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Post by TOPPDOGG on Oct 10, 2006 7:42:58 GMT -5
I don't believe Coach Small should be absolved of his shortcomings, just because the administrators with their own shortcomings made the mistake of hiring him.
Coach Small has to shoulder the blame for those things that were within his control. For example, the penalties, the lack of fundamentals displayed by his players, poor recruiting (in-state where money isn't an issue) and his overall poor coaching acumen.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Oct 10, 2006 7:13:26 GMT -5
400,000 in three years wouldn't fund a division III program. That's nothing to brag about. You see, 40,000 times 100 dollars a year is 4 million dollars a year. That would be a third of what we would need to be truly nationally competitive on a yearly basis given our built in disadvantages (we don't really hire or recruit outside of black people and our schedule is full of teams that do the same and underfund their programs). That being said we take the money we do get and do dumb isht with it like collapsing positions and putting names on jerseys. We need to give more. I concede that point. However, we fund our program as well as and better than most other HBCUs. Yet I don't think there is one other HBCU save SSU that we could beat. Money didn't get us to this point. It was mismanagement by administrators and coach Small.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Oct 10, 2006 7:08:31 GMT -5
We're not spending more than Norfolk or SC State of football. We're a mill less than SC State alone. I don't know about Morgan but I'm willing to bet this year we're spending less. The most recent gender-equity stats that are available indicate that we indeed are spending more on football than half the conference. If you have some different stats, let's see 'em.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Oct 9, 2006 21:14:58 GMT -5
You can't place all the blame on George Small. He'd have won at least two or three were he still coach. The current infrastructure of the athletic department as a whole is to blame. And the athletic department has not been given a damn thing to work with in years. If you haven't noticed we haven't been winning at much of anything lately. Could it be because the administration has short-changed athletics to pay for such necessary items as award-winning comic strips and barbecues to recruit students? The basic problem is we don't have money to compete in division I yet we refuse to admit it. Some people cry the alumni should step up. Well if 40,000 people with car notes, food bills, and basic living expenses all care enough to donate 100 bucks a year each then you have a third of what we would need to be moderately successful. Obviously we ain't getting it from the alumni. We gonna blame Small for that too? Hell, we shouldn't even have to ask the alumni for that money. Instead we ask a running back coach to be head coach and offensive coordinator, take his defensive coordinator away, make him hire dudes younger than me and almost as inexperienced to boot, and tell him to go put a respectable team on the field with guys who probably don't really have the heart for this crap anymore. That's not division I athletics. That's igga isht. On the bright side it's not going to be this bad forever. Sooner than you realize we'll be back to the good ole days of 8-3 and losses to any pwc we face, visiting classics and losing in the first round of the playoffs every now and again. That's the goal, right? Aren't we spending more than Morgan? More than Norfolk? More than SC State? The Aggie club has given over $400,000 in the last 3 years alone. What other HBCU can come close to saying the same? Yes our program needs more, but I refuse to believe money is the only problem or the only answer. Coach Small was recruiting tenors for his choir when he should've been recruiting ballers for the team. It's inexcusable. The cupboard is bare. Coach Small should never show his a$$ on campus again! We just have to face the fact that we're starting over from scratch. We need to give more, but more than that be patient with the new coach. He can turn it around.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Oct 4, 2006 15:00:58 GMT -5
I'll be there. No tailgating, but I will hit up the Chancellor's Tent.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Oct 1, 2006 17:40:33 GMT -5
For some reason we left our corners alone, man to man, against Norfolks receivers and they destroyed us. Pearl Harbor didn't get bombed as bad as we did against the Spartans Saturday. Note to Fobbs, Adams, Oliver and whoever else is coaching the defense: We have got to start running a two-deep zone in passing situations. We do not possess a shut-down corner anywhere on our roster. Plus, I don't recall us bringing a blitz package ONCE against Norfolk. The reason their QB was able to pick us apart and connect on those long passes time and time again (there were about five passes over 40 yards) was because he was almost never under diress. Suprisingly, the A&T front seven had their best effort of the season and were really physical against NSU's rushing attack. I was more than satisfied with our tackling in this game, our toughness and the overall play of our defensive line. Our front line was getting a solid push on about every running play. At linebacker, Hemphill was a beast in the middle before he got ejected for a flagrant foul (slapped some NSU defender in the helmet right in front of the official). He is going to be a great one by the time he is a senior. However, it can't be said enough just how abysmal our secondary was in this game. I hate to single out college players ... but J. J. Yates is a liability back there. He couldn't cover a queen-sized bed with a king-sized comforter. J.J. Yates is #4. I thought he played admirably. He almost picked off a pass. The real culprits were Chris Caesar #9 and #26. We're damned either way. If you add another safety for coverage then that makes the run defense even weaker. Truthfully, the entire Defense needs help. We just don't have the personnel yet. I do think that Wayne Campbell is our QB. He's poised in the pocket. He throws well too.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Sept 28, 2006 13:54:09 GMT -5
I'm heading down Friday after work. See ya'll there!
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Sept 24, 2006 6:30:45 GMT -5
We appear to have rushed the ball 28 times and passed 26. I know Fobbs wants to be balanced. However, it is clear through the first three games that we cannot generate a rushing attack.
Shouldn't we air it out more? Don't get me wrong, we're 0-3 either way. I just think we could be more productive offensively if Fobbs abandons the running game for now. The o-line just aint capable of opening holes.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Sept 23, 2006 13:20:00 GMT -5
Who is this Tony Lee new guy that Coach Fobbs talks about on the Aggie Sports Reports? Tony Leath, transfer WR from Marshall.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Sept 20, 2006 14:00:13 GMT -5
It's a sad day when the News & Record makes policy at A&T. This Hackley guy needs to go pronto!
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Sept 14, 2006 12:33:12 GMT -5
12 weeks and four days as of today. We just went to the docter yesterday. If it's a girl, I'm leaning towards naming her Maggie. Middle name will be Pride. Man you are a fool! I'm not going to be able to make this one. We're burying my grandfather on Saturday. Hopefully we'll get some divine intervention from an Aggie in heaven and pull off the upset!
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Sept 6, 2006 20:33:13 GMT -5
I want us to average more than 17 points on offense this year.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Sept 3, 2006 21:12:56 GMT -5
I'm sorry. I never understood why Fobbs would get rid of almost all of his seniors and juniors. They would at least help to get 3 or 4 victories this year but now we must indure a 0-10 season while the young guys get beat up to get game playing experience. Which juniors and seniors did Fobbs get rid of?
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Sept 3, 2006 5:25:49 GMT -5
Not far off, WSSU had 282 rushing yards. We on the other hand had 199 total offensive yards. Our offensive line and defensive line look horrible. They are young though. I believe Fobbs will get improvement from this bunch.
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Post by TOPPDOGG on Aug 9, 2006 18:06:09 GMT -5
getting the building for free, no threat of rain, chance for the band to perform on the indoor turf, a lot of giveaways for the kids in attendance. This was on the Todd's board for last year but the old coach balked at it . Said it was too much of a distraction for his NCCU game prep. Go figure. They wanted to do it last year too, but Hurricane Katrina got in the way. The coliseum ended up cancelling the event. By the time we could've rescheduled the thing, most people knew the season was a lost cause. It would've been poorly attended anyway.
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