FB RECRUITING TRAIL MIX: Latest news from the recruiting trail
- By ewglenn
- Lightning's Lounge
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Great post.Losing focus due to a comfortable lead is an issue teams lacking in maturity & development have suffered since the concept of team sports have been around. Despite the fact these players have participated in team football since grade school this is probably one of the rawest teams in college football. Not just new players adjusting to playing with each other, but adapting to all new coaching staff as well has to be overwhelming.
I think we were so overpowered by the positivity & salesmanship of CDM that we as fans (myself included!) lost sight of what an overwhelming task it is to putting a cohesive, & fully mature unit on the field. Including a practically a whole new team of players to work with.
Our anger spilled out last night when we saw an fcs team come back from being down 21, & in all reality if not for a targeting penalty overturning a pick 6 Peasnt's & Kelly's last minute heroics probably wouldn't have made any difference anyway.
What we have to remember for next week is we may play an improvef 4 quarters next week than last night & still get beat by 50.
Nonetheless I'm getting ready to buy 3 of the $30 two game ticket packages for the WKU & Liberty/Kennesaw promo. That's a great promo!
We may not have a winning record this year, but I bet by game 9 we'll see a pretty decent product on the field. We have what looks like an excellent recruiting class coming. I see this year as more about rebuilding a foundation for next year & the year after that. And if coach & the boys want to do a little dancing after beating a team we should have knocked off by 30 to help start that foundation dance away.
I agree those two teams had the best showing. I was a little surprised at Liberty not crushing Campbell. The Western Kentucky game didn’t show us anything as pretty all of our teams would have had a similar showing. Honestly, I don’t think our conference is going to be that great this year but there’s still a lot of football to be played.
Wow. They barely beat a bottom half 1aa team and act like they won a game vs Liberty.
It's part of getting them to buy into being a team and a family. You can be an a hole and drum them or have a positive vibe and motivate them to do better. It's all about how you get down.Wow. They barely beat a bottom half 1aa team and act like they won a game vs Liberty.
Wow. They barely beat a bottom half 1aa team and act like they won a game vs Liberty.
I agree those two teams had the best showing. I was a little surprised at Liberty not crushing Campbell. The Western Kentucky game didn’t show us anything as pretty all of our teams would have had a similar showing. Honestly, I don’t think our conference is going to be that great this year but there’s still a lot of football to be played.What's everyone's feelings towards CUSA 2024 football after week 1? Believe Kennesaw St & Sam Houston have to be leaders in positive impressions. From there I got the feelings of "meh... to good lord!".
Took care of the FCS so that’s a win. They were all ugly but they were wins that I wasn’t sure we were going to get.Thursday
Coastal Carolina (1-0) 55, Jacksonville State (0-1) 27
Saturday
#5 Alabama (1-0) 63, Western Kentucky (0-1) 0
Indiana (1-0) 31, FIU (0-1) 7
Nebraska (1-0) 40, UTEP (0-1) 7
UTSA (1-0) 28, Kennesaw State (0-1) 16
Liberty (1-0) 41, Campbell (0-1) 24
Middle Tennessee (1-0) 32, Tennessee Tech (0-1) 25
Sam Houston (1-0) 34, Rice (0-1) 14
Louisiana Tech (1-0) 25, Nicholls State (0-1) 17
New Mexico State (1-0) 23, SEMO (0-1) 16
RECORDS
vs Power Four: 0-3
vs Group of Five: 1-2
vs FCS: 4-0
Home: 4-1
Road: 1-4
While we should have been able to run on them I would consider their front four to be the best part of their team. It’s just week one.I still like the offense and I think we'll see the playcalling start to get A LOT more creative when we start playing more serious winnable games, but not being able to run the ball on Tech is a MAJOR red flag to me for sure. I'm interested to see what the passing attack looks like in the WKU game because Bodie Reeder had some really good play designs and calls when he opened up the playbook on a couple plays
good to see things like this! Too bad the weather did not cooperate and the game did not go as hoped.
Pat has his place and I've said before he is a great ambassador for WVU due to his reach, but he is an acquired taste. I've always felt his way really doesn't fit into GameDay very well. He honestly is why I watch Big Noon Kickoff most weekends now.
Then dont. You’re so annoyingThis program is unfollowable.
I just can’t do it anymore