FOOTBALL Pre-Season Bowl Prediction for 2021 Blue Raiders
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We play one of the easiest schedules in the country, if not the easiest schedule. Only 1 P5 team and it’s a winnable game against a Va Tech team that hasn’t done squat lately.
7-5 should be a given, even with this questionable staff. Cancerous Tony Franklin is gone so I’m expecting a competent offense, and we return plenty of talent on the defensive side of the ball and I still believe in Shafer.
the only way this thing goes sideways is if Hockman flat out sucks. I believe in our talent at every skill position on our team except maybe QB. And QB is obviously an important position.
I’m actually pretty excited for this season and I wish I lived closer to make the games. This is going to be a fun team to watch this year as long as Hockman is competent. For those of you on the fence about going to games this year, I would 100% go. This should be a good team.
On paper, this team should be competing for the East. And I believe we will if we get decent QB play. There are a handful of MEN on this roster that should be fairly dominate in this weak league.
7-5 should be a given, even with this questionable staff. Cancerous Tony Franklin is gone so I’m expecting a competent offense, and we return plenty of talent on the defensive side of the ball and I still believe in Shafer.
the only way this thing goes sideways is if Hockman flat out sucks. I believe in our talent at every skill position on our team except maybe QB. And QB is obviously an important position.
I’m actually pretty excited for this season and I wish I lived closer to make the games. This is going to be a fun team to watch this year as long as Hockman is competent. For those of you on the fence about going to games this year, I would 100% go. This should be a good team.
On paper, this team should be competing for the East. And I believe we will if we get decent QB play. There are a handful of MEN on this roster that should be fairly dominate in this weak league.
Wiley, I hope you aren’t setting yourself up for more disappointment and meltdown. We go through this Summer of Hope exercise every year. If they blow out Monmouth, “compete” at VT, beat Charlotte and UTSA without getting blown out themselves, I’ll probably show up for Marshall.
Family reunion. Think about it for a minute. 😂
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1) They already get a full ride and a cost of attendance stipend.
2) I quit wearing jerseys in my early 20’s.
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this team is capable of so much more. There’s so much talent on this roster and anything less than 8 wins is a disappointment in my eyes. Look at our roster and look how many upper class men and talented young guys we have. WR is maybe as deep as ever. RB we have 2 power 5 transfers plus quick freshman terry wilkins, peasant, and more. Stacked and loaded. Hockman will be the X factor. Line play should be there with more scholarships dedicated and good experience there. Offensive numbers should improve.
Defensively we have serious young talent on the DL and some good upper class men. Really excited to see what Ralph Mency, Zaylin Wood, Vincent Dinkins, Jordan Ferguson, and Jordan branch do this year. We did lose some key seniors on DL like Tyshun Render but these younger guys can be even better. We are talented and deep at DL. This will hopefully allow our LBs to take good angles and dominate. Secondary is super talented with Blankenship and Gregory grate at safety. Best safety duo in CUSA and top 5 in G5. Grate would be a pro prospect if he was 2” taller and 10 pounds heavier. At corner I just love Teldrick Ross and Quincy Riley. Riley has pro potential and will make a 53 man roster when he’s done here mark my words. Our defense is just loaded with talent.
special teams and especially PK is a huge unknown at this point. It will probably be the D factor in determining if this is a good or possibly great season.
I know some of y’all think I’m crazy for hyping this team because they haven’t had a respectable season in a while. But I’m telling you the talent is there to whip some ass. To be fair I have not looked at other teams rosters. It’s very possible everyone else has stockpiled just as much talent as we have with all these roster management rule changes due to covid.
the monmouth game is the scariest game on the roster to me at this point. We have no business losing to them and have far superior talent but Rick stock still has not had a team playing well in week 1 in the two decades he’s been here. I could unfortunately see us losing that game because it would be the most stockstill thing ever to beat monmouth and then still have a 7 win season
with the talent we have I’m expecting at least 8 wins. If we get a few breaks and special teams plays well we could maybe push that to 9 or 10 and make the CUSA championship game.
6 wins or less would be unexplainably unacceptable all things considered. We play the weakest schedule in the country and our roster is LOADED with talent. If our staff can’t win 8+ with this talent and schedule, I truly am forever done with MT football.
tell me how QB play is better? I'm not an O'hara fan, but his numbers were way better than Hockman's over the last 2 years playing behind this craptastic line that MT has. Every other school upgraded their rosters with transfers also. Hell WKU took 17 and 2 high schoolers in recruiting.
Loved watching O’Hara play and he had a ton of heart and grit…. But he was not a good reader of defense and didn’t scare anyone down the field. He was one read and run. Again, loved watching him play but when you get sat for a walk on backup it says a lot.
This is what worries me. I've looked at our roster and I love it outside of some QB depth. I don't think there's much behind Hockman if he gets hurt, Vattiato likely isn't ready, and Cunningham never impressed me. But I love every other position group on the roster. Even confident we found a good PK.
But I have not looked at what other schools in our conference have done. I'm sure they have stockpiled and used COVID rules to their advantage too so our solid roster might just be a wash because everyone else got better too.
Guess we'll find out.
