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Misc Hockey Tidbits

Big night for Will Smith last night ... two really nice wristers, including the game winner. His 1st two NHL goals (and points).

On another point, I was at the Hurricanes/Bruins game last night and the Canes absolutely woodshedded them. What's going on with the Bruins; effort was terrible last night and has been all year.

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OT: Who Will Win the Election Tuesday

Who will win the election Tuesday

  • Trump

    Votes: 24 63.2%
  • Harris

    Votes: 12 31.6%
  • With these two great options to move our country forward, America wins either way!

    Votes: 2 5.3%

Seeing a lot of confidence on bothsides so why not see where everyone comes down on this?

Sorry for not keeping this in-thread but you apparently can't put a poll in an ongoing thread so don't blame me blame Rivals.
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Rate Bill O’Brien’s Performance So Far

How would you rate Bill O’Brien’s performance so far?

  • A

    Votes: 2 2.6%
  • B

    Votes: 32 41.6%
  • C

    Votes: 36 46.8%
  • D

    Votes: 7 9.1%
  • F

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • F-

    Votes: 0 0.0%

This poll isn’t about what you think his prospects are in the long-term. Instead, rate his performance with an objectively sub-optimal roster but one that has some decent talent scattered throughout.

Evaluation criteria includes player development, in-game strategy, etc.

Thoughts For The Coming Season

I want to express my thoughts on basketball team with the opener a week away

The Backcourt: It doesn't bother me too much that we lost Zach and Harris. I truly believe that we weren't going to the NCAA's because of their limitations that has been taslked about endlessly.. It appears that D. Brown can do a lot of things well that will help level off the loss of Zach and Harris. I have no faith in Kelly being our point guard after the s- -t show he put on last year. I am hoping that this frosh Towes breaks out or Payne to lead the point.

Front court: Losing Glock really hurt. Strong brings energy and had his moments. If he can be consistent it would be a huge lift for the team. I feel Hand can be a contributor for the team. He's quick, can create fouls and is a decent shooter. The only thing, he needs to get stronger to handle the the three position. I like what I see of Venning. If he is some what as productive as Burns[NCSU], it would soften the lost of Q. Post
Bench: Our bench last year was not very productive last year .It was made up of Kelly, Prince, and Mighty. [I rest my case] I think with the replacements Hastings, McFarlene, Beadle, and the freshmen. will be a big improvement compared to last year.

Prediction: I believe this team will not make the NCAA's this year. I do believe that there's some talent here. I'm wishing a couple of players have breakout years [Strong,Hand] Grant can develop a productive point guard [Towes, Payne] If our bench contributes, we can win more games and get to the 500 mark for the season. In summary, lot of pieces have to come together to make it a successful season.

Go BC

***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.
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