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Post by aggielove on Feb 14, 2006 16:37:30 GMT -5
That's the key difference - in most instances when BCC's QB's touch the ball, they are expecting to get hit. If we're in the spread and are qb's are prone, that's not so good.
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Post by Aggie One on Feb 14, 2006 16:47:04 GMT -5
Big 12 QBs do a lot of running in their offenses so I suspect our guys will too. It won't be the straight shotgun and wing it FAMU style that Billy Joe made famous.
More like what you saw out of Texas and Georgia this past year, a good overall athlete with a decent arm and a lot of foot speed picking his spots to run and creating mismatches in the running game and the downfield pass patterns because everyone will be chasing.
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 14, 2006 16:56:12 GMT -5
Exactly. The way most of these teams run the spread now, they run waaaay more than they pass. It's basically the wishbone with the qb in the shotgun and only one back instead of three. Or it's the single wing with a bunch of receivers.
Qb's better expect to get hit in that offense.
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Post by SHB2K on Feb 15, 2006 9:52:54 GMT -5
“A&T is an excellent school. They’re a Division 1-AA school that over the past few years has been to the playoffs and they’ve won the MEAC conference on several occasions,” Lunsford said. “I feel real good about the new coach they brought in. I really think that Morgan’s going to bring a lot there, and they’re going to offer him a lot too. I think it’s a good fit all around.” Hmm... maybe some of our players ARE signing on for the oppurtunity to make it to the playoffs and compete for a championship! Granted, this is the coach's comment, but it appears as though the recruits are at least paying attention to the fact that I-AA competition gives them a chance to enter a playoff format. All the more reason to keep the MEAC aimed in the direction of the playoffs.
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 15, 2006 10:09:14 GMT -5
Vincent was being courted early in the recruiting process by North Carolina and East Carolina but is satisfied with his decision to attend the Division 1-AA university. “At first I wanted to go to Carolina, but it just didn’t fit my style,” Vincent said. “To put it this way, I wouldn’t feel comfortable in that atmosphere. At A&T, I’ll get more opportunity to shine and more starting time.” In other words, playoffs had nothing to do with this cat's decision. While the chance to go to the playoffs is a selling point the coaches can use, I doubt kids use it as a buying point. Example: If dude's main, or even secondary concern was playoff eligibility and App State suddenly appeared and offered him a scholarship, where would he go? His concern was playing time and being at a Black school. Most of the players choose A&T first and foremost because they want to attend an hbcu. Competing on a national level is further down the list. Again, I'm all for the playoffs. I just don't think players by and large give a rat's a$$ whether we're playoff eligible or not. They want to play, they want to be comfortable, they want a scholarship. They'd like a championship of some sort. The swac's out of the playoffs and has been for years but they still get the same level of athlete they were getting back when they were losing in the first round every year.
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Post by Gator on Feb 15, 2006 13:41:20 GMT -5
Did I just read where the kid mentioned playoffs in article above? Yes!
Your argument is mute. If it didn't play a role, why did he mention it.
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 15, 2006 14:18:08 GMT -5
Because you didn't read where the kid mentioned it. Coach Lunsford mentioned it. You just misread it.
So my argument isn't quite moot.
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Post by Gator on Feb 16, 2006 22:42:57 GMT -5
BS Dooms,
If coaches and players are aware of it, then enough said.
You're starting to sound like those folks from the SWAC.
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 17, 2006 8:35:40 GMT -5
BS what? You completely misread the quote. Don't try to change up now to include the player's coaches because you re-read and realized the player never mentioned the playoffs. Just admit you misread it. It's ok.
This statement defies logic on so many levels, I'll leave it alone.
You claim I'm starting to sound like the swac. I'd be sounding like the SWAC if I was saying we need to leave the playoffs. Where'd I say that? I haven't even hinted at that. You continue to misread.
Read slowly: I maintain that by and large players do not pick us because we go to the playoffs. There is probably not one player on scholarship at A&T State University that would not have chosen A&T because we didn't go to the playoffs. Not one. Therefore using that as a argument for remaining in the playoffs is foolish because it is simply untrue.
There are excellent arguments to be made for remaining in the playoffs. Instead of building up a false one why not concentrate on arguments that can't be easily disproven.
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Post by Aggie One on Feb 21, 2006 13:26:57 GMT -5
For those posters who were questioning the ability of Cedric Byrd to play on a 1-AA level because of his combine time last summer, the national recruiting watchdogs on 1-AA prospects have a much different opinion of him, in the Top 30 nationally among receivers. www.showingblitz.com/2006topwrs.html
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Post by Bigboy on Feb 21, 2006 13:51:27 GMT -5
#28 is not bad for a 1-AA receiver. None of our opponents had anyone ranked in that top 30.
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Post by SHB2K on Feb 21, 2006 14:12:45 GMT -5
They were all I-AA recievers, but you're right about none of our peers having guys on the list.
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 21, 2006 15:32:09 GMT -5
Get the heck outta here. Good for him with his slow a$$! He's probably the slowest one on the list by a mile but this must mean he can catch and block.
Jokes aside, I get downright scared when I see somebody highly reguarded fall in our lap. I hate to admit it but A&T is easily one of the worst schools I've ever seen at developing highly regarded talent. Hopefully Coach Fobbs can help us to completely buck that trend. He should be able to as he's coached every position save qb and should know how it should be coached.
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Post by DECKS on Feb 22, 2006 1:10:59 GMT -5
![](http://media.scout.com/media/image/23/239668.jpg) The 4.85 time reported for him has to be wrong. It appears that he went to the Durham combines where all of the receivers clocked in at ranges from 4.64 - 5.07 . All that participated in other combines did much better elsewhere. ECU offered him a scholarship and UNC came close. Based on the differences for other players I'd guess that he runs somewhere between a 4.50 - 4.60
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Post by Aggie Monster on Feb 22, 2006 8:27:15 GMT -5
Dex is absolutely correct. Most of the time if somebody seems suspiciously slow for their position everyone timed that day was slow. The guy clocking is sometimes slow with the trigger at the end or fast with it right before the gun. Sometimes even weather conditions or time of day even play a factor. This guy is legit.
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