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       #Post#: 11683--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2014: Game 4 - SBU @ North Dakota 9/20 7pm
       By: jaghatai Date: September 21, 2014, 9:02 pm
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       Lets talk facts. Keep in mind that all of these are "padded" by
       a game against American International (who needed a 30yd TD with
       1 minute left to beat Assumption College).  Out of the 121 FCS
       Teams...
       Luke Allen is 4th in punting yardage
       Luke Allen is 2nd in # of punts
       We are 119th in 3rd down conversion % (11 converted out of 57
       attempts)
       We are 118th in Completion % (34 out of 78 attempts)
       We are 111th in Penalty Yards (344 yards)
       We are 108th in Scoring Offense (11.5 ppg)
       Fun fact, 26 players in the FCS (individually) average more
       yards per game than our entire team does.
       The offense is the same one we ran two years ago.  But at that
       time we had an O-Line with an NFL prospect, an NFL prospect RB,
       a speedster WR, a team that played together for 3-4 years, and
       were playing against the Big South.
       It's really painful to watch.  When we know the play calls
       before they're run, then i'm pretty sure our opponents know too.
       We've stopped using the pistol formation, refuse to throw to
       Wagner (or any 3rd WR), and don't throw passes to RB's.
       Kinder was a nice experiment, but I have to question how we
       missed this bad?  He doesn't keep his eyes up when he scrambles,
       has very poor accuracy while he's on the run, he makes bad
       decisions (redzone int, doesn't throw the ball away, tries to
       fit it into triple coverage, etc), and he has terrible deep ball
       accuracy.  These things have to be obvious in practice.  If he
       doesn't have those problems in practice, then he can't handle
       playing in front of a crowd (in High School he didn't have the
       crowd problem, scoring 4 TD's in the LI final at Lavalle).
       Priore did a wonderful job getting us to this point, but if you
       can't adapt to your personnel (or to your environment), then
       this type of season will happen. If things continue in this
       direction, we could get into a situation that could take
       multiple years to fix.
       And to make sure I understand the game-script that Priore wants
       to use...
       Run the ball and play the "field position game".  Yes, on third
       and 7+, you run anyway, yielding a hideous 3rd conversion %, but
       thats part of the plan...
       This lets us gain 255 yards per game on offense.
       Use Tye to return punts, making sure that every punt turns into
       a fair catch, meaning that we get no special teams yards.
       Get at least one penalty a drive (90+ penalty yards a game),
       just to make sure we lose more yards than we gain.
       Repeat.
       All of that being said, 1-11 is a real possibility.  We could
       sneak by Elon.  Hopefully URI gets the schedule date wrong and
       forgets to show up.  That pretty much covers the two games we
       COULD win.
       #Post#: 11684--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2014: Game 4 - SBU @ North Dakota 9/20 7pm
       By: UNDBIZ Date: September 22, 2014, 1:59 pm
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       Well... I don't think either fanbase was impressed with what
       happened on Saturday, but I'm happy UND was able to pull off the
       win.  It seems both teams are going through a rebuild right now
       (UND fired the previous head coach in November last season) and
       are really struggling with OLine play and to an even greater
       extent QB play.  Unfortunately both teams are trying to be run
       first and you guys lost your starting RB and we lost our
       starting and back-up RBs to injury, leading UND to convert a LB
       who hadn't carried the ball since high school.  Hopefully the
       younger players progress as the season goes on for both teams,
       or it could be a very long season.  Good luck the rest of the
       way.
       #Post#: 11687--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2014: Game 4 - SBU @ North Dakota 9/20 7pm
       By: ecasadoSBU Date: September 22, 2014, 3:34 pm
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       Albany ranked #24 in the country.
       #Post#: 11689--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2014: Game 4 - SBU @ North Dakota 9/20 7pm
       By: captaindj21 Date: September 22, 2014, 4:09 pm
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       Albany played Holy Cross, Central Connecticut and Rhode Island.
       So what??
       #Post#: 11690--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2014: Game 4 - SBU @ North Dakota 9/20 7pm
       By: Hammertime Date: September 22, 2014, 5:00 pm
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       [quote author=captaindj21 link=topic=405.msg11689#msg11689
       date=1411420188]
       Albany played Holy Cross, Central Connecticut and Rhode Island.
       So what??
       [/quote]
       If those teams are so weak then how did Albany break the top 25
       list???
       #Post#: 11691--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2014: Game 4 - SBU @ North Dakota 9/20 7pm
       By: ddmd Date: September 22, 2014, 7:42 pm
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       Big Fan thank's for asking; he coming along should be back in
       few weeks... I sent you a message.
       #Post#: 11692--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2014: Game 4 - SBU @ North Dakota 9/20 7pm
       By: captaindj21 Date: September 22, 2014, 8:52 pm
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       Because the people who vote for it aren't coaches.  It's media,
       SIDs, conference people.  If Albany was so great, the coaches
       would have give them more than five votes in the coaches poll
       #Post#: 11693--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2014: Game 4 - SBU @ North Dakota 9/20 7pm
       By: jaghatai Date: September 22, 2014, 8:57 pm
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       Keep in mind that we're also really early in the season, so a
       lot of voters don't pay too much attention to the polls.
       If you are 3-0 in the CAA, you'll get a lot of attention.
       #Post#: 11694--------------------------------------------------
       Re: 2014: Game 4 - SBU @ North Dakota 9/20 7pm
       By: ecasadoSBU Date: September 23, 2014, 10:18 am
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       I get it guy. I just put that out there cuz I'm a bit Jelly of
       them! I wish we had a number next to our name. Always feels
       good. LOL
       at the end of the day UA has played a very weak schedule so I
       guess its not big deal but its nice improvement for them. At
       least they finally got their first CAA win
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