A new rivalry in the making?

falconfan1999 · Post by **falconfan1999** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:46 am

The WKU game today was pretty scrappy. Tempers were flaring, personal fouls on both sides of the ball and some good hitting. Could this be the start of a good rivalry? I really think the MAC dropped the ball on inviting them to join. They would have been a great fit for the conference. At any rate, they have some players on that team and I'd like to see us play them more in the future! They brought a few hundred fans with them too!

Globetrotter · Post by **Globetrotter** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:00 am

I think we should take a team like this and make them an opponent every year. Its an easy travel scenario, the are on the upswing, probably and we are both from Bowling Green. I think it makes too much sense not to do.

bgsufalcon24 · Post by **bgsufalcon24** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:53 am

Like somebody said earlier, this should be an annual rivalry game, the Battle of the Bowling Greens. We could make a sweet rivalry trophy, like the Green Bowling Ball, to be awarded to the winner. Now wouldn't that be cool?! It would certainly help us with our scheduling issues every year, that's for sure.

hutchirish · Post by **hutchirish** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:21 am

A green bowling ball trophy? hmmm, i can't tell if that is better or worse than a peace pipe between two teams that hate each other...

FlagCityFalcon · Post by **FlagCityFalcon** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:14 am

I'm not sure I want to play a bunch of cheap shot artists! So, how do we replace the Defensive lineman who was hit with a cheap shot and probably tore his ACL!?

That's what caused the chippyness.

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:32 am

FlagCityFalcon wrote:I'm not sure I want to play a bunch of cheap shot artists! So, how do we replace the Defensive lineman who was hit with a cheap shot and probably tore his ACL!?

That's what caused the chippyness.

Good news - Davis did not tear his ACL. Per the Blade, it is a sprained knee. No clue when he will be back, but at least it was not a tear.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:36 am

The fact that we threw into the end zone and then kicked a FG with a 31 point lead midway through the 4th qtr speaks for itself. Even when we were rolling up 70-20 scores on people we didnt do dstuff like that.

I'll say this for WKU, I've never seen a team getting drilled like that talk so damn much. yap, yap, yap.... give up a score....yap, yap, yap ...throw an INT.

FlagCityFalcon · Post by **FlagCityFalcon** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:52 am

A strain = ligament damage. Hopefully they don't determine they need to do an MRI and find the ACL then (they can hide). Hopefully it won't be long though!

BGSUFootballFan · Post by **BGSUFootballFan** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:10 am

On paper I wouldn't mind playing them again, but it sounds like it got a little rough tonight? I wasn't there so I can't speak for that part of the game, but I certainly think the battle of Bowling Green's would be a neat idea!

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:29 pm

Flipper wrote:The fact that we threw into the end zone and then kicked a FG with a 31 point lead midway through the 4th qtr speaks for itself. Even when we were rolling up 70-20 scores on people we didnt do dstuff like that.

I didn't think that was RUTS. It didn't feel that way to me.

We started that drive at 8:53 on the Western Kentucky two. After two unsuccessful runs, it was third and goal from the eight. Glaud attempted a pass to Zach Charles -- note the names, not starters. Then they got a field goal with 7:13 left.

It would have been much more suspect play calling with starters still in the game and/or with a larger lead. If it's 51-7 at that point, I would have called runs on third and fourth down. At 38-7? Maybe they could have called a run on third down, but I don't have a problem with the field goal at all.

And, look, the final score rendered it all moot. We only won by 20.

In any case: I kind of like the idea of doing another home-and-home with Western Kentucky if they have interest, too. It could be a good thing to do now and again.

footballguy51 · Post by **footballguy51** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:08 pm

I don't know, WKU reminded me a little too much of a liitle Univ. Miami, Fl or FIU. After they were taking those cheap shots, and then the horrible calls that lead to their 1st meaningless touchdown (pass interference??? roughing the kicker???), I'm not too sure I would want to play them very often. You'd have to wrap your players in bubble wrap, first, and I hope the next time we play them we come out with the mindset that we make sure every hit not only takes the person down, but also hurts.

FlagCityFalcon · Post by **FlagCityFalcon** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:13 pm

The roughing the kicker was a no-brainer.

footballguy51 · Post by **footballguy51** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:15 pm

Really? From where I was, it didn't even look like he touched him. And, at the most, it shoudl have been running into the kicker, not roughing.

FlagCityFalcon · Post by **FlagCityFalcon** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:10 pm

two hands, on the abdomen and pushed him to the ground. it was avoidable contact and when the punter was pushed to the ground, that made it roughing. Was it a Rough play? - No, but it was more contact than running into the kicker.

swinger5 · Post by **swinger5** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:54 pm

Did you see it on the BCSN broadcast? Cause I just saw the replay of the game on Channel 6 in BG and there is no way there should have been roughing the kicker there. It looked more like the BG player was trying to avoid contact and the kicker acted and fell down. Running into the kicker would probably have been an okay call, but no way it was Roughing. Especially not after the running into the kicker was called earlier in the game on WKU, when there was much more contact on that play.