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SignUp Now!rhfarmer said:I did not know that this was the Dr. Paul Epper ACC Championship Game
It's all about taints. We rely on taints.aiw said:Lhys showing up in chat talking about incompletions and interceptions brought us luck in the UNC game. I hope he shows up tonight.
bfactor said:It's all about taints. We rely on taints.aiw said:Lhys showing up in chat talking about incompletions and interceptions brought us luck in the UNC game. I hope he shows up tonight.
rhfarmer said:Thoughts from the result. Duke can play with the big boys for 15 minutes. That's really not too bad. There is a huge gulf between the FSU's and OSU's and Bama's of the college football world and the Dukes. However, that gulf was 70-7 a few years back, and now it's only 45-7.
Duke has made huge strides to get to the point where they are competitive against 90% of the college football landscape. Being competitive against that last 10% is probably as or more difficult than getting competitive against the first 90%.
Duke can be the best football program in North Carolina, IMO. I think that's the next reasonable goal. Then they can try and parlay that into being the east coast Stanford, a fringe contender on the national stage. If Duke can be to FSU what Stanford is to Oregon, it would be an amazing achievement. IMO, there is more incentive to play at Duke and potentially go to bowl games every year than to play at Vandy and get the shit kicked out of you every weekend. And if you can keep the east coast 3 and 4 stars from going to Stanford and Vandy (and Wake and Uva) and mine some talent from Charlotte, you're going to be really really good.
For instance, this year, Stanford has 3 east coast three star commitments and they still have offers out to a slew for east coast four and five stars. They are recruiting in Georgia, Florida and New Jersey private schools. Duke can scarf up some of these guys. Vandy already has 6 four star commitments, 5 of whom are from the east coast. Those guys probably aren't going to a bowl because they have to win 4-5 conference games against Georgia, Alabama, etc.
If Duke can keep it's current trajectory, maybe in 4 or 5 years they are routinely beating VPI, UNC and GIT, are regularly competitive against Miami and Clemson and at least get FSU's blood flowing. That's a program that can win 8-10 games a year and maybe catch fire every five years or so and go to a big bowl.