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A day removed from a 9-7 win against Boston College, Duke hit the film room to study its offense, which put kicker Ross Martin in position to drill three field goals but struggled to move the ball in the second half.
Duke football head coach David Cutcliffe held his weekly press conference Tuesday, addressing Duke’s 34-20 victory against Georgia Tech and the upcoming matchup against Boston College. The head coach touched on several topics including the Blue Devil’s defensive success and Johnell Barnes’ ejection from the Georgia Tech game. Duke (3-1) faces the Eagles (3-1) Saturday at 3:30 p.m at Wallace Wade Stadium. Here are some of the more notable sound bytes from Cutcliffe’s press conference:
After winning a combined six games in 2011 and 2012, Boston College has rebounded with consecutive 7-6 seasons and back-to-back postseason berths in the past two years.
Duke head coach David Cutcliffe announced Sunday that he has dismissed redshirt sophomore cornerback T.J. Douglas from the program, putting a damper on a big weekend for the Blue Devils.
During the past two years, Duke has relied mostly on its offense to win games. The Blue Devils had an experienced game-manager in quarterback Anthony Boone and a big-play game-changer in Jamison Crowder.
Fall and get back up. That is what Duke is looking to do this weekend.
The Blue Devils were executing well for most of the half against Northwestern, but some late slip-ups at the end of the half took the shine off an otherwise strong start.
Duke came up short in its first test of the season.
Duke football head coach David Cutcliffe held his weekly press conference Tuesday, addressing Duke’s 55-0 victory against N.C. Central and the upcoming matchup against Northwestern. The head coach touched on several topics including recruiting and kicker Ross Martin’s college career. Duke (2-0) faces the Wildcats (2-0) for the 17th time with Northwestern having won six of the last seven showdowns. Here are some of the more notable sound bytes from Cutcliffe’s press conference:
Following a 10-3 campaign in 2012, Northwestern suffered a disappointing two-year stretch in which it won a combined 10 games. But after a 2-0 start—including a 16-6 upset against then-No. 21 Stanford and a 41-0 rout of Eastern Illinois—the Wildcats are back on track.
NEW ORLEANS—After a slow start and an early fumble by wide receiver Johnell Barnes, the Blue Devils soon settled down.
NEW ORLEANS—As Duke headed into its season opener against Tulane Thursday night, there were question marks at several positions. A slew of injuries during fall camp as well the departure of key contributors from last year’s squad forced the Blue Devil coaching staff to reshuffle their roster during the summer.
With new starters at several positions, Duke spent the offseason working to replace the core responsible for the program’s three consecutive bowl appearances. But after a slew of injuries in fall camp forced some reshuffling of the roster, head coach David Cutcliffe’s squad still has plenty of questions to answer.
This past offseason has been a period of great turnover for Duke.
In each of head coach Steve Addazio’s first two years, the Eagles finished 7-6 and in the middle of the Atlantic Division. Last year, the Eagles struggled down the stretch, losing three of their last four contests, including a nail-biter against then-No. 3 Florida State.
The Cavaliers have questions at quarterback. With the transfer of nine-game starter Greyson Lambert—recently named the starter at Georgia—junior Matt Johns will now lead the Cavalier passing attack. Although the Chalfront, Pa., native only started three games last year, he played in all 12 contests and threw for 1,109 yards and eight touchdowns. Virginia will need him to improve his accuracy—he completed just 55.9 percent of his passes in 2014—and make better decisions in order to contend in the ACC’s Coastal Division.
Starting quarterback Tanner Lee will have to improve after a tough 2014 season. Last year, the redshirt sophomore threw 12 touchdowns against 14 interceptions—three of which came in a 47-13 loss against Duke—and had difficulty reading defensive schemes, but is expected to take strides in 2015. Lee’s targets consist of wide receiver Teddy Veal—who had 40 receptions for 381 yards in 2014—and tight ends Charles Jones and Trey Scott. Tulane’s multi-headed rushing attack consists of Sherman Badie, Lazedrick Thompson and Dontrell Hilliard. The Green Wave carved up the Duke defense on the ground, rushing for 231 yards, 124 of which came from Thompson.
After being forced to reshuffle the roster, the Blue Devils hit the newly sodded Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday focused on executing, not worried about the familiar names that watched from the sideline.
Head coach David Cutcliffe announced last week that redshirt freshman Nicodem Pierre would shift from quarterback to running back after three of Duke's four scholarship running backs went down with injuries early in fall camp. With the season opener a little more than two weeks away, The Chronicle's beat writers take a look at how the injuries could impact Cutcliffe's offense.
With the 2015 season right around the corner, The Chronicle's football beat writers break down each of the 10 major position groups: running backs, quarterbacks, offensive line, receivers, defensive ends, defensive tackles, linebackers, defensive backs, kicker/punter and punt/kickoff returners to prepare you for the regular season.
