TroyFootball05
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DISCUSSION: Neal Brown vs Blake Anderson
This season has a lot of interesting storylines built in. This is one of them. In my opinion, these two programs are situated to have the leagues offenses and possibly two of college footballs best. I don't know much about Anderson aside from his time in the SBC so I'll mostly just talk about Neal Brown.
Neal Brown is a Hal Mumme product. He played under Mumme at Kentucky in the late 90's to which was credited to be the birth of the Air Raid offense. At Kentucky during Neal's time there were Tony Franklin, Sonny Dykes, and Mike Leach. This is why Neal Brown has been as successful as he has. During his previous stint at Troy and then at Texas Tech, he's enjoyed numerous Top 25 offenses.
With 98.7% of the offense returning, the addition of #1 EMCC's best receiver Damion Willis, the possible entrance of running back Jamarius Henderson (incredible talent from Memphis), the return of veteran receiver Clark Quisenberry, WR Ismail Saleem back from injury, and the additions of WRs Tray Eafford and Alvin Bryant, 1st Team Punt Returner Jabir Frye back from injury - this unit has a huge chance to be something special this year.
The biggest reasons for what I think will be a big offensive season are four new deep threats we didn't have last year in Willis, Saleem, Eafford, and Bryant, and moving our best receiver Deondre Douglass to the outside. Added depth at running back will help take the load off Chunn. Add to this a senior QB and you have the makings of something pretty great.
Blake Anderson set the SBC record in 2015 with 49ppg. That will be hard to top and they loaded for another great season. With Faulker out of the picture these two offenses have a chance to be the leagues best.
I want to hear everyone else's thoughts, including those from other SBC schools. If you believe neither team will have the best offense I'd like to hear that too.
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08-18-2017 12:17 PM |
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