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Post by hc87 on Jan 1, 2020 14:54:05 GMT -5
Longsuffering - HC was invited to and turned down the Big East in 1978. Big East football, however, wasn't formed until 1991. So whether or not Fr. B had taken the "red pill", I-A football was never in the cards. We would basically be following the Villanova/Georgetown model for football. UCONN was obviously also in the Big East but I-AA in football until 1999. uh oh....here we go....I kid because I love ....HNY all!
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Post by timholycross on Jan 1, 2020 15:19:38 GMT -5
Longsuffering - HC was invited to and turned down the Big East in 1978. Big East football, however, wasn't formed until 1991. So whether or not Fr. B had taken the "red pill", I-A football was never in the cards. We would basically be following the Villanova/Georgetown model for football. UCONN was obviously also in the Big East but I-AA in football until 1999. Yes, Holy Cross was cast into 1AA (the proper term at the time, now FCS; for those nitpickers around) in 1982 and it would have taken a major upgrade (such as Villanova declined to do; and UConn did) when Big East football started.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2020 16:10:29 GMT -5
After going through the entire FBS roster which now includes (UMASS, Coastal Carolina, Charlotte, WKU, and other teams that have no business being there), I will say that Navy will be right around 100 out of 130. Considering some of these teams that are in the FBS these days, that is pretty awful to me. Amazing ascent by the Mids over the course of the season. They started as the worst team in FBS while they played us, then climbed up to 100 soon thereafter and finished the season 11-2 and in the top 25. I was definitely wrong about Navy and should have substituted that analysis for Syracuse. I'll take it on the chin.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2020 16:13:58 GMT -5
In response, maybe it should be a learning lesson for HC. If everyone in the country is running an RPO, maybe running an old school system (option, Navy) can make you an outlier (in a good way).
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jan 1, 2020 19:35:51 GMT -5
Wishbone coming ?
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jan 1, 2020 21:07:14 GMT -5
Under Neil Wheelwright, didn’t HC used the wishbone as the primary offense? Hard to believe that was close to 43 plus years ago.
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Post by timholycross on Jan 1, 2020 22:42:52 GMT -5
Wheelwright was the coach for 5 years; after Pete Columbo graduated I think the wishbone was scrapped; or at least not used very much.
The qb personnel remaining was not a good fit for that offense.
Mark Duffner used the bone the last year or two in goal line and close yardage situations. It worked well.
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