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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 10:39:04 GMT -5
If we lose 3 conference games with this roster, 2019 will and should be viewed as a failure. Broadway didn't leave this program in the position he did for it to fall off a cliff like that in two years. I dont care how many seniors you lose, you do go from 12-0 to 8-4 in two years if you are still doing chicken. We’re gonna mess around and have a tough OOC schedule. Those southern MEAC teams and Morgan will be gunning for us too. We gotta see how we look in spring practice first. My gut is telling me this is the season that determines how we flow as a program. Realistically, 2-2 OOC and 5-3 in conference should be our floor. If things break well for us, we can get 3 OOC wins and go 10-2 or better. But things have to break well.
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Post by aggieclt on Jan 15, 2019 10:56:00 GMT -5
hail, i'll admit that i'm "spoiled". but we should never expect a "steep" drop off from our current level of play. one of the things that coach broadway did "extremely well" was to stagger his recruiting classes so that there would never be a year where he'd lose a ton of seniors all in the same year. hopefully coach washington is continuing that philosophy to only "reload" without having to "rebuild"... I'm not saying that we're not talented. We certainly are. And I don't think we'll have a steep drop-off. An 8-4 record and 6-2/5-3 in the MEAC is definitely a solid record. But the uncertainty at QB, reload along the DL, general youth in the defense and the uncertainty around Mac McCain points to some inconsistent play in 2019. Expecting the high level of execution that we were blessed with from an upperclassmen-driven roster and the greatest QB in A&T history is not really fair to the guys stepping up to the plate for the first time in 2019. Even James Madison took a step back in 2018. It happens to the best of programs. I honestly believe that the 2020 A&T squad will be able to rival the 2017 group, especially with a FBS game at Liberty. But that's factoring in a year of experience building in 2019. It's no shade on us... just being realistic and anticipating improved play from the other squads around us who will have upperclassmen with more experience. I am spoiled but also realistic. Despite what I posted earlier, I still think it's a tad early to make 2019 season predictions before signing day, spring camp, summer drills and fall camp. We are replacing our OL, our DL, our QB & our RB. I'm not sure if there is another team in the MEAC replacing as much as we are. Right now, I'm focusing on National Signing Day & the official release of our full 2019 schedule.
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Jan 15, 2019 10:59:16 GMT -5
If we lose 3 conference games with this roster, 2019 will and should be viewed as a failure. Broadway didn't leave this program in the position he did for it to fall off a cliff like that in two years. I dont care how many seniors you lose, you do go from 12-0 to 8-4 in two years if you are still doing chicken. You completely missed my commentary about 2020. That would indicate that I don't believe the program has fallen off of a cliff. What my commentary is factoring in is that programs like FAMU, BCU and SCSU will be better with heavily upperclassmen rosters. If the MEAC is improving the way that it should, no team should win 3 outright championships in a row. Jacksonville St winning 5 straight OVC titles is an indictment on the OVC (although SE Missouri St almost got them, but FAMU'd down the stretch). James Madison finished 6-2 in the CAA and fell off the perch for a change. Eastern Washington finished 7-4 in the Big Sky and completely missed the FCS Playoffs in 2017. This is also factoring in losing two likely A&T Hall of Famers in Julian McKnight (anticipated) and Darryl Johnson (unanticipated) off of our DL. I don't care how much rotation we did in 2018... the replacements for those guys are NOT on the 2019 roster. Tyquan Johnson isn't going to give you McKnight-caliber impact next season as a true freshman. Bam declaring and the Kylil injury isn't a scenario that Broadway had to deal with. At our level, that's a lot to overcome given all the other losses in a reload/reset year. We need to be more realistic about all the variables & uncertainty being dealt with in 2019.
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Post by thefriscotxaggie on Jan 15, 2019 11:41:52 GMT -5
I kinda reserve comment until signing day as I said before we need 3-4 impact transfers . Would not surprise me if a few folks show up spring semester we don’t know about
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Post by marchingband1969 on Jan 15, 2019 11:42:21 GMT -5
hail, i'll admit that i'm "spoiled". but we should never expect a "steep" drop off from our current level of play. one of the things that coach broadway did "extremely well" was to stagger his recruiting classes so that there would never be a year where he'd lose a ton of seniors all in the same year. hopefully coach washington is continuing that philosophy to only "reload" without having to "rebuild"... I'm not saying that we're not talented. We certainly are. And I don't think we'll have a steep drop-off. An 8-4 record and 6-2/5-3 in the MEAC is definitely a solid record. But the uncertainty at QB, reload along the DL, general youth in the defense and the uncertainty around Mac McCain points to some inconsistent play in 2019. Expecting the high level of execution that we were blessed with from an upperclassmen-driven roster and the greatest QB in A&T history is not really fair to the guys stepping up to the plate for the first time in 2019. Even James Madison took a step back in 2018. It happens to the best of programs. I honestly believe that the 2020 A&T squad will be able to rival the 2017 group, especially with a FBS game at Liberty. But that's factoring in a year of experience building in 2019. It's no shade on us... just being realistic and anticipating improved play from the other squads around us who will have upperclassmen with more experience. Like you, I'm getting mentally prepared for a few more loses this season. We're losing too many good experience players in key positions not to drop off some. And a few teams in the MEAC has gotten better. Last year even with the head coaching change, everything else stayed as Broadway left it...95% of the coaching staff stayed, one of the best QB and RB combinations returned and enough experienced players on both sides of the ball stepped up. And we had a backup QB that would start for half of the MEAC programs. This year we've got some serious gaps and question marks! Oh we've got enough talent not to tank next season but some key players in key positions are missing. And in addition to getting comfortable with losing more game next season, we'll have to get comfortable with all the trash talking that will be thrown our way when we lose. That's going to be tougher than the loses.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 15, 2019 12:51:40 GMT -5
despite our losses, i still have "confidence" in our returning players. hey, if coach washington plays his cards right (like coach broadway did during his first year) by "lowering expectations" to the public, but raising expectations to the team, i think we'll do just fine in 2019.
ever notice during coach broadway's first season, seemingly almost every other sentence that came out of his mouth publicly and to the media had the words "27 scholarships" in it? he literally psyched a lot of opposing teams out that year because they were too busy concentrating on how few scholarships we had to go along with us coming off of a record of 1-10 the year before.
heck, broadway's "pyche job" led to a 5-6 record his first season (including no recruiting class plus apr sanctions) and probably the most "stunning" upset i've ever seen an aggie football team accomplish when we not only beat, but "dominated" big bad brian jenkins' bcu wildcats 22-3 in aggie stadium that year, shocked the world!!
man, as long as i live, i will "never" forget how "stunned" brian jenkins was! he was so "depressed" over that loss that he refused to show the highlights of that game on his cable tv bcu coach's show the following week, didn't even "mention" that bcu had loss to a&t! whereas he'd always show highlights from their most recent game on his coach's show every week. but lol, dude barely spoke a word at all on his coach's show after we upset bcu, much less mention the a&t loss.
nonetheless, coach washington should take a page out of coach broadway's book and learn how to "lower expectations" to the "public". but inside the locker room, he should play the "disrespect card" saying that nobody believes our returning guys can sustain the same "championship" level of play that our last 4 or 5 teams did. that should put a big azz "chip" on our guys' shoulders to perform above and beyond expectations.
man, i would play that "disrespect card" all during the offseason with the mindset to "raise" the level of play of all of our returning players. hey, when you've been riding the bandwagon we've been riding for the last 5 years or so, you've got to find every motivating factor you can to keep our guys from becoming "complacent". i think a "run" for the meac championship is possible in 2019, perhaps not probable, but indeed possible...
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 15, 2019 13:51:05 GMT -5
Some of yall act like this conference if some juggernaut. Newsflash: it aint.
Howard has a new coaching staff. The braintrust behind the Go-Go offense is no longer there. We shouldn't lose to them.
Morgan will have a new coaching staff. We shouldn't lose to them.
NCCU has a new coaching staff and the same scrub players. We shouldn't lose to them.
SCSU has a coach who is making his swan song. They have no budget. They cant stop the run. We shouldn't lose to them.
NSU ... This doesn't even warrant a serious response
Del State ... see above comment about NSU
Bethune-Cookman is decent. This will the toughest game on the conference schedule.
FAMU has the worst coach in black college football and there will be a revenge factor. We shouldn't lose to them.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jan 15, 2019 14:19:36 GMT -5
i think our primary focus for 2019 and the offseason should be "line play" the big uglies, that's where we lose the most starters and of course line play is "critical" to the success of a football team. we're half way there on offense, but the d-line will have to be totally rebuilt for 2019.
if last year's backups can't get the job done, then we've got to take the fbs/juco transfer route. but hopefully we won't need a lot of transfers, especially if they're only sticking around for 1 year...
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Post by 2real on Jan 15, 2019 16:19:24 GMT -5
Some of yall act like this conference if some juggernaut. Newsflash: it aint. Howard has a new coaching staff. The braintrust behind the Go-Go offense is no longer there. We shouldn't lose to them. Morgan will have a new coaching staff. We shouldn't lose to them. NCCU has a new coaching staff and the same scrub players. We shouldn't lose to them. SCSU has a coach who is making his swan song. They have no budget. They cant stop the run. We shouldn't lose to them. NSU ... This doesn't even warrant a serious response Del State ... see above comment about NSU Bethune-Cookman is decent. This will the toughest game on the conference schedule. FAMU has the worst coach in black college football and there will be a revenge factor. We shouldn't lose to them. BT, you’re a funny guy...I come back just to read the comedy
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Post by The Professor on Jan 16, 2019 8:38:57 GMT -5
I see FAMU , BCU and A&T in the top 3. Just dont know order
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Post by durhamgsoaggie on Jan 16, 2019 9:09:33 GMT -5
I see FAMU , BCU and A&T in the top 3. Just dont know order I think that's a fair assessment based on today.
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Post by thewinner on Jan 16, 2019 9:12:04 GMT -5
How are we counting A&T out of the number 1 spot already?
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Post by The Professor on Jan 16, 2019 9:35:33 GMT -5
How are we counting A&T out of the number 1 spot already? Guess u missed the fact we are losing 16 starters
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Post by DECKS on Jan 16, 2019 9:48:57 GMT -5
How are we counting A&T out of the number 1 spot already? We are replacing 16 starters. With that many losses we probably should adjust our expectations.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 16, 2019 9:57:03 GMT -5
I see the Doom and Gloomers are out in full force this morning.
My expectations are that this program will continue to perform at an elite level. I aint adjusting nothing.
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