The point was, if duke ended the game with 15 carries and 75 yards and we had come out w little success throwing the ball and had several 3 and outs, we'd have been screaming why we didn't ride duke the 2nd half and chew up time and yards.
Not defending anyone, just making a point.
look riding Duke wasnt the problem, it was the Louisville-esque playcalling. You can still lean more on Duke and still stay true to whats actually working in the game on that given Saturday.
Duke wasnt the problem as i said, Kaaya was... he was in a good comfort zone and rhythm with what we were doing. Once the coaches decided to reel him in, he went into some sort of shell and basically became more of a hindrance then the solution in the 2nd half. Completely negated everything that was great about his 1st half performance.
That's on the Coaches
Noles changed up their D, Coley tried adjusting. We mixed it up in second half. Kaaya needed to adjust too. He missed a few throws. We were pushing to keep putting points on them in second half. But s#it happens: Dobard fumbles. Duke cramps up. Oh and their O-Line dominated line of scrimmage in second half. They picked up all of our blitzes including their **** RBs chop blocking our rushers (See when Pender took out Chick). If that's too much information for you, then go back inside your anti Golden shell and don't come out until 2015 'cause that talk is getting old.
Dude you are wasting your breath. The only "analysis" that is acceptable on these boards is "Golden sux and its all his fault". That's the answer to every football related question. Anyone with half a brain should understand what you just posted without even having to say it. FSU added a second safety and changed coverages. They adjusted their defense and Kaaya had a harder time adjusting to hit. He's still a true Frosh that will struggle trying to grasp when a team changes things up and starts masking coverages and throwing things at him he's not totally used to or knows well. That's where the first wheel came off the bus. Coley also tried to get the running game going, which was the right thing to do. Duke was getting good yardage and we were eating up the clock and getting first downs. We just didn't convert when we needed to. The down side to this though, was that it got Kaaya out of rythym. But had Duke stayed in the game, and we driven down and scored, Coley's playcalling would have looked "brilliant".
There were some definitely coaching mistakes we made. But Kaaya did **** well considering he was a true Frosh. You cant expect the kid to look like Peyton Manning for 4 quarters as a true frosh. Eventually defenses adjust, and you have to react to that. That, unfortunately, seems to be where Kaaya's youth is causing us problems. He's still not all the way there in seeing things when they start to evolve later in a game. It will come with time and experience.
