High points we made sports center highlights for our two point convo stop. Th had some great yardage. And our freshman did get playing time. We suck at d but in a few years the freshman playing time will pay off. And our boys continue to pick up weight. We aren't sec big but they are a lot bigger then 4 yrs ago when we started.

Now on to university of albany. And somebody told me liberty plays some triple o. Is this true? And doesn't albany?

(09-22-2013 09:14 PM)workingodu Wrote:  High points we made sports center highlights for our two point convo stop. Th had some great yardage. And our freshman did get playing time. We suck at d but in a few years the freshman playing time will pay off. And our boys continue to pick up weight. We aren't sec big but they are a lot bigger then 4 yrs ago when we started.

Now on to university of albany. And somebody told me liberty plays some triple o. Is this true? And doesn't albany?

Liberty as well as Albany doesn't play TO AFAIK.

Our D couldn't stop the South Park Cows

Other than the obvious, that The Citadel is not setting the world on fire; the Bulldogs, unlike a GaSo that spreads it's carries out between 3, 4, and sometimes even 5 players, The Citadel used essentially 2 players the entire game to run the TO.

Really? We cannot make an in-game adjustment to key on two players; a QB and a FB?

A "W" is a "W". Time to move on to the next one.

(09-23-2013 07:52 AM)VA49er Wrote:  A "W" is a "W". Time to move on to the next one.

Exactly, good job Monarchs.

(09-23-2013 07:52 AM)VA49er Wrote:  A "W" is a "W". Time to move on to the next one.

It is never time to completely move on.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

(09-23-2013 08:10 AM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

(09-23-2013 07:52 AM)VA49er Wrote:  A "W" is a "W". Time to move on to the next one.

It is never time to completely move on.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Well, it's a given they'll try and learn from whatever mistakes were made. Just saying that at the end of the day, uit's still "W" in the record books and now it's time to prepare for the next team.

ODU's defense was also missing three key starters in Sr. DT #95 Nate Barnes, #59 Galen Evans (injured last season during a Nov. game, ) and #43 (wore #96 last season) MLB Caleb Taylor, ODU's leading tackler last season.

(09-21-2013 09:59 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  Obviously the usual bad defensive display, but:

1. We won
2. The Maryland loss is looking less and less bad3. We arent Florida International

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Not true. It is still bad. Don't think that because they blew WVU out that Maryland is the real deal. WVU sucks and I guarantee both ODU and UTSA would beat WVU by 14+.

(09-23-2013 09:45 AM)BleedsGreen33 Wrote:  

(09-21-2013 09:59 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  Obviously the usual bad defensive display, but:

1. We won
2. The Maryland loss is looking less and less bad3. We arent Florida International

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Not true. It is still bad. Don't think that because they blew WVU out that Maryland is the real deal. WVU sucks and I guarantee both ODU and UTSA would beat WVU by 14+.

I think we are not FIU because we can move the ball well most of the time.

UMD may or may not be the real deal, to me the jury is still out.
UMD DID expose our one 'dimensionality' though.
Edsall stacked the ends with a dime type of defense, used a smaller and quicker defensive line, and had big fast DBs.

We could not or would not run the ball up the middle, which was left wide open. Edsall admitted this was his gameplan and he essentially was daring us to run.
Maybe most other teams don't have the DBs to smother our receivers like UMD did, but Edsall certainly knew what he was doing.

..and yes, it does indeed seem like WVU sux.

Back in the late 80s or early 90s the citadel beat Arkansas and they fired the head coach the next day

The triple option is hard for teams to stop that only seen it once in a while. ODU's coaches have also made the decision to sink or swim with a young defense, and they sure as hell have never seen a true TO offense before.

(09-23-2013 10:28 AM)shere khan Wrote:  Back in the late 80s or early 90s the citadel beat Arkansas and they fired the head coach the next day

They beat South Carolina around that time too, it wasn't long after they both had joined the SEC when that happened (after consulting google it was 90' for USC, 92' for Arkansas). They have some decent teams from time to time.

I don't think asking to recruit and train atleast a mediocre defensive players is too much for a high budget school which has aspirations to move to FBS. I am disgusted with our defensive play to the core and i do not know how long the offense can outscore other teams consistently to bail out a bad defense. Forget about triple option i hope they atleast start playing good defense against the other spreads.

(09-23-2013 10:13 AM)ODUalum78 Wrote:  

(09-23-2013 09:45 AM)BleedsGreen33 Wrote:  

(09-21-2013 09:59 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  Obviously the usual bad defensive display, but:

1. We won
2. The Maryland loss is looking less and less bad3. We arent Florida International

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Not true. It is still bad. Don't think that because they blew WVU out that Maryland is the real deal. WVU sucks and I guarantee both ODU and UTSA would beat WVU by 14+.

I think we are not FIU because we can move the ball well most of the time.

UMD may or may not be the real deal, to me the jury is still out.
UMD DID expose our one 'dimensionality' though.
Edsall stacked the ends with a dime type of defense, used a smaller and quicker defensive line, and had big fast DBs.

We could not or would not run the ball up the middle, which was left wide open. Edsall admitted this was his gameplan and he essentially was daring us to run.
Maybe most other teams don't have the DBs to smother our receivers like UMD did, but Edsall certainly knew what he was doing.

..and yes, it does indeed seem like WVU sux.

Depends how you define real deal. They won't beat Clemson or FSU, but they might be a top 25 team.

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(09-23-2013 08:07 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  

(09-23-2013 07:52 AM)VA49er Wrote:  A "W" is a "W". Time to move on to the next one.

Exactly, good job Monarchs Offense.

FIFY

Boy I can't even imagine this place if the ball had of gone another foot on that 2-pt conversion. Although I think Taylor could of scored in minute and a half. I keep talking to friends about how much fun we had at that game, the momentum keep going back-n-forth. We were taking shots after each ODU score and we were out by half time.

(09-23-2013 11:09 PM)DaBigBlue Wrote:  Boy I can't even imagine this place if the ball had of gone another foot on that 2-pt conversion. Although I think Taylor could of scored in minute and a half. I keep talking to friends about how much fun we had at that game, the momentum keep going back-n-forth. We were taking shots after each ODU score and we were out by half time.

I went to the game with my dad and we had a great time. My seats are 16 rows up from where that climactic two point conversion was attempted and thwarted. I have not had such a reaction to a live sports play like that in a long time, maybe never. I went totally ape sh*t. The entire game was a gut-wrenching, roller coaster experience, particularly the final eight minutes or so.

Many of our fans including myself are justly concerned about our porous defense, however I feel like there is quite a bit of overreation being displayed. There are always circumstances in a given game that present challenges. Key players injured, lack of experience at some positions, etc. When after a loss one looks back at those challenges and sees that they were not effectively overcome, one can cite them, and that may justly be labeled as excuse making; on-the-other-hand, after a hard fought victory in which many such challenges were faced and overcome, I believe it is well within reason to cite those same challenges and the fact that they were overcome as an achievement. I also want to see a much more competative defense, but I realize that not only are we in our first season under our third DC, there are also many first year players on the defensive side of the ball who are racking up considerable PT. I congratulate our entire team on the victory.

We ODU fans have now witnessed 40 victories in just four seasons plus four games of a fifth. It is an impressive feat to go from inception to that kind of success no matter the level at which a program competes. It is somewhat a doubleedged sword to have a great amount of success so early on. I believe many of our fans have unrealistic expectations for our program during it's transition from fcs to FBS. There will be many more challenges for both the program and it's fans to overcome. I do hope that the majority of our fans will take the time to reflect back some few short years to the time when football at ODU was but a dream and enjoy how far we have come so quickly.

There is nothing wrong with wanting the best out of your team, or being upset, and voicing your opinions when you don't believe it's being delivered, but for goodness sake take some time to enjoy the victories, and the other great aspects of even having a team to go watch play on Saturdays. Charlotte fans, tuck that away also, as it may serve you someday as well.

Wow, Monarchs! Sounds like you all had the gridiron equivalent of a food fight going on! Congratulations on the win, people tend to forget, the Citadel's been around a long time, pushovers they are not!