Not to look ahead but the schedule set up looks nicer and nicer the more I look at it.
- Bye week after an emotionally charged game (UF) and a physical one at that (and before your biggest rival which now has serious implications) 2 weeks to prepare for Gus (as well as getting as healthy as possible) Imo UVA just exposed FSU for what they are.
- Bye week AFTER your biggest rival (it will be another emotionally charged game and a physical game) 2 weeks to Reset and prepare for our first real passing attack we will face.
- Louisville on a Friday night at home AFTER the Bye (tough offense to prepare for and being able to physically/emotionally reset after FSU is important imo)
- Stanford immediately after @Home (I know we shouldn’t sleep on any teams but cmon….Stanford?? This is as close to a Bye in conference play as you’ll get)
- @SMU (good chance they’ll be 6-2 going into our game with how their schedule looks the next few weeks), THIS is where I’d argue we are officially in the meat of conference play.
- Syracuse without Angeli is no longer a team im looking at.
- Nc state/VT/Pitt are all the same teams pretty much, PITT is the road environment im most worried about (outside of FSU but even then i think we come out firing)
Us going 1-2 in our last 3 games last year is ABSOLUTELY in everyone’s mind. In hindsight it might be the best thing for THIS team. If we get passed FSU im siding with
@k9cane that 12-0 looks to be a STRONG possibility…
Give Beck a dry ball and man coverage and I bet he makes you pay rather quickly…Lyle is our best receiving back too, USER=2]
@DMoney[/USER] has already hinted at Lyle having a breakout performance this weekend, we are letting him loose. let’s also not forget that this Bye week SHOULD help Beck get more in tuned with our Receivers/Offense. Our passing attack WILL get better as the year goes on. Beck hasn’t even played a dry game yet and has 70% completion.
and I still don’t know how FSU figures to stop Fletcher/Brown when ND/UF couldn’t AND we are now adding the best of the 3?
Emory ******* Williams almost beat FSU @Doak with a worse team (and a MUCH better FSU team).
Bring it home Mario.