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Also, FAU won at Illinois. Good day for CUSA.

Kind of eerie how similar things are going into the La Tech game for basketball compared to going into the La Tech game for football. Heading into a home game with a great record facing dangerous La Tech teams while paying homage to the past. Hoping this time we flip the script.

They have almost exclusively played road games against Power Conference opponents

Really good offensive performance. Hope to see more of that, and tighten that perimeter d back up.

I could. But I’m not going to. Too many other factors, plus I’m strictly focusing on evaluating recruiting and quality of signees that we are bringing in. Not evaluating the quality of job that we are doing in developing and retaining these players.

Ryan Arena

Finished with 106 yards and 2 TDs on 6 catches. Team only threw for 144 yards. Came up one point short, but can’t wait to have him here.

Thanks, I couldn’t tell because my ESPN app wasn’t loading properly and I just saw Colorado listed as the home team

Indiana State got a huge road win at Colorado. Could be a pretty solid W on our résumé at the end of the season

Completely agree. HP wants nothing to do with him

Over the years I have tracked the offer lists of our signees and compared classes based on those offer lists. I came up with a letter grade scale based on how many FBS offers each signee had and who offered them (P5 vs G5). C means we were the only FBS offer for that signee, C+ is one other FBS offer, B is two to four other FBS offers, B+ is two to four but with a P5 offer, A is five to nine other FBS offers, A+ is 10 or more other FBS offers. I finally made a spreadsheet to archive it all, as Scout was bought by 247 so some of the profiles I used to see all of the offers are gone, and it’s becoming harder to access older profiles and articles in general. Anyways, here are a couple of charts showing a few things from the 2011-2019 classes. The first chart shows what percentage of the class had a “B” or better offer list (at least two other FBS offers). The second chart shows what percentage of the class had an “A” or better offer list. The last chart is based on a points scale I created where each G5 offer is worth one point and each P5 offer is worth 1.5 points. The last chart shows how many points each class accumulated in total between all of its signees.

WLB and Jack are two different positions. There is a typo on the Kevin Wood blurb but he is under the MLB category. The bold headers are the positions and I go into detail under each header as far as which players are likely to fit in that position. The Murphy twins are prime candidates to play the WLB position, which is why I put them under that header, but since there are two of them they may be split up.

https://meangreennation.com/class-of-2019-national-signing-day/ I wrote a piece on MGN that details where I think each signee will fit in our scheme. Adam wrote a piece also linked in the article that goes into detail on each position in our base offense and defense.

Plantin is the other one. We announced the signings of 20 high schoolers, 2 JUCOs, and 1 grad transfer (Plantin) today. I wonder if they’re still referring to Garrison Johnson. Hopefully Roland is a blueshirt. Not sure who another would be. Roland was the only player publicly committed who did not sign, so if it isn’t Johnson then they’d have to be referring to someone who never verbally committed.

Has signed with us. https://247sports.com/Player/Quinn-Whitlock-46079200/

Yes

Our NET Ranking jumped up 13 spots after last nights win to number 43

Every road game we play where we hear the other teams’ broadcast crews, they all seem insistent that they are having an off night. Meanwhile if they’d look at our season stats they’d see it’s what we do.

Here is how I think it will work, for the top 5 teams. The team with the top seed going into bonus play will play the 2 and the 3 seed at home and the 4 and the 5 seed on the road. The 2 seed will play the 3 and the 4 seed at home and the 5 and the 1 seed on the road. The 3 seed will play the two teams seeded higher than them (1 and 2) on the road and the teams seeded lower than them (4 and 5) at home. The 4 seed will play the 5 seed and 1 seed at home and will travel to the 2 and the 3 seed. Last, the 5 seed will get the 1 and 2 seed at home and the 3 and 4 seed on the road. This will require teams to beat the teams ahead of them on the road in order to jump them. It also gives the 1 seed the best chance at winning all 4 games while having a chance at 2 quality road wins, thus setting them up for a chance at an at-large bid should they fail to win the CUSA tourney. Which is the purpose of this whole concept.

The win in New Mexico was our 3rd non-conference road win this season. Anyone want to guess how many non-conference road wins we had during the 5-year Tony Benford era? The answer is.. 2. We were 2-15 under Benford in non-conference road games. The amount of improvement we have made just 50 games into the Mccasland era is comical. Fun ride so far.

ESPN’s matchup predictor gives us the following chances to win in each of the next 9 games: UAPB - 94.4% @ Rice - 83.5% La Tech - 72.2% Southern Miss - 84.8% @ UTEP - 61.3% @ UTSA - 74.9% Rice - 94.4% UAB - 84.1% MTSU - 92.5% And yeah, ODU is the only conference game where they give us less than a 50% chance. Time to take care of business.

I think people are getting confused by it. 9 points is still great. The thing about the 10 point cap is that if we won by 20, it would’ve only counted as a 10 point win. We were only one point away from that. It’s still good. 20 point wins still are favorable because that means you were more efficient offensively and defensively points/possession wise, but they still cap you at 10. Winning on the road counts big time, so this will help our NET noticeably.

Big time. Light it!