Big Four Lack Defensive Speed

Let's think back to just about every game in which any of the Big Four football teams plays someone that is highly rated and in all most every case they all find themselves behind  early because the other team has tremendous speed and it takes a while to adjust to speed.

North Carolina's opening game loss last year at South Carolina down 21-0 early.  Saturday State is down 21 before they ever got a first down.  Duke against Florida St in the ACC championship game just not capable to keep up with the Florida State speed.  Saturday Wake who can't move the ball on anybody can't slowdown the Seminoles offensive speed.

I don't care if you give up 70 Carolina looked awful against ECU.  Just as bad the other way the State blockers couldn't block anybody that had a Garnet jersey on.  Both were embarrassing.  Right now there is no doubt the best coach in the Triangle is David Cutcliff.

Rumblings are stirring about Larry Fedora not being able to coach defense.  In Fedora's defense the Carolina Administration lied to the man  and did not tell him the truth about all the scandal that was on the horizon in Chapel Hill.  If any body needs to go it's all those that lied and hire him to begin with.  Oh, that's right they are gone already.

 I think one of the worse things about the modern world of Win every game or go is coaches are not given time to do it their way.  Especially the mess Carolina handed him.  In Raleigh the signs look good that they have a good man if given time.  They surely can beat teams worse than them and it is only the second year for Doeren.

The big difference for Duke this year is they don't have the second string quarterback they had last year because he went home to California to be nearer his sick mother.  If you recall Boone got bailed out of several games last year but there is no one on the bench to bail him out this year.

Wake in the first year under their new coach they look like a team floundering under a new coach that wants to install his own offense with the old coaches players.  He needs more time.

The only team that looks like they are hungry is the Pirates.  Quite frankly I was disappointed in the way they played home coming Saturday but a win is a win.  I hope now that they are in conference play they are ready each Saturday to blow people out.  A really good bowl game could come if they do. 

Finally the answer to my trivia question yesterday is Austin Texas.  Austin is the 11th largest city in the US and does not have a NFL, NBA, Major League or NHL team.  When I stumbled on this I thought Austin was about the size of Raleigh but they have 883,000 people in the city limits.  The most famous thing Austin is noted for is it is the home of the University of Texas and the PBS show Austin City Limits is recorded there.