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Duke vs. V.T. this Sat. football
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Certainly looking for, as always a Duke victory Saturday vs VT. With the game at VT its likely going to be a battle. Sky did you get the money to the football refs?
Huge game for Duke, with this game having big implications on the rest of the season. Vegas has VaTech as 3.5 point favorite and Duke is ranked, so this should be a really tough game for the boys from Durham. Hope we can come out on top!
It won't be easy but I think we could...we have 2 tough games against UNC and Pitt...they're the only 2 teams that we play that have winning records out of the remaining teams on our schedule.
We also have Miami at home this week who just got their rear ends busted by Clemson and will be a challenge. Every game we have left will be the biggest game we have this year. One game at a time. OFC.
If they play like they are capable of playing they can beat all of those teams. What I have noticed about this team is they seem to get complacent and want to sit on a lead. Yesterday was a good example, in the second half my wife started to know what they were going to do. Two runs and a bad pass. In the OT's when they had to do it , we saw roll out passes and playing to win again. You can only run the qb so many times. I think the defense also got winded from being on the field so much in the 4th qtr. Just hope if they drop a game , it won't be to the tarholes.
Agreed. Next 3 will be very challenging. I think Miami's athleticism makes them a difficult matchup for us, and UNC & Pitt are arguably as good or better than any team we've beaten this season. It was very important for us to win @ Va Tech b/c I think we're probably going to suffer a loss or two in the next 3. UVA and Wake are really the only games left on our schedule where I think we'll be favored by a reasonably significant margin.
If there is a coach in the nation, anywhere, doing a better job than Cutcliffe I'd love to see them. Saturday's game really showed that, as far as two programs really heading in different directions. I had this conversation with a very good friend who is a VT alum and a lifelong fan. I asked him if four years ago I had told you Duke and VT were about to play, one was ranked and undefeated in conference, while the other was coming in reeling after having lost three of their last four, and desperately needing a big home win over a ranked foe to start to try to right the ship a little and maybe do just enough to get bowl eligible, he would have never said Duke was the first of those teams.
Yep. Cut is a great coach, period, and the very best for Duke.
Agreed, also on which team we'd have thought was in which place several years back. I'll add that if we heard then that Duke even made it to 4OTs vs VT, we'd have been happy w/ that as a morale victory (morals ain't got nothing to do w/ it). While fans need to temper high expectations w/ gratefulness (firing Goldsmith for a 4-7 season looked like a pretty horrible move when we ended up dealing w/ 3 winless seasons and 13 wins total over the next 9 years), it is an immeasurable success that our players have fully bought in to the idea that getting to a 4th OT vs a team as storied as VT isn't good enough.
Great game, I'll be there this weekend to watch the boys beat the "U" .Coach Cut has done a heck of a job turning around the program. Other teams have to respect DUKE football now.
