Texts From USF Game Day
October 15, 2010 by Mike CasazzaNot pretty, but not bad. That was the general theme on a Thursday nightn when the offense did a little more than just enough and a defense did just a lot more than even what’s rapidly becoming expected of it.
I know it’s repetitive and redundant, but that defense is very good and able. The offense seems to be taking some odd sort of calmness and inspiration from that and knows it can be above average and still be very good. And if you look around the Big East and what’s happening here and there, that’s not necessarily a bad formula.
Last night’s texts followed the script — excited early, frustrated a while later, impressed with a trick play and then again frustrated while a little bemused by USF’s struggles. And that’s not necessarily a bad formula, either.
The blind stares of a million pairs of eyes looking hard but don’t realize they’ll never text me. My edits are in [brackets].
(12:52 PM):
It’s a Ferdinand Foch kind of a day!
(4:48 PM):
Stew wasn’t Foch-ing around with that quote Tuesday.
(5:55 PM):
Huggs just tried to pull in the blue lot in a black escalade. Charlie Daniels (the lot attendant) turned him away! Wtf?!
(7:25 PM):
In the stadium. Drunk. Packin’ airplane bottles of rum. Let’s [happily] GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
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