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Mike Potter ·
17 Feb 2010, 11:45 AM ·
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Duke has placed a conference-high 11 players on the 42-man ACC All-Academic football team, while N.C. State has three players on the list and UNC one.
The list was announced on Wednesday by conference commissioner John Swofford.
To be eligible, a player must have earned at least a 3.00 GPA for both previous semester and his cumulative academic career.
Duke placed All-ACC linebacker Vincent Rey, a senior, and All-ACC kicker Will Snyderwine, a junior, along with sophomore punter Kevin Jones who was honored for the second straight year.
Other Blue Devils on the squad are junior linebacker Adam Banks, sophomore cornerback Lee Butler, sophomore defensive back Matt Daniels, sophomore tackle Kyle Hill, junior guard Mitchell Lederman, freshman guard Brian Moore, junior cornerback Chris Rwabukamba and sophomore wideout Johnny Williams.
From N.C. State are sophomore quarterback Russell Wilson, senior guard Andy Barbee and senior safety Bobby Floyd.
Junior tackle Mike Ingersoll is the selection from UNC.
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Jacob Swiger ·
30 Nov 2009, 11:16 PM ·
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Thaddeus Lewis earned second-team honors over several other worthy ACC quarterbacks. (File photo by Rob Rowe)
With the ACC regular season wrapped up, the first and second all-ACC teams were announced Monday, including 13 players from the Triangle.
Duke
The Blue Devils’ high-octane offense was led by quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, who was voted on the second team. Lewis’ primary target, Donovan Varner, made first team and led the league with 5.4 catchers per game.
Kicker Will Snyderwine made the second team as well as linebacker Vincent Rey.
N.C. State
Glaringly absent from the selections is quarterback Russell Wilson, who led the Wolfpack to a dramatic win over UNC Saturday and accounted for 35 touchdowns on the season.
Tight end George Bryan made the first team, and defensive end Willie Young, who recorded eight sacks this season, was on the second team.
North Carolina
Four North Carolina players, the most of any school, earned first-team honors as voted on by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. Defensive end Robert Quinn, linebacker Quan Sturdivant, cornerback Kendric Burney and safety Deunta Williams were all selected to the first team.
Burney picked off five passes this season and racked up 200 return yards to reach second in interception return yardage in ACC history.
Defensive tackle Marvin Austin, who is considering turning pro after this season, and linebacker Bruce Carter, who told the media he would be returning for his senior season, both made the second defensive team.
UNC’s only offensive selection came in kicker Casey Barth, and the Tar Heels’ four first-team selections are the most since the 1997 season (six).
For the complete list, visit theACC.com.
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Mike Potter ·
26 Nov 2009, 11:40 PM ·
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Duke quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, #9, could lead his team to a .500 finish if the Blue Devils beat Wake Forest on Saturday. (File photo by Rob Rowe)
Duke’s senior class won’t be going to a bowl game, but the Blue Devils definitely have a chance to accomplish something special on Saturday.
The visitor to Wallace Wade Stadium at 1:30 won’t be multiple arch-rival UNC, since the ACC decided it would rather have the Tar Heels end the season with N.C. State this time.
Instead coming in is Wake Forest (4-7, 2-5 ACC), the Blue Devils’ permanent cross-divisional foe from the Atlantic Division.
Wake has dominated the series against the Blue Devils (5-6, 3-4) in recent years, winning the last nine games.
But if Duke can put together a win in front of the home fans, it will mark the Blue Devils’ first non-losing season since 1994. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
24 Nov 2009, 9:41 PM ·
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Duke coach David Cutcliffe and his team will go for the Blue Devils' first non-losing season since 1994 on Saturday against Wake Forest. (File photo by Rob Rowe).
WALLACE WADE STADIUM/DURHAM Duke won’t have a possible bowl bid on the line when the Blue Devils host Wake Forest in the season finale for both football teams on Saturday.
So this time, it’s going to be all about Senior Day.
Duke (5-6, 3-4 ACC) can finish its first non-losing season in 15 years with a win over the Deacons (4-7, 2-5), but a couple of losing streaks will have to disappear.
Wake has won nine straight in the series, while the Blue Devils have lost three straight games.
“I didn’t want this to be the damn last press conference in football this year, but it is,” Cutcliffe said, deadpan, at his weekly press luncheon at the Brooks Football Building, at which he gave all the attending media small boxes of baked goods as parting gifts. “Well, Happy Thanksgiving. …
“Our seniors are pretty special people and this is about those nine guys (running back Re’quan Boyette, safety Catron Gainey, offensive tackle Jarrod Holt, quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, defensive tackle Vince Oghobaase, defensive end Ayanga Okpokowuruk, linebacker Vincent Ray, defensive tackle Kinney Rucker and cornerback Leon Wright. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
19 Nov 2009, 4:10 PM ·
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Miami native Thaddeus Lewis, shown here against Georgia Tech, will need a big game in his hometown Saturday to lead Duke past Miami and keep the Blue Devils bowl-eligible. (File photo by Rob Rowe)
If the worst-case scenario happens on Saturday, at least Duke got this far.
The Blue Devils are facing, let’s face it, a “must win” game against No. 21 Miami, and they’re going to be pretty big underdogs on the road.
David Cutcliffe’s team will have to get its biggest win in 15 years to stay eligible for a bowl game. If the Blue Devils put together four quarters of brilliance, taking pieces of the kind of games they played in road wins over Army and N.C. State and Virginia, they have a chance.
And that seems to be all Cutcliffe has been asking.
“You focus yourself and your mind on accomplishing everything in your power to prepare to win,” Cutcliffe said about how to beat a team that looks better on paper. “We don’t worry about Saturday, we don’t worry about (last) Saturday. We’re in between. If you plan well and prepare well and focus on what you can do, you have to identify your challenges. I can tell you 5,000 reasons we won’t win. But if I tell you 5,000 reasons we won’t win I have to tell you 5,000 things we’re going to do about it. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
12 Nov 2009, 6:46 PM ·
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Duke's Thaddeus Lewis, #9, shown in action at N.C. State, may need something akin to the 80 percent passing effort he had against the Wolfpack to lead the Blue Devils past Georgia Tech. (File photo by Rob Rowe)
Duke will have to believe in miracles on Saturday.
The math says that the Blue Devils are still in the race to win the ACC’s Coastal Division and somehow wind up in a BCS bowl. But Coach David Cutcliffe’s club would have to pull off a couple of big-time upsets to accomplish that.
The challenge in front of their noses comes on Saturday as the Blue Devils (5-4, 3-2) who had their three-game winning streak snapped in a 19-6 loss at UNC in the annual Battle for the Victory Bell, host a No. 7 Georgia Tech team (9-1, 6-1 ACC) that is on a seven-game winning streak and still has a smidgen of hope for playing for the National Championship.
Tech has won 13 of the last 14 meetings, each of the last five, and rolled Duke 27-0 in Atlanta last year. So a Duke victory would be one heck of a big upset.
“When you’re playing a team that possesses the ball as well as Georgia Tech does, the best way to prevent them from dominating the ball is try to stay on the field yourself,” Cutcliffe said. “Your offense is not just playing their defense, your offense is playing their offense. You don’t want to put your defense right out on the field after they’ve just put together a 12-14 play drive. Last year we just couldn’t generate much offense against them.
“With the wishbone offense, what you try to have, and I think it’s a necessity, you’ve got to have a quarterback who can operate and they’ve got that (in Josh Nesbitt). You’ve got to have a fullback who is tough, durable and a big-time threat. They have that (in Jonathan Dwyer). And to me the other great variable is to have a great wide receiver (like Demaryius Thomas) that’s a difficult one-on-one matchup.” Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
6 Nov 2009, 1:00 AM ·
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Duke coach David Cutcliffe says everywhere he goes in the Triangle, he's surrounded by Tar Heel fans. (File photo by Rob Rowe)
Duke football coach David Cutcliffe said he got a big surprise when he settled in in Durham a year and a half ago.
Once he got outside the campus walls, he found himself surrounded by fans of the University of North Carolina, the team his Blue Devils will take on in the annual Victory Bell game on Saturday at 3:30 at UNC’s Kenan Stadium.
The game between the Blue Devils (5-3, 3-1 ACC) and Tar Heels (5-3, 1-3) will be shown on ESPNU.
“I learned how close (the schools) were together, and I had no idea ’til I got here,” Cutcliffe said. “It’s amazing. And then every time whether I go into my little places I go, Target or Harris-Teeter, there’s nothing but North Carolina fans everywhere. I think I realized quickly that I was reconnaissance, not coach. Behind enemy lines, sending out reports, you know? It’s pretty amazing that you’re surrounded by so many fans of North Carolina.
“Go in there and look and see what they’re selling in the front of the store. Go in any of the sports stores and see what they’re selling. Obviously they’ve earned that. … I do get a lot of comments (from UNC fans), and I haven’t really had anybody be negative. But I get a lot of comments, and my wife tells me next time I don’t get to go. I get maybe one trip to Target and one to the grocery store a year. After that, I’m shut out.”
Cutcliffe said Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has been helpful to him in dealing with what is often called the “Battle of the Blues.”
“He has a great perspective on this rivalry, as you might imagine,” Cutcliffe said, recalling the first time he saw the two basketball teams square off at Cameron Indoor Stadium. “It’s been two unbelievably great (basketball) programs. I think one of the things that I remember most that impressed me was that Coach Krzyzewski had great respect for the type programs both Duke and North Carolina were in basketball. He said, ‘I hope it can turn into a rivalry for you guys.’ He said, ‘They’ve got good people, we’ve got good people. They do things right, we do things right. Let’s just settle it out there on the floor.’
“I was really impressed with that, and that’s the way any great rivalry should be. He wasn’t bad-mouthing North Carolina, none of that. He had nothing but positive things to say, just how much energy and how positive that rivalry was between Duke and North Carolina. I was overly impressed with his comments in that regard, because I’ve been around some of the uglier rivalries in college athletics. Then I went to that ball game and I couldn’t speak, hardly, just watching those kids compete in both programs and both coaches coach, and when the dust settled everyone went on their way. It was pretty impressive.”
Cutcliffe has announced his game captains for Saturday, and the list is no surprise. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
29 Oct 2009, 3:44 PM ·
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Duke's Thaddeus Lewis prepares to take a snap vs. Virginia Tech. The Blue Devils will be trying for a first win in three games against Virginia foes this year. (File photo by Rob Rowe)
Duke got its most impressive football win in Durham in a very long time last season in a 31-3 romp over Virginia.
On Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at Scott Stadium, the homsetanding Cavaliers will come out looking for revenge.
That it’s a must-win contest for the Cavaliers (3-4, 2-1 ACC) is something everyone probably knew when the season started. Duke, not so much.
The Blue Devils (4-3, 2-1) are having their best season in 15 years unless something derails it, and the Cavaliers will be intending to do just that.
Duke was also 4-3 last season, but that felt more like a miracle. This time coach David Cutcliffe is seriously talking bowl, and that can happen if the Devils beat Virginia and the other two unranked opponents (UNC, Wake Forest) on the schedule. But if Virginia wins on Saturday it means Duke will have to beat a ranked opponent to be playing in December.
Duke has won two straight ACC games and already has a pair of road victories this season.
Virginia had won three of its last four before falling 34-9 at home to No. 11 Georgia Tech on Saturday.
Cutcliffe said Virginia, which he said hits harder than anyone on the schedule, will be another big challenge.
“They’ve got speed and skill and athleticism on offense, guys that can take it to the house,” the Duke coach said. “They’re very balanced and always have a back that can run the football. They got off like we did to a slow start, but have played some excellent football as of late. This is a tremendous matchup. It looks like it will be a great atmosphere and we’re excited about the challenge.
“(Nose tackle Nate). Collins is terrific. He’s a heck of a pro prospect and one of the most productive guys in our league right now. We’re going to run the ball better. I think anybody that looks at us would say ‘we’re going to find a way to make you beat us running,’ but we’re going to find a way to throw the football. That just changes our course of how to throw it.”
Virginia coach Al Groh, who may be on the coaching hot seat, said controlling Duke’s hot quarterback Thaddeus Lewis is a major key to who wins this week.
“He’s showing the value of being a four-year starter,” Groh said of Lewis. “When we played him as a true freshman (in 2006) … it was pretty challenging for him. He had a difficult time that day, as might be expected with a first-year quarterback against an ACC defense.
“He’s now a fourth-year quarterback with … more starts than any quarterback in the Atlantic Coast Conference at this current time. So, that certainly shows, not only the fourth year as an ACC starter, but the second year under Cutcliffe who has great experience and know-how and development of quarterbacks. He clearly has profited by that.” Continue reading »
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Rob Rowe ·
27 Oct 2009, 11:55 PM ·
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Blue Devil head coach David Cutcliffe holds a conversation with Terrapin head coach Ralph Friedgen before Saturday's wet contest. (Photo by Rob Rowe)
WALLACE WADE STADIUM/DURHAM — It was another wet and miserable game for Duke Football, weather wise, but the Blue Devils ended up winning 17-13 over the Maryland Terps (2-5). For Mike Potter’s post-game post, just click here; for the photographs, they’ll be on the next page.
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Mike Potter ·
27 Oct 2009, 6:40 PM ·
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Duke Coach David Cutcliffe guides his team in the Blue Devils' wet victory over the Maryland Terps.
WALLACE WADE STADIUM/DURHAM David Cutcliffe has already seen the first part of this movie before.
But if the Duke football coach is able to get his wish, this time it will have a very different ending.
The Blue Devils have exceeded just about everyone’s expectations but their own so far this season, off to a 4-3 start (2-1 ACC) with two straight ACC victories including Saturday’s 17-13 victory over Maryland and two road wins already this season.
That’s not much different from what the Blue Devils were last year, when they started 4-3 before ending up 1-7 in the ACC.
Duke’s next opponent will be Virginia (3-4, 2-1), at 3:30 on Saturday at Scott Stadium. Duke, which last won in Charlottesville in 1999, had its most impressive win of Cutcliffe’s first season at the helm with a 31-3 romp in Durham last year. The Blue Devils are seeking their first winning season since 1994, and if they accomplish that they will be in a bowl game, period.
“All these games get bigger and bigger and bigger,” Cutcliffe said at his weekly press luncheon at the Brooks Football Building. “People say ‘Tell me a little bit about Virginia,’ and when I think about Virginia - and it’s probably because of Coach (Al) Groh - I think about physical defense. This is the hardest-hitting defensive team we will play. They are loaded for big hits and very physical across the board. Their secondary is special. It’s not a mistake that they lead the conference in pass defense.”
That will put strength against strength, as Duke is getting 322.6 of its 397 yards total offense per game through the air. Continue reading »
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