If things are going wrong, get back to the basics.
Life-lessons, 101.
David Cutcliffe prefers the word “fundamentals” to “basics” but he agrees with the premise.
And his football team has lost three straight, a most-recent a 48-0 beat-down at the hands on a Virginia team that hasn’t come close to pitching a shutout against any other ACC teams.
Pretty much a textbook definition of things going wrong.
Blocking and tackling are the most basic of football’s basics. Duke had an open date after the Virginia loss but practiced only three times last week, as Duke tried to balance getting better with getting healthy.