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We will be discussing the highs - our Wake Forest win and South Carolina volleyball - and the lows, with womens soccer and our rival Duke in this lengthy yet enveloping episode.
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Logan Brumley
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"In The Den" with host Logan Brumley covers everything from the NC State Wolfpack's NCAA, intramural and club sports. "In The Den" is a podcast from WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2 at NC State University.
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Hello and welcome to WKNC official sports podcast and the den today, we're going to be going over the
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volleyball games for the past week. I'll be going over their win against South Carolina, and they're lost against
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Coastal Carolina. We're going to be going over the Wake Forest game last Thursday, and then the Duke football game coming up this Saturday.
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We'll be going over women's soccer I have it's been a few weeks since I talked about them. We're going to kind of give another update and kind of look at who they have this upcoming weekend, because they got themselves a gauntlet this weekend. And we'll be finishing by talking about another event that's going on this weekend with the Adidas cross country
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competition and carry so get your headphones on and let's get straight to it all right. So I know I got some juicy football content coming up ahead, but I'm going to talk about volleyball first.
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So for the South Carolina game with the
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tip off tournament NC State, they won three and one. And I thought it was a really good
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game for them, even though they did lose the first set.
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You know, it was definitely they had some mistakes. They were had a series of attack errors
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that gave South Carolina that 10, three scoring streak, the quenched first set.
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And you know, a lot of the big name freshmen and some of the more skilled defensive players when they kind of have to carry the load, a lot of mistakes are made. Rebecca ring did score a lot on that set, though,
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for the second set, a lot of crucial blocks that occurred from Dorsey, Talia Francom and Clara Fondren,
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and basically those were kind of big blocks
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that kind of led to little scoring blocks to help them secure that second set.
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For the third set, there was multiple scores by Bryant Cropper and Jordan Smith,
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and let's see
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Eliza for our she's been kind of getting into this big role of dishing out assist as well, and that helped to quench that, particularly in this game and with the other game we're going to mention
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and closing it off. In that last set, they had about 34% accuracy, which isn't amazing, but I think they finished with like 260 on a game overall,
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and they went up to eight points before, you know, Courtney Bryant, she had to come in and quench it. Shout out to you know, on the South Carolina team, Sarah Jordan had 36 assists, and Alayna Johnson, NIA Hill, 29 total kills.
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16 Hills is a career high at this point by Courtney, Bryant, Claire Vondren, she has gotten 31% accuracy on her own with five kills. Sushia Masha, she works, had 21 digs, Elaisa Villar and Ashley Mullen had 42 assists combined, compared to South Carolina is 42 team wide.
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So,
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you know, I was really happy with that win,
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but I was not too happy with the loss, because that kind of build on those early issues that I mentioned with trying to handle errors.
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So it was Coastal Carolina and the wolf pack Invitational.
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They lost three to one
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with Coastal Carolina. They had a really strong offense in this game. They hit
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like 45.7 in a first set.
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In that second set there,
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okay with the second set
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NC State actually wanted, thanks to
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Jordan Smith, she was kind of the head honcho for that set. Of course, Claire Vondren and Courtney Bryant also had good performances.
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And certainly to help that Coastal Carolina actually led the errors in that set, and that was kind of key to winning that second set.
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Can't say the same about the third set, where goes to Carolinas. Jaylan stout came in to help get an eight one lead with, of course, some errors, and they almost came back with the help of Sydney Daniels and McFadden, uh Haley McFadden, who are both coming off the bench and doing just as well as our starters, but a bad set and some scoring errors kind of killed the momentum. And goes to Carolina, crease that third set,
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and also that force that even though it was kind of a back and forth between them, I.
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Uh, Jay went out. She had that uh,
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big scorn streak with the blend of errors. I was kind of something to repeat. But then Emily Fowler, she had 17 kills and 16 assists. Three of those kills came to clinch the game. Um,
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see, so, another couple more shout outs from for Coastal Carolina, 22 digs. For Bailey Earnhardt, 10 kills and three blocks for Anna Rita
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Courtney, Brian, she had another career high with 21 kills and she had 17 digs. Lisa four had 25 assists and 18 digs
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and some service aces as well, and shout out to freshman JORDAN SMITH with 14 of her own kills.
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So when we win, it's because our freshmen just kind of come in and just bang it out. You know, I'm kind of happy with the increased roles, especially since I think they should get as much reps as I can head into
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United conference competition,
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it's just, you know, kind of big pattern with woos, and is just their inexperience at this high of a level, and all the errors that kind of come with it, which I think is to be expected from a
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Growing team, but it's just like when you don't have Courtney Daniels as the big star and Ashley Mullen assistant sushi match, he works giving out to digs, even though she is also a freshman, she's kind of
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got her own role as the Libero, and she's been playing that really well. It's just it's gonna have take some experience. It's gonna take a little bit more from the bench, because, you know, the bench and defensive players, when it comes to their turn to score, they can make mistakes, even though
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Sydney, Daniel is always a floor. Who else did I mention? Claire Vondren? I thought they had big step ups.
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I just would like to see more and kind of see things get figured out head into the next tournament, the VCU Invitational, which hopefully will win. But I'm not really going to cover it too strongly. We've got a lot to go over today, but next episode, I believe I will go over Duke and UNC, because that's kind of the weekend double header where it was like,
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I mean, it's technically a double header. It's UNC on
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Friday and Duke on Sunday, but that's the start of our conference play, at least. So watch out.
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I guess that's where all I had to say on that part.
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You know, just more experience cut down on the errors, and NC State would do just fine.
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All right, coming up next, we got the football I'll be going over to Wake Forest and what to expect from Duke. So that uh, awake forest game was pretty good, right?
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Three and oh, now in the season, there's two big compacts in that game. You know, early on with the
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a big return, followed by that big pass and a big run to weep by two touchdowns in like less than five minutes before
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Justin jolly comes in, he gets that touchdown. I mean, I think you've seen a game. I don't think I have to kind of go through all of it,
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but I just kind of like to talk about at least Sean Brown got that pressure. And I say a sure we got that pick six.
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And then, of course, that second comeback with Robbie Ashford
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again, his own rushing touchdown, which was offset by Keenan Jackson again, his, I think, his first touch on the season. So good for him.
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And then, of course, another game coaching interception, this time, I think, to Robbie royal the third. So look at that. People who said this past defense sucks and we get two game winning interceptions and two consecutive games. How about that?
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Still kind of suck though. I believe there were a lot of big throws that could have been prevented.
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There was, you know, Chris Barnes, he had that 70 yarder early on, and he had a good game in that first quarter,
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any fly. His only catch was 42 yarder, and they were both wide open on those deep routes.
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I mean, they did fine holding ash for the 60% accuracy in two chat sounds,
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but I think it was more of Ashford losing a game than NC State's defense winning it. And what I mean is that
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Ashford is not an elite.
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Quarterback, and I
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think it was just once they got the pressure on him, they were able to make mistakes. I don't think there was any
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genius level defensive scheme. Maybe I'm just kind of looking at it for like, confirmation bias, but I didn't see anything exceptional with that.
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So, you know, the pressure could have been more, especially on the pass and defense.
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Um, I guess a little bit more of like a what went well? What didn't? I forgot I'm doing this segment now.
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So what went well, the CJ Bayway Heisman run claims another victim, three touchdowns, 72% accuracy.
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I'm going to look at the lack of a true number one receiver as a benefit, just because it makes us look versatile.
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Because, like, you know, you get your real fast guys on deep routes if you want to trick
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them up, and then you can kind of make jolly run a little short route, kind of create that separation between the safeties and corners and the linebackers, who, if it looks like their Blitz and are will flex or load in it. Maybe you can make something work there. That's kind of what I had in mind when I mentioned that if I had to say a top three, Noah Rogers, Justin, Joey, Wesley, Grimes, Keenan Jackson, he popped off, I guess I can't, I'm just gonna give Damon random ones, uh,
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Hollywood's mothers. He's wearing them back, but he's got, got a great game today. I mean, he was vital for getting a change move and setting up scores where, um,
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17 points out of I think the 34 total scored in that game came from Hollywood smothers himself like came from drives where he got them into the
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red zone. So I guess, let's say, for instance, he was stuffed on this place. I'm sure maybe CJ Bailey's arm could have gotten him there, but you can't be certain. You could definitely would have gone down to like 10 or 14, which they still would have won, sure,
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but you don't like it to be that close, especially since now, I feel like NC State could seriously talk about being ranked
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and actually being a good football team. Um,
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let's see. Second half defense. I thought was great, three punts and two turnovers against Wake Forest, including, I'm not gonna include the sack where harsh got ejected, but the other sack tied 24-24 by Travali Pricerushi. That was a good one.
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They held. This is why I say
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that Wake Forest quarterback lost in the game, because
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NC State has not proven that they could hold a quarterback 24 to 40 passing yards and
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two rushing yards in the second half. I believe they could if they had a quarterback like I'm not going to disrespect Robbie Ashford like that, actually,
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but
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so I apologize. I take that back, but 40 yards pass in the second half. Net, two rushing touched down, yards and oh and six on third down, that is just something special that I don't think you can see every week.
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Um, I don't even think you see that from like, the best defenses in like the country, like, I don't think who's the best defense out there in college football, you know what? Even just the SEC you see
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trying to think Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech can hold
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Cade klubnik to 40 pass in the arts,
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but
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I don't know. I just think that's lightning in a bottle. You may not see it next week with Duke. I'll get a little bit more into that second half. Offense was great too.
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You know, get the weed scored 17.
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The defensive line really stifled
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Ashford that were sold into more incompletions. But I'm not complaining. What I'm complaining about is the penalties, 10 penalties of 94 yards, including the ejection,
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even we split between offense defense halves. So it this is a team problem. This isn't something where it kind of got fixed
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at halftime. It was real. It was kind of a thorn on
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NC State side. I did not record how much like, how many like touchdowns were made from drives that were extended by penalties, but there was like one in every drive. It felt like,
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Um,
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okay, no, I did mention 12 points from five to 10x yards given by the D.
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Defense suggests a horse caller by broadcast mentioned harsh multiple times.
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I thought the start was a little slow
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with the reliance on the run game.
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But if he, if CJ Bailey, doesn't continue to positive momentum with his arm,
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it could become a problem. I I just kind of worried, because if you get a really strong team in here, they could just knock them out. I could see NC stay getting blown out,
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if,
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if CJ Bailey had to rely too much of his arm,
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like Hollywood smothers this key to this team winning, in my opinion. But I shouldn't really go into too much rambling. I just think it's really important for this offensive line and running backs
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to
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let's see
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what was I gonna say.
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This offensive line just needs to make sure the high Woods mothers does not get stopped, like for instance. I mean, this game, I thought Hollywood smothers had a great game, but there were still 10 tackles for losses, including eight rushing attempts at zero or less yards.
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Um,
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they did give off a sack. I know. I know I can't, uh,
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complain too much about it, but I want to because 10 tackles for losses is
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not great.
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I just
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that's eight rushing attempts. I mean, if he averages, like, what, I think 3.5 yards a rush, that's it's two first downs. I'm being a little nit picky here, but that's two first downs. That's a lot they could do,
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and opening up the path. I mean, once you stuff the run, what do you gotta do? You gotta pass
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and I mean, the deficit comes up to CJ Bailey and the rest of the team, I don't know,
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plus the running back, death, isn't that great? Jayden, Scott Will Wilson, I know they need more time and more reps, averaging three yards and nine runs. It's terrible.
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Okay, so I'll kind of wrap it up, because I'm kind of rambling on here,
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gave the offensive MVP of this week to Justin Joly with his you know, I try not to give it to the quarterback automatically. I thought Bailey played great today, but
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two touchdowns, and a lot of them were from more from his route running, because, you know, he tripped at that one in the first trying to remember what he did for the second one. I just know he was open for that second one too.
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Um,
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and I
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put it down like, after that game, Hollywood mothers was the Whedon um
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running back in the nation when it came to yards, like, total yards, but that was Thursday, and the rest of them played a little later. Dang. He's not even top five anymore.
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He's six. He's six in the country, Justice Haynes got like eight extra yards on him.
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See, he's gotta be Yeah, he's the best running back in a conference, though, so
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beat that. Um, that's great. I was not expecting him to pop off like this. I don't think anyone really did.
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What else can I say?
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Yeah, he's got almost a like he's got 90 yards in the next guy, Micah Ford from Stanford,
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but Justin jolly, he got to two touchdowns. He deserves the MVP. Sean brown deserves defensive MVP, 12 total tackles. And of course, that past deflection for Isaac Shirley. You know, a lot of honorable mentions of essay of Shirley, Travali price and Robbie royal for the big defensive plays. But I just like Sean Brown. I've been sold on him for a while.
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You know, who's not gonna like him do?
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Okay? So, um, I mentioned some time ago, a couple episodes ago, about the Tobacco Road rivalry, and like how the four big college football teams in North Carolina to face off, and whoever is wins the most night game between them is get some bragging rights. It's weird that. Um, so this is like the only amount that of coverage of that until like
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late November, like we're talking rivalry weekend and a couple weeks before. So,
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Oh, well.
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So kind of just sorry. I'll kind of just let that go,
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and I'll just focus on I'll bring that back up later. Just know that.
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If it ended today, NC State would be the winner.
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They're the best college football team in North Carolina. I think they'll keep that title.
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But Duke, former NC State grad assistant and current head coach, Manny Diaz, is looking to continue the highly successful 2020s era for Duke, he brings back offensive coordinator Jonathan Brewer and defensive coordinator Jonathan patke,
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but they they may not be ranked, but are ready to prove themselves a channel challenge any team head into the ACC tag, and
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that's all the nice things I'll say about them,
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because they who
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two blowout losses, one against nine, number 19, Illinois, and the other by Tulane. Who should be ranked by now? I believe they're ranked. They should be. They're good.
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Let's see. They are not ranked. Sadly, they have 33
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votes. Though, NC State still can't get even one. Oh, NC State's got four. I got four votes. That's much as SMU and a little less in Clemson.
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Look at that. We're finally starting to get into the discussion,
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kind of an afterthought, but I'll take it. Um, where was I?
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They did get blown up twice, but
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to say Duke has passed heavy. That's an understatement. That's That's kind of what I took from them, that they kind of do rely on it. They have a three running back rotation with Anderson Castle, Jaquez Moore and Nate Shepard.
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But Duke does kind of rely more on the fast tempo spread often. So what they do is like, um,
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just kind of like the short intermediate routes where Daria Mensah the quarterback for Duke. He can get the ball and he can keep his eye on the guy. It's no problem, because he can just get it out quickly. This isn't like garitana,
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where, like he, like you, keep his eyes on the quarterback, even for like, longer routes. This is something like he can get the ball out quick, and even though the offensive lines collapsing on him,
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it doesn't really seem to affect them too much, like I haven't seen too much struggle in the pocket, but I'll go a little bit more into that later.
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I'd say the biggest stars receiver wise,
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Cooper, bargate and Andrel Anthony. But I mean, they have, like, a couple guys who get double digit receptions, and then, like, some of the guys who don't have like, three, four passing touchdowns, it's weird, um,
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their defense
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is sort of this weird, Ultra Hybrid kind of defense. Um,
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they have this thing called a fiber, which is like your defensive end that can transition to a linebacker, and then a star who can transition from linebacker to safety, so they can do multiple defensive fronts depending on the situation, like, four, three, yeah, 4-3-4, 4-4-3,
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or even, 3-3-5, if They really wanted to, but it
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hasn't been working. Um,
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so now we're gonna see my feeble attempt at scouting a football game. Are you ready for that?
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So just a couple notes I made from watching, you know, two lane in Illinois.
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I mentioned the quick routes. Um, there is sometimes where Mensah, he will be able to roll out the pocket, and that's when I kind of see him making those multiple reads and being able to get it to different guys, but usually to just kind of go for the guys outside the hashes. Um,
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see, I didn't say his first name, Bargate with out of the slot. He's a real athletic receiver, too, but I would say be more focused on the guys outside of hashes, because that's really who they target more often than not.
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Offensive line gave men so plenty of time, and his poise is really secure.
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So
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there was a little bit more uh, deep route efficiency with two land, and it was Illinois. And so we'll probably get a little bit more deep stuff, I believe in this game, because we're not Illinois level, but we are kind of at Tulane level,
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pretty close, at least. So I would say, keep an eye out for that.
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With Illinois, they were able to get a lot of pressure on him early on. However, all
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Myers just a pretty good quarterback, he was able to minimize mistakes and took a few.
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Advantage of the zone defense that Duke was carrying, because I did see a lot of situations where the receivers in no night were able to out do Duke,
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like I seen them tripping. I've seen them wide open.
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And the whole thing with the
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Duke's defense is that once you get past defensive line, because the defense finally can put pressure on the quarterback and force him to run. That's why we saw with two lane where occasionally there wasn't a design quarterback run, but he was still able to get a lot of yards. Once you get past that defensive line, you're good to go, because
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they don't do too much tackling on their own. I feel like a lot of their tackling just comes from getting them out of bounds on the sidelines.
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Sometimes even took multiple players to knock them out of bounds when it wasn't necessary. I would say NC State's a little better at tackling defense, pass defensively,
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but shoot, yeah, just as long as they're able to get the yard. I mean, whoever our best yak guys are, that's kind of who we need to get on them, because I don't know how Duke were able to wrap their arms around and get them down consistently. So he had rushers. I definitely saw them kind of biting on fake runs. So I'd say be prepared for CJ Bailey to not use his legs as much, because Duke might just over correct themselves on this because a lot of is two lanes quarterbacks runs for touchdowns were because
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Duke's defense would just kind of bite on the quarterback fake,
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like, you know, when they do the fake hand off and they run like I've seen it, where the edge would just, he would kind of go for it, hesitate, and then during a hesitation, goes, Oh, he's got the ball. He's already in the end. Sound, what the heck?
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So, yeah, you don't want any of that.
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And the only other things I mentioned is turnover battle. They've kind of lost it.
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Mensa definitely under throws the what's it
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called?
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Definitely under throws the ball
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on his interceptions, and
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just, I can't handle a good running quarterback, and that's what CJ Bailey is.
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So let me just show you with matchups. So first up
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Duke passing offense. NC, say passing defense.
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Men, says a good quarterback and putting pressure on him. I mean, it won't be easy, because he seems like I mentioned, kind of calm and collected.
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Keep a guy eye out. Of course. Cooper got bar gate and Chris Sean Brown, those are guys who I think will be able to make good plays if NC State ever keeps their eyes off of them.
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Hesnah likes the mid tier routes and kind of the quicker ones. Like,
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I believe they'll do it where, like they, I think they're one of those teams that tried to do bubble routes and get cute with that, where it'd be like,
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Oh, it's third and 10. You're gonna run a bubble route, hope you get the first down. Yeah, good luck.
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But my best trust for the defensive backs of NC State grows with each week.
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They've gotten stronger, sure, but this is the best quarterback they face by far. Maybe you could debate it with Chandra Morris. I can't
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you know, big yards on deep routes, and Duke would be able to take advantage of that. They'll be able to get big yards out of
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NC. Say, it's just about, can I keep him out the end zone.
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I think harsh Sloan price. What else was there Cleveland? I think they can get pressure on Mensah. So I think it would just depend on how he handles it, but he seems like he'll be just fine. Duke wins that kind of match up.
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I'll go into
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Duke's passing defense and NC State's passing offense next.
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You know, both teams have abysmal pass coverages,
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so you know, Tulane was able to take advantage of that defense, and when I mentioned the bubble routes for first downs to wing did that on them. Duke tries it, then they can't defend it, even though that's something they do.
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It's frustrating sometimes, because it's like, okay,
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you see how this play works. It just doesn't, I don't know if you don't have the guys for it. I.
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I don't know.
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Let's see.
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Where was I? While the flexibility on defense does give them the slight edge, I think NC State, as I mentioned, has the flexibility of their receivers. So it's more about like
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it's going to be what I thought we were going to get from Virginia, where it's going to be a quarterback duel, it's going to be an arm off, but CJ Bailey has proven more because he's gotten in another arms off in one. Chandler Morris,
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J'Mari Taylor, so
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let's see. Plus, I haven't seen Duke really do anything against tight ends. I think Illinois to lane kind of relied on receivers or quarterback legs.
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So what's the account what creative passing plays can be done? But I don't know, given that state,
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all right, Duke's rushing offense versus NC State's rushing defense,
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it seems, after our last game, I think you know, Nate Shepard and jock has more gonna get the ball more. Castles is pretty athletic, though he's he's got, as they say, that dog in him,
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but this online is good enough to keep tackles from Moss from happening in the way that Wake Forest was able to do on us, us, like I'm playing with them. But this part of the game is largely delegated to just short distance, like your fourth and
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one, your third and two. So it's probably not going to be utilized as much as the arm,
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because, if I am not mistaken, I think that Duke is able. I mean, yeah, Duke throws it probably like 3040,
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yeah, 39 times the game.
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So
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I just there's nothing from this, uh,
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rushing game that kind of gives you a reason to be like, Oh, I'm scared. For
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Nate Shepard,
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yeah.
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Plus, NC State has been able to be good at stopping and run. Just look at what happened with ECU even though we were they did have all off season to prepare for that. And Demon Clairborne rushing touchdown, and Jamari Taylor was really good. I doubt we'll get Jamari Taylor performance on us. In particular,
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I think that he's just a good running back, and I don't think that Duke has a strong enough
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running game to necessarily warrant, I
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don't want to say, not being threatened by it, but Sheesh, I mean, you gotta do something.
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I give it to plus, of course, defensive line Cleveland, harsh, Sloan Fordham Brown, we got good defensive guys who can stuff runs.
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So NC State advantage just because of Duke.
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And the last thing I'll mention, Duke rushing defense, not last second to last, Duke, rushing defense. NC State, rushing offense.
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NC State has been able to take advantage of those quarterback runs.
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Two lanes showed that Duke has not been able to prepare, as I mentioned before, I think they'll over correct,
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but I think they'll open up creativity and shared responsibility of running the ball between CJ Bailey and Hollywood smothers. I think Hollywood smothers would definitely need to do more with this legs in this game, especially, I think the backups will just out of safety for smothers. But I believe CJ Bailey was like, could be able to trip up,
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um, the players on that regards, but Duke expression defense does have the little advantage of
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seven, tackle for loss, six and 15, a third and fourth, I think, against two lane. So if you can't hit one in the bottle, they can stifle this rushing defense just as much as NC State can on Duke.
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So Well, I'm not expecting it, kind of like I'm not expecting what I mentioned before,
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a 40 yards pass and defense in the second half, two rushing yards defense in the second half. That's something that's not going to happen. But Duke
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could maybe have like half that level of performance, and it'll be enough to beat NC State, but I give the advantages to state
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little bit more. I want to mention special teams wise, um, Todd point, oh, has about 60.
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3% accuracy, no longer 47
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I think it's going to be finished set for long term. But Koneszki
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could if in a set does have a bad game, I will say Duke, they give up that fumble against
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Illinois. I think it was Illinois or two lane. They gave up. No, no, no, no. It's definitely two way, because they got the fumble and then the Ratzlef with the two lane quarterback fumbled later.
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Let's see
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uh for Duke, their primary punters, Kade reynoldson, even though he's only he has even had to use his legs as much this season, only three punts averaging 43 yards in the longer 46
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although Noonkester, he's averaging 45
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which is third in The SEC. Trying
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to think who else would be,
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kind of there in that I'm
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trying to think who else would be in that territory. Uh, it's definitely not Duke's punter
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in I think he is the best in the league, if you look at.
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Okay? Jack Stonehouse, Syracuse and
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Nick Veltsistars out of Virginia Tech,
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both have pretty
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big yards and big net. Michael Kern from Cal has a bigger net than Noonkester, so maybe not one of the best, but he's definitely not replaceable,
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kind of going on a ramble. Um, Jayden Scott were probably a primary pump returner, just because I think Hoffman might be needed more in a pass game.
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And then Peyton Jones, I think their fourth string running back for Duke is their returner average in 19 yard to return.
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I'll put the advantage in Duke on that one, but oh well,
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they're gonna play probably similar to what they did with Virginia. Went on the ground force, mention, to make mistakes and set up score in place with the arm. Defensively, just keep the pressure and make Mensa make mistakes. I think that's gonna be their formula for the rest of the season. If they can silence that Duke arm, they win piece of cake. All right, I apologize. This episode's running a bit long. We still have two whole segments to go over.
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I'll start with the soccer so, you
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know, I'll just kind of briefly mention that NC State, they beat FAU to an O.
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I think the defense was really good, kind of keeping FAU from really doing anything. Logan Erbis really good.
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Let's see Nikola Markovich and Donovan Phillips got goals, and Markovic got an assist,
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and getting a big win on the ranked team is going ony continue to build NC State's resume. The
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only thing they can do now is just keep going. October 10, this number two Clemson.
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So mark your calendars for that. But I thought NC State was really strong the second half. In the first half, they kind of were easing off the pedal aggressively, but I thought it was great. Um, yeah.
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I thought it was a great season overall for them, or Yeah,
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but the women, so that's a whole different story. Since the last time we talked about them, they've gone one, one and one total into 1/6, and two on a season, I
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don't get a win. They tied against Elon
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where they could have they were a lot more aggressive, scoring on six shots on goals, but can't get in the net.
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Francis Mary Symmes, Jade, Bordelau and Mana Nantaka
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are kind of the big three of the offensive front.
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And pride of pause, she did have 100% saving accuracy in that game. Same thing with the next game too,
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going four and out to be Campbell. Big performance of Mary Francis Symmes, she got her two goals. Jay Bordelau, she finally got a goal. I thought she was going to be the headline of this offense, but it took her until
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hold on
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the about I about
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eighth game you get a goal, uh, Fein Leddekker also got one part of us, five saves. It's a good blood to try to get prepared for Notre Dame, where they retired at halftime from an only early goal from NC.
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Wong,
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but Notre Dame is just better.
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Let's see Annabelle shukwu,
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and is the angle got goals. I think angle got the game winning with kind of
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the weight goal, and they were really in control of the game past the first 10 minutes, even with a very low shot and goal, they were still able to get things done like defense. Wish there could be more on offense. That's where we all have to say in the matter.
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So first up is SMU, I think on Thursday, then Sunday. FSU,
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um, SMU has only one point in the stand ins, but the air six, two and one overall. Their most notable win, though, is against North Texas. They have tie at Syracuse for their one and some losses at Wake Forest and Texas Tech, maybe being at NC State would be an advantage for them.
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SMU, they only have a 0.78 margin, so like they score about 1.78 goals a game, and they give up one a game. For comparison, NC State has a negative 0.89
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but they have a 75% save percentage on shots, and our 11th and a conference with fouls, with 79 total.
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So it says some new team is not great. The biggest stars are Nyah rose with the 11 shots on goals, even though she doesn't lead the team in goal. So that's actually Lydia Agnescheck with three
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uh Sammy nice has five assists, which is fifth in the conference.
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And, I mean, there's this first kind of like what was was with men UNC, 10 of their 11 starters, slash, high rotation players
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scored a goal this season.
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Uh, who? So that game should be competitive. I don't think the FSC one is going to be, though, just kind of leaving out a little blunt
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ever seated ahead, honcho, there's six oh and one with four no at home, I think this game is going to be an away game.
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FSU has won a top offenses in the conference with 3.8 goals per game and only 0.6 goals given up per game, which in eight games, they've only given up three goals. I think, whoo, I might not know how to do math.
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Wait,
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yeah, something like that, four or five goals,
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not great.
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Um, for us,
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although they do have a decent amount of SOG she lead the league - the conference, or the worst in a conference with 100+ fouls on a team.
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One of the best goalies in a conference is Addie Todd, with about 90% save accuracy, which is third in the league, and she's lowest in a week with goals against average, like the amount of total goal she's given up. So
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maybe with a bigger sample size, she might be a little worse. No, it sounds like she's better, I
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don't know, but she's one of the best of the week,
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second in the league, and total goals is Wrianna Hudson, with seven, including two game winners. Jordan Dudley has three assists on the team, and Heather Gilchrist has about 85.7%
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shot in goal accuracy. I don't think anyone on our teams that high.
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It's going to take a massive amount of luck to be FSU, but SMU might get lucky
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to be beat by us. Uh,
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FSU is one of the strongest teams in the conference. So winning would just require so much luck being able to shut down the offense completely and just bully the goal you were shot in goal attempts. We haven't done either consistently.
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Hopefully the best case scenario, FSU Tired Up, tired out by playing UNC on Wednesday, and they're just their hearts, not in the game, and they lose, but they did
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beat Louisville at Louisville, Louisville is playing real hot, so
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not great.
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SMU. They've given up plenty of goals and fouls, and their goalie, I'll be brown, is one of the worst when it comes to stats. So as long as NCC cannot shoot SMU, they could win, but it would require being an offensive stalwart, which they.
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Can't really do.
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I mean, yeah, there definitely needs to be a
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big star in a team. Okay, I put this down. I didn't realize this. Jade Bordelau has three goals on the season, which leads the team in goals.
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But no one's really shown ourselves as a permanent score. And what I would say with time their defenses, we kind of come to strong side,
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but
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I need more. Give the younger guys some reps on offense. Try to do what
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NC State do, what the volleyball team is doing. Young scores. Try to something needs to change. Because one six and two is the worst in the conference and one of the worst in the country. They need to figure something out with this,
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uh, just, you know, get creative with things. Just get the ball in the net and they'll be fine. They just can't get the ball in there.
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Let's see. Pratapas. I think she's finally proven, which I'm happy about. But they still have a big suck streak, and
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I'd be fine with given I don't know how to pronounce it. Seen a tozo Some more reps before going into ACC play. I'm sure she'll get some even later, and to see, no disrespect to predis, just in general, Daisy Duda antono, there's this mother players I want to see more of. I'm happy with Daisy do this so far.
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Um, we just need to settle precedents for future seasons to have something to build off of for next season. Because so far, it scraps.
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That's the luck headed to them. I'll check back up on them late in October, we've got some cross country to go over.
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All right, cross country. Let's do this September 9, the 5:55pm
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wake med soccer course, NC State's number one in the conference and women's cross country in them, and
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the men's is ninth in their regional
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last year, NC State finished number one in women's number two in the men's side. Some notable
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finishers who are returning from the men's Wesley Larson, Jimmy malarkey and Ryan motondo,
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even though they will probably get beat up by Liberty, who beat them out last year, especially since have two top 10 finishers returning with Edwin Kiprop and Tristan merchant, it's notable woman who did well is uh
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Grace Hartman, Hannah gates, Kate Putman, Andrew Napoleon, Carolina, Morell, Ellie Shea, Olivia Haas,
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they're gonna, you know, whoop some butt coming up, even though Clemson does have a Good Woman squad with
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Judy Ksogei, Silbia Jelego, and Gladys Cheonegitch
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they finished one, two and three last year with Clemson.
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But um, usually just Adidas cross country and carry it. Kind of hosts. A lot of the teams are local. So like, you're NC State, Unc, Virginia, Wake Forest, Duke,
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UNCG
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Elon,
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NC, Central, high point, liberty, you get it.
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Uh, so, you know, I don't know if you can go to those games. I don't know if it means anything to talk about cross country, but I just kind of want to highlight that that's going to start picking on, uh, taking off, and eventually they'll be part of my conference and national championship coverage. But either way,
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I think we can wrap it up there. Thank you guys for listening. Hope you have a good day.
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Next week, we'll be starting our winter sports previews with swimming and diving. We have to do Q NC double header we have right now, I have feedback women's soccer
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probably keep that because we're also going feedback football, just to kind of keep on theme.
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But oh, well, you know, it's the bees and knees. Have a good day and go pack. Go.
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