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I said this as I was sitting up in 2hh among a sea of aluminum. They have destroyed any type of gameday experience that we used to have. It's so sad what they have done. No food options on one half of the stadium. You have to literally walk the entire stadium to even get something besides a hotdog. No MT gear. anywhere. Nothing. We walked in there with 40 minutes to kickoff and it was like a funeral home. That's the saddest part because the players gave a great effort. My question is if the admin doesn't care, why should anyone else?
So, What I took from that after game presser was that the D has a chip on their shoulder and they weren't happy about last night' performance. Ferg kept saying that the D line didn't do a good job on 1st and 3rd downs and that they are going to work hard this week on that. The DB Teldrick who got he pick 6 said the same thing. I really like their attitude. They know what's up and will continue to improve. Baliey is a good QB. Is he Brent? No. But can he make good decisions, manage the game and captilize when he has to? Yes. No turnovers for the first game is huge. I don't care who you are.
wTF was indeed a cancer. Toxicity kills everything. Positivity lifts up everything. The attitude is different and the vibe is way better.
Monmouth is the highest ranked FCS team we have played since we have been d-1 I believe. They were #12 and just came off of 2 straight playoff appeatances. I don't know about being given too much credit. They are a good team. What we did was finally act like a d-1 (FBS) team and handle business. We got a long way to go and we have to improve a lot but I liked that performance.
We get it. Just saying that this is a different team. Is everything all better and there aren't any issues? Hell no. However, I got to find the silver lining when I can and last night provided a lot. Were we clean? Not at all. Did we improve and handle business? Yup. We would not have won this game last year or in 19. So if this is gushing, then whatever. I'm a fan who is trying not to complain every post. I have my issues with MT. Believe me on that. But these kids are bringing a great attitude and they played well last night. I'll take that all day.
Yep, on the team and the administration to win fans back. Hopefully yesterday was the start of doing that.
Great point and I planned on bringing this exact point up but you beat me to the punch. At the end of the day the difference between FBS and FCS is depth (similar to G5 vs P5) so I expect hard fought first halves but a FBS team should wear down a FCS over the course of 4 Qtrs and MT did that and more. Really poured it on and if we weren't showing sportsmanship we could have added another TD (which is fine with me). UAB struggled with Jj-ville in the 1st half like MT with Monmouth but coaches made changes and we really dialed in the offense. Hopefully it doesn't take this long on the next game.
Officially the stat line for Monmouth rushing was 38 attempts for 88 years or 2.3 yards per attempt. UGA gave up 4.5 against Clemson, granted it's not Monmouth but 2.3 is pretty darn good.
Fair, we were 33 for 112 yards or 3.4 yards per carry. Always want to see 4+ yards per carry but sometimes an opposing team commits to shutting down an aspect of the game and force you to beat them through the air which MT did at 9.5 yards per pass. It's possible we are anemic on the run but it will take a few games to figure out if it's a run problem or just a well designed defense.
One of my biggest issues with the Stock is his refusal to address the OL and DL coaching issue. Mallory on OL and West on DL either : 1) aren’t getting the job done; 2) poor evaluation & recruiting; 3) both.
Be glad you had plenty of room to spread out. Meanwhile over to the west, things getting crazy in the visitors end zone. 😂😂
I think it was the last time the Raiders were in Memphis, some loud drunk guy threw up in the section we were sitting in. We were about 50 feet away and we had to move the stink was so foul. He threw up a couple more times with considerable gusto. I guess he could've been sober and just got hold of some really memphis barbecue, but he sure cleared out the section.
Memphis had a tougher time with their FCS scrub than we did with a top 15 ranked FCS playoff team. Glad you didn't get shot.
I didn’t really think it was a very flattering Memphis link that I posted. Maybe I need to look at it again.
