Where is your football Aggie Pride?

[aggiejazz]

It is Wednesday and not a soul posted about the upcoming game on Saturday, November 17th, other than roll call. Where is the football talk about blocking, tackling, passing and running.

I will not be at the game but I love hearing and reading comments about the upcoming games. Our guys had two weeks to prepare for our arch-rivals in football. Lets hear it Aggies.

[aggiejazz]

Some good news via Winston Salem's local newspaper:


WSSU ranks fourth in the MEAC in average attendance. Norfolk State leads the MEAC with 19,405 a game and will play host to WSSU on Saturday. Norfolk State ranks fifth overall in the FCS.

Florida A&M, with 15,193 a game, ranks 10th in the nation. N.C. A&T, despite a losing streak that has reached 26, ranked third in the MEAC and 12th overall at 14,245 a game.
Appalachian State leads the FCS in average attendance this season with 27,903.

[Gator]

We will win Saturday! It all will come together, finally.

[AggieMike]

Don't you think Homecoming distorted those numbers a bit?

My football Aggie Pride is the same place as my regular Aggie Pride...nowhere to be found (just jokin people!)
To be honest I think students want to the season to wrap up quietly and fade out of memory

[aggiedaddyofbige74]

I will be there to blast my air horn & ring my cow bell - where is the stadium located

[AggieMike]

I'll be there too, in Aggie 'nalia but very much behind the camera.

[Bornthrilla]

A&T runner adds light to dark season By Rob Daniels
Staff Writer
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007 3:00 am
N.C. A&T VS. S.C. STATE
What: Lowcountry Classic
When: 1 p.m. Saturday
Where: Johnson Hagood Stadium, Charleston, S.C.
Records: N.C. A&T 0-10 overall, 0-7 MEAC; S.C. State 6-4, 5-2
Online: www.ncataggies.com and www.scsuathletics.com


GREENSBORO -- A pack of dromedaries would have to terrorize Antarctica and R. Kelly would have to play the Republican National Convention to approximate the dichotomy of Michael Ferguson's football season.

The junior tailback already has rushed for more than 1,000 yards, but his N.C. A&T team is winless. As the Aggies enter their season finale Saturday against South Carolina State, Ferguson would like to spare himself the distinction by eradicating the winless part.

"He's a throwback to tough, hard football," coach Lee Fobbs said. "He has played hurt most of the year and never wanted out."

In this decade, 14 teams in the NCAA's second-highest division of college football have gone through a season without tasting victory, and none has come particularly close to producing a player of statistical merit. (Andre Forte of the 2005 Indiana State Sycamores gained 802 yards on 173 attempts.) There are five other winless teams this fall, and none of their ball-carriers will approach Ferguson, whose total of 1,099 yards ranks fourth in modern Aggies history.

"At the beginning of the season, I did want to break 1,000 because I knew it had been awhile," Ferguson said. "If I get in the open, it's just me and one (defender). From the receivers to the fullbacks to the line, everybody is doing their job."

Current San Francisco 49er Maurice Hicks, who went for 1,325 yards in 2001, had been the most recent Aggie to reach 1,000, and his efforts came in eight games. They helped A&T go 8-3, the sort of record more commonly associated with a dominant offensive force.

The Aggies' losing streak has grown to 26 games, the fourth-longest in the history of college football's second-highest division, because this year's team has failed to put away opponents. Five of the past seven games have been decided by eight or fewer points. That's different from 2006, when A&T failed to challenge foes in the first place. At least this team has made things interesting, and Ferguson, who has four runs of 51 yards or longer, has been the instigator.

A rotator cuff problem in September was soon followed by a broken bone in his left hand, and Ferguson wore a plastic, padded cast, but he was able to play.

"I don't even know if (opponents) knew about it," said the Northern Durham High alumnus. "I suspect they saw it, but I don't think they knew it hurt. I just made sure I secured the ball."

Ferguson gained at least 100 yards four times in one five-game span, none of which featured more than 22 carries. There are some soft 100-yard games and soft 1,000-yard seasons, but Ferguson has none of those. In five games, he has averaged more than seven yards per attempt. Only twice has he averaged fewer than four yards.

The best tidbit of news for A&T fans is that Ferguson has another year of eligibility. If he duplicates his 2007 numbers, he will become the school's all-time leading rusher, and you have to think the losing streak will fall at some point.

"I think we're going to have a winning season next year," Ferguson said. "We're about five plays from being .500 right now. Almost all of the offensive line is back, and that's going to be a good thing. We know how to work together.

"It's going to be special."

Contact Rob Daniels at 373-7028 or rdaniels @news-record.com