It looks like the Jags opened as 1 point favorites but has moved to -6 stAte.

(10-11-2015 02:31 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  We might see ASU hit their stride over the next few weeks with Fredi. USA has to contain him and limit McKissic or it will be a long day.

Oh, ye of little faith.

(10-11-2015 05:14 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 02:31 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  We might see ASU hit their stride over the next few weeks with Fredi. USA has to contain him and limit McKissic or it will be a long day.

Oh, ye of little faith.

I didn't say this week... I said over the next few weeks. I hope Fredi is rusty lol. But we have to contain both Fredi and McKissic because they can be explosive.

(10-11-2015 07:53 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 05:14 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 02:31 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  We might see ASU hit their stride over the next few weeks with Fredi. USA has to contain him and limit McKissic or it will be a long day.

Oh, ye of little faith.

I didn't say this week... I said over the next few weeks. I hope Fredi is rusty lol. But we have to contain both Fredi and McKissic because they can be explosive.

Fredi will never win an award with his passing. However, we've basically gone almost the entire season without running a designed QB run because of the Freshman in Tabary. Going to make scouting difficult.

We do get one of our D Lineman back for this game as well in our one former UAB guy Robert Mondie, so that helps. Hopefully he gets a few solo sacks on his old friend at QB on the other side.

I'm looking forward to this game tomorrow. Should be a lot of fun.

(10-12-2015 01:46 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 07:53 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 05:14 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 02:31 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  We might see ASU hit their stride over the next few weeks with Fredi. USA has to contain him and limit McKissic or it will be a long day.

Oh, ye of little faith.

I didn't say this week... I said over the next few weeks. I hope Fredi is rusty lol. But we have to contain both Fredi and McKissic because they can be explosive.

Fredi will never win an award with his passing. However, we've basically gone almost the entire season without running a designed QB run because of the Freshman in Tabary. Going to make scouting difficult.

We do get one of our D Lineman back for this game as well in our one former UAB guy Robert Mondie, so that helps. Hopefully he gets a few solo sacks on his old friend at QB on the other side.

IIRC, Fredi carved the Jags up, top to bottom, side to side last year. He was a BEAST.

I was hoping he wouldn't play or play bad to help our chances of winning. Knighten is their offense. If we win 1 or 2 of (Ark State, Ga Southern,App State,ULL) it would help with our chances of making a bowl game. South hasn't gotten a lot of respect from odds makers. We graduated 30 football players from last year's team and only returned about 7 starters and only 1 of those were on defense. I hope the defense begins to gel as our team is starting to get healthy.

(10-11-2015 07:53 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 05:14 PM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(10-11-2015 02:31 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  We might see ASU hit their stride over the next few weeks with Fredi. USA has to contain him and limit McKissic or it will be a long day.

Oh, ye of little faith.

I didn't say this week... I said over the next few weeks. I hope Fredi is rusty lol. But we have to contain both Fredi and McKissic because they can be explosive.

If your def backs would play about 5 yards behind our wr's, they'll get some picks.
Feel free to pass that info on to the coaches.

This should be a doozy of a game. South Alabama will hang with the Red Wolves and may put themselves is a position to win it.

(10-12-2015 06:22 PM)Beltfan Wrote:  This should be a doozy of a game. South Alabama will hang with the Red Wolves and may put themselves is a position to win it.

I'm not predicting a "W" OR an "L" for South but my instincts tell me you might be right.

(10-12-2015 08:15 PM)airtroop Wrote:  

(10-12-2015 06:22 PM)Beltfan Wrote:  This should be a doozy of a game. South Alabama will hang with the Red Wolves and may put themselves is a position to win it.

I'm not predicting a "W" OR an "L" for South but my instincts tell me you might be right.

I am not going out on that limb either but I do think that the Jags have a good shot to get their first W against Arkansas St.

The line has swung back a point for the Jags. Currently ASU is a 5 point favorite.

The Jonesboro Sun did their unit comparison yesterday (rb, qb, dl, ol, etc), and the reporter, who is not thought of as being an A-State fan, chose A-State across the board. That is normally not the case even against a bad FBS, team.

Not saying A-State will win the game, because both team are playing at about the same level thus far, but they should, and to be honest it should not even be close. That reporter is right, there is not a position match-up that does not favor A-State ( they are just bigger, stronger, faster and just more talented ), and I think that reporter wanted to send that message to the readers of his newspaper.

Think Anderson & Company losing to teams with less talent is getting rather old, and I think they now know that.

(10-13-2015 07:16 AM)Seminole Indian Wrote:  The Jonesboro Sun did their unit comparison yesterday (rb, qb, dl, ol, etc), and the reporter, who is not thought of as being an A-State fan, chose A-State across the board. That is normally not the case even against a bad FBS, team.

Not saying A-State will win the game, because both team are playing at about the same level thus far, but they should, and to be honest it should not even be close. That reporter is right, there is not a position match-up that does not favor A-State ( they are just bigger, stronger, faster and just more talented ), and I think that reporter wanted to send that message to the readers of his newspaper.

Think Anderson & Company losing to teams with less talent is getting rather old, and I think they now know that.

Maybe if I get this memo to Coach Jones in time we can spare the fans the wasted time of even coming to the game and forfeit. It sounds like ASU should win big, and if USA by the grace of God happens to win it won't be because they are better, but because ASU's superior talent gave the game away.

(10-13-2015 07:16 AM)Seminole Indian Wrote:  The Jonesboro Sun did their unit comparison yesterday (rb, qb, dl, ol, etc), and the reporter, who is not thought of as being an A-State fan, chose A-State across the board. That is normally not the case even against a bad FBS, team.

Not saying A-State will win the game, because both team are playing at about the same level thus far, but they should, and to be honest it should not even be close. That reporter is right, there is not a position match-up that does not favor A-State ( they are just bigger, stronger, faster and just more talented ), and I think that reporter wanted to send that message to the readers of his newspaper.

Think Anderson & Company losing to teams with less talent is getting rather old, and I think they now know that.

Matt relies heavily on stats in making his picks. AState leads USA in basically every statistical category other than penalties, turnovers, FG percentage, sacks given up, and yards per play run.

(10-13-2015 08:53 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(10-13-2015 07:16 AM)Seminole Indian Wrote:  The Jonesboro Sun did their unit comparison yesterday (rb, qb, dl, ol, etc), and the reporter, who is not thought of as being an A-State fan, chose A-State across the board. That is normally not the case even against a bad FBS, team.

Not saying A-State will win the game, because both team are playing at about the same level thus far, but they should, and to be honest it should not even be close. That reporter is right, there is not a position match-up that does not favor A-State ( they are just bigger, stronger, faster and just more talented ), and I think that reporter wanted to send that message to the readers of his newspaper.

Think Anderson & Company losing to teams with less talent is getting rather old, and I think they now know that.

Maybe if I get this memo to Coach Jones in time we can spare the fans the wasted time of even coming to the game and forfeit. It sounds like ASU should win big, and if USA by the grace of God happens to win it won't be because they are better, but because ASU's superior talent gave the game away.

Statistically, we are better than you guys at basically every position. Our problem has been that we commit a half gazillion penalties and turn the ball over 27 times per game. That makes life fairly easy for the opposing team.

The hard part is that 90 percent of our turnovers come from a guy who likely won't take a snap outside of garbage time today. So you've got this situation where we have no idea whether the turnovers will continue with Knighten's presence, or whether or not they existed simply because we started a Freshman QB most of the year.

That can't be answered without having seen Knighten play. Though I am fairly confident we'll commit a ton of penalties either way.

(10-13-2015 09:34 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(10-13-2015 08:53 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  

(10-13-2015 07:16 AM)Seminole Indian Wrote:  The Jonesboro Sun did their unit comparison yesterday (rb, qb, dl, ol, etc), and the reporter, who is not thought of as being an A-State fan, chose A-State across the board. That is normally not the case even against a bad FBS, team.

Not saying A-State will win the game, because both team are playing at about the same level thus far, but they should, and to be honest it should not even be close. That reporter is right, there is not a position match-up that does not favor A-State ( they are just bigger, stronger, faster and just more talented ), and I think that reporter wanted to send that message to the readers of his newspaper.

Think Anderson & Company losing to teams with less talent is getting rather old, and I think they now know that.

Maybe if I get this memo to Coach Jones in time we can spare the fans the wasted time of even coming to the game and forfeit. It sounds like ASU should win big, and if USA by the grace of God happens to win it won't be because they are better, but because ASU's superior talent gave the game away.

Statistically, we are better than you guys at basically every position. Our problem has been that we commit a half gazillion penalties and turn the ball over 27 times per game. That makes life fairly easy for the opposing team.

The hard part is that 90 percent of our turnovers come from a guy who likely won't take a snap outside of garbage time today. So you've got this situation where we have no idea whether the turnovers will continue with Knighten's presence, or whether or not they existed simply because we started a Freshman QB most of the year.

That can't be answered without having seen Knighten play. Though I am fairly confident we'll commit a ton of penalties either way.

SDSU was also better than us in almost every stat, and they are better than you guys in almost every stat.

If our defense comes ready to play, I like our chances to keep it close and potentially win. I think our offense will be ok, but the defense is just not there yet. I'm hoping for a good, injury free game. May the best (not necessarily the most talented) team win.

Stats really shouldn't enter this matchup considering the OOC games you guys played. Not much to go on versus opponents of similar talent.

(10-13-2015 10:49 AM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  Stats really shouldn't enter this matchup considering the OOC games you guys played. Not much to go on versus opponents of similar talent.

This is true. We've played an easier FCS team, but a tougher schedule. South pulled off the best win of the two of us.

This year..no respect for USA. We've been an underdog in all of our games save 1. And 2 of those 'favorites' have been upset.

For this game, I see it as a game where USA has a lot to win and stAte has a lot to lose.

For USA, win the game and

1) USA is almost a lock for bowl eligibility
2) USA is looking better than 50-50 for 7 wins
3) USA finally gets a W over stAte
4) USA gets a good W at home for a change
5) USA stays in the SBC championship race.
6) USA might actually get some respect

For a team that returned 5 starters and was picked by many to win 1 or 2 games this year, USA is already blowing expectations out of the water. Beating stAte would just be more of a bonus.

Lose the game and USA still looks reasonably good for a bowl. This is a 'steal' game, like our game with SDSU. We aren't supposed to win it, but could do so. And a win would be huge.

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For stAte, its more of a 'fear' scenario. They lose the game and

1) Bowl eligibility starts to look a bit shaky. And unlike USA, stAte not qualifying for a bowl would be a very disappointing scenario
2) Bowl placement gets harmed. Losing to USA and having USA with a better OOC win might be enough to give USA the better bowl slot in case of a tie
3) Probably adds another team to the perceived top tier Belt schools. And USA, unlike App or Ga Southern, actually competes with stAte in recruiting.

For stAte this is a game they are favored, in a year where they've disappointed so far, against a team that they are a perceived better team.

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Does USA's desire to advance beat out stAtes' fear of falling behind? We will find out tonight.