OK, the FAU game is over, and I will say we looked better than last year, and that in spurts in the second and third quarters especially, we looked very good on both sides of the ball. We did make a few bonehead plays, like not letting that kickoff toward the end of the game bounce into the end zone. However, we came up big at end and pulled the thing out.
K. Rourke had a great day passing . . . with a number of very crisp well-timed passes. Sieh Bangura looked very good at RB. If we make the kind of improvement that's possible between game 1 and game 2, I think we could be very good this year.
I was very impressed with that transfer dude from O$U -- speedy, good hands, good vision and execution. I think Sam Wiglusz is going to win some games for us, even though he almost cost us this game with the aforementioned bonehead play. (I would like to see a replay of that, but I don't think the FAU players were close enough to recover the ball before it bounced into the end zone. If they were, then it wasn't a bonehead play.)
When I got home from the game I had an email in my inbox (timestamped before the FAU game started) from a former member of this board telling me that he's smarter than I and that he doesn't have to wait until after this game to say that at best we will have four wins, and that his "gut" tells him we'll have two wins. He also told me that as one trained in journalism I should be more objective in analyzing the Bobcats. Partly to further irritate him, and partly because I'm in an optimistic mood after this win, here's my upbeat prediction for the rest of the reason
Sept. 3 FLORIDA ATLANTIC W (no credit for this one)
Sept. 10 at Penn State L
Sept. 17 at Iowa State W
Sept. 24 FORDHAM W
Oct. 1 at Kent State W
Oct. 8 AKRON W
Oct. 15 at Western Michigan L
Oct. 22 NORTHERN ILLINOIS W
Oct. 29 BYE
Nov. 1 BUFFALO W
Nov. 8 at Miami W
Nov. 15 at Ball State W
Nov. 22 BOWLING GREEN W
10-2 (7-1)
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This poster, who most old time regulars will easily figure out the identity of, also added as a "bonus" that Nathan Rourke would never make the NFL, saying that he doesn't have the "arm or ability under pressure" to make plays in the NFL. Time will tell on this prediction, but this same sage once told me that Tarell Basham would never "sniff the NFL." This poster is a legend in his own mind.
Last Edited: 9/4/2022 12:53:22 AM by OhioCatFan