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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee (1-1) vs WKU (1-1) (ESPN+), 6PM, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Not to bring bad news but just checked weather report for Saturday. Rain & storms expected on Friday with 60% odds going into Saturday. Two weeks in a row really sucks.
Would definitely not be ideal for a second straight big recruiting weekend to be bad weather but from a game perspective, I don't think that would be the worst thing to happen with how both offenses play
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

Yea, sure, after Ole miss pulled all their starters on defense we were able to get some first downs. Big whoop.
They moved the ball effectively from the mid-second quarter onward and Ole Miss had their starters in until the last couple of drives.

Drive chart for MTSU since the mid-second quarter:

Punt that pinned Ole Miss at the half-yard line -- 50-YARD LINE -- 3:31 time of possesion
Field goal to get points on the board -- OLE MISS 14 -- 2:52 top
HALFTIME
Interception in the end zone -- OLE MISS 16 -- 6:51 top
Fumble turned over -- MTSU 14 -- 0:55 top
Turnover on downs trying to get a touchdown on the board -- OLE MISS 6 -- 5:32 top
Punt -- MTSU 18 -- 3:02 top
Young Guys/Backups Enter
Turnover on Downs -- Ole Miss 45 -- 1:52 top
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee (1-1) vs WKU (1-1) (ESPN+), 6PM, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I’ll never forget when Stock said this was just another game around 2015 on a pregame. Something about drivers seat etc. I was ready to drive off the road .
I used to travel to a lot of road games. After that blow out loss in Bowling Green. I swore off any non vandy road games as long as Stockstill was head coach. It was apparent the M&M duo were okay the program sucking as they apparently never applied any pressure and Stockstill never felt his job was in danger.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee (1-1) vs WKU (1-1) (ESPN+), 6PM, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Parker hughes, drew Francis, Ethan Ellis will have to play and play well for us to have a shot.

We are severely lacking talent right now in my opinion and cannot afford to have the few good players we do have missing games.

play calling on both sides of the ball has to improve. Offense has to be less predictable and get our best players in space. Some completed deep balls would help open up the field so much. I about spit my drink out laughing when we lined up in 21 personnel against Ole Miss and ran the most predictable play call in history when we only needed a few yards. It was predictably stuffed in the back field.

Defense needs to develop an identity and quick. We cannot just sit back and let the opposing offense dictate the game. Must be aggressive and unpredictable. Can’t let their QB and OC get into a rhythm. Play calling must be proactive, not reactive.

I don’t think this one ends well. Vegas doesn’t think much of us to pit us as a 7.5 dog at home against our rival. I’m pretty sure we have never been that big of a dog at home against WKU. Embarrassing.

It's a winnable game but we will have to play well in all 3 phases with little to no mistakes

FOOTBALL G5 Needs A Collective Ultimatum

Which I feel like has been the way since we moved to 1-A/FCS. It will just have a name associated with it.
When we jumped to 1-A, it wasn't like that at all. 114 teams our first year in '99. Now there are 134.
Marshall was in the MAC and ranked in the top 10. S Miss in CUSA was ranked. The year before Tulane was in the top 10. There were legit reasons and opportunity to move up.
It's been several years (Cincy) since a team like that sniffed the top 20, much less the top 10. And longer since multiple teams like that were ranked.

Budgets were closer, you didn't have full Saturdays of TV, and it was a big deal when a game was broadcast.

The media started the whole G5 thing and it has just grown and the G5 schools accepted it. Between giving the bigger conferences Autonomy back in the BCS days to accepting one NY6 bowl.

When we jumped, it was worth it. A real chance to compete. I honestly don't know if it is worth it for schools nowadays.

FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

I'd say being able to move the ball down the field all second half against a top-5 team in the country was a positive. Holden had a good game and they put in plays to get him the ball in space. Being able to get home a couple times in the backfield was also good to see. Need to finish drives and do several things better but they had a lot of good flashes against a top-5 team. The real tests start that matter now however

Yea, sure, after Ole miss pulled all their starters on defense we were able to get some first downs. Big whoop.
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FOOTBALL G5 Needs A Collective Ultimatum

There will always be a place for G5 vs P4 games - not every P4 program wants to play 12 straight titanic matchups. Ohio State can do it. But what does someone like Ole Miss's program look like long term if they had to play 12 Ohio State's every season?

As for the G5 holding out for more dough - It's the prisoner's dilemma. If we hold out with our G5 buddies, we all win. But if one guy gives in, he gets the windfall and you get zilch. I highly doubt there's that much fanatic zeal in the G5 (and even FCS teams to this because they get those paycheck games too) to hold strong there.

I think the biggest road block to a revolution is our own administrators at the conference and school level. No one wants to be that administrator that says "hey, this might not be the best path for us". In the short term, it's surely going to lead to consolidation, angry alums, bad publicity, and pink slips for a whole lot of people on the college athletics gravy train.

I'm convinced it's inevitable that us middle tier program (not P4, but not FCS) end up in a middle tier of college football, I just don't know when or who will have the cojones to start it.
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FOOTBALL G5 Needs A Collective Ultimatum

I worry about the future of college football & specifically for us. Seems like not long ago Brent Stockstill had us beating SEC Mizzou, and even dating back to last season when the Mizzou game was a one possession ball game all the way up to the final play of the game & that mizzou team went on to be a top ten team. Then you see the difference just a year makes, a 49 point loss to an SEC power. CFB landscape changes fast. These competitive G5 v P5 matchups are going to be sorely missed, part of what makes college football what it is. I am hoping last Saturday's result was moreso chalked up to misses in the portal/mass roster turnover & not an indication of the future for schools like us. I think we can definitely stay competitive because Coach Stock's 4 win team last year had Mizzou on the ropes, surely we can get back to that at least with new facilities coming & the new staff. I believe in this staff but we have to be better, there are other teams who got hit by the portal hard but have been better than we have been through two games.
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FOOTBALL G5 Needs A Collective Ultimatum

It is what it is.

I just watched NCST get absolutely annihilated in every facet of the game vs UT. Now, NCSU is not a dog program - Doeren is a solid coach, they have an above average level of talent, a QB that killed the Sunbelt for 3 years - and it looked like the NFL vs high school. UT is a program that is entirely built on NIL (nothing wrong with that, if you have that leverage, use it). But that's going to be the demarcation line between the haves and the have nots.

And NC State - They're just a F****d as we are when it comes to being nationally competitive and they are upper-ish level ACC program.

Football is going to stratify - there's going to be about 20-30 programs, tops, that are going to be competitive on the playoff/national level. The rest of us are going to have to find a new way to make college football have meaning. That's not impossible. I still think the portal will giveth as much as it will taketh away. Few of our peers at our level will have more than we can offer.

I think eventually, someone will come up with something - either a mid-level league/playoff/poll/whatever, or something like that. I just wish we'd hurry up and get there.

FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee (1-1) vs WKU (1-1) (ESPN+), 6PM, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I'm at the point with my health and age that I know I can't stay out in the rain and do well. Use to sit out in the rain and bemoan the fair weather fans, now I have become one.

At least have to wonder if MT wanting to run will give an edge to the Raiders in this particular game.
Yeah. I ain't sitting in no rain or snow :)

FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee (1-1) vs WKU (1-1) (ESPN+), 6PM, Saturday, September 14, 2024

I'm at the point with my health and age that I know I can't stay out in the rain and do well. Use to sit out in the rain and bemoan the fair weather fans, now I have become one.

At least have to wonder if MT wanting to run will give an edge to the Raiders in this particular game.
Very understandable, same situation here.

FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee (1-1) vs WKU (1-1) (ESPN+), 6PM, Saturday, September 14, 2024

Not to bring bad news but just checked weather report for Saturday. Rain & storms expected on Friday with 60% odds going into Saturday. Two weeks in a row really sucks.
I'm at the point with my health and age that I know I can't stay out in the rain and do well. Use to sit out in the rain and bemoan the fair weather fans, now I have become one.

At least have to wonder if MT wanting to run will give an edge to the Raiders in this particular game.
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