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It's almost time again. I know the loss last year is still stinging.

How do you expect your Blazers to do this year? Troy obviously hired Scott Cross, the former HC at UT-Arlington. He's energized the fan base up in ways we haven't seen since our A-Sun days. There's going to be a pretty large student turnout for this.

We lost a lot of players to transfer and graduation. Varnado, Hicks, and a couple others have graduated. SF Javan Johnson transferred to Iowa State. Four others either transferred to JUCO or Division II programs, or quit altogether.

The only positive with all the transfers was that Cross was able to bring in a lot of his own players immediately. He recruited as far as Texas, to New York, to Florida. I've never seen a Troy coach recruit outside of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Cross brought in a lot of bigs. We're a young team with only 1 senior. We have a transfer that'll be fully eligible to play this year in F Davion Thomas, who was one of Kermit's players at MTSU.

We don't really know what to expect from Troy except that Cross will run an aggressive defense like he did at UTA.

Looking forward to the game.