(01-02-2017 10:23 AM)Eagle22 Wrote:  

(01-01-2017 07:37 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  My opinion about the playoffs is a lot of times it is not always the best team that wins, but the one with the least injuries during the playoffs. Asking players to endure 15 games is almost criminal. I know injuries are a given, but in 08 App lost to Richmond in the semi finals with a hurt Armanti Edwards. No way Richmond was a better team with a healthy Edwards behind center.

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Depends on a team's depth more than injuries exclusively, IMO. Injuries do play a part of any season. When we were in the 1997-2002 era of Georgia Southern football we frequently had the 1st string on the bench in the 4th quarter which gave valuable playing time to the reserves.

Our second string had logged significant playing time in games which made them almost as potent as the first string.

Furman was a better team late in 2001 with an injured Louis Ivory on the bench. They proved it the following week when they lost to Montana in the national championship and were insistent in playing Ivory the majority of snaps, I guess presumably because it was his last game and Johnson felt they owed it to him. It was clear he wasn't near 100%.

Had they gone that route a week before, they would have had an even harder time winning in Statesboro.

I'd say that type of quality depth. esp on the O line, at the FCS level is the exception rather than the rule. Playing someone just because they're your star player is the basically the reason we lost to Richmond. Satterfield was OC and wanted to play the back up, but JM listened to his son Chris, who was the RB coach, and played a severely hobbled Edwards. Satterfield figured with Pressley we had a chance to win, but once Richmond figured out Edwards was no threat to run the game was over. I don;t know if we would have beat Richmond, but it would have at least been a gane.