Impressed how long the students hung in and stayed at the game Saturday night. Kudos to them.

I'm sure they weren't necessarily moving around until after brunch yesterday if they waited to head to their Halloween parties at midnight.

(10-30-2023 10:11 AM)JMURocks Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 10:02 AM)#YEEHAWDUKES Wrote:  No idea how accurate it is but my Apple watch registered 119db at one point during the game

I "only" had 112db, but that was for the first hour, watch battery gave out at 9pm. We definitely had more noise in Q4.

Watched the replay, and one of the announcers noted how silent it got when the Dukes got the ball. They attributed it to ODU's score silencing us, ha!

Our crowd football IQ has improved 1000% the past few years. We know when to roar and when to be quiet. Now, like Cig said, just need to build the other side, and it will be an insane home environment.

Loved that comment…does that sound like a HC that’s looking to jump for another gig at a school paying him more money?

(10-30-2023 11:37 AM)fishingduke12 Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 11:32 AM)Xeonon Wrote:  I feel like no one is talking enough about the fact that first interception was not an interception. Ball clearly hit the ground. NCAA has it out for the Dukes.

Agreed and really changed the entire tone of the game.

Felt like it was going to be a weird game from the start after a delay due to the fog on the field and after the "pick" on the second play I knew things werent going to be easy

Yes!!!

How the heck that play wasn’t reviewed is beyond any rational explanation. Ref’s really blew that call.

(10-30-2023 01:33 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 11:37 AM)fishingduke12 Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 11:32 AM)Xeonon Wrote:  I feel like no one is talking enough about the fact that first interception was not an interception. Ball clearly hit the ground. NCAA has it out for the Dukes.

Agreed and really changed the entire tone of the game.

Felt like it was going to be a weird game from the start after a delay due to the fog on the field and after the "pick" on the second play I knew things werent going to be easy

Yes!!!

How the heck that play wasn’t reviewed is beyond any rational explanation. Ref’s really blew that call.

1) Couldn't Cig have requested a review?
2) Unless college has a different rule than the NFL I'm pretty sure that would be a "call stands". My understanding is the ball can touch the ground as long as it is held. I did not see the ball move while touching the ground.

clearly the ncaa was watching and called the refs/ replay booth and said "don't you dare".............cmon ya'll, we are not that important to them

(10-30-2023 01:38 PM)Dukester Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 01:33 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 11:37 AM)fishingduke12 Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 11:32 AM)Xeonon Wrote:  I feel like no one is talking enough about the fact that first interception was not an interception. Ball clearly hit the ground. NCAA has it out for the Dukes.

Agreed and really changed the entire tone of the game.

Felt like it was going to be a weird game from the start after a delay due to the fog on the field and after the "pick" on the second play I knew things werent going to be easy

Yes!!!

How the heck that play wasn’t reviewed is beyond any rational explanation. Ref’s really blew that call.

1) Couldn't Cig have requested a review?
2) Unless college has a different rule than the NFL I'm pretty sure that would be a "call stands". My understanding is the ball can touch the ground as long as it is held. I did not see the ball move while touching the ground.

Perhaps. Any turnover should have been reviewed without the HC having to ask for it.

I just looked at ODU’s roster, wow most of their starters are Juniors (should be seniors?) which would be Rahne’s first class in fall 2019-winter 2020. A lot of guys like Paige, Britt, Lamareon James had chosen ODU over the Dukes back in 2019 - wonder how they feel now.

Even Henderson is a Junior. Makes me wonder if he goes to the league after this year. But assuming the P5’s don’t come poaching, which is a terrible assumption, they will have a scary roster next year. While we will be having some holes to fill like the corps of senior safeties, Green, Kromah, Lawton, Brown, and Sproles. A lot of our other contributors are still quite young however.

(10-30-2023 02:41 PM)MarginalDuke Wrote:  I just looked at ODU’s roster, wow most of their starters are Juniors (should be seniors?) which would be Rahne’s first class in fall 2019-winter 2020. A lot of guys like Paige, Britt, Lamareon James had chosen ODU over the Dukes back in 2019 - wonder how they feel now.

Even Henderson is a Junior. Makes me wonder if he goes to the league after this year. But assuming the P5’s don’t come poaching, which is a terrible assumption, they will have a scary roster next year. While we will be having some holes to fill like the corps of senior safeties, Green, Kromah, Lawton, Brown, and Sproles. A lot of our other contributors are still quite young however.

Yeah, we will likely be the preseason selection on media day.

Do we know 100% if Jordan has another year? I know recently someone posted something from months ago indicating he had another year.

(10-30-2023 02:58 PM)Dukester Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 02:41 PM)MarginalDuke Wrote:  I just looked at ODU’s roster, wow most of their starters are Juniors (should be seniors?) which would be Rahne’s first class in fall 2019-winter 2020. A lot of guys like Paige, Britt, Lamareon James had chosen ODU over the Dukes back in 2019 - wonder how they feel now.

Even Henderson is a Junior. Makes me wonder if he goes to the league after this year. But assuming the P5’s don’t come poaching, which is a terrible assumption, they will have a scary roster next year. While we will be having some holes to fill like the corps of senior safeties, Green, Kromah, Lawton, Brown, and Sproles. A lot of our other contributors are still quite young however.

Yeah, we will likely be the preseason selection on media day.

Do we know 100% if Jordan has another year? I know recently someone posted something from months ago indicating he had another year.

Jordan has another year of eligibility, if he chooses to use it.

(10-30-2023 11:38 AM)PolishFalconDuke Wrote:  First home game in fourteen years for me and the fan experience was great. Getting in was easy, lines were not long at all for concessions/bathroom. My section was packed and loud, even the two ODU alums I sat next to were super complimentary of everything. Can't wait to bring my kids to games in the future, just probably not any 8PM starts :)
Was expecting the Godwin lot tailgate to be a little crazier, but I'm getting old, I'm just fine with things being not crazy.

It's not perfect yet, but things are improving greatly over what it was.

Probably the biggest remaining bottleneck is the number of registers/payment terminals at the main food line in the 200s. If they could increase the payment rate, even that line might flow well.

(10-30-2023 01:38 PM)Dukester Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 01:33 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 11:37 AM)fishingduke12 Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 11:32 AM)Xeonon Wrote:  I feel like no one is talking enough about the fact that first interception was not an interception. Ball clearly hit the ground. NCAA has it out for the Dukes.

Agreed and really changed the entire tone of the game.

Felt like it was going to be a weird game from the start after a delay due to the fog on the field and after the "pick" on the second play I knew things werent going to be easy

Yes!!!

How the heck that play wasn’t reviewed is beyond any rational explanation. Ref’s really blew that call.

1) Couldn't Cig have requested a review?
2) Unless college has a different rule than the NFL I'm pretty sure that would be a "call stands". My understanding is the ball can touch the ground as long as it is held. I did not see the ball move while touching the ground.

I’m not sure why our video board guys don’t show controversial plays like other stadiums do. They seem to always not show things. That ball was only caught because the ground held it up.

(10-30-2023 05:02 PM)Xeonon Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 01:38 PM)Dukester Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 01:33 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 11:37 AM)fishingduke12 Wrote:  

(10-30-2023 11:32 AM)Xeonon Wrote:  I feel like no one is talking enough about the fact that first interception was not an interception. Ball clearly hit the ground. NCAA has it out for the Dukes.

Agreed and really changed the entire tone of the game.

Felt like it was going to be a weird game from the start after a delay due to the fog on the field and after the "pick" on the second play I knew things werent going to be easy

Yes!!!

How the heck that play wasn’t reviewed is beyond any rational explanation. Ref’s really blew that call.

1) Couldn't Cig have requested a review?
2) Unless college has a different rule than the NFL I'm pretty sure that would be a "call stands". My understanding is the ball can touch the ground as long as it is held. I did not see the ball move while touching the ground.

I’m not sure why our video board guys don’t show controversial plays like other stadiums do. They seem to always not show things. That ball was only caught because the ground held it up.

They seemed to be trying to show it on a 9 way split screen of different camera angles, but that didn't work well at all. Couldn't really see any of them. Maybe that was what the refs were looking at under the hood at higher resolution, not sure.

(10-30-2023 02:41 PM)MarginalDuke Wrote:  I just looked at ODU’s roster, wow most of their starters are Juniors (should be seniors?) which would be Rahne’s first class in fall 2019-winter 2020. A lot of guys like Paige, Britt, Lamareon James had chosen ODU over the Dukes back in 2019 - wonder how they feel now.

Even Henderson is a Junior. Makes me wonder if he goes to the league after this year. But assuming the P5’s don’t come poaching, which is a terrible assumption, they will have a scary roster next year. While we will be having some holes to fill like the corps of senior safeties, Green, Kromah, Lawton, Brown, and Sproles. A lot of our other contributors are still quite young however.

Also the question on whether any of the injured early in the season 6th yr seniors (Kidwell, Vanhorse, and Okonji) get medical redshirts and choose to return.