EagleAttack Wrote:Boca Rocket mentioned this above, and had this posted on the Toledo site. Maybe something to build on with the players anyway. And by the way, we were not the only MAC school to play a 1AA in our first three games.....

Defensive Rankings-09/13/08

NCAA Defensive Rankings(YPG thru 09-13-08)

#41 EMU 299
#55 Miami 323
#56 Ohio 324
#60 Buffalo 335
#66 Kent State 352
#69 Toledo 356
#73 Temple 370
#78 BGSU 376
#81 Ball State 385
#88 NIU 404
#101 Akron 441
#109 CMU 449
#110 WMU 459

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Oh please that wasa after playing a VERY VERY bad AA team! Get real!

EagleAttack Wrote:I was a brutal performance, but I'm trying to find a few positives....

Injuries played a key roll for this game. Schmitt was injured in practice thurs. He probably should not have even tried to play. I give him credit. Our back up has promise, but has a ways to go. Schmitt is a hell of a QB...we would have been much more competitive in this game had he come in healthy. How would Toledo done without Opelt?...Hard to say.

Our starting DT, Palsrok, was knocked out in practice this week as well. Suffered an injury on Tues (yes, apparently they were practicing on Tues). Not sure when he will be able to attempt a come back. This didn't help the situation for Hunt and the rest of the DL.

Our team is small on the edges (and on the inside as well) and built for speed. This is not a team that is going to play up to it's potential in a 4 qtr. down pour. Not an excuse...just a fact. Some teams are better constituted to handle poor weather conditions than others. Toledo, for example probably has the tallest recieving corp. in the MAC. That comes in handy on a crappy day. We are much more competitive on a fast track. I dare say we probably have one of the smallest but fastest teams in the MAC....

No matter how you slice it, it was a very dissapointing game. But, I think the unusual weather and some key injuries had an impact. Maybe we still would have lost, but it would have been a hell of a lot closer. I'm not ready to give up on this season.

No there was no practice on tuesday! I know somebody.

emussuperfan Wrote:

EagleAttack Wrote:I was a brutal performance, but I'm trying to find a few positives....

Injuries played a key roll for this game. Schmitt was injured in practice thurs. He probably should not have even tried to play. I give him credit. Our back up has promise, but has a ways to go. Schmitt is a hell of a QB...we would have been much more competitive in this game had he come in healthy. How would Toledo done without Opelt?...Hard to say.

Our starting DT, Palsrok, was knocked out in practice this week as well. Suffered an injury on Tues (yes, apparently they were practicing on Tues). Not sure when he will be able to attempt a come back. This didn't help the situation for Hunt and the rest of the DL.

Our team is small on the edges (and on the inside as well) and built for speed. This is not a team that is going to play up to it's potential in a 4 qtr. down pour. Not an excuse...just a fact. Some teams are better constituted to handle poor weather conditions than others. Toledo, for example probably has the tallest recieving corp. in the MAC. That comes in handy on a crappy day. We are much more competitive on a fast track. I dare say we probably have one of the smallest but fastest teams in the MAC....

No matter how you slice it, it was a very dissapointing game. But, I think the unusual weather and some key injuries had an impact. Maybe we still would have lost, but it would have been a hell of a lot closer. I'm not ready to give up on this season.

No there was no practice on tuesday! I know somebody.

I am 100% sure that they did indeed practice on Tuesday.

I know somebody too. They had practice. Superfan is wrong.

EMU09 and EagleAttack are corect, they did practice Tuesday last week....p.s. I know someone too.

I know someone better and they didn't, not a real practice.

and here we go again: it isn't the coach "it's the fans, it's the players, it's the weather, it's the lack of a practice facility, it's the field, it is everything else! but it isn't the coach!

EagleAttack Wrote:I know somebody too. They had practice. Superfan is wrong.

Never! They may have started practice but they didn't HAVE practice because it started RAINING!