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I don't mind the so-called gurus down playing us but damn at least be factual. I don't believe we will run the table, we have to beat a tough Mountaineer team in Morgantown and a very good Pitt team at home.

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Firmly believe that louisiville will run the table and complete the regular season undefeated. ( they will be favored in every game ) When the cardinals do finish the regular season undefeated, and yes i did say when not if, and if their is only 1 other undefeated BCS school is it a realistic chance that the cardinals would be playing in the Rose Bowl in the scenario? - Danny ( baltimore )


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A: You’re not in Conference USA anymore. There’s no questioning how good last year’s Cardinal team was, but don’t overlook that it obliterated some very lousy defenses. I’m not sold on this year’s Cardinal D that has no developed depth on the front seven and probably won’t come close to generating the pass rush it was able to last year. The secondary got torched by most teams with a pulse of a passing game, and it’ll be in some shootouts again. Pittsburgh and West Virginia will be tougher than most Cardinal fans are expecting. To answer your question, it’s going to be hard to get to Pasadena with the average Big East slate and few chances for a high profile win. If there are two other worthy candidates in the mix, it'll be a tough sell for the Cardinals. Forget it if there’s even one loss.


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Now here is my problem with Mr. Fuitak, first off out of the 1st and 2nd team we lost a Total of 3 players in our front 7 in McCune, Leffew and Marcus Jones. We still return out 1st and 3rd leading sack artist from last year in Elvis Dumervil and Abe Brown.

2. We were ranked 15th Overall in Total Defense and 24th in Scoring Defense last year.

3. How in the Blue Hell is Boston College ranked in the Top 15 over schools like Iowa. In there last Big East regular season game with the Big East title on the line they were SMOKED by Syracuse.
07-02-2005 01:20 AM
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Maize Wrote:I don't mind the so-called gurus down playing us but damn at least be factual. I don't believe we will run the table, we have to beat a tough Mountaineer team in Morgantown and a very good Pitt team at home.

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Firmly believe that louisiville will run the table and complete the regular season undefeated. ( they will be favored in every game ) When the cardinals do finish the regular season undefeated, and yes i did say when not if, and if their is only 1 other undefeated BCS school is it a realistic chance that the cardinals would be playing in the Rose Bowl in the scenario? - Danny ( baltimore )


Pete Fuitak Response
A: You’re not in Conference USA anymore. There’s no questioning how good last year’s Cardinal team was, but don’t overlook that it obliterated some very lousy defenses. I’m not sold on this year’s Cardinal D that has no developed depth on the front seven and probably won’t come close to generating the pass rush it was able to last year. The secondary got torched by most teams with a pulse of a passing game, and it’ll be in some shootouts again. Pittsburgh and West Virginia will be tougher than most Cardinal fans are expecting. To answer your question, it’s going to be hard to get to Pasadena with the average Big East slate and few chances for a high profile win. If there are two other worthy candidates in the mix, it'll be a tough sell for the Cardinals. Forget it if there’s even one loss.


<a href='http://collegefootballnews.com/2005/Ask_CFN/Ask_CFN.htm' target='_blank'>CFN</a>

Now here is my problem with Mr. Fuitak, first off out of the 1st and 2nd team we lost a Total of 3 players in our front 7 in McCune, Leffew and Marcus Jones. We still return out 1st and 3rd leading sack artist from last year in Elvis Dumervil and Abe Brown.

2. We were ranked 15th Overall in Total Defense and 24th in Scoring Defense last year.
I don't mean to be disrespectful to Louisville because I like the Cards a lot. However, I never could understand how that defense was ranked 15th last year.

I only saw 3 games last year, and the D looked suspect to me in all 3 giving up these points: MIAMI,41; MEMPHIS,49; and BOISE STATE,40. It's true that 3 games aren't an entire season, but those are the only 3 I saw.

If they give up those kind of points against Pitt and West Virginia, I think they'll lose at least 2 BE games.

Jim
07-02-2005 01:53 AM
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Quote:I only saw 3 games last year, and the D looked suspect to me in all 3 giving up these points: MIAMI,41; MEMPHIS,49; and BOISE STATE,40. It's true that 3 games aren't an entire season, but those are the only 3 I saw.
In their defense, those are three damn good offenses.

Not including the games these teams played against UL, Miami went over 40 three times (plus 38 once), Memphis went over 40 four times (plus games of 38 and 35), and Boise State went over 40 eight times (plus 38 once).

The highest point totals UL conceded, aside from those three games, were 28 to TCU (55-28), 27 to Houston (65-27), and 21 to Army (52-21). They had six games in which they conceded less than double digits (9 once, 7 thrice, 0 twice).

I hate to admit it, but UL is the total package. They were no one-year wonder.
07-02-2005 02:16 AM
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JIM15068 Wrote:I don't mean to be disrespectful to Louisville because I like the Cards a lot. However, I never could understand how that defense was ranked 15th last year.

I only saw 3 games last year, and the D looked suspect to me in all 3 giving up these points: MIAMI,41; MEMPHIS,49; and BOISE STATE,40. It's true that 3 games aren't an entire season, but those are the only 3 I saw.

If they give up those kind of points against Pitt and West Virginia, I think they'll lose at least 2 BE games.

Jim
You're talking about Boise State who had, arguably, the most explosive offense in the country along with Louisville, Memphis, who had one of the best offenses and best running backs in the nation, and Miami who goes without saying. Heck yeah they're going to give up some points, but their defense kept them in those games, which is all you can ask for. On a side note, even if West Virginia and Pitt put up those points what's to say that Louisville couldn't? If you use the same example that you used with Louisville then Pitt can be scored on since Utah did it. You don't have a Top 15 ranked defense by accident.
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Maize,

don't even worry about what CFN is saying. UofL is a legit top 10 team, no doubt. and yes, when that dude Peter Fautik or however you spell his name start trashing the big east and UofL's last year schedule and so on....u know he has an agenda.....that being to make the big east look as bad as possible....it would not suprise me that CFN is owned by ESPN.

all i hope is that we as a conference win at least 60-70% of our OOC games. .....as CBS has stated the new big east has the toughest schedule.....

next, u are also right about BC being ranked 15th....how in the hell is it that BC could never managed to be preseasoned ranked or finish better than 4th in the old big east (miami, wv, va.tech, pitt, bc, rutgers, temple) but can yet go to what all the football experts say is a SuperConference and be picked to finish 2nd behind fla.st..

man, you know what.....the more and more i look at our teams, the new big east will no doubt the 6th best conference if not the 5th best.

think about it....Although we have only four bowl tie ins, i feel that 5 teams will get to post season...lou,pitt, syrac, wv, and rutgers/uconn.....

finally, u and i and the rest of the new big east fans and alumni, know that it will not be a cake walk...it is just a way for the "talking heads" to put the nbe down.

remember, these people are part of the same people who stated the NBE would not retain their BCS.. i guess old Mike Trangessee proved them all wrong....so as a conference let's continue to prove them wrong...
07-02-2005 06:12 AM
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jtwvu87 Wrote:Maize,

don't even worry about what CFN is saying. UofL is a legit top 10 team, no doubt. and yes, when that dude Peter Fautik or however you spell his name start trashing the big east and UofL's last year schedule and so on....u know he has an agenda.....that being to make the big east look as bad as possible....it would not suprise me that CFN is owned by ESPN.

next, u are also right about BC being ranked 15th....how in the hell is it that BC could never managed to be preseasoned ranked or finish better than 4th in the old big east (miami, wv, va.tech, pitt, bc, rutgers, temple) but can yet go to what all the football experts say is a SuperConference and be picked to finish 2nd behind fla.st..

remember, these people are part of the same people who stated the NBE would not retain their BCS.. i guess old Mike Trangessee proved them all wrong....so as a conference let's continue to prove them wrong...
I've never understood why the media has such a bias against the BIG EAST, but it's been true in football for years.

It amazes me that Miami was tied for 1st and VT was 4th in their last year in the BE. BC was in a 4-way tie for 1st in their last year (one of their best finishes.) Yet, all 3 of this teams go to the acc and are in the top 4.

This shows me that the acc only had 1 fb team who could have competed on a top level in the BE, FL ST. None the less, the pundits have talked up the acc at the expense of the BE for years. Something is wrong with this picture.

I'm not saying the acc isn't any good because, frankly, with the addition of 3 former BE teams, they've become a very good conference. What I am saying is that the BE has never gotten the respect it deserves.

Now, we're behind the 8-ball, and we need to go out and earn some respect all over again. When we start winning, I hope the media will get off their BE bashing band wagon.

Jim
07-03-2005 06:12 PM
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Whaoooo
who got ahold of jtwvu87's password and made a post in his name? He actually sounds like a sane man here....what happened, no UofL bashing or did I miss something? I agree. I think Pitt, WVU, SU, Rutgers and Louisville are going to make for some exciting football and all five may make it to a bowl this year. UConn, South Florida, and Cincy should be back within a year or two. Let's see, if you only play seven conference games and you get to play 4 out of conference games...if you can go 3 and 1 OOC, you could go 3 and 4 in conference and still be eligible for a bowl. This might be a good year with bigger and better years to come. How many do you think we may eventually send to a bowl in a year?
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cardtopper,

i do make sense....i am just not going to keep the lovefest going forever.....now that yal are in the big east, i don't like yal....

you are our rivals now....isn't this what yal wanted?????a rivalry???

now with that said....if anybody from outside this conference tries to bash any team in the big east family i will defend our family....however, what goes on inside the the big east house is family business..


i don't like yal right now.....yal are going to attempt to take something away from wv and that this the big east championship...i am sure syracuse and pitt feels the same.....wv has been reigning big east champs for 2 years in row.....

now if you can't understand that then i don't know what else to say.....
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JIM15068 Wrote:I only saw 3 games last year, and the D looked suspect to me in all 3 giving up these points: MIAMI,41; MEMPHIS,49; and BOISE STATE,40. It's true that 3 games aren't an entire season, but those are the only 3 I saw.

If they give up those kind of points against Pitt and West Virginia, I think they'll lose at least 2 BE games.

Jim
Memphis finished the season #9 in the nation in total offense, Boise State #4 in the nation.
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Our offense won't miss a beat this coming season.

Like I've said a few times already, if you have an offense that can hang with us, then we have a game; that's fair enough.

But if you think you will magically stop Petrino and all our weapons in a 20-17 defensive struggle, then you will be in for a big surprise.
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