Our fans after a 48-7 opening game win:
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They long for the halcyon days of beating Memphis 13-10 under Sherrill
Some of us realize that we are staring at a giant rebuild job next year. I guarantee the bowl streak will be broken next year and it will have nothing to do with Arnett’s coaching. After this year, we have little to
nothing on both lines of scrimmages.
Forgive us for expecting a semi-sharp team with a million graduate starters and seniors.
I really feel Croom's teams would have lost to that team. They are the number 9 team in the FCS. Just saying.
And some of us are grown.
I disagree. I think the future looks bright on the defensive line. Dinks is going to be a really good player for us and Trevion Williams could be special, really special. You don’t see people at 295 look or run like Trevion does. Anderson looks like he can be a player. And Coach Turner seems to like the younger guys that he has. That makes me feel better even if I couldn’t see with my own eyes how good Trevion and Dinks could be.
On the offensive side of the ball we have sophomores and juniors backing up the starters so it’s not like we will be starting from scratch there either.
I was fairly critical of both sides of the line of scrimmage yesterday, but after watching the game again it wasn’t as bad as I thought. It’s like my old OL coach used to say “ it’s never as bad as you think it is or as good as you think it is, it’s usually somewhere in between.”
Offensively we rushed for nearly 300 yards yesterday, that’s not easily done against anyone. It’s more than anyone else in the sec ran for yesterday and there were a bunch of teams who played lesser quality opponents, not just us.
On the long scoring drive they had: if we make a tackle on 3rd and 20 or we knock the pass down that they miraculously caught on 3rd and 4or 5, then we pitch a shutout.
Some of us, most of us, realize that you work on some of your weaknesses in the first half. That's the majority of your play calls. Second half, on more of your strengths. There are many reasons for this.
But in general you keep games like this pretty vanilla if you can.
But in general you keep games like this pretty vanilla if you can.
It's pretty bold to GUARANTEE that we'll go 5-7 or worse in a year where we don't have to play Alabama or LSU, and our only remotely difficult non-conference game is a mediocre Arizona State program.
I watched the replay today. Trevion has my attention. My goodness I saw him run down the line and lay out their RB like a beast! That dude is a freak of nature. He’s built like a giant running back and has the same agility. He should be the first one off the bus.
people wanted to see us come out and address some the common concerns about this team. Wouldn’t have really meant much even if we had come out and thrown deep bombs against SELA. But I get being a little disappointed that we didn’t air it out much.
That said, it’s a typical game against an FCS opponent. It didn’t really tell us anything except that we don’t have a disaster of a team.
That said, it’s a typical game against an FCS opponent. It didn’t really tell us anything except that we don’t have a disaster of a team.
ETA: I’m an idiot, just now saw they announced the opponents. Silly me, I thought the 2024 schedule link on hailstate.com might actually include the opponents even if the dates aren’t set yet. And you’re right, no Bama / LSU, but we are playing UGA which is probably worse than either.
So you have nothing good to say about our team or program after one game.
What a 17ing surprise.
And obviously we didn’t show everything on either side of the ball and probably haven’t even installed everything on either side of the ball.
so people aren’t going to enjoy this season cause they think next season is going to be bad?
What a miserable fandom
What a miserable fandom
That was the play that caught my attention watching the game live. I usually watch the game a second time and focus on the lines of scrimmage. There were a couple of times I paused the game and said to myself, he looks like a transformer. Let’s hope we can keep him here so we can see what he looks in a couple years.