(01-04-2020 08:35 PM)Motrain46 Wrote:  

(01-04-2020 08:22 PM)Bison01 Wrote:  

(01-04-2020 07:48 PM)fishingduke12 Wrote:  

(01-04-2020 07:36 PM)Motrain46 Wrote:  

(01-04-2020 07:04 PM)Bison01 Wrote:  It’s tough to isolate and draw conclusions on games that may not have been representative of the entire season.

Much the same as Bison fans pointing to your Stony Brook game, deficit to Nova, or even the lack of ability to move the ball against UNI.

It seems pretty clear that NDSU has better statistical passing defense because they’ve not faced top passing offenses, whereas JMU has a worse statistical passing defense because they’ve faced better passing offenses. Vice versa for rushing defense.

Good Point,

but at the time of Stony Brook, that was the 3rd week in row on the road and there 3 top corners were out or in and out of line up.

Nova's QB was really good until MJ Hampton's pick 6, turn the game around, shook his confidence, and infused the the defense with more confidence then they already had.

TE's match-ups will be at the forefront for sure.

The edge defense will be a key vs ndsu as well as I see it right now but this game may end up being a wild one early

Love how everyone keeps pointing to the SBU and VU games. Other than the fact that we won those games, we also went on to play 8 completely dominate games in a row including the postseason. But wait! We only beat UNI 17-0 neglecting the fact we ran the ball up the middle 70% of the game and threw 6 passes in the second half. Oh yea we missed 2 FGs and the worst interception of the season. That game should have be 30-0 without self inflicted mistakes. UNI did nothing to cause those.

Meanwhile NDSU had 3 underwhelming games in a row against SIU, Nichols, and Ill St. Their more recent track record suggests that the MSU semifinal was the anomaly in their post season run

If people want to nitpick games NDSU has had way more suspect performances this season. UCD, SDSU, and the three I just mentioned

All I heard was excuse, excuse, excuse...here’s why the same assumptions that I apply to NDSU don’t apply to my team.

People are getting bent over FACTS?

EXCUSE/2 = FACTS

Maybe depends if you know what the facts are, and what side of fence you are on. But am sure you have working knowledge of JMU's season! The fact is that we won those games when pushed a bit, if that's an excuse then I am guilty. I call it like the facts reveal

And so did we. I’m mostly pointing out the hypocrisy of the average fan rather than crapping on anything JMU has done.