Beaumont, Strong earn firsts as Louisville sacks EKU 23-13
by UL is my hot hot sex on Sep 11, 2010 7:04 PM EDT
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PrintDoug Beaumont finally catches the first TD of his Louisville career and Charlie Strong his first win as a head coach. Feels good, doesn't it?
Louisville scored all 23 of their points in the 2nd quarter, including Doug's 42 yard TD grab. Froman was an average (expected?) 15-23 for 213 yards, with 1 TD and 1 INT. The pick six Froman threw could be blamed partly on Andrell Smith's route running and partly on Froman staring him down a couple seconds too long. If he can avoid big turnovers, I still believe Froman is our best game manager option at QB. Would we still like to see what Dominique Brown can do for us? Yes. Is the offensive execution underwhelming at times? Obviously.
The bright side on offense is Bilal Powell's continued emergence at running back and Victor Anderson's explosive returns on special teams. Several times last season, Trent Guy was our lone gamebreaking threat so it's nice to have two potential stars step up this early in the season. The field is certainly big enough to share with Josh Bellamy as well, who we all hope gets healthy enough to return to his hyped offseason form next week as the Cards travel to Corvalis to play a talented Oregon State squad.
Huge credit to the Cardinal defense, who played like men today. The Cards recorded 8 total sacks, including four by DE Rodney Gnat, the most by a Cardinal since Elvis Dumervil recorded 6 in 2005 against Kentucky. Vance Bedford's defense only conceded one touchdown against EKU which is a huge confidence-builder for such a young side. The late injury to Johnny Patrick was very concerning. Need him. Badly.
Charlie Strong's post-game press conference:
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Winning
is never bad. This may be one of this team’s only times to experience it this year. I’m really happy for Doug, so that’s all I want to remember from this game! YEAH DOUG!!!
A win is a win.....
thrilled about this coaching staff, however highly disappointed in the offense. Defense looked very good, and I believe we are going to be really, really good at defense for the upcoming years. But like most of us we were spoiled on lots and lots of points from the previous two staffs before the moron. At this point I dont care if we win 3-0 because a win is more important than padding stats. Sure lighting the scoreboard and stat sheet is nice, but I’m over that, just WIN BABY!
by ville 606 on Sep 11, 2010 7:30 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Spoiled
I think that’s the right term. It seemed like the overall strategy was sorta brought over from the SEC: defense wins games, the offense just has to score enough and then manage the clock.
Although, even when we were trying to do that, we weren’t getting holes and weren’t getting push up front.
And Froman is fine, but am excited about the Smith/Brown battle next year.
And yes, lots of young talent on defense, should be fun to watch in the next 2-3 years as Strong builds us back up.
It’s going to take 2-3 years to get anywhere near back to the level we want.
Gimme
23-13 scores all season long…. unless it’s against 1-AA (I don’t know and don’t care what they call it now) competition. Louisville’s total flub of an offense in the 2nd Half is cause for major concern, given the competition today. But, Doug got his TD and HCCS got his 1st win. I’m still a happy camper tonight! Yeah Doug!
It'll be interesting to watch the spread offense evolve
once we have a QB with better arm strength. I’d like to see the offense open up a little bit more with some more passes down the field, but I think we’re a few years away from having the talent to do that. And I’m pretty sure we’ve run more unique plays on offense in two games than we had the past three years combined.
by PaulRogersIsMyHomeboy on Sep 11, 2010 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I think that’s the SEC strategy in SEC games, but in other games they definitely let their skill players play.
They gone have to stop sleeping on me one day.. I gotta be one of the best
About 3 hours ago by Eric Wright Cleveland Browns – Cornerback
I understand, as a big daddy come and take my spot type of demeanor?
by mooncamping on May 14, 2010 7:24 AM EDT
Scoreboard
On the top of the homepage and at SB Nation page it’s linked to reads
13 in the 3rd quarter for EKU and 6 in the 4th… That equals 19…
I’m just sayin’
Let's look on the bright side.
Virginia Tech lost to James Madison. Minnesota lost to South Dakota. Georgia Tech lost to Kansas (who lost to some random FCS team last week). Those were all much better teams with much better talent than us, some of whom were in NC discussion.
We could’ve done a lot worse than 23-13. I’d really like to see the offense get going, though.
Good perspective
Very true. Our defense was tenacious all day up front and in the first 10 yards from the line of scrimmage. That’s a very positive sign, given our lack of talent. Testament to HCCS and his staff getting the most out of these guys. If I had to choose, I’d take defense clicking early and the offense slowly coming around rather than vice versa. Defense will keep us in a lot of games.
Burke!
Want to see him. How about a wild card? He’s got a nice arm and better accuracy from what I remember. It was a pretty awesome 2nd quarter for Froman, though. If he could play like that for a full game, I wouldn’t complain. Good job on the defense all day.
by REALISTICCARDSFAN on Sep 11, 2010 11:09 PM EDT reply actions
I'd like to see Burke as well
He did a great job in the Kentucky game last year. He made the kind of plays I just don’t see Froman pulling off, ever.
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I see us as similar to Michigan a little
We’re putting in a new offense, and it’lls take about 3 years before we start to see the on-field results. Michigan looked pretty good today, I would say that Smith could be our Denard Robinson
by Chris Redman is my hero on Sep 11, 2010 11:40 PM EDT reply actions
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