(07-28-2017 05:05 PM)eaglewraith Wrote:  

(07-28-2017 04:54 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  

(07-28-2017 02:45 PM)eaglewraith Wrote:  

(07-28-2017 02:37 PM)ericsaid Wrote:  Georgia State with Shawn Elliot and their own stadium should scare a Georgia Southern team led by Tyson Summers.

Like hell.

Shawn Elliott has proven less as a HC at this point in time than Tyson Summers has.

Oh wait, he's an App guy....you're going to felate him no matter what. Nevermind.

I'm not sure that being an unknown commodity is worse than being known as 5-7 Tyson Summers. Georgia State has had Southern's number. They have their own stadium now, are in Atlanta, and are a research institution. I believe with Shawn Elliot and Charlie Cobb, you will likely see an improvement of the program unlike what occurred with it's previous administration.

Yes they have their own stadium, which may work in their favor now. Before they did have an issue by teams getting hyped up to be put in the Falcons' locker room as the visiting team and knowing they were in an NFL stadium. Yes they're a research institution, but that don't mean **** on the football field. Yes they are in Atlanta, but that hasn't meant anything really for them so far.....we still recruit Atlanta as well if not better than we always have and a majority of our fanbase is in Atlanta. Gast hasn't been able to get local media attention due to under performance (admittedly could change with wins) until they got the Turner property because the city was interested in what happened with it.

I wasn't really impressed with Elliott's interview with our radio crew. He insisted they're going to run the ball no matter how good the OL is, that Connor Manning is the starting QB and they expect running production from that position although it was pretty obvious last year that he couldn't run effectively, and they also still don't have an answer for what they're doing with the running position. He may in fact improve them dramatically, but it will in no way be fast.

As for them having our number......in 2015 they had a good offense led by a good QB, as much as it pains me to admit it. I'm not sure what happened with us in that game, but everything about that game was a statistical anomaly. Gast played really well and took it to us the whole game. I still don't have a real answer for what happened on our side. Last year there is no real answer for either team. Both of us were trainwrecks, that game came down to who was going to suck the least on that day.

I do think this year will be the first time that, when we play each other, BOTH teams will have competent coaching staffs. That hasn't been the case for the first 3 meetings. It'll be interesting. I'm definitely glad it's at home this year though.