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.