File this under useless

On the third annual National College Football Day, which truthfully I believed to be every Saturday, my two favorite college teams played games which has encouraged a good amount of venting from me. First, I am a huge Duke fan and our football team sucks. That we are awful and that we are not competive has always been chalked up to lack of athletes and along with high academic standards. Today we got throttled by a team that has physical and academic limits on who that can recruit, who is coached by an alumnus of Duke. This is ridiculus. (Also Buffalo won, which I think gives us once again the longest losing streak in the nation)


My other favorite team pulled of my favorite series of plays of the year. Wisconsin's rookie coach, Brett Bielema found the loop hole in the stupid, the clock starts as soon as the kicker touches the ball, and intentionally killed the last 23 seconds of the first half without ever giving the other team the ball. Brilliant. Also, in the in-screen interviews, Bielema looks and sort of talks just like Val Kilmer.

All of this leads me to ask, why didn't Duke's staff come up with this nugget. We could have scored early and iced our way to victory. The answer is simple, the Duke coaches are not smart or creative enough. This problem extends beyond simple kick offs to our boring, poorly executed offensive schemes and so on. Its been argued that no one can win at Duke, but Spurrier did, mainly because he is a football genius. As far as I am concerned Duke should be in the market for another head coach, and this time lets get someone who is smarter than anyone who will coach against him. Hire a MAC coach who puts up 700 yards a game. Duke can recruit 5'10'' 180 lbs receivers like no one else, so design an offense that utilizes like 6 of those a play. Also, if kickers and linemen are the smartest guys on the field of any given football game, how come Duke has no centers, kickers or punters at the next level? Find the type of players we can recruit, hire a coach who will use them, and go get them.