Ball State is not playing for anything, last home game of the year, bowl game, add in possible poor weather. These issues will make it very difficult for them to overcome. I will also be interested in seeing how they play this Sat vs BG.




GO BOBCATS

Hoping for video.

BG is hammering Ball State late. They played hard early and kept it close. I’d expect they will come out strong on Black Friday, too. Ohio can’t let them have any hope, otherwise they might stick around.

No truer post has ever been shared in the history of BA. May I suggest SBH and OCF meet up this holiday weekend in Athens?

A word to the wise; ol' oil tanker OCF still has an unpaid, and growing, tab from the old G&W Club days so get the bar paid up front. Swabbies on liberty!!!!!

I think I'm going to skip the first half of this one and go straight to the second since this game so early and lately its a feeling out process through the first half. If we are going to lose it or win it my bet is on half two.

Undoubtedly an excellent job in getting the team to perform at this level with so many replacements needed for proven performers, but the nod might go to Buffalo his year. They were 3-9 last season and currently have a 8-4 record this season. We'll see.

Bundle up Friday. Temps in the low 30s, snow flurries likely,10 mph winds puts the wind hill in the mid 20s. The ball probably feel like concrete and might be hard to hang onto for runners and receivers.

This team is rolling. They’re going to come out with focus, take it one play at a time and earn a trip to Detroit.

Many BA'ers have access to good data. I did see, on one of the ESPN games, we lost 34 players. That total probably includes graduating players as well? In addition, the MAC overall had 320+, which tells the obvious story of what we will just have to get used to. Albin deserves COTY.

At least 13 to power four schools. That doesn't count all the other conferences and lower division schools.

Besides talking about overall numbers of transfers, which include both starters and depth, let's talk about the returning starters we have, not including the bowl game:
Offense: Computes to 2.08 starters back
Titsworth - 12 games
Atkinson - 11 games
Hendricks - 1 game
Dennison 1 game

Defense: Computes to 1.92 starters back
Weaver - 11 games
A. Williams - 9 games
Parodie - 2 games
Henderson - 1 game

Note: also on the roster were Brawley with 9 starts and Wood with 3 starts, but both have been out all season, so count them as extra coaches...

If you looked at any team, and they said they would have 2 starters back on offense, and 2 on defense, you wouldn't expect much, and you certainly wouldn't expect them to be in the running for the championship.

But, it's important to realize that it's not just transfers that made the difference. Players who were on the team last year have stepped up... and not in small numbers. Consider Navarro, Harris, Hendricks, Weatherspoon, Dennison, and M. Williams on offense, and don't just focus on the transfers, Heidecker, Tyus, and Owen.

On defense, it's the same thing. Sure, we have transfers in, like Leake, McNaboe, Doggette, and D. Johnson, but we also have players who have stepped up, such as Henderson, Taylor, Parodie, Walker, and Pearson.

The coaches have done an amazing job of assessing their needs, going out and finding players who can fill those needs, and then uniting all those players to focus on a common goal. This has been an amazing season to watch. This team was not very good against Syracuse or Kentucky or Miami, but as the season has progressed, week by week, they have improved.