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Post by deep Purple on Dec 7, 2023 12:01:51 GMT -5
How did Toerper do as a recruiter?
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Post by deep Purple on Dec 6, 2023 14:38:32 GMT -5
Looks like Arkansas showing really strong interest in Matt now. Anybody else have any insight? I don't have any insight, but the mention of Arkansas leads me to asking whether anyone has seen a movie called Greater, the story of the greatest college walk-on in history, an offensive lineman at Arkansas. It's a remarkable and inspiring story. Great movie. I think it's on YouTube
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Post by deep Purple on Dec 5, 2023 14:00:06 GMT -5
I would think he'll go for the best offer and best fit. I think he can do better than JMU. As of now JMU is 24 in the country, not to many more programs to do better at. I meant if he were to get a half decent P5 offer. JMU still plays in the suk belt.
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Post by deep Purple on Dec 5, 2023 11:29:34 GMT -5
It's a smart move for Chesney. Cignetti has already built the program. All Chesney has to do is maintain it and beat lousy sunbelt teams for three years and then move up. It may be the worst fbs conference, but it's still fbs head coaching experience to add to the resume.
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Post by deep Purple on Dec 5, 2023 11:12:52 GMT -5
I imagine Matt will go to JMU if Chesney goes there. JMU fans seem all but assured the new coach will be announced today, so we shouldn't have to wait long at this point. I would think he'll go for the best offer and best fit. I think he can do better than JMU.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 28, 2023 22:19:52 GMT -5
He reneged on a verbal commitment so I didn't give two ____s back then but his career stats at Clemson are 23 completions on 37 attempts, 62.2% comp%, 218 yards, 5.9 avg, 2 td's, 0 int.
The dust has settled and Matt Sluka was a record setting quarterback and the other guy was just another fbs walk-on who only saw the field during garbage time.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 27, 2023 10:49:57 GMT -5
That leaves one starter returning on the OL.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 19, 2023 12:34:22 GMT -5
JMO - The playoff committee should put a rule in place that four fcs losses = automatic elimination. I don't care what conference a team is in, finishing .600 against fcs competition is unimpressive.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 19, 2023 8:43:11 GMT -5
I’m not so sure I’d say the 7-4 Valley teams you have listed here are locks, particularly Youngstown. They’re close to the bubble than you’d think. I think going 5-3 in the Valley carries weight, but I just don’t know if I’d be comfortable saying they’re locks. NC Central is probably on the right side of the bubble, but don’t believe they’re a sure thing. Look at their schedule and wins closer. Non-D1 win over Winston Salem State, bad loss to Howard, and exactly one win over a team with a winning record (Elon). I would say SIU is a lock, Youngstown maybe not. NC Central is definitely getting in IMO. Southern Illinois had a nice 14-11 win over a poor fbs Northern Illinois team, but they also had four losses to fcs opponents. They got blown out by Youngstown State and North Dakota state. If you're getting blown out by fcs teams you shouldn't be a lock. NC Central plays in a bad conference. They got blown out by a sub-mediocre Howard team. Howard won their conference at 6-5 and lost to Harvard 48-7.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 18, 2023 21:15:05 GMT -5
FCS records of at-large candidate/bubble teams.
ND State 8-3 Montana state- 8-3, one of those wins was over a non-scholarship Pioneer league team. Mercer 8-2, one win over a Pioneer league team. North Dakota 7-3, one win over a Pioneer league team. Youngstown state 7-3, one win over a Pioneer league team. NC Central 8-1 Delaware 8-2 Eastern Illinois 8-2 UT Martin 8-2 Western Carolina 7-3 Central Arkansas 6-3 Southern Illinois 6-4, fbs win over Northern Illinois Chattanooga 7-3 UC Davis 7-3 Sacramento state 6-4, fbs win over Stanford Richmond 8-2 Idaho 7-2, fbs win over Nevada. Incarnate Word 7-1 Holy Cross 7-2
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 15, 2023 12:01:28 GMT -5
Bucknell Lafayette Fordham Holy Cross
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 13, 2023 11:27:31 GMT -5
The other 7-4 teams will have ranked wins-- are some of those teams worthy of being ranked? But most have more FCS losses. Rankings are subjective.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 13, 2023 11:04:55 GMT -5
Really, guys? Come on. We know that they only way the Crusaders get into the playoffs is as the automatic PL champion qualifier which means a win over Georgetown and a Lafayette loss to Lehigh. No other way. No other permutations are getting us in. We know it. The players know it. The coaching staff knows it. We win Saturday and Lafayette wins Saturday, a tie goes to Laffy in the head-to-head and with neither a win over BC nor Army, close as we came, was "close but no cigar." We are out and finished for the season. Painful as that is to write. We can't get in without help from the Mountain Hawks. I don't happen to care whether some conference gets 3 or 4 or 5 teams into the playoffs. I care about one team - Holy Cross. And the PL isn't getting 2 teams this season but would have for sure if we beat BC and Army. We didn't. Close counts only in horseshoes and grenade throwing. I'm not willing to give in that easily. With a win on Saturday, we'll be 7-2 against FBS with our only losses being to i.) our League co-champ and. ii.) the (likely) Ivy League champ. We have two losses to FBS teams - each by three points. One of those schools is a bowl-eligible P5 team against which we very much held our own, and the other, also likely to be bowl-eligible, lost almost every statistical measure against us except for the one that really counts. I agree with this. Two close FCS losses, one against the Ivy champ and the other against the PL co-champ. There's going to be a lot of 7-4 bubble teams and almost all of them have three FCS losses. What makes them so great? For example Sam Herder has Northern Iowa ranked 14. What?? They're 6-4 with three FCS losses, one of them was to a bad Missouri State team and they're going to play ND State on Saturday. Either they end up 6-5 or ND State ends up 7-4 with FOUR FCS losses. They didn't even play any FBS teams. I get that it's a good league, but they don't have anymore scholarships than anyone else. And not all MVFC teams are good. The bottom half of that conference stinks.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 15:40:56 GMT -5
South Dakota beat North Dakota. UND now 6-4. 3-6 Missouri State beating 6-3 Northern Iowa 21-3 in 2nd qtr.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 15:13:18 GMT -5
A fg is useless for Army
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 15:05:40 GMT -5
That was targeting
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 14:57:41 GMT -5
Too undisciplined
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 14:25:13 GMT -5
Sluka has to stop trying to do everything himself. There's a lot of other good players.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 14:09:43 GMT -5
Bad play calling in my opinion
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 14:07:05 GMT -5
They should have given it to Fuller there.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 13:51:32 GMT -5
They should run some plays with both Sluka and Pesanski in the backfield.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 13:29:32 GMT -5
They need to throw the football. Army can't cover Coker. Pesanski should see the field in the 2nd half.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 13:03:57 GMT -5
Put Pesanski in for passing plays and Sluka in for running plays.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 11, 2023 12:49:18 GMT -5
You gotta get someone on the pitch man.
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Post by deep Purple on Nov 7, 2023 14:43:25 GMT -5
Lafayette Georgetown Lehigh Army 54-28
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