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re: Duke Football Is Just Awful
Posted on 9/10/21 at 10:51 pm to dawgfan24348
Posted on 9/10/21 at 10:51 pm to dawgfan24348
Cutcliffe has had a hell of a run there considering it's Duke, but I think it is time for him to hang it up.
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Posted on 9/10/21 at 11:38 pm to tigeroarz1
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Welcome to College Football 101. Y’all don’t understand how small some of these schools are. Wake Forest does a hell of a job at 7,500 undergrad. NC A&T at 11,000. Duke around 15,000.
Welcome to Retard 101 with Professor tigeroarz1
Posted on 9/10/21 at 11:40 pm to tigeroarz1
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Notre Dame is it’s own animal.
You are your own animal of stupidity.
Posted on 9/10/21 at 11:41 pm to Dr RC
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Absolutely wrong. The bigger your enrollment gets the more alumni you have the more people you can hit up for donations and the more people who will tune in to watch your team which makes you attractive to TV networks.
There's a reason all the biggest prizes in realignment have been big arse state schools.
Explain Notre Dame then.
Explain Miami then.
Posted on 9/11/21 at 12:09 am to Dr RC
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Absolutely wrong. The bigger your enrollment gets the more alumni you have the more people you can hit up for donations and the more people who will tune in to watch your team which makes you attractive to TV networks.
So why isn’t Univ. of Phoenix or DeVry big time? I’ll answer it for you: you need an athletic brand and alumni AND general fans willing to spend to maintain that brand.
Posted on 9/11/21 at 12:54 am to dawgfan24348
Duke won 45-17
Posted on 9/11/21 at 1:03 am to Snoop Dawg
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So why isn’t Univ. of Phoenix or DeVry big time?
well they'd need to actually have athletics to start...
Posted on 9/11/21 at 1:09 am to MidnightVibe
For all their success Miami doesn't actually have a very big fan base. Their attendance has always been somewhat reliant on bigger schools helping them fill the seats.
Notre Dame has the advantage of being the main school sidewalk Catholic fan would support plus they've been a power for decades.
Again, schools typically need to have large amounts of alumni if they want to have a lot of donations rolling in. Really the only way around that is to have an insanely wealthy alumn who bankrolls everything. Why do y'all think A&M suddenly reversed their fortunes in the 70s? The school began massively expanding their student base in the 60s and that eventually led to a giant built in fanbase willing to shell out cash to the program.
Notre Dame has the advantage of being the main school sidewalk Catholic fan would support plus they've been a power for decades.
Again, schools typically need to have large amounts of alumni if they want to have a lot of donations rolling in. Really the only way around that is to have an insanely wealthy alumn who bankrolls everything. Why do y'all think A&M suddenly reversed their fortunes in the 70s? The school began massively expanding their student base in the 60s and that eventually led to a giant built in fanbase willing to shell out cash to the program.
This post was edited on 9/11/21 at 1:11 am
Posted on 9/11/21 at 1:31 am to Dr RC
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well they'd need to actually have athletics to start...
There once was a DeVry that had basketball and gave up 258 points to the Troy Trojans
Posted on 9/11/21 at 2:38 am to TexasTiger08
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Joe fan how large the enrollment is at a place like UCF,
Yeah it has the largest enrollment in the nation but isn't it mostly a commuter school?
It has 68,000 students but only houses 6,000 on campus.
91% of the students are from Florida and the average student age is 23. Night school,1/4 of the student body is over the age of 25. They're not there to drink beer and watch football games...its a diploma mill for employees.
This post was edited on 9/11/21 at 2:46 am
Posted on 9/11/21 at 9:24 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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1/4 of the student body is over the age of 25. They're not there to drink beer and watch football games...its a diploma mill for employees.
They attract students from all over the world because they have the best Hospitality Management program in the world.
Posted on 10/10/21 at 3:14 am to VADawg
Duke football fan here (yes we exist, there's about 50 of us in all).
We are indeed awful this year, and it's mostly due to coaching. Lost 31-27 to Georgia Tech today, giving up a 90 yard TD drive with under a minute to play as we idiotically played cover 0 and got torched on two deep balls. Lost to Pitt in similar fashion in 2019 and also let Charlotte march right down the field to win in the '21 opener. Team would be 5-1 with competent defensive coaching.
Cutcliffe breathed life back into a moribund program, 96-07 Duke was damn near as bad as post-2008 Kansas, but the last few years have been rough. 5-7 in 2019, 2-9 last year, probably winning 3-4 games this year. It's time to move on.
We are indeed awful this year, and it's mostly due to coaching. Lost 31-27 to Georgia Tech today, giving up a 90 yard TD drive with under a minute to play as we idiotically played cover 0 and got torched on two deep balls. Lost to Pitt in similar fashion in 2019 and also let Charlotte march right down the field to win in the '21 opener. Team would be 5-1 with competent defensive coaching.
Cutcliffe breathed life back into a moribund program, 96-07 Duke was damn near as bad as post-2008 Kansas, but the last few years have been rough. 5-7 in 2019, 2-9 last year, probably winning 3-4 games this year. It's time to move on.
Posted on 10/10/21 at 6:49 am to dawgfan24348
Growing up Duke was always the worst team in college football.
Posted on 10/10/21 at 7:00 am to YNWA
Ole Miss clearly should have never fired him
Posted on 10/10/21 at 11:15 am to dawgfan24348
At least they weren’t expected to be good like North Carolina
Posted on 10/10/21 at 11:40 am to Dr RC
quote:Explain FIU, Georgia State, and U of Illinois.
Absolutely wrong. The bigger your enrollment gets the more alumni you have the more people you can hit up for donations and the more people who will tune in to watch your team which makes you attractive to TV networks.
This post was edited on 10/10/21 at 11:41 am
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