1moretimeagain
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Hopefully that was for our opening drive. Damn we looked nice.
UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway
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Carolina Fever
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The Clemson game might get a bunch of viewers because the Clemson and UNC fans, and because Clemson is a top 20 team. The dook and State game might get a bunch of viewers from the Triangle. I doubt any of the other games will get much in the way of TV viewers.Monday night’s game means UNC will get shittier and shittier time and network slots the rest of the season.
As someone posted in response to my post that virtually NO ONE will watch the UNC-Charlotte game; they posted “that won’t hurt us” because it’s on a non-existent network……well, I hope playing fucking UNC-Charlotte on a fucking non-network doesn’t hurt us.
One thing is certain - it won’t help us. It won’t help put us on TV in better time or network slots the rest of the season.
We have one game left that will help us in terms of viewers - the Clemson game…..and, the Tigers will beat us like we’re the red-headed step-child in Kenan.
Our 10 games after this weekend:
If you’re NOT a die hard Carolina fan or a crazy fan of our opponents, would you watch this schedule?
- Richmond (that’ll get a big TV slot)
- @UCF - this might be our biggest TV game aside from TCU and Clemson
- Clemson - they’ll beat us silly
- @Cal (NO ONE gives a shit about this game; no one at Cal; no one at UNC; no one nationwide)
- UVA - UNC and UVA can call it “The South’s Oldest Rivalry” all they want. NO ONE not connected to UVA or UNC cares; not many connected to UNC/UVA care; it’s an unimportant “rivalry”
- @Syracuse - eyeballs will definitely be riveted on this game
That HUGEVNortheastern college football audience
- Stanford - that’ll pack Kenan. What’s the attendance on November 8th? 33,000? It’ll certainly attract millions on TV.
- @Wake. That’ll garner millions of TV viewers.
- d00k - in November? If d00k is even mediocre on November 22, they’ll pack Kenan. NO ONE will watch on TV.
- @ncsulol. They’ll pack and pee in their stadium. NO ONE will watch on TV.
Would YOU PAY to watch this schedule?
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Duke looks to be a LOT better than us. So do UVA and NCSU to a lesser degree.
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If the O/U on wins this season was 4.5 which do you take?
I am at under pending signs of life. Right now, I can see us winning 1 of Stanford, UCF and Wake. We should beat Richmond. That gets us to 3. It is hard to see any other wins on the schedule as of today -- but maybe things change when Blaske comes back and the QB/playcalling situation gets a little more settled.
Under.
But, if penalties and turnovers are low for the season and we see decent improvement and go 4-8, I’d call it a “Meh” season rather than a bad one.
The cupboard was bare player-wise.
4-8 this year REQUIRES 9-3 next year.
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Finally someone worth seeing.
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there's an article on IC (free) about how detail-oriented BB is about special teams and how players, especially specialists, have noticed the difference because most of their past coaches haven't really known anything about STs. pretty standard stuff and something we knew about BB but mostly it's cool to see the players' response to it.
but then i get to the part about tom maginness and it almost feels like it's gaslighting me. "So far, Maginness is averaging 40.8 yards per punt on 14 punts. Maginness said he prefers the rollout style of punt and that Belichick feels he’s the most effective using his rugby style." That's a yard less than he averaged last year when he was flip-flopping between rollout and straight-up punting and ranks 124th in the country. We're not getting returned on because he kicks so many dribblers that die before they can be returned (and has been getting a lot of lucky bounces), so his net is a little better, 77th in the country.
for sure, he is not the example you want to be using to show that BB has improved our STs.
but then i get to the part about tom maginness and it almost feels like it's gaslighting me. "So far, Maginness is averaging 40.8 yards per punt on 14 punts. Maginness said he prefers the rollout style of punt and that Belichick feels he’s the most effective using his rugby style." That's a yard less than he averaged last year when he was flip-flopping between rollout and straight-up punting and ranks 124th in the country. We're not getting returned on because he kicks so many dribblers that die before they can be returned (and has been getting a lot of lucky bounces), so his net is a little better, 77th in the country.
for sure, he is not the example you want to be using to show that BB has improved our STs.
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Still?
Hope it isn't a noon game. A 10am concert Luda concert would be a bust.
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I can't figure out why UNC is a 6.5 pt (up from 5.5) underdog to Central. They've beaten Jacksonville State (scored 17 pts) and NC A&T. I see it as a toss up game. They have a new HC and team like we do.
You would think the Clemson game would not be a nooner but with Clemson's collapse this season you never know.
You would think the Clemson game would not be a nooner but with Clemson's collapse this season you never know.
I don’t love singling out individual players but he is so awful. It’s hard to believe we couldn’t find a better punter somewhere.
Historically, the Bounce House has one of the strongest home field edges - close to 5 points. Also, UCF is coming off a bye week, which often gets an extra point in the odds. That is 6 points right there. On a neutral field with no bye week, it would be a pick ‘em.
Sagarin has us as a 1.5 favorite on a neutral field.