OHIO +3

I noticed DishNetwork has gotten on board with WatchESPN. I wish DirecTV would do the same.

I predict Ohio 31, Kent 6.

I've always trusted L.C. and his assessments.
This prediction is no exception.





GO BOBCATS

if we could have a win like that with a fake punt td thrown in it would be even better.

I underestimated how bad Ohio has been against Kent State recently. Since 2000, Ohio has only won six games in the series and the last time Ohio won two in a row was 2005-2006. Time to get off the mat and punch Can't in the mouth. What are we down to? 10 days? This thread should be blowing up soon.

Seriously?  9 days out from what has all the appearances of being a rOUsing season and the Hibbetts store in Jackson has almost four times as many posts as this thread?

Come on.

I think this is exactly the problem. That, plus the fact that a lot of fans were disappointed with the apparent team attitude last year, that soured some on the team and the coaching staff.

On offense, the players are all new names. Ok, the linemen played in some games, as did the Mangen at TE, and Cochran at WR, but the key skill positions, QB, RB, and WR will have a lot of faces that have either not played at all, or have played very little. What should we expect from Dorian Brown, Aaron Bradley, Brandon Cope, Herman Brunis, Cameron Wilson, Cedric Brown, Justin Wyatt, and Jordan Reid? Most of us have never seen them play. What about Vick, Sprague, Edmond, Landon Smith, and Sebastian Smith? While we've seen them, we haven't seen much of them, so add it all together, and we just don't know exactly what to expect.

Defense is a different situation. There are lots of returning players, and few new faces. On the other hand, they are returning from a defense that was not very good. How much good does it do to get everyone back from a bad defense? Ok, Carrie and Hughes are gone, as is Moore, but there seem to be some solid replacements for them, that played a lot. With everyone back, will the defense improve? Of course. The players will be a year older and wiser, and more experienced, and they won't make as many mistakes. The coaches will refine and revise the defensive schemes to try to eliminate the breakdowns last year that led to the defense to give up so many rushing yards. But, in the end, we just don't know what to expect.

So, on offense we have new faces. On defense we have mostly the same faces, but from a defense that wasn't that good. What we also have is a dramatically better team attitude, and improved team unity and spirit. What will it add up to? Will it win back fan support? I think so, and I'm actually very excited to see the team play, but I can understand why that feeling isn't universal.

Go Bobcats!

I think everyone is too busy dumping ice water on themselves to post

nervous and cautiously optimistic. I want to see us go out and physically dominate like we haven't done since early 2012.