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Hello Falcon Fans,

I am San Jose State student. Excited for the matchup! I watched you guys play a couple of times this year. I personally think the early spread gives us too much credit.

See you in D.C!

sjsufan wrote:Hello Falcon Fans,

I am San Jose State student. Excited for the matchup! I watched you guys play a couple of times this year. I personally think the early spread gives us too much credit.

See you in D.C!

Looking forward to the game as well. You guys have had a helluva season and played some very good teams to the wire. Funny how both schools have an early season close loss to a top-10 opponent. Your offense looks legit and should be a good test for our defense.

Welcome to the Nest sjsufan! I know SJSU struggled in the past but your ranking is legit, bro. Losses to Stanford and Utah State? Both are very solid teams. You've had a great year....should be a great game.

This game is barely on the bowl radar. Not looking forward to it myself as I think SJS may embarrass BG. I feel sorry and take my hat off for the younger guys having to practice for the next couple of weeks with little hope of participating in the game. Exploited?

Do you even like BGSU, zete?

zete wrote:This game is barely on the bowl radar. Not looking forward to it myself as I think SJS may embarrass BG. I feel sorry and take my hat off for the younger guys having to practice for the next couple of weeks with little hope of participating in the game. Exploited?

Is this guy serious?

This extra practice time can only help the team as a whole, including the young players that won't play. In fact, the players that were never on the travel team still get to go to the bowl game. The players are EXTREMELY excited for this opportunity.

Yes, I love BG, but write what I feel.

You should think more and emote less....exploited? Really? How are they getting exploited? The team works together all year for a chance to win the conference and go to a bowl. They accomplished one fo their main goals. It's a heck of an achievement and they should be congratulated.

The practice time they're getting now will make the whole team better...not just on the 27th in DC but next spring and next fall. The extra practice time is one of the biggest benefits of going to a bowl. During the season, the short window you have from game to game doesn't give the staff much time to actually coach...they're too preoccupied with installing the game plan and prepping for Saturday. The run up to a bowl game is kind of like a mini-spring camp. They can actually do some hands on work with individual players. It's a huge benfit to the program and the players.

I have thought about this situation, even lived it once. There are players that will practice and attend meetings leading up to the bowl game and then not make the trip. Call it what ever you want, I simply stated I feel for those individuals - the unheralded guys.
And yes, the extra time is invaluable from the coaching stand point. We should be a good team next year. BG has gotten better as the season moved on, but will face a tough task in DC. Just not overly excited about this BG team. I mean come on bowl eligible for beating the likes of: Mass. EMU Miami a beat up OU team Idaho Akron Buffalo. I'm not impressed; and not alone here.
Look, I'm not trying to get down in the mud and argue the pros and cons of beating the above teams to become a participant in the Military Bowl. It is an accomplishment. I am hoping the MAC goes 7-0 during bowl season. I guess I have somewhat of a transparent view of the whole thing.

Flipper wrote:You should think more and emote less....exploited? Really? How are they getting exploited? The team works together all year for a chance to win the conference and go to a bowl. They accomplished one fo their main goals. It's a heck of an achievement and they should be congratulated.

The practice time they're getting now will make the whole team better...not just on the 27th in DC but next spring and next fall. The extra practice time is one of the biggest benefits of going to a bowl. During the season, the short window you have from game to game doesn't give the staff much time to actually coach...they're too preoccupied with installing the game plan and prepping for Saturday. The run up to a bowl game is kind of like a mini-spring camp. They can actually do some hands on work with individual players. It's a huge benfit to the program and the players.

Yep, pretty much agree with that. I'm pumped to see BG play in a bowl game..first time since Mobile against Tulsa and that wasn't much fun. The Motor City Bowl was a lot of fun, though. And the dividends the extra practice time provides are invaluable.

BEAT SJSU!

zete wrote:Not looking forward to it myself as I think SJS may embarrass BG.

As a certain coach always said, "Men, we're good enough to blow this team right off the field. But this team we're playing is good enough to blow us off the field, they're that good. Or, this game could be close all the way. Let's go". Now, what awesome coach always said that!

This is a great opportunity to find out where BG stands on the national scale, playing the #24 team in the nation. It would be a great win for the program and really set the wheels in motion on what could be an extraordinary 2013 season. It's exciting and, in the words of Mike Reno of Loverboy, I'm "Loving every minute of it".

GO FALCONS...BEAT THE SPARTANS~

I took a quick look at SJSU stats in comparison to the rest of the WAC. As expected, the top three in just about every category of offense are SJSU, L-Tech, and USU. Order is different stat to stat but those three are the dominant offenses. Defense, though, SJSU is pretty good also. #2 in PPG, YPG, and pass YPG all behind USU and #3 in rush YPG behind USU and UTSA.

Also, they played Stanford in the beginning of the season. They outdid Stanford by 8 yards and if it weren't for losing the turnover margin 2 - 0 they could have pulled the upset. Their offense put up 288 yards, so not overly impressive, but holding Stanford to 280 total yards (155 pass / 125 rush) is pretty darn impressive.

Also of note ... their starting D linemen have good size, but their depth is a little undersized. I think our O line needs to wear out their D line as fast as possible. I'm hoping for dominance in the second half a la vs Akron on the LOS.

Also also of note ... they win games kinda how we did back in 2004 and 2005. Score a ton of points, make the opponent one dimensional, take care of business. I think their QB is every bit as good as anyone we ever had, I don't think their receivers are as good as Sharon / Sanders / Magner though they're certainly good, but their defense is more like our 2003 defense than our 2005 defense. Our team is in for a challenge IMO. Hard telling exactly how good they are, though, bc the WAC is hard to gage. You've got a team that beat Illinois and Virginia and almost beat A&M in a crazy shootout but didn't win the WAC, you've got a team that beat a decent Utah team and came close to beating a very sub-par Wisconsin team, and you've got UTSA, Texas State, New Mexico State, and Idaho. I think the top of the MAC is better than the top of the WAC, the bottom of each is pretty similar, but we've got depth and they don't. Either you're good or you're bad. Bad bad bad. So it's hard telling exactly how good the conference is and how good the team is.

zete wrote:I have thought about this situation, even lived it once. There are players that will practice and attend meetings leading up to the bowl game and then not make the trip. Call it what ever you want, I simply stated I feel for those individuals - the unheralded guys.
And yes, the extra time is invaluable from the coaching stand point. We should be a good team next year. BG has gotten better as the season moved on, but will face a tough task in DC. Just not overly excited about this BG team. I mean come on bowl eligible for beating the likes of: Mass. EMU Miami a beat up OU team Idaho Akron Buffalo. I'm not impressed; and not alone here.
Look, I'm not trying to get down in the mud and argue the pros and cons of beating the above teams to become a participant in the Military Bowl. It is an accomplishment. I am hoping the MAC goes 7-0 during bowl season. I guess I have somewhat of a transparent view of the whole thing.

Worth thinking about .... Gregg Brandon brought the entire 2007 team to the GMAC Bowl, sans suspended players. He believed every single player deserved to experience a bowl game because all the players led to the accomplishment. Different coach but same AD, and DC is a pretty similar distance from BG as Mobile. I could see Clawson asking GC to send the entire team and him doing it. It's not like heading out to Boise.

Like Freak said I look at this game as a springboard for the 2013 season and will show us how we match up with one of the best from the WAC. It's a tough test but certainly not any tougher than playing at Florida to start the year.