Official Site of ODU · Aug 25, 2018
Get the Max With Minium: Football Notebook
If there’s one statistic that speaks to why Old Dominion fell from a 10-3 record in 2016 to 5-7 last season, it was ODU’s performance in the fourth quarter.
The final period is when winning teams generally are at their best, and ODU got outscored, 117-47, in the last stanza, a composite deficit of 70 points.
That’s a stat football coach Bobby Wilder said the Monarchs must turn around if they are to rebound this fall.
“When you’re outplayed like that in the last quarter, that generally means we’re not coaching them well enough or we’re not physically or mentally tough enough,” Wilder said. “We have to get better in the fourth quarter.”