I like calling LK “thrashy.” Trashy in a thrashing.
Not only did he run up the score, he threw his own starting qb under the bus after the game by saying it was the kid’s decision to throw a bomb on his last collegiate pass. Of course, the sub came in and immediately threw another.
But as my grandma used to say, “if you don’t like getting whooped up on, eschew losing.”
She’d also add, “you hate teams that beat teams by 30, and you can name the top dozen guys on Duke’s basketball roster? Methinks I smell a faint whiff of hypocrisy. ”
I will say that our players never gave up. That kickoff return was one of the crispest, most athletic Duke plays I’ve ever seen—Jones and Hagans were perfect on a play that could have easily gone sideways. Throughout, the coaches called plays to win, not to mitigate disaster. Ole Miss has some players who are more NFL-ready than ours, and they almost all showed up, but we showed we had athletes and we showed we belonged on the field. The game would have gone in a different direction if we’d switched quarterbacks before the game. Dart showed himself to be a jerk, but he’s also the best qb in the sec. Henry did a fine job, and he seems like a good guy, but he’s not, at the moment, a legitimate Div 1 qb.
I don’t recall anybody “hating” Maalik Murphy. We hated that he went into the portal. We didn’t hate him so much when we got a strong replacement qb. We felt some empathy when it appeared that he’d gotten replaced behind the scenes. We hated that we had to go in there with a guy who lacks experience, but we hoped for a breakout game. Instead, we thought he did fine under the circumstances (though it was a reminder that Mensah will be welcome on campus).
By “we,” I mean “I,” but I’m always happy to speak for everyone in the world.