#66 R.P.I. Virginia Tech @ #94 R.P.I. Old Dominion:

Today’s word of the day is… a·jar

/əˈjär/
adjective

1. (of a door or other opening) slightly open.
2. to be out of harmony. (adverb).
3. 10 PM TSL MB O.DDoS.U?!?

Origin:
mid 16th century: from on + obsolete char (Old English cerr ) ‘a turn, return’

Old Dominion Head Coach: Ricky Rahne: age=44, (15–25 overall and at O.d.u.; o-2 Bowler); has a rep’ for: building, offense, and passing offense in particular. And Special Teams.
$750,00.oo. (Does list as 1.5-large, due to incentives met; good on him!)

Boyhood Ricky Rahne was a native of Morrison, Colorado, Rahne attended Bear Creek High School in Lakewood, where he lettered in football and track and field. During his senior season, Rahne led all Colorado quarterbacks with 3,114 passing yards for 33 touchdowns.

Baller Rahne was a three-year starting quarterback at Cornell University from 1999 to 2oo1. Qb1 Rahne was a three-year starter at quarterback at Cornell (2oo2), and graduated as the Big Red’s all-time leader in completions (678), passing yards (7,71o), and touchdown passes (54), and total offense (7,994). He was inducted into the Cornell Hall of Fame in 2o14.

Rahne was the offensive coordinator at Penn State for two seasons and on the Nittany Lions coaching staff for six years. Prior to joining Penn State, Rahne was the quarterback’s coach at Vanderbilt for three years. 100% of his P.s.u. Qb’s are… Pro’s.

As hinted above… Big Whistle Rahne really blows special-teams works away. He is prolly the closest thing to being the next Frank Beamer in this category. He will take risks. He is an aggressive coach by nature. Some deign to even say: “very”. This guy does not come to out-point you on the outside and box the nite away and leave a Decision on the judges’ scorecards— he comes to, fight.

The coaching sewing circles say this guy… ‘rates’. Was something of an: ‘on the come’ or hot coaching the verb commodity two years back. Also, something of a hot-head at times in-game… Rahne does not suffer some things, well. He will Rahne on your parade celebration-wise (post-game) as well. As this guy is a juicy one, 22ov if you are keeping score @home.

p.s. this guy and our guy have coached together at 2 different tour stops: (Vandy & P.s.u.).
i.e., they should be familiar with each other in each direction.

Daddy Rahne and his wife, Jennifer, have two sons, Ryder and Jake.
#RahneOn

2023 record:  6 up against 7 down and 5–3 and 3rd in the Sun Belt

Foe’rensics:

Defense: (starters back=6)

• 7 of 1o in dLine Havoc.
• 7 from 1o in Linebacking Havoc. (both notes here: O.d.u. is wheeling and dealing to get at your Qb1 or into his backfield just the same. Hi risk (possibly) hi rewards dot both layers here).
• VIII of X in Secondary Havoc. Nearly an 8.5 here… very PICKY defensive backfield lives here. They play the ‘ball and only the ball at all times and in lieu of any cost(s). A downright hawkish hind-4/5.
• D overall:
  (Film-study): So, O.d.u. basically plays a hell-or-high-H2o approach. They are not risk-averse and they will deal from anywhere at any time. IF, they do not get there— this does create a vacancy downfield in Hotel/Motel terms.
  In generic terms, this attacking/hawking D is feast or famine based upon just how much hell their hind-7 can raise; and that is based upon just how much clogging the 70’s looking Green/Holmes angling or pinching techniques internally vs. your G-c-G can do. Or, rather; how many blockers they can occupy and thereby free up cleaner guys behind them to raise said hell. In… theory…
  In practice…
  O.d.u. runs a 30-base, sorta. O.G.’s callsign this a: “staggered-3o”. Kinda Landry Flexy if you will. As they even the 1st layer out (on a cheat-up) or odd the 2nd layer at times. They do look to score bit hits and will steal people— an anti-expected-outcome D with some streety/thuggy-bear in it to boot. Again, there are a few physical hitters here. Tacking is average. This is entirely because they do not ‘finish’ that many 1st-contacts; and somewhere Coach Spock is eyebrow… ducking. As they miss a few stops head-hunting for the Kayo. O.d.u. really varies their base-man intensity. 3-4 off, and 1-tight, or the obverse, or anything in between man-strength wise. They will cushion at times and give you a 15′ quick-out. They will jam your Wr1, and then Centerfielder or Cover-2 behind that. There can be help here, tho’ it did not ’22-’23 rotate with alacrity (or maybe their Rules do not allow catch-n-release?); or they only courted middleocore so-called: ‘recovery speed’. The Monarchs will double at times if they key your Wr1. However, Tulsa -in particular- had success on Down-n-Outs and they took a seam-splitter to that Cover-2 on medium to deep looks several times; one could dare say you reap what you… sew. Likewise, angular routes that hit hook-zone drop(s) just right behind the receding O.d.u. second-layer. D does not always line up smart/swift pre-snap; quick ‘counts’ would be in order here. Edges were modestly sized then smaller the further away you moved East-West from your C1 on O. D does not shed blocks well once truly engaged. Frankly, O.d.u.’s highly ranked run-fits were a surprise. As Eye did not spy them upon breaking tapes. Nonetheless, they are supposed to be better on run-fills than passing by a considerable margin, FWIW. Finally, Old Dominion U had no “D” for pump fakes themselves. dLine will take Qb1 shots at times here, Wells needs to Fargo his chin-strap good-n-tight for this one here. Though -as B.Patterson hit upon- they also kinda have a middle flood-zone look that is not quite so aggressive, kinda reminded me of @Syracuse in another debuting VeeTee coaches rookie season.Finally, in limited ’24 tape(s)… they appear to be sitting back a bit mo’… a deeper set of zoning(s)… C2-C3-Cove4. Why you would do that vs. the last place passing Drones Eye do not knows. So, we shall see if they come outta that? As that should afford us some room to +run-game-numbers win underneath and for our very truncated passing attack. Again… wanna see if they toggle this or not(s)???
• ∑ (summary): returning D production=56% (77th most).  Mario Thompson Mike-Lb and Fs1, Jahron Manningare your conflict defender(s) here. ‘super’ Mario is a plucky little sawed-off run-plugger; and Jahron has a roaming ‘knack’ for or a nose for the ‘ball. He finds it one way or the other.
• Also: this is not a physical tackling team. They tackle kinda high at times and there could be Y.A.C. to be hammerhead sharked spark out here.
• Additionally: said tacking foibles and aggression overall can create inviting run-shapes. Don’t die of shock if King-Tut’ or Thomas chunks a couple or a few, here. They are also showing a few mo’ Cover-3 to Cover-as-much-as-5 looks this season here-n-there thus far. This tells you they feel pretty damn front-3-to-fron-5 froggy. Tho’ this could muck with Drones limited court vision.We four expect Marshall Q5 to begin here at some point… jus’ base: Wham/Dive/Lead and load the mule-train Frankie Lane style right at ’em straight ahead; and, do not fuss/bother with that even odder than before hind-5 to hind-8.
  Finally… spies report that all-Conference Mike1: (Jay.Henderson) has some off-season knee-surgery issue(s). St.Nikon help!!! Dood is their diet Rick Razzano.
• C— unit just ’cause the are Turnover/BIG-play frisky.
  

Offense: (returning starters=9)

• O overall:
  (film-study): So, Wilson is prolly the Qb1… though getting a look at him is like a Ric Flair eye-poke unitl game no.2. We have zero, that’s (o) O.d.u. tape on him to break!
  From what Eye can glean… O.d.u. throw-fits rely on rubs (if you are a Monarch) or picks (if you are an opponent). They will stretch things vertically at times. This is a speedy Gonzalez O too; like richrod’s “indy” tempo at times. Fast to ‘hike’ and even quicker to align. They will test our S&C and defensive signaling/communications as much as they test anything else. O.d.u. will operate from a shorter shotgun tho’ not a pistol. Think: sawed-off. Hb1 in front of Qb1 who is deeper than the Hb1. Trips will go Wide, or doubles per each side. They did some sharp sealing or shield turn-blocks; and they will counter behind the aforementioned ad nauseam Te1’s pull. This is a quick-hitting shorter/truncated pitch-n-catch or screening battery. They will nickel and dime you and dink-n-dunk on quicker thingys or they will also milk longer-reacting downfield things in the pocket. Not a real mid-level looking O. Quicker or longer. This from: 5-uncovered oLinemen with an off-set Hb in a shotgun base. The really interesting part being… the Sam or short-side Wr-Stackers are nearly outta-bounds. So, you know they can not release any wider; they have to release inside or vertically. USE the sideline boundary as the 12th defended and align/angle accordingly. oLine tends to pull from 1-Gap-over or zone off-T on 45°’s. They will motion/shift behind all of that pre-snap. They will play-action, freeze, or screen-fake horizontally. And frankly, I have to say this is a very interesting look to see. O.d.u. stresses the piss outta everything 53-⅓ yards east-to-west. Then looks to snap you off something-something behind (deeper) than all of that quick-hitting LOS (line-of-scrimmage) look. This a very curious O; and inventive NOT dull one to be sure.
  This offa doubled-stacked 3 or 4 Wide looks. Hence, the ‘ball is away 1st-read quick or pretty quickly and that tends to keep Qb’s upright as it would take an L.T. all cracked-up to get to this quick-set O at times. Look for some zone-blitzing if/when they get the ‘ball out too quick to muck with this D-1aa Qb1.
  Also… Wr blocking on edge is an absolute non-negotiable “MUST” here and you gotta wonder just how long these mini-me’s can hold any Cb edge-seals?
  Finally, the odd-side oLine is Wendy’s. “Where’s the beef?” It’s there. Expect that in short-yardage.
• ∑ (summary): returning O production=85% (6th most)!
• (BTW): most of these guys are now 2+ year 1’s or starters. Very right-tailed on the Experience and the Learning Curves alike. (i.e., should be beyond most misQ’s and should be comfortable with playbook kitchen sinks being thrown at you).
• 51% run:pass 48% mix. Vitrulally 1:1 scripting ratio here. NOTHING you can really key or sit on and take away. Balanced is as balanced does. Wr4, Kelby Williams is your secret sauce offender here. Not the most handsy gun; fathers 1st-date rejoice. Tho’ he a burner; if/when he manages to snag it he can flat-out go. Finally, this is a deep-playbook fake-ah-roo, Sméagol “tricksy” O. Be on thy, toes.
• D+++ at best. At… most.

Special Teams: (both return)

Last year O.d.u. went from 1o9th in Net Punting in 2o21 to 19th in Net Punting in ’22 and so did P1, Ethan Duane. E.D. is a ‘good day’ or Land Down Under P1 by way of: Melbourne, Australia, “mate”. He keeps a ginger top and beard alike and you’d have to like the girl game over here with the Men At Work accent effectively socially in tow. Ethan goes: 6′2″, 2o9 lbs. as a rare true-Soph. punter for O.d.u. Nick is NEW to American football, as he has played in exactly 13 games of the same at any level. Ergo, Ethan has never suffered getting a punt sent back and he has an okay-looking career-long of 60-yards thus far. After coming up on the Aussie Rules Football circuit, Ethan found his way to the leg factory otherwise known as: Australia ProKicker. Where he was indeed ranked No. 2 among international punters by ProKicker.com. Mr. Duane is known for his soaring hang time (4.58) which is among the best in D-1. This should only help in punt-coverage “Riddle” or “Lucy” terms. Ethan goes single-handed at the drop point of his wind-up/release. So, “aye” our football is surely new to him. Though 39.7 yards on average with eight 50+ yard punts this early may just speak to something bigger/better later on. Centrist punter (other than hangtime) so far, though this is a 2o24 ask back either way.

5′9″, 185 lb. mighty-mite, Ethan Sanchez, last year’s surprise ’22 PK1 returns as your PK1 in ’23. Ethan is a true Soph. K1. He is 100% on P.A.T.’s and nearly ~80% on FGA’s. With a career-long of a so-so-looking 44-yards to date. In point of fact… his next P.A.T. miss will be his very 1st P.A.T. miss— at any level of play! Never missed one in H.S., though his 47-yard scholastic long makes you wonder bionic leg-wise, at least a little bit. ‘chez was however the No. 2 ranked kicker in the country and ranked a six-star kicking prospect by Chris Sailer Kicking! wowzo! Type about a leg-game or kicker of a recruiting coup for little Old Dee U. Seems a little slower/longer on his wind-up to me upon breaking tape… might offer something of an A-gap speed-rushing shortest distance between two points not named a: ‘fold” looksee if you really need(s) to try to snuff one out on him. Ethan does not KO, and that prolly speaks to leg-swing strength itself. As his two misses in ’22 were 22 and 23 yards with only one FGA beyond an even 40-yards. Though still yet, even though he had zero attempts in a few ’22 contests, he only logged one south of perfect in the all-leg-game realms ’22 contest and that has to count for something. As O.d.u. appears to have a keeper of a leg-game K1 on their hands here.

Special Teams letter-grade: Decent enuff… kinda wonder of our ex-Rb4’ish will want some get some Returning revanche work(s)??? C‘ish overall. (As they will sell out to block opposing kicks!)

Unit Rankings:

1. VT D.
2. VT O.
3. …gap…
4. O.d.u. D.
5. …gap…
6. O.d.u. O.

X-factor(s):

• motive: them. @home no less where they are feeling NO pain on their previous upsetting chances. We are their Stanley Cup and World Series and Wrestlemania all rolled into one. EDGE=them.
• weather: temperate, nearly warm outright. Tho’ Francine breezy. Which could muck with kicking; or, going for it itself. EDGE=push.
• health/off-field: Same as last week… O.d.u. relatively healthy; VeeTee is a bit dingy at: Rb1, Qb1 and Fs1 is (OUT). Tho’ there are (now) late-week reports that O.d.u.’s Mike1 and Qb1 may or may not go…  Edge=???.
• penalties: Double-R teams’ have a pretty loose and fast rep’. VeeTee is suspect here. Though, O.d.u. is even worse. EDGE=us (on default).
• intangibles: Tech is ahead nice in both T.O.P. (time of possession) and in all-important Turnover Margin alike. Not greatly, nicely. edge=us.
• fatigue: N/A. (Both enter on the same ~fortnight of rest/work).

Lord Haw-Haw …or… Tokyo Rose?
…inpowerHERment 1o1.

Not much here.
Or, so we all ~10 PM hopes.

 

Illation, conclusion(s) and OPT digits:

Number of  Monarchs who could crown @Tech=7 or 8.

the takeaway:

…the takeaway is having a Fleth moment here…

Fletch: Can’t do that, Frank. Fat Sam isn’t the story, there’s a source behind him.

Frank Walker: Who?

Fletch: Well, there we’re in kind of a grey area.

Frank Walker: How grey?

Fletch: Charcoal.

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…yah, Roger that Irwin M. Fletcher.

6o-mo’ minutes of: O&M quarter bounce before; we finally Scarlet Knight glean what this all means.

And oh wait… there Eye go… again(s)… always putting the cart before the horse.

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As the Monarchs were competitive in 2o23; they just constantly found themselves in situations where they had to be perfect. Eleven of ODU’s 13 games were decided by one score, and five of those ended in L’s. WoW. Talk about if not fo’ bad luck you’d have no luck at all.

As in… hopefully, these tidewater quarter-horses are NOT so… thoroughbred. (get it???)

xxx‘s & ooo‘s:

some of the ‘whispers’ ’round the campfire are wondering the following…

• why is Cobra-Ky’ down, that’s (⬇️) –5oo% in rushing? For all of Will and B.P.’s eraser-clapping takes… he is also down a near whopping –44.96% in the vastly mo’ adjucationg and stricter QBR… why?
• Recall: Eye called him a: “Cold War Qb1“. Who is now a Gorby Qb1… perestroika.
• Is this part of a Pro’ polishing attempt? Just burning plays until later? Or, even a Not Internal Launching deal downfield to help keep him put on the: (nod-nod, wink-wink)?
• Will Old Dominion show us anything, new?
• IF, no? When? RU???

formulae here favors

1. The team bus, starting?
2. Knowing when the game, starts?
3. Setting the hotel wake-up call(s), a.c.c.ordingly?

‘cuase we are the whole, entire and whopping VT-14 point favorite here.

…might wanna act like it, eh?

Swing • Votes:

Has *the* Don justified Trumping himself or is old-man Joe out-FOX’ed and plum Tuckered, out? BeRock O’biden his time? Kamala the non-Ugandan non-Giant?

Now that your fascist blood is big pumpin’… the polytrix of Fight Club here rate about 3 to a 4. Eye am want to hope it is a juicy “four’ish” at that. Nevertheless, when was the last time you saw a truly emotionally juicy VeeTee football team that just could not wait to get a piece of team A.B.C.?

Me neither— or, at least not since the 2nd-half @hooVa when Shrek went little Beamer in the Rutgers Bowl Game and somehow got through to them at ½-time.

We have, however, seen two straight Ichy Crane or ‘Sleepy Hollow’ starts and first halves so far with such jumped-up ’24 expectations. We have not seen anything real HardSmartTough outta the opening 2Q gates thus far.

Sure would be nice to see some real live “WANT TOO” again, n’est-ce pas?

Be even nicer to get this one over A.S.A.P. and get everyone some: RU, @MiaFla, and then the longest roadie in regular season yearS (quite plural) and ’24 fatigue-max’ before we face BYE. Or, did all of that just make too much, sense?

That squarely struck. The coaching sewing circle ‘whispers’ say Rahne makes it pre-game speech, rain!

That and you’d have to think they may want a piece of their turn cloak ex-Wr1; leave no debate!

permutations:

1. Δ1=4o% odds that the good guys win and look north of good in doing so.
2. Δ2=45% odds that the good guys win and look south of good in doing so.
3. Δ3=15% that O.d.u. screws around with things here and mucks things up and the good guys just get, by’s…

#ChallangeA.c.c.epted… there are 1,440 minutes in a day and hopefully we will not need the first 3o to figure things out and the final 3o to get to the Dub-a-eew. So, 5o’ish is my hope.

the optics…

Not much to see here… ’cause there won’t be *that* many there to see much of anything…

• Name: Kornblau Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium
• Surface: Artificial Turf
• Capacity: 22,48o
• Year Built: 2o19

…see what Eye mean(s)?

Tech•bits:

• Fourteen of Old Dominion’s past 16 games have been decided by a touchdown or less. wow!
• Old Dominion’s 57 newcomers are the 15th most nationally.
• And b.Pry is a .23076923076 road-hard coach.
• O.d.u.=17-points for 1,469 days in this series!

the skinny…

this is a smaller set or lowercase football club folks. Nearly gotta be the shrimp’est one we gather all year. Ergo, therefore, to Whit… we need to act like it. Punch downhill early and often and finish their 1’s off with our 1’s and then FREE the travel squad 2’s and 3’s.

Scrubs need P.T. too!

WWI: “The Great War”…

Trench Warfare favors…

Lo.FM (Long-field Management©)

• the VeeTee O is a centrist 63rd best in 1st-down O inflicted | whilst the O.d.u. D is an ‘available’ looking 111th best in 1st-down D allowed.
• the O.d.u. O is a paltry 1o2nd best in 1st-down O inflicted | whilst the VeeTee D is an average 54th best in 1st-down D allowed.
• the VeeTee O is nearly a C- 67th best in 3rd-down O extending | whilst the O.d.u. D is a user-friendly 1o1st best in 3rd-down D allowed.
• the O.d.u. O is an average 61st best in 3rd-down O extending | whilst the VeeTee D is another C- or 7oth best in 3rd-down D allowed.

Lo.FM Analysis:
Meh. That could suffice here. However, sufficient to say that VeeTee wins this one; though no great credit of VeeTee’s own. O.d.u. is only adequate at 3rd-down pick-ups and pretty much gets hook-up trained in everything else. Again, that’s not code for VeeTee gut-punching much of anything. So, we shall see what play-calling does/does not do… presuming VeeTee enjoys some chain-gang advantages Saturday nite. EDGE=us.

TTT (Time To Throw©)

• the Hokie O is a pitiful-looking 123rd best in T.F.L. (tackles for a loss) allowed O | whereas the Monarch D is a salty-looking 16th best in T.F.L inflicted D!
• the Monarch O is (also) a pitiful-looking 123rd best (tied) in T.F.L. allowed O | whereas the Hokie D is a moderated 71st best in T.F.L. inflicted D.
• the Hokie O is a pukey 128th (or, 5th from last) in Qb-sacks allowed O | whereas the Monarch D is a peppy 2oth best in opposing Qb’s sacked D!
• the Monarch O is even worse as a true Dutch Boy no fingers in any dykes 132 best in Qb-sacks allowed O | whereas the Hokie D is a middleocore 57th best in opposing Qb’s sacked D.

TTT Analysis:
Well, here is why you run laps, not lips ¦ maths not, moufs… as in… who knew? As in maybe you did (correctly) surmise that both D’s are in the lead here. The harshing part is that the Monarch D is nearly ‘zilla-flavored vs. Tokyo gone Blacksburg gone bleaksburg in this in-state match-up. As in… both oLines suck out loud here… although, when taken defensively vis-à-vis, one team is mo’ kingly and the other team is mo’ parts, queeny. EDGE=them‘s D.

the sportlight…

r-Jr., 6′3″, 217 lb., Arlington, Va., native: Grant Wilson -no, not the Ghost Hunter Gee.Dub-  is an option after serving the last few years as Fordham’s backup, and Jack Shields and Tyler Stott are young prospects getting a shot. So, now we nearly scrap-heap see Grant Wilson and Colton Joseph (a dual-threat rusher) derbying for the Qb1 spot. Nonetheless…

Wilson: who jus’ transferred from raming it hoe for: Fordham. As a rammer-Qb1, Wilson was actually a Qb2 or the caddy two seasons ago on the Rams’ record-setting D-1aa BIG-O. That never sucked. Had nice H.S. digits: (Yorktown, H.S.); tho’ seemed to fly under the Scout/Rivals radar scope. He is a BIG-time Swiftie. No Eye’m not joking. Friendship bracelets are his very swagg. Beachy guy with a Jersey Shore blow-out that looks like a turnkey Body Glove model. Seriously, if he likes girls you’d have to be the OVER on them liking him right back. Kinda has that Natural Ron Livingston as Captain Lewis Nixon in Band of Brothers cachet to him. Upon further review— his pronouns are indeed: He/Him. As he spent the summer helping his g/f rehab a blown Notre Dame Lacrosse, left-knee. St.Nikon bless. Anywho… and sadly for such a differential kid… his numbers are way ’24 off/down. Grant has cut –25 RTG points and his nearly 2.5:1 passing ratio has turned negative (2:3) early on this campaign. Also, his only offers were from: Howard and NAIA 3o4 Fairmont State. So, sometimes where you stand is where you… sit. As something seems off here… though the physical traits are cut up all to hell. He looks the commanding part. Pro-Style Qb1 wo can 1st-down scoot; if not a pure rusher. 4.64 forty and a whopping 39′ Powerball toss says so. Interesting kid… hope he can develop… here’s wishing this: Grant, Ulysses S. well.

Finally, he has some extension(s) to his hips and his lateral play-extending ways. Not ½-bad ‘game-speed’ to boot.
Kinda a few% Flutie if you will. Does not seem to catch leather or contacts well.

Be nice to put a hat on him and check his Butterfinger chin.

O.d.u. Projected S&P+: 98th.
O.d.u. Projected S&P wins: 4.7 W’s.

♥  ♣  ♦ ∪

There are multiple matches for elevator theory, including a thought experiment by Einstein, a paradox, and a theory about people’s reactions in elevators:

Einstein’s elevator thought experiment…

Albert Einstein used a thought experiment to propose that if you were in a windowless elevator that was isolated from the outside world, you would not be able to tell if the elevator was at rest in a gravitational field or accelerating rapidly. He concluded that the laws of physics would be the same in both situations.

The elevator paradox is a paradox first noted by Marvin Stern and George Gamow, physicists who had offices on different floors of a multi-story building. Gamow, who had an office near the bottom of the building noticed that the first elevator to stop at his floor was most often going down, while Stern, who had an office near the top, noticed that the first elevator to stop at his floor was most often going up. This creates the false impression that elevator cars are more likely to be going in one direction than the other depending on which floor the observer is on.

βeta Analysis:

• The O’s: .d.u. … ’cause there is not much “O” in O.d.u. thus far. They are the enemy of good here. Though VeeTee is not so grand in its own right. It is rather that VeeTee can make a few ground-round plays. As O.d.u. tallied 94th or worse on O, e-v-e-r-y-where! Yikes.
• The D’s: here we see that although the Gobblers score average overall; they rate well in explosion and in pass-fits on D. Pretty dang well at that. On the other side, we see that our equations just; went, …’ snap!’ As O.d.u is 9 spots ahead in beta-D! They take so many risks that it skews (early-seasonal) thingys here. If you ask me -and you did via reading these very words- if you ask me this is an outLIAR. Or, at least, so we all… hopes. Time=tell as Eye could not discern what they meant here?

The call…

This is Donald H. Rumsfeld football… “…we don’t know what we don’t… know.”

Though we do know whose team is which teams’ Super Bowl.

We also knows which team is in a look-ahead Trap game. (Hint: it ain’t the one with @Bowl Green on tap and up, next).

-oOo-

the OPT digits:

So, -same as the Marshall Eye- I ran the laps not my lips here…

…I ran the maths not my moufs just the same.

And Frankly, O.d.u. should NOT be in this game. Not at all…

…check it…

…of the soon-to-be 134 D-1 teams (with Kenshaw State reclassing as Eye type)… here is just how princess-looking these usurping Monarchs are…

• twenty-six, that’s (26) of ’em are suck-city population Norfolk, Va. itself.
• twenty-one, that’s (21) of ’em are worse than worse or 1o1st best or worse!!
• seven, that’s (7) of ’em are within ten, that’s (X) of being bottom-1o or 1st-worst!!

(readers note: we/VeeTee tally a ‘not so fast my friends’ eight, that’s (ocho, 8) national rankings that are 1o8th best or worse in our ownright— and, and, and, three, that’s (3) of ’em are along the line-of-scrummage, or 123rd best or worse!?!) wowowow…

Soooooooo, it is this very hand-n-the-dirty suckiness that does leave the Elevator and the individual ballers’ personal effect locker door at least slightly… ajar.

Or, to put it a final way… O.d.u. is smelly on O; and yet they are funky on D.
As you gotta wonder if that holds this one down any at all?

🛢🏈 🛢

So, to us four… and 3o9-miles nearly due-West as the Hokiebird flies… we need to do something here… As in another meatgrinder of a game vs. an (allegedly) noticeably inferior opponent would (actually) say a hole (metaphor intended) ’24, LOT. When everyone less us worried four thought that the initial three ’24 starts would not say (that) much at all, right?

Or, or, or, …in further words… see it through this prism… we are .5oo. We are: PF: 58 and PA: 48! Tell me you called that (for:against) shot and Eye will make sure you win the Del.State hoops OPT.

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Mind the store on that margin folks… we are up 1.5 plays vs. two modest at best/at most, squadrons!

That needle needs to go’on and move… and it needs to move Saturday nite come ≈6 PM!

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That said, this is ultimately a 10W30 motor oil team.
i.e., light weight.

And as the logo himself taught us in traveling all-stars camp… there are two surefire signs of a great team…

1. “They beat the teams they are supposed to beat and they beat them badly.
2. They find a way to win when they do not play their best.”

The opening ’24 1-hole and well, not so much…
…nevertheless, here is our right-in-the-drink Nashville mulligan.

https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/f11944d7-02aa-4c85-8447-3d09da8828a3

…be real nice to not less than a skillcraft savvy sand-save this one from the beach.

Or, jus’ go pure j.West manifest destiny and land a jarring shot.

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