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Sportsbuck28
Here comes the BOOM
Yeah, but they don't have Morelli anymore, which means they actually stand a chance.SNIPER26;1075814; said:
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SNIPER26;1075812; said:
I would agree with that except I think you dismiss MSU too quickly. I think one of PSU and or MSU break through. If they make that PSU game a night game you'll be hard pressed to keep the streak alive.
I agree that PSU, MSU and ND are your big swing games but I'm not sold on Purdue or Illinois next year either. They could both very well be duds.
I'd say the only 2 games where you might be out classed are Wisky and OSU, and the good news for you is that you get Wisky early and at home. Best chance you could ask for to take advantage of their new QB. The rest could go either way depending on how they buy into RR and the impending QB situation.
I personally don't see the B10 being tough enough for you guys to fall to 6-6 unless its a lot worse than I think up there. I'd say 7-5 at worse with 8-4 the most likely.
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SNIPER26
Banned
Sportsbuck28;1075837; said:
Uh we've beat them nine straight times. They've had more than one QB during that time. Anthony Morelli, Michael Robinson, Zack Mills, Matt Seneca and others have all lost to Michigan in that time. Even in their best year in over a decade while Michigan was busy being awful at 7-5, they still couldn't beat us.
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SNIPER26;1075841; said:
The same could be said about the Bucks against Michigan in the 90's, however one thing is certain times they do change........
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SNIPER26
Banned
Our defense SHOULD improve, seeing as how we have our entire DL coming back, 1 LB, and half of our starting secondary. If I had to guess, our D will look something like this.
DE- Brandon Graham
DT- Terrance Taylor
DT- Will Johnson
DE- Tim Jamison
OLB- Jonas Mouton
MLB- Obi Ezeh
OLB- Marell Evans/Brandon Logan/Freshman?
CB- Donovan Warren
CB- Morgan Trent
FS- Michael Williams
SS- Stevie Brown
In addition, Brandon Harrison will hold down the nickel, we have some youngsters who will likely see some time on the DL. LB could be a serious question mark, even with Ezeh improving at the end of the year. This COULD be a strength of this team.
DE- Brandon Graham
DT- Terrance Taylor
DT- Will Johnson
DE- Tim Jamison
OLB- Jonas Mouton
MLB- Obi Ezeh
OLB- Marell Evans/Brandon Logan/Freshman?
CB- Donovan Warren
CB- Morgan Trent
FS- Michael Williams
SS- Stevie Brown
In addition, Brandon Harrison will hold down the nickel, we have some youngsters who will likely see some time on the DL. LB could be a serious question mark, even with Ezeh improving at the end of the year. This COULD be a strength of this team.
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SNIPER26;1075842; said:Like they did last time we were in Happy Valley????
You had your best team in a decade then. I agree that you guys own them but you better hope the players don't take PSU and MSU as lightly as you do.
Now that I took a second look at your schedule I'd break it down like this:
should be wins (5)
Utah(be careful here)
Miami
Toledo
Northwestern
@Minny
Significant underdog (2)
Wisky
OSU
Push (5) easiest to hardest imo
@ ND
@ Purdue
Illinois
MSU
@ PSU
It really comes down to how you do with those 5 games. At this point I could see you winning or losing anyone of them so I still keep coming back to 8-4.
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HailToMichigan
Maize and Blue Wahoo
Well, that 3-8, 9-4, 8-5, 8-4 looks bad to a UM or OSU fan but to West Virginia, it is special....and then there's, you know, the three 11 win seasons in a row. This is West Virginia we're talking about - not the glitz of LA or the thunderously huge crowds in Ann Arbor or Columbus or Austin or Knoxville, or the glamor of Miami or the places that legends haunt like Bear Bryant and Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden .... you know, the places where national championships traditionally are decided. Putting West Virginia in national title hunts alongside Oklahoma, USC, Ohio State, Texas, Michigan - that's why people are enamored of him. Don Nehlen is West Virginia's super-duper-legend, God in a bucket, the granddaddy of granddaddies at West Virginia, and RR's got him beat by a country mile when it comes to the W-L record. Not since 1924 has West Virginia had a coach with a better record at the school. That's the kind of stuff that enamors people.NFBuck;1075794; said:
And, y'know, Pat White and Steve Slaton - they didn't just drop from the sky all Chris-Rock-in-Dogma style. Somebody recruited them there.
Anyway, valid points - it's a big adjustment, and yes, the offensive line (though the potential is there) is a giant looming question mark - and sucky offensive lines tend to sabotage game plans. But it's not like Henne, Hart, Long, and Manningham leave and suddenly the place is a talent ghost town. I wouldn't call RR an unknown quantity, and he does have two rounds of practices to implement things before Utah. And the legal stuff, fortunately, is happening in January. Maybe if it drags into September, I'll worry about distractions, but I don't ever buy the idea that a program with issues in the offseason has some kind of cloud over their head unless the issues drag into the season. Settle this stuff and it's water under the bridge and down to the business of coaching.
That is a damn good point about Wiscy. I do like that. It seems like every year we have to play either them or Penn State the week before the Game. I hate that.
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tsteele316
Mr. Such and Such
it's not to be discounted that wvu was never a legit contender for anything until miami, vt, and bc all left the big east. being the king of the roost that is now the big east is not all that impressive.
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BuckeyeBill
All-American
tsteele316;1075975; said:
Just a philosophical question about RR. I wonder how much of his success at at WVU can be attributed to Stewart? Before their bowl game, I wouldn't have given it much thought, but now I wonder. They sure didn't seem to be missing their head coach. This is not meant to be a flame on UM, because I really don't know. But it will be interesting to see how he does over the long haul in the B10. I suspect that for several years he may have more success than people expect, it seems to happen frequently to new coaches. But then the rest of the league begins to adjust to their style of play and the wins don't come as easily
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BuckTwenty
Parties with Pete Johnson's Beard
If I were a scUM (and thank the Lord I'm not), my expectations would be pretty low this year, not predicting another 8-4 year. This is going to be a transition year, going from Carr to RR and those kids are gonna have to learn a lot in a short amount of time, going from a heavy pro-set offense to a quick run spread offense and from a 4-3 to a 3-4 (which is a mistake IMO with the DL they have returning).
Utah's no lock for a win, either (and you could make a case for ND too, but I'd rather not). Utah can play inconsistent, especially early in the season, but they had some pretty big upsets last year. Last year, they beat Navy and their run option in the Poinsettia Bowl, won at Louisville & TCU, and killed UCLA at home. Not a team to overlook, especially with the challenges scUM will have playing in their first game of the year.
Two words: Appalachian State.
P.S.- I thought Jamison graduated this past season. Does he have one more year with y'all?
Utah's no lock for a win, either (and you could make a case for ND too, but I'd rather not). Utah can play inconsistent, especially early in the season, but they had some pretty big upsets last year. Last year, they beat Navy and their run option in the Poinsettia Bowl, won at Louisville & TCU, and killed UCLA at home. Not a team to overlook, especially with the challenges scUM will have playing in their first game of the year.
Two words: Appalachian State.
P.S.- I thought Jamison graduated this past season. Does he have one more year with y'all?
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