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When I buy a Mega Millions ticket, even though I probably won't win, for one dollar I get to dream for a few days. Now, I'm dreaming about another National Championship, because I was there in Chattanooga and still remember the thrills that night. We're not playing, the players and coaches are. We're just fans, and we can look ahead as far as we want. Now, I'm hoping that there's an upset in the other bracket, so we can get a home game after we beat NDS!
Coaches and players can't look ahead. Fans can.
Love the draw and hope we take advantage. See you Saturday!
I'll never get over-confident for a first round game draw after seeing what happened to us in '98 when we drew Lehigh in the first round at UR stadium. I'm not saying we aren't a better team than Morgan State, but the playoffs are a time when you have to respect every opponent.
Morgan State was even at 21 at halftime at Villanova but then lost 48-28. EMU is an FBS team but a terrible one that was 2-9 and not competitive in most of its games.
Morgan State has at least played two good teams this year, Nova and NC A&T, but lost 93-28 to them combined. So...I like our odds. Line will probably be UR -11 or so.
Morgan State has at least played two good teams this year, Nova and NC A&T, but lost 93-28 to them combined. So...I like our odds. Line will probably be UR -11 or so.
Spiders are going to be a tough out in the playoffs. Strauss looked to be rounding back into form and was much sharper last night. The running game was very good. Our offense can be hard to handle when balanced like last night. The defense needs continue to bend, but not break. If we can shore up some of the special teams and win the turnover battle the Spiders should be hard to beat!
Hey guys. CCU fan/alum/season ticket holder here. Obviously you're confident with your draw. I expect you guys to roll over Morgan St. One of the guys on our board works with the CAA and said your QB was recently injured, but he played the last game...maybe last 2? How has he looked?
Feel free to stop by our board at www.coastalfans.com
Bob
Feel free to stop by our board at www.coastalfans.com
Bob
You are right. NDSU will probably have the Friday night game because they are in a dome. So Dec. 12th we will play at 8 pm.
Our starter is back now. Didn't do great in his return but did better this past weekend. I would say as fans we are confident in the draw mostly because the first team with a bye we play would be Coastal. Not that yall are bad, but it is different than going immediately to Eastern Washington or NDSU
We are going to have our hands full of Coastal. The get 2 weeks to stew over Saturday's loss and get healthy and watch our tape. We will need to play our best game of the year to win down there.
With that said, we're going to kick Morgan State's ass and i'm going to have fun watching it. Just hope we can get some of our banged up guys some rest so we can go into the Coastal game with a full deck.
Chants', you'll get my attention after Saturday. Enjoy your Turkey Day.
With that said, we're going to kick Morgan State's ass and i'm going to have fun watching it. Just hope we can get some of our banged up guys some rest so we can go into the Coastal game with a full deck.
Chants', you'll get my attention after Saturday. Enjoy your Turkey Day.
I'm confident in us against most anyone as long as we don't make the kind of mistakes we made at Maine and vs. JMU.
No offense to our Coastal friends, but you played two good teams all year – Liberty and NC A&T. You lost at home to Liberty and needed OT to beat NC A&T (who didn't even earn the autobid in the MEAC) by one point. So that's why most of us feel pretty good about this draw. Liberty was arguably the sixth best team we played this season, and we went 2-3 in the other games, with a three-point loss to the overall #1 seed.
I think it's fair to say that with a CAA schedule, Coastal probably would have finished 8-4 or 7-5.
All that said, I expect a pretty competitive game if it happens.
This post was edited on 11/24 2:32 PM by Eight Legger
No offense to our Coastal friends, but you played two good teams all year – Liberty and NC A&T. You lost at home to Liberty and needed OT to beat NC A&T (who didn't even earn the autobid in the MEAC) by one point. So that's why most of us feel pretty good about this draw. Liberty was arguably the sixth best team we played this season, and we went 2-3 in the other games, with a three-point loss to the overall #1 seed.
I think it's fair to say that with a CAA schedule, Coastal probably would have finished 8-4 or 7-5.
All that said, I expect a pretty competitive game if it happens.
This post was edited on 11/24 2:32 PM by Eight Legger
Speed and conditioning typically work against MEAC teams in the postseason, especially when they face teams from better leagues. I think we'll see that especially in the second half Saturday.
Its all about turnovers. We have the talent to go all the way, can we protect the ball? In addition, if we don't use the TE we wont go past the 2d round. We're too predictable.
If we have over 3 TO's we are cooked regardless . Never seen the TE turn over the ball. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Well they do only get it once a game so thats not the greatest compliment ever, but I see your point
Agree with the TE comment. We finally threw the ball to some of them Saturday and it opened up the run game. We need to continue to go there or we become too predictable. TE's just give us one more option and one more problem for the opposing defense to worry about.
I'll third that. Devil's son can catch and is a huge target. Our TEs in general should get more passes for the reasons discussed here. Hope we see more of them the next couple weeks.
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