All hands on deck. (Deck to be completed August 2009.)

Legend has it there is a large cache of PapaJohns.com Bowl Runners Up t-shirts in her belly...


Avast, landlubbers, prepare to be boarded. We be takin' yer football.

 Opponent East Carolina
 Plays TotYds Plays TotYds
VT 64 278 66 261
UNC 62 423 75 470
USM 71 383 72 300
WVU 79 599 51 160
Houston 87 484 66 329
UCF 90 495 64 370
UTEP 94 589 66 507

 Opp_TO ECU_TO
VT 3 1
UNC 2 0
USM 3 1
WVU 0 1
Houston 3 2
UCF 5 0
UTEP 3 4

This is, if I may oversimplify for a second, how you leverage turnover margin. NC State could take a lesson. Fumbles are the source of ECU's gains in this department: they've forced 16 fumbles and recovered 10 while only fumbling six times themselves, losing one. So they've recovered 15 of 22 fumbles on the season (68.2%), which is just slightly fortunate.

Opponents are averaging five more points, 12 more plays, and 120 more total yards per game...and the Pirates are 4-3.

Since we turn the ball over three times before breakfast, I wouldn't expect anything to change on Saturday.