If you happen to know any W&L grads, please feel free to ask them about my screen name. Thanks.i think IQs drop when people put "ghost" in their screen names.
It is perfectly clear where the IQ's are lacking. But I have to give you credit for supporting "your guy". I think he'll be great in the CFL one day. His skill set is perfect for it.
i think IQs drop when people put "ghost" in their screen names.
Towles has been catching a lot of flak for Saturday night because of the deep passes he didn't make. I don't think people realize how tough those are to complete, qb's don't get those 60%+ completions or 150+ qb ratings throwing the ball 40 yards downfield. Instead of praising him for completing 2-3 of them he is catching heat for the 2-3 he missed. No one is wanting to give LaL any credit for the adjustment they made, to make those throws tougher to complete, it's just Towles overthrew them. Some are even wanting to see a new qb, he could be an upgrade, but he could also be a downgrade, no one has seen him in a college game including the coaching staff. UK has a pretty good starting qb, his team put 40 on the board, its not his fault the other team put 33 on the board. I wish UGA had a qb like him.
How do you figure? SC gave up 13 points to one of the top scoring offenses in 2014 (wh/ returned 10 starters). Points are all that matter (unless of course, you are a UNC fan who thinks running a fast paced offense which runs more plays than the other team is the most important thing). I dare say NC's offense is light years better than ULL, and SC's defense is better than ULL's. This game does not sit up well for KY but yes, KY could win cause SC has a long way to go to be called very good. But the season is young, and both teams still have high hopes................we'll know better about both teams at the end of Saturday night.
If you happen to know any W&L grads, please feel free to ask them about my screen name. Thanks.
You'll be eating those words on more than one occasion this year that's for sure. I'm sure you miss the 3 yards and a cloud of dust offense you prefer.He's not the guy you can depend on and this " air raid " infatuation that fans and coaches seem to have won't fit his latent inaccuracy. Wish you had him too and your coaches might put him situations more suitable for his talents. In a pass happy offense he is not that guy.
Can we start banning these fools? They're sensitive and trigger happy over at their ignorance bastion. They need a taste of their own medicine.
For all of those who say South Carolina truly has no chance and the defense is awful let's take a look at what truly happened in the UNC game. South Carolina ran a 4-2-5 defense with 5DBs and 4 smaller pass rushing linemen to stop a vertical UNC team. It is very easy to run into a defense like this.
Second since all that is being said is South Carolina would not have won without 3 INTs, that is how the game happened. The same could be said about North Carolinas offense. Take away 4-5 big plays from them and the total yardage for both the passing and rushing game drop to around 225-275 total yards for the game. Kentucky will see a 4-3 defense on 1st and 2nd down and 3rd and short and a 4-2-5 with thicker linemen on passing and 3rd and long downs.
Prediction: SC 28 Kentucky 13
Yeah the same way you held ULL to 33Boy, you all are just gonna hold everybody to 13 points this season, huh?
Or not...
no serious UK fan is on here bragging that we somehow are going to have a great defense. You are. We scored 38 offensive points against you last season while racking up 447 yards. This year when we have an even better passing game you're gonna throttle us down to 13 points.Yeah the same way you held ULL to 33
I hate to agree with crazy (since he appears to serve his moniker well), but Clemson and other HUNH offenses have done quite well with small quick linemen. If your QB only needs 2 seconds and you can buy him an extra second or two everyone once in a while with deception, I think you can live with an average OL.
i do think if we win if we score 40 points. i dont think we can win a grind it out defensive battle. we are gonna have to get up and down the field and force them to throw... shoot, if we are passing all over the field i'd bet money spurrier will up his passing just because of how he is. he's not gonna run the ball 80% of the time while the other team is throwing 60%.
But wouldnt that fall into line with my statement about changing schemes/concepts to suit the OL you have? The HUNH offense requires agile linemen, in exceptional shape. It also requires lots of practice to achieve the appropriate tempo.
If the OL isnt good at running the HUNH, then the offense still wont go anywhere because the QBs cant throw, RBs cant run, and there wont be the 1st downs required for it to work.
My apologies if anything I've said was uncivil. We can all argue about well-reasoned. Hence, we have message boards.Ghost, I learned a long time ago that many people are seeking validation rather than a well-reasoned and civil dialogue.
no serious UK fan is on here bragging that we somehow are going to have a great defense. You are. We scored 38 offensive points against you last season while racking up 447 yards. This year when we have an even better passing game you're gonna throttle us down to 13 points.
My point is you take away UNCs 4 to 5 big plays and the total yards drop drastically. Do I think Kentuckys offense is good? Absolutely when they play like a well oiled machine. Do I think Kentucky can score points against this defense especially in the pass game? Absolutely. But do I believe this game is going into the 30s and 40s the way some of you think it will? No. 1. South Carolina's offense unless we connect on a few more passes is not able to score that many points at this time unless you see something change at the WR position. The WR have to get open more and stop dropping very catchable balls. Also Kentuckys defense although not very good at all against the run is okay to good against the pass. My point is a high powered offense was held to 13 points on Thursday and Kentucky is coming to WB. If Kentucky wins it'll be 28-24 if South Carolina wins I see no way SC can score 30 points. SC 24-28 Kentucky 13-20
I respect that. The name of the game for defense isn't hold opponents under 10 points and less than 250 total yards anymore. It's give up yards between the 20s and hold teams in the red zone to field goals or turnovers. Kentucky as I said before when clicking on offense can score points. If Kentucky starts getting in a shoot out, only one team will be shooting and that's Kentucky because SC offense until proven otherwise isn't going to throw a lot of points on the board. I believe Kentucky and SC score points just not in the 30s and 40s. The biggest star of the game will be TOP and I believe SC has to control that to win.The difference between North Carolina's offense and Kentucky's offense is that North Carolina is mostly revolved around size, and Kentucky is mostly revolved around speed. Something different is likely to happen if you all let one of our receivers get into open field. Even our 6'5 receivers have a lot of speed to them.
I've seen the whole "bend but don't break" defensive philosophy against Kentucky. Mississippi State did it, and Kentucky racked up a lot of yards and a lot of points.
North Carolina may have very well been a tad bit too slow to break one off in the open field, I see that as a non-issue for our team though.
I respect that. The name of the game for defense isn't hold opponents under 10 points and less than 250 total yards anymore. It's give up yards between the 20s and hold teams in the red zone to field goals or turnovers. Kentucky as I said before when clicking on offense can score points. If Kentucky starts getting in a shoot out, only one team will be shooting and that's Kentucky because SC offense until proven otherwise isn't going to throw a lot of points on the board. I believe Kentucky and SC score points just not in the 30s and 40s. The biggest star of the game will be TOP and I believe SC has to control that to win.
I totally disagree. Neither teams defense is good and inthink they both suck. In saying that, UK's offense is better than UNC's and I think SC's offense is better than ULL's. Either way, this game is going to be a shoot out and a fun game all around.
Neither team should be afraid of the other, as they are both similar in talent on both sides of the ball.
"UK's offense is better than UNC's"
You think so??
I guess SC will need to play 3-4 games before it is known if the D "sucks" or not, but just looking at the first game vs. a really good offense on a NEUTRAL field, holding UNC to 13 points seems like a good first step, not like this UNC team was an offense that lost much of anything from last year in which it was one of the better offensive squads in FBS. It returned Sr QB that holds many school records, a veteran and highly ranked WR corps, all of its RB's, the entire OL etc. the same team that rang up 35 points last season on the number one ranked D (Clemson) and several other good D's including ND while averaging 36 ppg. Shutting out that O for the entire second half showed adjustments and improvements, and those 3 interceptions, 2 in the EZ which are being blamed on the UNC QB may or may not have been due to the SC D deploying and exercising a bait strategy based upon previous looks.I'm not entirely sure if TOP will be a big immediate factor, depending on if UK can bust them open, but Coach Dawson said he attributes some of the tired legs on defense in the fourth quarter to his play-calling throughout the game. Said he has to do a better job of grinding the game out and giving the defense more of a break. Pains me a bit to agree, but he does. I understand how it's difficult though, when a team stacks the box and plays the press out on the perimeter, and almost all of your receivers are beating them on every play, it's tempting to heave it downfield and let them take it to the house.
I think UK will play more physical though. I expect Kentucky to run the ball 35-40 times in this game. Boom Williams should get 15-20, Mikel Horton should get 10-15, and JoJo Kemp should get 5-10 (unless we go Wildcat and you all still can't stop it).
Doesn't hurt that we have some film on your defense either. ULL just brought in some CB coach from Auburn to be their defensive coordinator. Nobody really knew what they were going for defensively.
I for one would love to see a matchup between UK and UNC this year, the comparisons between the two in many threads are a bit disjointed, but likely those two teams would be very competitive against each other. If I had to pick who would win right now, I say UNC only because their offense seems equal to UK's but right now, Chizek's D looks a bit better. Too early to call, but maybe if you look at positions for each team you can get a feel. I think UNC has the QB advantage, WR advantage by a bit, RB is likely equal, ASIs OL and NC gets small edge at TE. On D, DL is close, LB favors NC maybe, secondary favors UK likely. Close call.If they're going to keep throwing for 1 TD, and 3 interceptions, then yes.
This game will come down to how UK does against the run,( will we see some more 4 man fronts?) and how well Towels plays. If he can eliminate some of his mistakes and be more accurate we have a chance regardless of the run d. If he struggles and our run d struggles it will be difficult to win. If he is on and we limit SC on 1st and 2nd downs, I like UK's chances. It will be an interesting game for sure.I'm not entirely sure if TOP will be a big immediate factor, depending on if UK can bust them open, but Coach Dawson said he attributes some of the tired legs on defense in the fourth quarter to his play-calling throughout the game. Said he has to do a better job of grinding the game out and giving the defense more of a break. Pains me a bit to agree, but he does. I understand how it's difficult though, when a team stacks the box and plays the press out on the perimeter, and almost all of your receivers are beating them on every play, it's tempting to heave it downfield and let them take it to the house.
I think UK will play more physical though. I expect Kentucky to run the ball 35-40 times in this game. Boom Williams should get 15-20, Mikel Horton should get 10-15, and JoJo Kemp should get 5-10 (unless we go Wildcat and you all still can't stop it).
Doesn't hurt that we have some film on your defense either. ULL just brought in some CB coach from Auburn to be their defensive coordinator. Nobody really knew what they were going for defensively.
Probably comes down to coaching.I for one would love to see a matchup between UK and UNC this year, the comparisons between the two in many threads are a bit disjointed, but likely those two teams would be very competitive against each other. If I had to pick who would win right now, I say UNC only because their offense seems equal to UK's but right now, Chizek's D looks a bit better. Too early to call, but maybe if you look at positions for each team you can get a feel. I think UNC has the QB advantage, WR advantage by a bit, RB is likely equal, ASIs OL and NC gets small edge at TE. On D, DL is close, LB favors NC maybe, secondary favors UK likely. Close call.
I for one would love to see a matchup between UK and UNC this year, the comparisons between the two in many threads are a bit disjointed, but likely those two teams would be very competitive against each other. If I had to pick who would win right now, I say UNC only because their offense seems equal to UK's but right now, Chizek's D looks a bit better. Too early to call, but maybe if you look at positions for each team you can get a feel. I think UNC has the QB advantage, WR advantage by a bit, RB is likely equal, ASIs OL and NC gets small edge at TE. On D, DL is close, LB favors NC maybe, secondary favors UK likely. Close call.
If that scenario plays out SOSwill dial up some deep slants, that is his bread and butter. Loves to throw 2-3 over the top as well, usually early or right after a TO.the problem for us is that we started out fast last year and then ended pretty poorly... even the ul game was more of a strong defensive performance than offense, and then we get what we had on saturday. im still optimistic that it was just a bad game with bad timing and we quit playing after we got up 2 scores but the reasons for optimism for us to win is still there.
1 boom, jojo, and mikel all looked better than last year physically.
2 the receivers looked real good. there were a few more td's out there that towles missed on.
3 the o-line looked better than last year. GAA got a lot of blitzes his direction being a true freshman and Toth is calling assignments now so i expect that to get cleaned up a bit this week
4 the seconday looked to be better.... possible a lot better by years end.
unfortunately we still dont know if our lb'ers are much better than last year and hatch is still out for this game and haven't heard if flannigan is cleared to play yet. d-line looked better but it needs to be a lot better than last year and we just don't know after that game. melvin and meant looked good in spurts though and getting cj back will help with depth.
i would expect a lot of blitzes up the middle to help with run support and our safety's will be playing up in the box... mcwilson and darius west will need to play big in run support.