Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Tulane 2014 Season Predictions Sure To Go Wrong

Offensive MVP: T. Lee
Defensive MVP: S. Scofield
Breakout Player Offense: L. Thompson
Breakout Player Defense: T. Gilbert
Best Incoming Freshman (non-red shirt) Offense: T. Veal
Best Incoming Freshman (non-red shirt) Defense: R. Marbley
Prediction: Tulane will leave a crap load of points on the field due to not being able to make FGs or because Tulane won't even attempt some that seem like no-brainers.
Prediction: At the end of the season people will look at the production players on this team and think "boy, this staff has pretty much nailed it when it comes to recruiting regardless of what the services rankings say"

No long explanations trying to qualify or sugarcoat anything.

Wins & losses
@ Tulsa - WIN - 14-13
Georgia Tech - LOSS - 24-10
Southeastern LA - WIN - 31-24
@ Duke - LOSS - 34-10
@ Rutgers - WIN - 14-10
UCONN - WIN - 28-17
@ UCF - LOSS - 38-7
Cincy - LOSS - 27-13
@ UH - LOSS - 42-17
Memphis - WIN - 31-20
@ ECU - LOSS - 31-7
Temple - WIN - 28-14

Bowl Game
BBVA Compass vs Toledo
or
Bahamas vs Tennessee

Overall:
The starting defense is as good as any but the overall quality depth and experience will hurt when injuries come.
The offense will continue to struggle moving the ball like last year with the biggest difference being the max potential in this years offense is higher. The overall play-making ability in this offense if greater than 2013, if people step up and make those plays.
Special teams should be solid with the exception of kicking (not punting) and we are still not set on deep snapping being a non-event each time.
When the dust settles there will be as low as 2 or as high as 4 coaching moves made, some voluntary and some not. We have had great luck keeping the majority of the staff here since day one but this off-season we come back to the norm of college football a little bit.

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