it is kind of funny to me that this and the other thread similar to this were created by non GS people

(09-19-2014 09:28 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(09-19-2014 09:02 AM)The4thOption Wrote:  

(09-19-2014 08:24 AM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 09:54 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 09:07 PM)dahbeed Wrote:  why would the conference office set them up with such an easy conference schedule? was it promised to get them on board?

Yep, it was the only way Sun Belt could drag us away from the SoCon & FCS Football.

Haha!

Look, SOMEONE was going to not be playing stAte & the Cajuns. It's just the math. Could have been anyone. The fact that Georgia Southern drew that straw is not a sign of favoritism or anything like that. (this is not directed at the quoted)

It works out well for them with them being transitioning and breaking in a new coach, but those kids have earned the accolades on the field, regardless of the opponent.

Maybe those two requested that they not play us in year one?

I don't really think that, but it's just about as crazy to think that.

And Deprive SBC Fans of the Fabled Gnatsquito Bowl? Never!

Yea... didn't they used to be the Indians or something.. or was it Indian creek?

(09-19-2014 07:48 AM)Eaglessoar2014 Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 06:25 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 06:15 PM)Tiguar Wrote:  

Quote:I don't know if I can put them at locks of beating Texas State in San Marcos, and ULM in Statesboro.

If they're good enough to beat USA@ Mobile, they're good enough to take one of two of those which may be enough with every other contender drawing strong opponents.

Unless of course, a team with 77 scholarship players gets hit hard by injuries or normal attrition at this level.

And the 77 is a little misleading. I was told we gave walk-ons and players with 1/2 scollies full rides to reach 77.If true, it's not like we went out and got players from juco or two and three star players from high school. So, our depth is no better this year than it was last year. Which is why I'm still leaning towards a 5-7 to 7-5 record. Playing a full FBS schedule will take it's toll my mid season. If we stay healthy the we might run the table.

(09-19-2014 08:33 AM)SOT1977 Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 11:17 PM)EagleNationRising Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 07:35 PM)Arrowhead Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 07:30 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  Well it was intended to be a joke but we might find some truth to it by the end of the season. I still think both are the best of the conference but I hate to tell you but neither are the juggernaut many of you think.

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Look ULM BEAT #8 Arkansas, barely lost to Baylor, and took Auburn to OT in 2012. All of those are more impressive than Georgia Southern's near misses so far. I'm very impressed with GS and they scare me, but after that run for ULM, we got some injuries and still didn't win the conference. There is a LOT of football left to be played and as injuries mount and we get I to conference play, a lot can and will happen. It's still anyone's championship.

Lol...although, nice wins, Arkansas was a joke that year. They went 4-8 and beat an even worse Auburn team, who didn't win a single conference game (3-9). Still good wins for the SBC...but more importantly...did you really bring up stats from a schedule 2 years old? How many of the starters from that ULM team are still playing? I'm not going to say that GS is going to win the conference because it's a ridiculous assumption at this time (especially since we haven't played a single conference game yet)...beating Arkansas is a step up, but a close loss to an atrocious Auburn is at best parallel to our results this year.

Anybody that says Arkansas was a joke that year wasn't paying attention. Seriously. Before that game you could find no one who would have argued that the Hogs didn't deserve that ranking. ULM took out three of their starters in that game, including a Heisman contender at quarterback (who didn't return for three games after that). Arkansas had a 28-7 lead in the third quarter and you still wouldn't have found anyone who would have claimed they didn't deserve that #8 ranking. The following week they faced a #1 Alabama team without those players and still living the humiliation of the loss to ULM just six days earlier. The undoing of that team had begun and it wouldn't stop. They clearly had the talent to be a top ten team but they were in a storm of internal strife, a "temporary" head coach, and lost a game that made bigger headlines than anybody would have ever thought. More people in this country know about the ULM Warhawks now than just two years ago and is now a recognizable brand thanks to that game. Did Arkansas fall apart in 2012? Damn straight they did. And they were in a situation that had been brewing for 8 months that would have messed up any team eventually.

As to Auburn, the very next year they're in the national championship game with nearly all the same players that ULM played against. In fact, they came awful close to beating LSU the week after they played us.

Belittle what the Warhawks did the first three games of 2012 all you want. More people will remember that run far longer than they will about the first three games that Georgia Southern has played this year.

(09-19-2014 09:44 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  it is kind of funny to me that this and the other thread similar to this were created by non GS people

This is normal in September here when a team does well against name opponents, who mostly end up not being very good.

No one is immune but think ULM has had to endure this more than most in recent years, but it will stop once conference play kicks in for real.

I'm not reading through 9 pages of the shEEt.

Tiguar wrote: "Georgia Southern likely wins the Sun Belt with a win this weekend"

Jinxes only count if posted by a fan of the program in question.

One of two things are happening here:

1. The established Sun Belt fans are taking on the role of the parents when the teenage kid thinks he knows everything, but they try to tell them how the world really works. Eventually, the kids will come around to admit that the parents were right and that they should have listened.

2. We have a bunch of fans of programs that moved up with little to no immediate success. They are scared that GS may buck the trend and show them up. They forget that Texas St., WKU and UMASS weren't setting the world on fire in the year or two leading up to the move whereas in three of the previous four seasons, GS was one of the top 3-4 FCS schools in the nation. While FCS =/ Sun Belt, it is not a stretch that the very top of the FCS (or in Troy and Ga St's case, the middle of FCS) can compete with Sun Belt teams.

We shall find out soon which one is right.

We are 1-2. That's not very good no matter who or how well you've played. That record might make Georgia State fans giddy but not us. Conference titles do not matter right now. The game with South Alabama is the most important game we will play and when it's over then the next one with App State will be and so on.

(09-19-2014 12:01 PM)Wonmoretime Wrote:  We are 1-2. That's not very good no matter who or how well you've played. That record might make Georgia State fans giddy but not us. Conference titles do not matter right now. The game with Alabama State is the most important game we will play and when it's over then the next one with App State will be and so on.

Ummm...was that supposed to be a slam against USA?

(09-19-2014 12:01 PM)Wonmoretime Wrote:  We are 1-2. That's not very good no matter who or how well you've played. That record might make Georgia State fans giddy but not us. Conference titles do not matter right now. The game with Alabama State is the most important game we will play and when it's over then the next one with App State will be and so on.

How did we even enter in the conversation?

(09-19-2014 11:51 AM)GSUhooligan Wrote:  One of two things are happening here:

1. The established Sun Belt fans are taking on the role of the parents when the teenage kid thinks he knows everything, but they try to tell them how the world really works. Eventually, the kids will come around to admit that the parents were right and that they should have listened.

2. We have a bunch of fans of programs that moved up with little to no immediate success. They are scared that GS may buck the trend and show them up. They forget that Texas St., WKU and UMASS weren't setting the world on fire in the year or two leading up to the move whereas in three of the previous four seasons, GS was one of the top 3-4 FCS schools in the nation. While FCS =/ Sun Belt, it is not a stretch that the very top of the FCS (or in Troy and Ga St's case, the middle of FCS) can compete with Sun Belt teams.

We shall find out soon which one is right.

Well one thing that I think everyone misses is the impact of the new reclassification rules.

Moving up in a conference is relatively easy. Nevada won their league first in year in I-A. Marshall did the same.

Doing it as independent was damn hard asking kids to play 7 and 8 road games a year.

(09-19-2014 09:50 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  

Is that a "scalp" in his hand!?! JEEZ! That isn't offensive at the -u-- all!

(09-19-2014 12:20 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(09-19-2014 11:51 AM)GSUhooligan Wrote:  One of two things are happening here:

1. The established Sun Belt fans are taking on the role of the parents when the teenage kid thinks he knows everything, but they try to tell them how the world really works. Eventually, the kids will come around to admit that the parents were right and that they should have listened.

2. We have a bunch of fans of programs that moved up with little to no immediate success. They are scared that GS may buck the trend and show them up. They forget that Texas St., WKU and UMASS weren't setting the world on fire in the year or two leading up to the move whereas in three of the previous four seasons, GS was one of the top 3-4 FCS schools in the nation. While FCS =/ Sun Belt, it is not a stretch that the very top of the FCS (or in Troy and Ga St's case, the middle of FCS) can compete with Sun Belt teams.

We shall find out soon which one is right.

Well one thing that I think everyone misses is the impact of the new reclassification rules.

Moving up in a conference is relatively easy. Nevada won their league first in year in I-A. Marshall did the same.

Doing it as independent was damn hard asking kids to play 7 and 8 road games a year.

Your point is well taken.

Many longtime Georgia Southern fans know quite well the landscape and the trials and trevails of those that forged the path ahead of them. We get to enjoy transition into a league that is relatively stable, and not swaddled in diapers. We hope to come into the league and do our part in raising the profile and on the field play too.

What I think some of our opponent fanbases don't either recollect or understand, is we've faced some challenges as well in the development of our program. We didn't have anything handed to us on a silver platter. Despite restarting the program from scratch in the early 80's, we were able to quickly establish some dominance as a major player in I-AA, putting together an independent schedule the first 10 years which put us on the road quite a bit. We scratched out an existence that initially made it sort of hard to follow, but that is what helped drive our fan's passion of following the team to many remote locales.

By some measures, we took that anytime-anywhere attitude and incorporated it into the way "we" play football. We certainly have grown a generation of spoiled fans as a result of our play on the field, and at times that can be a hard label to shake but it also helps to explain why we have passion and why our brand of football should be good for the league.

All that though won't guarantee a win on Saturday or a league championship in three months.

(09-18-2014 07:25 PM)asuwon Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 07:22 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  Maybe State and ULL are lucky they don't face GS, anyone thought about that?

I momentarily thought about it, chuckled and moved on to thinking about something else.

Hey ASUwon, it's still 48-21 in Tacoma.

(09-19-2014 12:36 PM)Eagle22 Wrote:  

(09-19-2014 12:20 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(09-19-2014 11:51 AM)GSUhooligan Wrote:  One of two things are happening here:

1. The established Sun Belt fans are taking on the role of the parents when the teenage kid thinks he knows everything, but they try to tell them how the world really works. Eventually, the kids will come around to admit that the parents were right and that they should have listened.

2. We have a bunch of fans of programs that moved up with little to no immediate success. They are scared that GS may buck the trend and show them up. They forget that Texas St., WKU and UMASS weren't setting the world on fire in the year or two leading up to the move whereas in three of the previous four seasons, GS was one of the top 3-4 FCS schools in the nation. While FCS =/ Sun Belt, it is not a stretch that the very top of the FCS (or in Troy and Ga St's case, the middle of FCS) can compete with Sun Belt teams.

We shall find out soon which one is right.

Well one thing that I think everyone misses is the impact of the new reclassification rules.

Moving up in a conference is relatively easy. Nevada won their league first in year in I-A. Marshall did the same.

Doing it as independent was damn hard asking kids to play 7 and 8 road games a year.

Your point is well taken.

Many longtime Georgia Southern fans know quite well the landscape and the trials and trevails of those that forged the path ahead of them. We get to enjoy transition into a league that is relatively stable, and not swaddled in diapers. We hope to come into the league and do our part in raising the profile and on the field play too.

What I think some of our opponent fanbases don't either recollect or understand, is we've faced some challenges as well in the development of our program. We didn't have anything handed to us on a silver platter. Despite restarting the program from scratch in the early 80's, we were able to quickly establish some dominance as a major player in I-AA, putting together an independent schedule the first 10 years which put us on the road quite a bit. We scratched out an existence that initially made it sort of hard to follow, but that is what helped drive our fan's passion of following the team to many remote locales.

By some measures, we took that anytime-anywhere attitude and incorporated it into the way "we" play football. We certainly have grown a generation of spoiled fans as a result of our play on the field, and at times that can be a hard label to shake but it also helps to explain why we have passion and why our brand of football should be good for the league.

All that though won't guarantee a win on Saturday or a league championship in three months.

Or three years.

(09-18-2014 11:17 PM)EagleNationRising Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 07:35 PM)Arrowhead Wrote:  

(09-18-2014 07:30 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  Well it was intended to be a joke but we might find some truth to it by the end of the season. I still think both are the best of the conference but I hate to tell you but neither are the juggernaut many of you think.

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Look ULM BEAT #8 Arkansas, barely lost to Baylor, and took Auburn to OT in 2012. All of those are more impressive than Georgia Southern's near misses so far. I'm very impressed with GS and they scare me, but after that run for ULM, we got some injuries and still didn't win the conference. There is a LOT of football left to be played and as injuries mount and we get I to conference play, a lot can and will happen. It's still anyone's championship.

Lol...although, nice wins, Arkansas was a joke that year. They went 4-8 and beat an even worse Auburn team, who didn't win a single conference game (3-9). Still good wins for the SBC...but more importantly...did you really bring up stats from a schedule 2 years old? How many of the starters from that ULM team are still playing? I'm not going to say that GS is going to win the conference because it's a ridiculous assumption at this time (especially since we haven't played a single conference game yet)...beating Arkansas is a step up, but a close loss to an atrocious Auburn is at best parallel to our results this year.

I think you missed the point. I'm very impressed at what GS has done so far. I'm just saying, as an example, it happens very often that you really make some noise OOC and then get to the conference schedule and have a couple injuries and somewhat fall apart in conference play. Also going back two years isn't quite ancient history. Quite a few players are still on the team, but agai tooting our horn or taking away from GS wasn't my point.

The best thing about Southern is that win or lose, we are still way more awesome than you.

(09-19-2014 01:18 PM)bullitt_60 Wrote:  The best thing about Southern is that win or lose, we are still way more awesome than you.

Love it.

(09-19-2014 12:05 PM)sarkelcpa Wrote:  

(09-19-2014 12:01 PM)Wonmoretime Wrote:  We are 1-2. That's not very good no matter who or how well you've played. That record might make Georgia State fans giddy but not us. Conference titles do not matter right now. The game with Alabama State is the most important game we will play and when it's over then the next one with App State will be and so on.

Ummm...was that supposed to be a slam against USA?

How would that be a slam? Our next game is against them, therefore it is the most important.

(09-19-2014 01:39 PM)Wonmoretime Wrote:  

(09-19-2014 12:05 PM)sarkelcpa Wrote:  

(09-19-2014 12:01 PM)Wonmoretime Wrote:  We are 1-2. That's not very good no matter who or how well you've played. That record might make Georgia State fans giddy but not us. Conference titles do not matter right now. The game with Alabama State is the most important game we will play and when it's over then the next one with App State will be and so on.

Ummm...was that supposed to be a slam against USA?

How would that be a slam? Our next game is against them, therefore it is the most important.