Why there is a silver lining

[bill.onthebeach]

^Me too….

Let’s add this….

What we are seeing this season, in terms of how to build a team, and thereby build a program that is truly successful over the long term, is ALL GOOD.

#NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!

[pakfanistan]

Silver lining.

[FergusWolf]

Also want to point out that we have 4 games that the final score at the end of regulation was either 0 or 1 point that we lost

That would be:
NCCU lost in OT
Wake lost by 1
Syracuse lost by 1
UNC lost by 1 in OT.

So, you could say…if we had score 6 (count them 6) more points in regulation time, we could be 21-7 and 10-5 in conference, with two wins over top 25 RPI teams, and 2 fewer bad losses.

Skipping all the complaints about calls (which I think we have at least in the 3 ACC games), it shows just how close we are to being a good team.

[Whiteshoes67]

^Nice to look for the silver lining, but let’s not polish a turd. THe ACC ain’t what it once was. 7-8, when you’re not playing everybody twice, can be good or bad, depending on your schedule. In our case, it’s bad. I also don’t believe the defensive improvement is anywhere evident. The Kenpom stats that are standardized for every 100 possessions certainly don’t support that conclusion. Other than that, I agree with all of the above.

[wufpup76]

^^I need one of those silver lining blankets for every game.

Or, I could just go for Jennifer Lawrence’s silver linings playbook (cheap and cheesy, I know):

Hot girls always make the day better.

[FergusWolf]

Ok, you win on the defense front, this is actually the worst defense we’ve had in years.

[Whiteshoes67]

^So very appropriate, wufpup, since somebody cajoled me into reading the Hunger Games. I usually don’t stoop to such levels. But it helped ease the pain of last night’s loss.

[FergusWolf]

wufpup76 wrote:

^^I need one of those silver lining blankets for every game.

Or, I could just go for Jennifer Lawrence’s silver linings playbook (cheap and cheesy, I know):<br>

Hot girls always make the day better.

thanks!

[wufpup76]

“I usually don’t stoop to such levels.”

^Well, just leave that to me hahaha

“thanks!”

^I’m here to serve 🙂

[tjfoose1]

Silver? You sure that ain’t mercury?

[tjfoose1]

We know that every time we win, John Swofford dies a little inside

I disagree. I think he likes it. It’s the wins that keep us invested, causing the afflictions after games such as last night. If we lost more often, we could all divest. But no, ah no, they can’t just let us be.

[StateFans]

I so want to subscribe to this kind of thinking. But, until I see more consistent defensive effort and better fundamentals in our program I will remain ‘hopeful’ but not ‘convinced’.

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