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I watched Chase too. From what I heard from the commentators, The App coach designed a system (unlike ours) in which Chase was not confined to the pocket until forced out. The App system allowed him to roll right or left depending upon his reads, giving him more time. This system allowed him to throw down field, which he seemed to do extremely well. Also, this did not seem to be the type of predictable, unimaginative system that Cut employs. I know ECU is not a great team, but I saw enough to persuade me that Bryce's 15 interceptions last year could have been just as attributable to the system that he was forced to play in than they were to a lack of talent or poor decision-making. App State has some tough games coming up, so we will see if the ECU game was just a flash in the pan for him.
Good luck tonight. No result will surprise me. I think that the last time I was shocked was last year when Duke beat Charlotte by 34. It's a beautiful day. I'll watch my Tar Heels on ESPN at 6:00. If we win, I'll watch the end of the Duke game. Thanks again for treating me so well on your board
Well we are already behind. Give up a 56yd td pass!! If we can't stop Charlotte, who can we stop???
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The first O series and D series make it look like we haven’t missed a beat from last year. Which ain’t good. O sticks to the tried and true, the D still can’t cover or tackle.
TD, Durant!!! 14-10!!! Stop them defense!!! Don't let them score in the last 2 minutes!!!
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If Duke wants to make a statement that they really care about football, they should fire Cut and his staff tonight, take their lumps, and start preparing for next season. With the new transfer portal rules, it’s not an uphill climb as it used to be. UNCC showed that tonight.
Cut's done, one game into the final season. I hope AD Nina King begins compiling a list of would-be replacements this weekend. OFC
Open letter to our new AD
Dear Dr. King:
Its well past time our football coach be relieved of his duties. Your predecessor Dr. White resigned, and left the dirty work to you. Duke fans do not deserve this. 7 wins in 2 seasons, 15 losses in last 18 games, and at a time when Power Five Conferences are consolidating we bottom out to a mid level Conference USA team. You do realize we had a running back set a Duke career record for yardage last nite, yet STILL LOST????
The mysterious shuffling of asst coaches in offseason, contributed to last nite's defeat. Why was a known receivers coach (Trooper Taylor) switched to db's coach? Please explain. The secondary was supposed to be our STRONGEST area of defense this year, yet under Trooper surrendered over 300 yards. They inexplicably laid back in a pass prevent D with too much time left. Cut again assigned Taylor to his new job.
This is a NO BRAINER Dr.King. Duke University needs a young coach with energy, new ideas and a COMMITMENT to win. Please, I implore you, make the change ASAP, in-season, per Carl Franks style. Otherwise brace yourself for the worse football season since Ted Roof, and the butt of jokes. You owe this to DUKE FANS. I am being easy on you. Social media is trashing Duke Football today, and deservedly so.
Regards,
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Dear Dr. King:
Its well past time our football coach be relieved of his duties. Your predecessor Dr. White resigned, and left the dirty work to you. Duke fans do not deserve this. 7 wins in 2 seasons, 15 losses in last 18 games, and at a time when Power Five Conferences are consolidating we bottom out to a mid level Conference USA team. You do realize we had a running back set a Duke career record for yardage last nite, yet STILL LOST????
The mysterious shuffling of asst coaches in offseason, contributed to last nite's defeat. Why was a known receivers coach (Trooper Taylor) switched to db's coach? Please explain. The secondary was supposed to be our STRONGEST area of defense this year, yet under Trooper surrendered over 300 yards. They inexplicably laid back in a pass prevent D with too much time left. Cut again assigned Taylor to his new job.
This is a NO BRAINER Dr.King. Duke University needs a young coach with energy, new ideas and a COMMITMENT to win. Please, I implore you, make the change ASAP, in-season, per Carl Franks style. Otherwise brace yourself for the worse football season since Ted Roof, and the butt of jokes. You owe this to DUKE FANS. I am being easy on you. Social media is trashing Duke Football today, and deservedly so.
Regards,
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Aside from the abysmal defense, tackling, awful QB, and play calling on offense AND defense, two things really stuck out to me. First, the look on Cut's face at the end of the game as he walked off the field. It said to me that he was fully aware that he had produced a really, really bad product and that the worst was yet to come. Second, on Charlotte's last touchdown drive, on the pass at the end to the receiver coming out of the backfield, I was flabbergasted that Duke had no one covering him and that that side of the field was virtually empty as he came around. I cannot remember being so embarrassed for Duke football. But when you have a first year OC, other assistants who had no experience in the areas to which they were assigned, and a head coach who refuses to make needed changes, what the hell can you expect? Apres Charlotte, le deluge. OFC
The entire side was left wide open save one db who made a PITIFUL TACKLE ATTEMPT! We scored enough to win, but even a win would have produced only false hope. Cut wants to still coach? Go back to SEC and take an asst's job, if they will have him. OFC
wow just a bummer of a game. it is going to be a looonnnng season. that being said, we were two blown plays from winning by dble digits. harding drops a wide open long ball that would have been a td. gunnar fumbles into the end zone costing us another td. sad that it has come down to the fact that duke must play a perfect game to have a chance to win. why not give jordan moore a chance inside the 10? all camp long we heard how hard he is to tackle. i would rather he run the read option close to the end zone all day rather than gunnar. lets try riley out. if he has the best arm like was heard from camp play him. you can platoon qbs in college. also in that final charlotte drive did you notice how many times we only rushed 3? prevent defenses always loose. their qb would just step up in the middle and have a great view of the field. also man our dbs were out of position again and again. i personally think charlotte is a decent team but we still should beat them solidly.
I think a quick coaching change is needed to avoid losing some good players (yes, I believe we have them) to the transfer portal and losing incoming verbal commits. I’m not sure who would be available at this point, so perhaps we appoint an interim coach (Steve Spurrier?) and begin the search for the permanent replacement. Sadly, we don’t have a John Scheyer type waiting in the wings.
20 hours later I can't say anything to make me or you feel better. I would never schedule Charlotte, and certainly not on the road. Nothing to gain, and everything to lose. My Tar Heels were ranked Top 10, but the offensive line is 1,500 pounds of Jello. Duke must recruit Charlotte , Raleigh and Greensboro much better
It was truly a bummer of a night for both of our teams ged. I am not a UNC fan, but have great respect for you and Sam Howell. Howell is a kid you just cannot dislike- hes just himself in spite of his brilliance. He got NO HELP from that OL Friday nite.
Your comments about Duke are spot on. Scheduling so called cupcakes suddenly came up and bit the ever rolling downhill coach David Cutcliffe. He didnt expect this when these games were scheduled several years ago. It got him, and I think sealed his fate. Duke fans who truly care about the program like ones on this board hope so anyway.
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if you want to recruit better in charlotte then playing in charlotte is a good thing but you better WIN the game.
When most power 5 conference teams lose players to the transfer portal, they are almost never losing starters. Duke is the obvious exception. Examples would be Tangelo, Jordan, Hill. So, Jeffrey, I fear you are on point. The past predicts the future for Duke Football absent an early coaching change. It is relevant that in his last year as South Carolina's head coach, the Ole Ball Coach left early so that the Cocks could get a jump start on repairing the damage he had caused with some poorly chosen comments the previous summer. OFC
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Chris Katrenick was 13 for 22, 78 yds., 2 int, 0 td's, vs South Carolina. O, probably one transfer that did not hurt. OFC
so lets get the debate going. what type of coach do we want to replace cut? experienced P5 assistant or an up and coming G5 coach? remember one of the big issues that an incoming coach at duke faces is the highly stringent academic standards. most of the kids at say charlotte or unc would not get into duke.
DI that has to happen here too. If Cut's dismissed now, any coaching change could AT LEAST get some kind of TRACTION for next year! I am certain the Charlotte loss alone will cause a decommit or two....OFC
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GREAT POST, surf lets kick it around. Knee jerk tells me up and coming because they seem to inject the QUICKEST charge of energy. Last year the young and new BC coach Kicked us all over the place at Duke. Healy gets us this year at UNCC. Thats just my own educated guess, but you could make arguments both ways.Clawson also has done well at Wake after the move from BG. OFC
How about Bill O’Brien, OC and QB coach at Alabama? OC at Duke back in 2006. He’s about 50, but the biggest obstacle may be whether we could pay him more than he’s making now. I doubt he’s Saban’s successor in waiting.
Randy Edsall just announced his retirement from UConn, effective at the end of the year. Replacement search starting right away. So the coaching carousel has already started….
Good info Jeffrey! I have seen O'Brien's name mentioned fairly frequently on other Duke sites as a possible replacement for Cut. This was well before season even started too!
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The receiver for uncc Dollar played with Surratt at East Lincoln. I wonder if he even got an offer from Duke. He was a two sport star and ended up at Charlotte.
just went back and looked. he was a mid level two star with a composite of 77.09. could you imagine the outrage if we offered a guy that low? people have conniptions with low level three stars here. that being said that is why you cant always go by rankings. kids bodies develop at different rates and he obviously has come into his own.
don't think we could pay him enough to come here, especially after the devastation our program is enduring under Cut. O'brien is probably expecting to find an HC job at a bigtime FB school. How about Jamie Caldwell at Coastal Carolina? He has them ranked No. 22 in the country right now, undefeated last year. OFC
sorry i was answering the above my comment post about uncc receiver dollar.
In his presser, Cut blames the loss in part on Duke not playing "situational offense" as good as they could play it. In my mind, Duke's failure to play good "situational offense" is not the fault of the players but instead is a direct result of Cut's offensive scheme. Which brings me back to Jeff Faris, our first year OC. Truth is that he has been with Cut since he was a player for Cut at Duke. He has never known anything else but Cut's system. Were he to try to change anything, he would have to battle Cut. And he would have to guess at what changes to make So, Duke has an HC who refuses to change and an OC who does not know how or what to change, even if he could depart from the Cut "system". Finally, Cut claims that the spirit of the team is not broken. What do the players actually think. OFC
I think the way Edsall did it is the right way. Finish the season with the same coach but let the next coach do the recruiting after this season is over.
I seriously doubt Duke's academic standards are the problem. I'm sure Duke avoids kids with shady backgrounds, or parents who could be a problem, or who refuse to attend class. That leaves a large pool.
I'd like to see the next coach be a guy who ran a clean and successful program at a lower tier school.
I seriously doubt Duke's academic standards are the problem. I'm sure Duke avoids kids with shady backgrounds, or parents who could be a problem, or who refuse to attend class. That leaves a large pool.
I'd like to see the next coach be a guy who ran a clean and successful program at a lower tier school.
DI marvelous breakdown of the Cutclffe/Faris POLITICAL ASSTS STAFF Cut hires AND VERY SELDOM FIRES! Man wants nothing but "YES MEN," and that staff, save for Ben Albert and Greg Frey maybe, fill that bill!!! 1st year ever OC at a P5 school???? No experience required, just obey Cut!!! OFC
You know, Hart, the more I think about it, the more I think that the good Cut years (El Paso, the PInstripe bowl which I attended and was terrifically excited about Duke winning a Bowl) could be the last years we see Duke Football on the (sort of) national stage. I think the student body is apathetic and the alums and fans who care (like you, me and Sky) are not getting any younger. I just don't know what the alternative is. Without a high level football team I don't think Duke is going to be very attractive in the inevitable conference realignment. I see us going the way of the Big East. A sad state of affairs but unless Nina King and the trustees shows some real interest in an upgrade (by making a change by the end of this season and being willing to spend the necessary money to attract a good coach), Duke football will become the laughing stock of college athletics.
