Time to Defend the Crown

[VA's Finest]

Despite unfortunate and devastating injuries (Phillips, Jackson, Watkins, Glenn, C. Jones), the Aggies managed to come out of the preseason 2-2 eager to jump into the MEAC season. 4th string quarterback Adrian Moye proved his is a gamer and a competitor this past weekend against elon. he's going to give you 110% every time he takes the field.

After going 2-2 in the preseason, the Aggies are now ready to embark on their journey to defend the 2003 MEAC crown and Norfolk State is the unlucky first challenger.

N.C. A&T has had great success against Norfolk State in recent memory. The last time A&T lost to Norfolk State was 0-6 in 1989 (A&T finsished 5-6 that season) the second under the leadership of Bill Hayes. A&T leads the all time series 24-5 (winning last 9 games).

During the 9-game win streak the aggies have outscored the spartans 296-84. (the two teams dnp from 1993-97).

This game of the season is normally when we have a strong offensive performance, usually from our stable of RB (i.e. Mo Smith '99-4th & short turned into a 30-yard touchdown untouched, Hicks '01-19 carries on 75 yards and one touchdown but the Aggies scored 29 points in first quarter., Scrivens '03- only 57 yards rushing but four touchdowns.)

i think the running game will really take off this week with the o-line getting more work in with speight (who just reminds me of hicks how he hits the hole). i think micheaux may be best fit out of the backfield in the flats or just for little 5-yard dump offs for moye.

like the article in the news and record stated... small put moye into a situation where they ask him to not lose the game. this kind of parrallels the baltimore ravens a couple of years ago with trent dilfer; he was nowhere near being a prolific passer but he did not lose the game for the ravens. with such a great defense behind him and a strong ground game, he only needed to make a couple of plays per game. we are in a similar situation... micheaux will come around... speight will be the change of pace back, that can dominate the second half of the game after micheaux pounds on the LB's for the first half.

ive got faith that we will find ways to win this season it wont be pretty but we will put w's on the board

Its time to repeat

[TOPPDOGG]

I hope you're right. After four games in I expected us to be much farther along. I came away yesterday with the realization that we just aren't that good. We're still young in most spots and maybe next year will be our year.

[Blackfoot]

I haven't seen us play with my own eyes yet so I'm going by what I get from you guys. But I'm curious if this quarterback situation will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Instead of playing musical quarterbacks all game every game, we're forced to rely on one. Working with one, you can get used to the timing and style of play. I dunno....we'll see.......

[DOOMS]

We won't be relying on one cause Glenn will probably be back next week. Two mistakes and Moye will be right back in there.

I don't think we'll run on Norfolk. We can't run on anybody. Last year I think they held us to under two yards a carry.

I think this is gonna be a closer game than we expect.

[JeffAggieFan]

The good thing about our MEAC schedule is that we don't start off with SCSU, BC, or Hampton. Our player can finally start getting healthy.

Norfolk is a good team to start the schedule off. Our offense can finally get a chance to crank up. Even though I think Norfolk will help us a lot in this game by making mistate and turning the ball over to get us good field postion.

Norfolk will put 7-8 people on the line so our QB is going to have make some plays along with the WR like Trusty did against Elon.

Well let the MEAC season begin