80? Sure. 70? Yeah. 65? Start there.
August 29, 2014 by Mike CasazzaMuch has been made about Alabama and tempo — I seriously just typed Alabampo, so … — but whether you want to hear or read about it or not, it’s a valid talking point for this Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. WVU is at its best when it plays with pace. The Crimson Tide can come undone when the opponent pushes the pedal to the floorboard. (Then again, so can many teams.)
But when you’re looking at Alabama and you’re looking for cracks and those cracks are hard to find, little ones can be made to be bigger.
That can be misleading and thus dangerous, and perhaps Dana Holgorsen was doing me a solid when he stepped all over my tempo question Tuesday like it was Eddie Murphy’s couch.
Having said that, it’s a dynamic we must watch tomorrow. Because there will be tempo. And there must be tempo. The Mountaineers can’t out-methodical Alabama. They have to manufacture advantages and that’s the — AIR QUOTES! — easiest way to do it.
But if you’re going to have this conversation, you have to do it the right way.
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