Greetings from Tampa.
It’s like the Virgin Islands but with fewer virgins. And no Tim Duncan.
Anyway, enough of my whining about missing some silly basketball games.
Let me and try and concentrate on the football Huskies and their odd Sunday night affair.
– The Huskies were a woeful 2-11 in Big East road games through their first four years in the league. Only a win by Dan Orlovsky and company at Rutgers in 2004 and one over Pittsburgh in the Steel City last season stood on the plus side of the ledger.
This season the Huskies are 2-1 away from home in the league, conquering fields that have given them fits in the past.
“Every year we put out a couple of goals, to beat teams we haven’t beat yet and doing things we haven’t done yet,” defensive end Cody Brown said early in the week.
Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium? Check
The Carrier Dome? Check
Next up? Raymond James Stadium.
Even if you put the 2001 game aside as too long ago, the Huskies have still been terrible here. It’s only one game but USF could have named the score in that 38-16 win here in 2006.
“That’s the one thing I’m going to say is 40-21, 38-16 the last two times we’ve been there,” coach Randy Edsall said of his chats with his players. “It’s another thing we can get accomplished, to beat this team on the road.”
USF has not had much luck lately. The Bulls have lost three straight and four of vie. Most of that is because quarterback Matt Grothe has been picked off eight times in the last three.
Turnovers (as if you didn’t know) will play a big role Sunday.
That’s it for me tonight. I’m busy watching Notre Dame try and blow a lead against Syracuse.
(I think there should be Donovan McNabb rule on this game, by the way. Neither team deserves a win…let’s call it a tie.)
- Neill
