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Umass74
September 5th, 2006, 05:03 PM
You guys gotta get satellite.

On thursday I surfed between Hofstra-Stony Brook and Rhode Island-UConn.

Hofstra looked unconfortable on offense, but they held Stony Brook to 111 total yards. The Pride's defense looked like they'll be a force. Don't know about the offense.

On Rhody's game against the evil UConn Huskies, we knew that the Ram's defense was in trouble, but I hoped that Rhody would get 350 or so yards from their option.Sadly, the Rams did not look competative in any phase of the game.

On Saturday, I saw UMass-Colgate in person.

One Sunday Channel 424 on Dish Network had the Virginia Tech-Northeastern game. Everybody was picking the Hokies to win by 70 to 105 points. Not so, the good Huskies played hard. They were outclassed, but it was not a massacre. The Hokies had a HUGE defensive line. Northeastern can take some positives from this game.

Yesterday, the same channel had W&M against Maryland. This game drove me NUTS.

The two Terps announcers were total idiots. First they were talkling how last year all Maryland's wins were by 23 points. Then they said "Well, today, we'll score 23 points a quarter."

Then they loved the Terps two QB's. LOVED them. The backup went 0-5 with an INT, while W&M's backup went 10-10 with a TD.

I thought the Tribe played a nice counter-punching game. W&M scored to make it 27-14 , then held the Terps. OK --- the Tribe has the ball and they do a nice job of completing four or five passes in a row. If they score and then do an on-side kick, they've got a chance. The two announcers are going on and on saying that the Tribe should be trying to win the game by throwing a Hail Mary. However to me it looked like the Tribe knew exactly what they were doing. When they got close enough they took their shot--- and looked to me like they almost completed the pass for a TD. The two doofusses quickly talked over it and there was no replay. I'd be interested from hearing from any Tribe fan who was there. It looked to me that the Tribe receiver had half a step...

I thought BOTH the Tribe's QBs were better than anything Maryland had. And I thought W&M played a smart, well thought out game...

tribe_pride
September 5th, 2006, 05:40 PM
I was at the Tribe game. The WR had more than a step. He was open. Unfortunately, Potts made 1 bad play all game and that was it. Overall, he played a great game as did Philips who is tough to bring down. I was really impressed with the Terps starting QB who completed a long pass while being decked on 3rd and long in a series in the 1st Quarter that led to a 14-0 lead. Without that we get the ball back down 7-0.

Overall, a good game though.

dctribefan512
September 6th, 2006, 01:51 PM
As tribe_pride said, the receiver was wide open and Potts just threw a duck. It's a real shame because I would have liked the score to look a bit closer than the way the game was played. Those announcers that cover delayed gamecasts on CSN are horrible. There is a reason they usually only do post-game reports.

Tribe4SF
September 6th, 2006, 04:14 PM
At one point the color guy lamented another run by W&M. It was followed by a play-action pass that went 50 yards for a TD, and he immediately praised W&M for setting the play up with the run. That guy is pretty good on assessing player fundamentals (raved about Phillips), but his game analysis is infuriating.

Umass74
September 6th, 2006, 09:08 PM
At one point the color guy lamented another run by W&M. It was followed by a play-action pass that went 50 yards for a TD, and he immediately praised W&M for setting the play up with the run. That guy is pretty good on assessing player fundamentals (raved about Phillips), but his game analysis is infuriating.

Yeah, I was laughing about that one. He spent a couple of minutes complaining about every Tribe run, then they throw the TD and he takes credit for W&M setting up the pass. He was fast on his feet on that one. :rotateh: