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Yeah but that doesn't change the fact we we suck as a football team and program.
"We just didn't execute really well”— MTSU searches for answers after season opening loss - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Folks like to say that numbers never lie. It's one of the biggest fallacies in life itself. Numbers lie to us all the time, rarely telling the
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3rd week opponent and home opener tsu barely lost at 13th ranked FCS Eastern Washington 36-29.
3rd week opponent and home opener tsu barely lost at 13th ranked FCS Eastern Washington 36-29.
We lose to tsu and what fans are left need to go on strike until changes are made.
Three Things We Learned From Conference USA — Week 1
Charlotte’s defensive woes continue, FAU takes a step backward and FIU’s thrilling opening night.
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excerpt:Three Things We Learned From Conference USA — Week 1
Charlotte’s defensive woes continue, FAU takes a step backward and FIU’s thrilling opening night.
Middle Tennessee’s Six-Year Run Problem
It’s impossible to judge this year’s Middle Tennessee team off of Saturday’s 44-7 loss to James Madison. However, you can pull one facet of the loss out of the bunch and see a trend that spans back over several seasons.The Blue Raiders rushed for 31 yards on 20 carries from the running backs and a total of 12 yards on 28 attempts when including quarterback Chase Cunningham’s sack yardage. Since the 2017 season, the highest rushing output from MTSU running backs for a season is Chaton Mobley’s 617-yard season in 2018. Middle Tennessee has had highs of 208, 366, and 372 yards rushing in 2019, 2020 and 2021, respectively.
Blue Raiders’ head coach Rick Stockstill has more than open about the need for more production from his team’s rushing game via the backs.
“We have to improve our running game overall as last year we averaged only 135 yards per game rushing and only 66 of those came from the running backs,” said Stockstill during 2021’s media day. “We’ll still get some quarterback runs but not nearly as much as we have the past two seasons, we have to become more balanced with our backs getting the rushing yards and improve our passing game.”
That season would see his team average just 123 yards on the ground.
If the Blue Raiders are going to be able to contend for a bowl berth this season, they can’t rely on quarterback Chase Cunningham and a defensive output similarly to last season, especially given all of the departures from last year’s team.
This represents MULTIPLE seasons/years of failed recruiting and coaching. Everyone sees it and knows it.
The facts it is noticeable for six years means the problem goes further back than six years, at least two or three seasons before that so you are looking at nearly a decade of this being an issue.
The OL is bad. It's small, weak, underdeveloped, and poorly coached, and of all our recruiting - it seems the place where we seem to recruit the most anonymous guys (we seem to be able to land guys like WRs and defensive guys with some decent interest, but when it comes to OL - it's just guys with little to no interest). It's been the same theme for the entire Stock era. It seems like every QB we have had has gotten beat up and hurt at some point, there hasn't been a long term productive back since Itavis Mathers (and he was just too talented).
What's worse is that they are confused. They were not hitting their gap assignments and were bumping into each other. They were executing the wrong plays based on what was called. It was a friggin mess.
That's exactly what I saw. Exactly why I said it looked like my 7year old and his Smurf team. He mainly plays Right Tackle and is still learning of course but has moments just like Saturday. Bumping in to each other, standing still, not knowing what to do next. Pitiful coaching.
