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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee (2-5, 1-2) @ Jacksonville State (3-3, 2-0) (ESPN2), 6:30, Wednesday, October 23, 2024

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“Guys just didn’t make plays” - Mistakes frustrate Blue Raiders in final midweek game of 2024 - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics

JACKSONVILLE, Ala. — The frustration from Middle Tennessee head coach Derek Mason was palpable from the very first moment Mason stood in front of the camera following
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Jacksonville State Game Thread

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MT01 said:
Yep. On par with with pop warner pee wee teams I’ve seen as I mentioned last night.

I’m only surprised it was only 22. The disparity between our defense and opponents offenses and our offense and opponents defenses is astonishing. Only Nick, Omar, and Willis kept us in remotely in the game. How many passes did the other guys drop?

But back to my original point. Consider I watched our RBs actually have a hole a few times and to be tracked down from behind by defensive linemen and not even make a 3 yard gain. I thought it was all on our line but good grief ours backs are slow and do not ever break tackles. Not even arm tackles. They just go down as soon as a whiff of air passes by. On the flip side our defense seems to think one hand touch is the name of the game. I lost how many times the defense tried to arm tackle with one arm. And the number of times they weren’t even in a good position to tackle at all. Just abysmal.

We have a dearth of talent and fundamentals. Not a good combination.
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Looks like our defense is playing flag football.
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FOOTBALL FBS coaches hired in 2024

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Indiana - Curt Cignetti, 7 - 0


Duke - Manny Diaz, 6 – 1


Texas A&M - Mike Elko, 6 - 1


Syracuse - Fran Brown, 5 – 1


Louisiana-Monroe - Bryant Vincent, 5 - 1


Alabama - Kalen DeBoer, 5 – 2


James Madison - Bob Chesney, 5 - 2


Tulane - Jon Sumrall, 5 – 2


San Jose State - Ken Niumatalolo, 5 - 2


Michigan - Sherrone Moore, 5 – 3


Fresno State - Tim Skipper (interim), 5 - 3


Boston College - Bill O'Brien, 4 – 3


Michigan State - Jonathan Smith, 4 – 3


Washington - Jedd Fisch, 4 - 3


Buffalo - Pete Lembo, 4 – 3


Oregon State - Trent Bray, 4 – 3


San Diego State - Sean Lewis, 3 – 3


South Alabama - Major Applewhite, 3 - 4


New Mexico - Bronco Mendenhall, 3 - 4


Arizona - Brent Brennan, 3 - 4


Nevada- Jeff Choate, 3 – 5


Georgia State - Dell McGee, 2 - 4


Houston - Willie Fritz, 2 - 5


UCLA - DeShaun Foster, 2 - 5


New Mexico State - Tony Sanchez, 2 - 5


Middle Tennessee - Derek Mason, 2 - 6


Utah State - Nate Dreiling (interim), 1 - 6


Wyoming - Jay Sawvel, 1 - 6


Mississippi State - Jeff Lebby, 1 - 6


Troy - Gerad Parker, 1 - 6


UTEP - Scotty Walden, 1 - 7


List of current NCAA Division I FBS football coaches - Wikipedia

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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Jacksonville State Game Thread

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SpaceRaider said:
This is one season long tryout for next years two deep and so far I think probably only a handful are candidates for the depth chart and probably they are eyeing the portal. Lots of work ahead.
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I couldn’t name you one guy who stood out in a good way on the defense last night. I’d sign 2 dozen portal guys on D at a minimum.

I did think the DL held their own in the first half, but the line was clearly worn out by the 2nd half with JSUs running game. They just don’t have the depth needed there. If you play a team that runs as much as JSU you need to rotate guys and we don’t have that depth on our roster.

As for the back portions of the defense - we just don’t have football players there. I don’t like calling guys out on that do appear to be playing hard, but I’m not sure we’d get less effective football if we just pulled some kids out of the stands.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Jacksonville State Game Thread

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Hop45 said:
Can we please stop with the quick screens! Theyve blown them up all night!
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Those were all wasted downs and lost yards & got a few players hung out to dry. Not sure it was truly a screen, will have to go back and look, but there were only 2 “sideline passes” that went for positive yards that I recall. One to Kelly & one on the Jax sideline to Willis that he managed to make some big yardage down the boundary out of nothing. Those plays when the vertical passes are working just infuriate me. Keep doing what works until they stop it!!! We continue to stop ourself with these wasted low probability plays.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Jacksonville State Game Thread

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MT01 said:
Yep. On par with with pop warner pee wee teams I’ve seen as I mentioned last night.

I’m only surprised it was only 22. The disparity between our defense and opponents offenses and our offense and opponents defenses is astonishing. Only Nick, Omar, and Willis kept us in remotely in the game. How many passes did the other guys drop?

But back to my original point. Consider I watched our RBs actually have a hole a few times and to be tracked down from behind by defensive linemen and not even make a 3 yard gain. I thought it was all on our line but good grief ours backs are slow and do not ever break tackles. Not even arm tackles. They just go down as soon as a whiff of air passes by. On the flip side our defense seems to think one hand touch is the name of the game. I lost how many times the defense tried to arm tackle with one arm. And the number of times they weren’t even in a good position to tackle at all. Just abysmal.

We have a dearth of talent and fundamentals. Not a good combination.
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This is one season long tryout for next years two deep and so far I think probably only a handful are candidates for the depth chart and probably they are eyeing the portal. Lots of work ahead.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Jacksonville State Game Thread

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Hop45 said:
Nice to watch a game without silly turnovers and crazy penalties. Didn't beat ourselves, but man, that was the worst display of tackling I have ever seen at any level. It was awful!
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Yep. On par with with pop warner pee wee teams I’ve seen as I mentioned last night.

I’m only surprised it was only 22. The disparity between our defense and opponents offenses and our offense and opponents defenses is astonishing. Only Nick, Omar, and Willis kept us in remotely in the game. How many passes did the other guys drop?

But back to my original point. Consider I watched our RBs actually have a hole a few times and to be tracked down from behind by defensive linemen and not even make a 3 yard gain. I thought it was all on our line but good grief ours backs are slow and do not ever break tackles. Not even arm tackles. They just go down as soon as a whiff of air passes by. On the flip side our defense seems to think one hand touch is the name of the game. I lost how many times the defense tried to arm tackle with one arm. And the number of times they weren’t even in a good position to tackle at all. Just abysmal.

We have a dearth of talent and fundamentals. Not a good combination.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee (2-5, 1-2) @ Jacksonville State (3-3, 2-0) (ESPN2), 6:30, Wednesday, October 23, 2024

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Kelly is much improved but the issue is still the OL. We get runs in bursts but then barely hit a yard or two the next few. Credle's longest was 13yds. His other seven carries netted only 26yds.

We just don't have the OL. Again. Nick threw for 297, but 99 were on two plays. We are hurt on the OL yes, but major changes need made in the off-season or we won't keep the D honest next year either.

Same for our defense. DL is decent, but gets gassed quickly due to our offense and bad return coverage. Behind the DL tackling is awful, especially with missed tackles which is super frustrating because that has nothing to do with talent. It is 100% teachable. Special teams has the same issue. And we've been saying those same sentences since TTU. That's just crazy.

It is a combination of things where one hole can't be plugged without the other at the same time. And right now we just don't have the players both in quantity and talent to do that. Question is are these coordinators the answer to fix those problems.
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BASKETBALL Secret Scrimmages

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altshauf said:
ETSU made it to the conference championship last year while we sat in the gutter. They returned most of their team and we were without our top offensive threat… doesn’t sound terrible to me? I’m actually pretty optimistic going into this year. There are some new faces around the roster that should have an impact, but we have 2 proven dynamic guards in Westin and Porter.
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I’m not convinced having two point guards on the floor at the same time will win us a championship. Guess we’ll see.
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BASKETBALL Secret Scrimmages

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ETSU made it to the conference championship last year while we sat in the gutter. They returned most of their team and we were without our top offensive threat… doesn’t sound terrible to me? I’m actually pretty optimistic going into this year. There are some new faces around the roster that should have an impact, but we have 2 proven dynamic guards in Westin and Porter.
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