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***Louisville Cardinals vs Boston College Eagles game thread***

Well here we are, 6 quarters of getting their god damn ass kicked. This group seems to like it a lot. Wouldn't hate to see this group learn to give it out every once in a while, tonight would be a nice start to try and salvage this stretch of games in Oct.

Not necessarily needed to pump you up just from the jukebox I am spinning pregame.

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Post that summarizes the mood from Ville tonight

Cards opened at - 6 1/2 on Tuesday. Has now moved to -7 1/2, and some Casinos have the Cards at - 8. Total hovers at 53 1/2. A 1 to 1 /2 point moves usually signals a key player that to be out, is now going play. from I have read that could be Isaac Brown who was questionable for the Cards. Not going to be easy, but IMO Card win by 10 points. The best play is the Over 54 IMO. Cards have been over that number in 5 of it's 7 games. BC offense is decent, and the Cards defense has struggled lately. Cards will need to score 34 points to win, and BC will score 24 points making my Total 58 nicely over the number! Go Cards!!

A lot of things need to improve.

Understatement certainly but off the top of my head, it starts with BOB.

He is an offensive guy, a lot of the blame is going on Lawing HOF handpicked OC. I imagine BOB has input on the offense. There is no system or identity. I thought they wanted to be a running offense. They get away from it, and as cited here numerous times, specifically Ward. The personnel packages are confusing. Why so much Montague, why no Bradley at the end, or at all. The plays to Bond aren’t working.

I thought there was a lot of talent in the WR room. Either they aren’t as good as we thought or they can’t get schemed to get open but they were the worst positional unit on the field tonight, special teams excepted. Couldn’t get open all night.

They just didn’t seem to have a plan in place on how to play with a big lead, and certainly no plan on how to run a 2 min offense. That looked deploreable.

Operations at the end of the half continues to stink. Given their passing limitations tonight I don’t strongly disagree with them sitting on it. However they did a brutal job managing it. They could have run the clock out before running the third down play. Instead they snap with about 10 seconds left. Makes no sense. You are running a dive. You are not trying to score. Why risk (a) a turnover, or (b) Louisville calling a timeout and making your Barnum & Bailey punt team come on. Which Loiusville absolutely should have done.

The punting was awful by BC tonight, but equally bad by Loiuisville.

Huge penalty on Montague kick return. Instead of the 40, it goes to our 10. We punt. They get good field position, and score a TD.

When Louisville jumped offside on our punt and it went from 3rd and 6 to 3rd and one, I think because we were at our own 30, I still think we should have punted, but I don’t think BOB has a chance to even think about things because he was too busy red assing the ref.

He needs to be a lot better at the fine coaching details. A lot better.

Halftime thoughts from high above Alumni

-Statistically, it wasn't anything crazy (yards are 188-181 in favor of Louisville and BC had just 7 first downs to the Cardinals' 10), but it felt better after the first quarter. The two touchdowns on 4th downs by Lawing were impressive creativity and well-timed calls. Credit where it's due.

-Having said that, not pushing for points with 3 timeouts and 1:17 on the clock after Louisville scored is mind boggling and might come back to bite them in the ass.

-BC has 103 yards rushing (only 78 passing) and absolutely need to keep that going with Ward and Robichaux.

-I think I severely overrated the receivers at the start of the year because watching plays develop up high, they just absolutely can't get any separation.

-Still only one FG attempt on the season and Connor shanked the PAT. The lack of FG experience and reps is going to bite them in the ass eventually, just not sure when.

-Love seeing Morales involved. Need to get him the ball more, he's basically an untapped weapon still.

-Great job by the student section packing the place early tonight and there was definitely a different vibe on the field pregame with some of the music.

-I still don't trust them to close this out unless they actually stick to the run. Louisville should be tied at the very least but penalties have killed them.

-Mind boggling - after telling us they worked on returns this week - that McGowan just refuses to take balls back when he catches them at the 5 or 10. Really need more out of special teams.
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I have a subscription for the ACCN channel. I was looking at the BC basketball schedule and the opener and 4 other OCG are on ACCNX. I persuaded to look at ESPN website to check upcoming games. I didn't see the BC/Citadel on ACCNX, or neither the BC/Temple game being played on 11-15. I called a ESPN agent and he said games are usually added as we get closer to the opening of the season. I told the agent that its getting pretty late in the game given the season only 12 days away. Question - Should I be nervous that the OCG games on ACCNX might not be televised. I live in California so I can't attend the games
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