First of all I want to say that I was encouraged by much of our play yesterday, particularly in the 2nd and 4th quarters. There have been a few posters who have thrown verbal rocks at the team and coaches after the game, and a few who have gone overboard in the other direction saying that we completely outplayed ND. Unfortunately, the stats indicate that we came close to ND, but we certainly did not dominate them. ND rushed for 253 yards on 34 carries for a 7.4 average; UVA rushed for 127 yards on 30 carries for a 4.2 average. ND completed 15 of 30 passes for 13.8 yards per completion; UVA completed 26 of 38 passes for 11.1 yards per completion. ND had an average punt return of 12 yards, and UVA's average was 11. The ND average kick-off return for ND was 17.5 while the UVA average was 12.8 ND had 4 penalties for 40 yards while UVA had 9 for 55 yards. UVA led in time of possession 33.23 minutes to 26.37 minutes, but 11.23 of our minutes were in the 3rd quarter when we scored 0 points, and ND scored 14 points. We showed improvement in several areas, but it was obvious to me that we still must have improvement in several others.
