more than normal” from how I read it) that folks are saying SMU the institution has likely doesn’t extend to the football team

We’re saying the same thing
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agreed, the players just want to beat the other team which happens to be us.
 
budwom said:
I’ve never thought they had an inferiority complex at all. We’re just another football team they want to beat.
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Agree that y’all are saying the same thing and as an SMU FB fan of ~50 years and Duke FB of 36, there is no there there. There here? Here there. 🤔

Both these teams want to win and keep ACC title game hopes alive. Duke is a big name for SMU to play against (but from MBB, of course, not this sport.) And that’s about it.
 
johnb said:
SMU football has been aiming to be in a major conference for decades. SMU, the school, has wanted to be an elite national Methodist university for even longer. Ie, it aims to be the Duke of Dallas.

This is a big game for them.

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This post is, overall, spot-on but some details are not quite right.

SMU, like Dallas, is a bit of an up-start, very striver-y, and both quite proud and (more than) a bit insecure. The school colors are (originally—and I’ve read as many discussions of the current colors being off-shade there as I have dissertations on Duke teams’ blue being too light and Kerlina teams’ blue being too dark here) Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue. But these days, no one in Dallas aims for Duke/Top 10 but rather comfortably Top 50.

SMU alums have desperately wanted to return to a major conference since the demise of the SWC in 1995, but honestly the admin hasn’t. It wasn’t the death penalty that held SMU back from 1995-2010, it was the administration. Basically, Ken Pye : SMU :: Doug Knight : Duke, and that continued after Pye. Following June Jones at least waking the admin up to the handcuffs they had on athletics—it was *far* more onerous for a FB recruit to get in SMU than Stanford or Duke—SMU has basically risen and woken up (and billionaire pockets opened up, no doubt).

Anyway, maybe 1 or 2 players on the field tonight (personally I’ll guess Duke FR WR Beau Lilly, Tom Lilly’s grandson btw, because he grew up a few blocks from SMU) even know both schools have Methodist roots or much else. If the SMU players particularly care about beating Duke, it’s because Duke is (1) a big name and (2) 6-1. But that’s about it. Hope it’s a great game.

Oh, and SMU playing up “Dallas” is just marketing/recruiting, and an attempt to bring things together there pretty much like Duke’s “Bull City” campaign.
 
I still don't see Murphy working through the progressions in real time. However, Diaz illustrated that Murphy is reading the free safety position and throwing where he is not.
 
DoubleBlue said:
I still don't see Murphy working through the progressions in real time. However, Diaz illustrated that Murphy is reading the free safety position and throwing where he is not.
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That's a start anyway. It seems as if he's throwing into double coverage less than he was earlier in the season. I still haven't (though maybe he has) seen him complete a "timing" throw to a covered receiver e.g. a 5-7 yard "out" pattern when the receiver turns to the sideline and the QB places the ball where only the receiver has an opportunity to catch it. That's one way to be successful when your receivers can't get separation against a good defense.
 
Neither the line nor the start time are a surprise. It's straight from Sagarin (+4) whereas Massey has +1. Duke only won in Raleigh about once every 15 years under the modern, pre-division ACC schedule. (In other words, Duke isn't due because 2024-2009 = 15.)
 
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