Can we run up the score higher than Louisville?

[MikeG]

you have to be careful with this stuff-- look at Bama trying to run up the score against someone when the game was in the bag---- result: Protho out for the season and what actually turns out to be career ending injury.

UL needs to use it's head on this type of stuff (or not-- whatever) --- this is why I say if we have a 14 or 21 point lead-- Grothe takes the rest of the nighht off and we give valuabl experience to his backups

[BullyPulpit]

The real question would be, why would we want to?

Watching that games was just sad. Murray State was clearly outmatched. Remember this is the same Murray State that went 1-10 last year in I-AA. I couldn't believe that Brohm was still in until about mid-way through the thir quarter and that theycame out of the half throwing the ball 40 yards downfield to Douglas. I know you can't go out there and not play, but running between the tackles and getting off the field as quickly as possible is the way to go when you have a blood bathon your hands. Kragthorpe is lucky that Peanut Whitehead (who was still in late in the 4th quarter), Brohm, Douglas, Urrutia, and their stud TE weren't injured in the second half. Typical Louisville.....running up the score. I don't think it helps confidence either. Rather I think it creates a false sense of bravado and can do more harm than good.

Sorry you folks have adopted the "hate others for false reasons" stance so prevalent today.  It was 49-10 at half and Brohm was in for ONE play in the second half, a touchdown pass.  After Brohm went out, Louisville returned a punt for a touchdown on the next series so they had scored twice in the first couple of minutes of the half.

Cantwell the backup QB played one game situation series with two passes early in the third quarter and then they proceeded to run mostly off tackle using backs who were four to six deep on the depth chart from the 6:01 mark of the third quarter until the end of the game.

Repeat that: They ran off tackle for almost the entire second half. How is that running up the score?

Based on your comments in this forum, you don't know what you are talking about.  Murray was so bad that at least six teams in the Big East could have hung forty points on them by halftime.

And as for the lone field goal attempt on fourth and long.  Which is more embarrassing to a team, having someone score on you, or some refusing to even try to score?

A couple of years ago, the Kentucky coach and fans complained about Louisville scoring in the fourth quarter when they had a lead and didn't need the points (don't remember the exact score).  So the next year, when Louisville had the ball on the Kentucky goal line in the fourth quarter and took a knee, it was embarrassing for Kentucky.  I'd rather someone score on me than quit even trying to advance the ball. How embarrassing is that?

It is not the score that is the problem, you and I both know that. Brohm should have NEVER been out there for the third quarter, not ONE SINGLE play. And what the hell was a defensive STARTER, Peanut Whitehead, doing out there in the 4th quarter????? That is not calling off the dogs. There is beating a team and then there is rubbing a team's face in it.....I am just glad we have a program and a coach who would never consider doing the latter.

[BJ]

I think you guys are really overreacting.

I didn't watch the game, but if USF did the same exact thing (not that we would), I think most of you would be singing a slightly different tune.  In the first game of the season, I don't think Brohm playing the first series in the second half "classless".  Regardless of the score, if they weren't fully back in tune, I don't see a problem with keeping your players in. If I was a coach, my main priority would be to have my team prepared for the season; showing mercy to an obviously inferior team is not my first concern. The same goes for the defensive starter in the fourth quarter, if he wasn't playing like he should.  The risk, of course, is injuries.

[MikeG]

Have we forgotten the score of our first game ever played   80-3.

that is one of the only times we ever ran up a score but to be fair-- we didn't even know that it would happen. As I recall just about any Bull that got in that game was better than the guys playing for Kentucky Weslyn-- I think we played our best guys for a while but many players saw the field that first game-- possibly the entire team-- I don't know.

[Bullhonkey]

CAN the Bulls score that much... absolutely.

WILL the Bulls TRY to score that much... not on your life.

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It will be more like Rutgers... 38-3... because CJL will be giving the ball to the RBs a lot... and when you run a lot the game clock doesn't stop as often, meaning you have fewer plays..

Now, consider U of L had a punt returned for a touchdown, and three "drives" of 1 or 2 plays for TDs....  that's 28 points in less than 80 SECONDS of game time... Rutgers had four "drives" of less than two minutes each... Cincy had a pick-6 on defense, and took the ball away 6 times...

Can USF's special teams or defense score? Sure.  Can we be +4 or +5 on turnover margin? Maybe.  Can Mike Ford break a 60-yard TD run? Will CJL let Grothe throw down the field to Taurus Johnson for an 80-yard TD? Maybe.

The game plan will be a heck of a lot of running, especially on first or 2nd down, with some short, controlled throws here or there... USF's offense looks more like West Coast than the air-it-out attack from Kragthorpe or the "Cat-Attack"...

Oh, and with Brohm and Rice needing extra stats for their Heisman race... their coaches left them in a heck of a lot longer than they should have.

No way the Bulls can score 73 points, not in one game. 

[Bulls Are We]

I remember one of the FAU players saying something about us running up the score on them.