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In so many ways, the Western Bulldogs and Luke Beveridge have smashed the mould that tells us what to expect of AFL premiership teams. Wholesale NCAA Jerseys Free Shipping .Beveridge entered the 2016 finals with hardly any of the KPIs that have come to be gospel in footy circles.For instance:1. The Dogs did not have enough experience, so it seemed. The team that won the preliminary and grand finals averaged 81 games per player, a ridiculously low number. Outside of the crusty veterans, Matthew Boyd and Dale Morris, and a 176-game player in Liam Picken, they were callow youth, with nine players having logged fewer than 50 games. Hawthorn in 2015 had players averaging 167 games.You needed to delve back to Adelaides 1997 outfit to find a less-experienced premiership team, the Crows coming in at 73 games per player. This explains why the Dogs were so nervous on grand final day. Or not!2. Beveridges team came from seventh place, which we know is unheard of. In the 23 years the AFL has had a top-eight finals system, no one has done it from there, or even reached the grand final before. Since the current finals configuration was adopted in 2000, the Bulldogs are the first to win from outside the top four. The reasons for that are simple: it requires winning four finals (and in the Bulldogs case, two of them interstate). The only previous team to win four finals, Adelaide in 1997, did it under the previous finals system.The conventional wisdom, spouted year-after-year, is that you have to finish top-four to win the flag. Its just been blown out of the water.3. The Bulldogs are not a high-scoring team. In the era of Alastair Clarksons Hawthorn, and following on from Bomber Thompsons Geelong, it has been accepted thought that you needed to be a heavy-scorer, probably in the top-four rankings, to win a flag. Hawthorn in their three consecutive flags, were No.1 every time. Fox Footys much-hyped premiership standard suggests a premiership team needs to score at least 100 points a game and concede fewer than 86 points, for example.But in the regular season, the Bulldogs were 12th in scoring with an average of 86 points per game. It is the lowest scoring rank of a premiership team since Paul Roos remarkably strong 2005 Sydney team, which defended so well and was 14th in points-for that season, eventually winning a premiership with eight goals on a picture-perfect afternoon.The key here is that when it counted, and when they played their best footy, the Dogs found a way to score an extra two goals a game in the finals: from the regular-season average of 84 points to 96 points. They conjured 14, 16, 13 and 13 goals in the big games, and continued to defend at the same rate (73 points per match). They did enough, albeit with an unconventional forward set-up with only one genuine tall (Tom Boyd), and with the seasons top goalkicker, Jake Stringer, having a stinker on grand final day.4. They did not spend big. Aside from the front-ended Tom Boyd contract, the Bulldogs have bucked the trend with football department spending, too. According to reports this week, they will be the first team in many years to win a flag without being in the top handful of clubs for football department spending, which counts player wages as well as coaching and other football costs. Beveridge has worked a miracle in this sense, for the whole point of the recently-introduced tax on this spending was based on the premise that the wealthy clubs were getting a clear advantage. So much for that theory.The lesson from all this? It is that there is hope. The Bulldogs were 14th in 2014, a short two years ago, which shows that with good coaching (and Beveridge has just written himself a ticket to years in this job), excellent recruiting (Simon Dalrymple and list manager Jason McCartney might be excused for the odd head-wobble this week) and smart development, a team can make quick strides.Fifteen of the 22 players who took the field on Saturday were taken after pick No.30 in the draft - an astonishing return on a modest investment. In the overall scheme of things at Whitten Oval, Dalrymple, the recruiting chief, has proved himself almost as valuable as the coach. Almost.All of these factors trump the idea that extracting early picks in the draft, which is fluky at best, are the key to improvement. Rather, the Bulldogs found organic growth from existing players like Picken, perhaps the most improved player in the competition and certainly the player of the finals, and from Jason Johannisen, a rookie. And, of course, they nailed the picks that they had Not to mention the great intangible of sports the world wide ... they had self-belief and it was never, ever shaken.Why not us? Why not, indeed. Wholesale College Jerseys . -- Gus Malzahn finally had his day in Fayetteville. Cheap College Jerseys Football . -- The proud fathers huddled near the Dallas Stars dressing room, smiling, laughing and telling stories while wearing replica green sweaters of their sons team. http://www.cheapcollegejerseysoutletonline.com/ .Y. -- Knicks coach Mike Woodson said Wednesday that J. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Coach Mike Gundy and his Oklahoma State defense are getting ready for a visit from West Virginias low-diving circus act.Mountaineer wide receivers Jovon Durante, Daikiel Shorts and KaRaun White all made difficult catches in traffic last week against TCU, and the Cowboys took notice.They were pretty impressive in the way they were able to catch the football, Gundy said. Theres a reason theyre undefeated. Theyre playing really good football. Youve got to be sound on defense and youve got to find ways to make plays.If West Virginia wide receivers coach Tyron Carrier was excited by what happened against TCU, he wasnt showing it.After studying film with his players, he asked them to rate their performances.They said, `Well, besides the good catches, coach, we didnt do much, which is right on, Carrier said. Those guys are not satisfied with what they have been doing. They know there is a lot more football to be played and a lot more opportunities to prove that they are really good.The next one comes Saturday when No. 10 West Virginia (6-0, 3-0) plays at Oklahoma State (5-2, 3-1).Shorts got things going against TCU on West Virginias opening possession -- not for a catch but for his effort afterward to bull through a defender into the end zone for a 10-yard score.Two series later, Shorts turned around in time 38 yards downfield to make a one-handed grab against his chest between two defenders to set up another touchdown.That was just the start.Just before halftime, quarterback Skyler Howard threw 30 yards downfield where Durante dove in front of TCUs Denzel Johnson and Nick Orr, pulled the ball just off the turf and flipped.Its always been our mind set that if its not our ball, its nobodys ball, Durante said. If itts a hard catch, were going to make that catch. Cheap College Jerseys Basketball. .It was Whites turn in the third quarter.The brother of Chicago Bears wide receiver Kevin White went high for a catch and tapped his toe along the sideline for a 24-yard gain.Later Howard scrambled to his right and threw a 16-yard floating pass toward the end zone that came down at the intersection of four diving players, including White and teammate Devonte Mathis. White cradled the ball into his chest just above the ground. The TD was upheld upon review.Howard said the TCU game was one of his sloppier ones and that his receivers bailed me out. They really stepped it up.Not bad for a unit that was criticized for its sloppiness a year ago.Shorts has a team-best 31 catches and White is next with 27. Neither is considered West Virginias best deep threat. That label goes to Shelton Gibson, who has a team-high 501 yards and an average of 20 yards per catch.Durante has perhaps shown the greatest improvement from a year ago, when he had numerous drops and caught just six passes for 131 yards over the final seven regular-season games. He was academically ineligible for West Virginias bowl game and was subsequently suspended for the spring semester.Moved to the inside slot position, Durante has 20 catches, almost as many as he had all of last season.Howard has spread his 12 touchdown throws among seven receivers.Theyve got a bunch of explosive guys that were going to have to watch out for, said Oklahoma State safety Jordan Sterns, who has three interceptions and a pair of pass breakups.---Online:More AP college football: http://collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '