Tulane survives UAB: 35-23 final

[1309th WAVE]

We ran the heck out of the football today. So there's something that's been sorely missed.

Makhi Hughes is the guy. Think we can write that one in marker.

[WaveProf]

Don’t ever listen to the idiots on espn when it comes to picking games. Their gem of the day was Florida over Kentucky and Baylor to cover against UCF.

Baylor just went ahead of UCF with 1 minute left. Sometimes listen to the idiots on espn!

[G-wave]

We won that's all that counts. We could point out a ton of bad plays but maybe this Team just wins ugly. Do we have a special WR Room or what ?

[DCGreenie]

Yes, and Barnes seems to be a young, untested back who lost the ball.
Still, this isn't a blow-em-out running attack, esp, between the tackles.
And how with less than a min., UAB with no time-outs, we are around the 35 yard line on their side of the field, do we manage the situation? If we give the ball back to UAB, Zeno is a good QB, so Tulane can't just go for the first down, miss it, and give them only ~ 70 yards to go the length of the field and threaten to win it outright.
So you think, yeah, take a delay of game to get a bit more field, pooch punt it to put them deep, and hold them for the offensive series.
But, uh, you call a 40 yards pass into the end zone to Keys..... Whut!?...... Did NOLA turn Fritz into a riverboat gambler? I was stunned that Tulane called that play.......

[Cheerleader]

So was UAB They could have made up the pooch kick in one play. Good call.

[PeteRasche]

I have a feeling that any time Pratt sees Keys one-on-one, he's going to throw to him long. Period.

[Man in Green]

Don’t ever listen to the idiots on espn when it comes to picking games. Their gem of the day was Florida over Kentucky and Baylor to cover against UCF.

Baylor just went ahead of UCF with 1 minute left. Sometimes listen to the idiots on espn!

But I had Baylor in a parlay with Florida
At least I know which guy to listen to next time.

[GSx]

If we continue to play like this, the rest of our schedule will be a struggle. UAB was down 42-3 at home to ULL; UAB didn't score a TD until garbage time. S Ala has been discredited; and USM is a complete basket-case. Pratt's health is part of it, but that's not all of it. One thing that would help is to knock-off the fumbling. When did Willie Fritz teams become fumble machines? cost us today (and let UCF back in the game last December).
Can we turn it back on? Hope so, but tbd.

[Baywave1]

Each Tulane victory has been by two or more scores. Today was first game Tulane was not winning at half time. Fritz and staff made fabulous adjustments at half and won game in 3rd quarter. Isn’t that what good teams do?

Tulane is still universally ranked in Top 3 ( and first by people like Chris Vannini) for NY6 Bowl.

Are we supposed to be upset about this?

[Wavefan]

The refs gifted uab 17 of the 23 they scored and took away at least 7 from us. The score of Tulane vs UAB was a blow out. The score of Tulane vs the refs was still a solid double digit victory. But do not pretend that we were off or struggled in a fair game.

That officiating crew needs to be called out by name and banned from ever again participating in a game where Tulane is one of the teams. Bad or incompetent officiating is random. There was nothing random about the bad calls and no calls today. Those sobs were biased.

[WaveProf]

Did our biggest and loudest hullabaloo ten minutes ago when ole miss went ahead for the last time. Now we’ll be serving dinner to our 11 year old around 10 pm, so maybe not a parenting win, but worth it. Roll Wave, Hotty Toddy

[OGSB]

Froyd: THREE TAKEAWAYS: Tulane battles through less than its best to beat UAB

Trahan: Tulane awakens after slow start to overcome UAB, 35-23

[waverider]

Don’t forget, we did this with our two best LBs out.

Who besides Platt? If you're talking about Grubbs, he played today...

1 series

[nolasilver]

Grubbs played 1 series before coaches thought he wasn’t moving well enough and pines didn’t play. That’s two big starters

This bye week is truly at a perfect time

[tulaneoutlaw]

One thing about fumble luck is that it's pretty random. The fumbling itself has to stop but I don't think we will continue to lose fumbles at the current rate.

Memphis is a ny6 elimination game at this point. They needed some big breaks to beat Boise but they did. Hopefully the bye let's us get some guys back healthy ahead of that one

[tulaneoutlaw]

For all our frustration, out post game win expectancy was 93.4%. Adjust margin had us winning by 10.5 so we even outdid that thanks to the last minute kill shot to keys

[long green]

On offense we did something that we’ve tried before: coming out passing versus a weak rushing defense. We did that under Hall at East Carolina. When we went run heavy we crushed them. The execution wasn’t really there in the pass game yesterday. On the missed FG drive we had a good call on third down, the receiver ran a good route but Mike threw it at his feet. Thank goodness Mike was on the money for his last two throws.

Other than the return of Bauman to prominence the emergence of Yulkeith Brown is heartening. Having three scary threats in the jet sweep game will help Hughes pop some runs.

I didn’t get the same vibe from the refs that some of you got. I did notice that on the late hit on Deal it seemed the head guy and one other crew member gave the flag-tossing guy an extended “are you sure” session but he dug in. I’d need to see the game over again to see about all the holding but that might explain some of UAB’s success.

[wavedom]

Grubbs played 1 series before coaches thought he wasn’t moving well enough and pines didn’t play. That’s two big starters

This bye week is truly at a perfect time

Grubbs has a shoulder injury.

[PeteRasche]

Grubbs has a shoulder injury.

Any rumor of the severity? I know shoulder injuries (that's why I redshirted)... is this a sprain or strain that will heal with rest, or a dislocation/subluxation that will need surgery? (I know some play, or try to play, with these, but you're basically playing one-armed and that's no way to play a position that requires sure tackling)

[wavedom]

It's the opposite shoulder from the one he had surgery on. Wasn't thought to be all that bad which us why he started but obviously it was bothering him after that action. Should be good to go for Memphis hopefully.

[waverider]

Lost in the UAB stats is that we held them to 3 points in the second half.

[WaveProf]

Lost in the UAB stats is that we held them to 3 points in the second half.

10 if you count a freak goal line fumble we played no part in causing

[Baywave1]

Well then i guess you’re also giving Tulane another TD for its lost fumble in red zone

Fair is fair

[Johnny Mac]

Grubbs played 1 series before coaches thought he wasn’t moving well enough and pines didn’t play. That’s two big starters

This bye week is truly at a perfect time

so Pines was out the whole game? I didn't know if he started and got hurt.. Hurst has bulked up a lot since last year. Remetich got hurt late too, we finished the game with 2nd string guards on the line. Remetich said on the Twit that he's OK.

[WaveProf]

Well then i guess you’re also giving Tulane another TD for its lost fumble in red zone

Fair is fair

If we are talking about how best to evaluate our performance, then I'm not really sure that is fair at all. Getting lucky on a fumble we did nothing to cause counts against our defense, and fumbling away a chance to score counts against our offense. Luckily, we were enough better than UAB that it didn't matter.