The Sebo Center will be unveiled, the home schedule looks like the best line up EVER (Boise State, Navy, NIU, Akron, Ohio, Toledo) and we have a head coach with four years under his belt and his coordinators have two and four years on the job also. as an added bonus, there's a talk that we'll be getting a new playing surface for next season. If niot that, maybe we'll hire a groundskeeper that can actually maintain the grass.
So...we have improved facilities, experienced coaches, talent on hand from some very good recruiting classes (not many people seem to know this, but 2004 and 2006 were regarded as the conference's best by some observers) and a fricking awesome home schedule.
If we see another year of 10,000 people in the seats watching a losing team.....well we might just as well blow the whole damn thing up and start over in 1AA.
2007....a make or break year
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Schadenfreude
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Re: 2007....a make or break year
That would be a severe overreaction.Flipper wrote:If we see another year of 10,000 people in the seats watching a losing team.....well we might just as well blow the whole damn thing up and start over in 1AA.
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You'll be hard pressed to find a stronger Brandon supporter than me. That being said, I support Flipper's general premise - this season will tell the story about where this program is headed. I don't think I'd go so far as to drop to I-AA, but Christopher has to determine what changes are necessary to make us a consistent, top-flight MAC program and then move us in that direction.
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Re: 2007....a make or break year
Just curious...where did you hear about BG getting a new playing surface? Just wondering if anyone other than the folks on this board are talking about it..ie..the atletic department....Flipper wrote:The Sebo Center will be unveiled, the home schedule looks like the best line up EVER (Boise State, Navy, NIU, Akron, Ohio, Toledo) and we have a head coach with four years under his belt and his coordinators have two and four years on the job also. as an added bonus, there's a talk that we'll be getting a new playing surface for next season. If niot that, maybe we'll hire a groundskeeper that can actually maintain the grass.
So...we have improved facilities, experienced coaches, talent on hand from some very good recruiting classes (not many people seem to know this, but 2004 and 2006 were regarded as the conference's best by some observers) and a fricking awesome home schedule.
If we see another year of 10,000 people in the seats watching a losing team.....well we might just as well blow the whole damn thing up and start over in 1AA.
Falcon Hockey...Re-building the tradition!
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Not to ruffle any feathers, but as far as Brandon is concerned, I heard the terms "make or break" and "watershed" a lot before last season.
As far as the program, maybe it is what it is at this point. When we have good teams, we'll have good attendance. When we don't, we won't. I have no idea. Hopefully the people in charge do.
As far as the program, maybe it is what it is at this point. When we have good teams, we'll have good attendance. When we don't, we won't. I have no idea. Hopefully the people in charge do.
Roll Along!
I have heard rumor that it is being considered. That's all I know at this point. I would like to see it. Given the fact that we will be playing 6 games at home. What would that field have been like if we had 6 home games this past season? I don't even want to think about that one, that Miami game would have had even worst conditions, if that was possible.
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My sentiments exactly. Look at Dan's situation in hoops and I'm starting to come to the realization that BG fans, as a whole, just love mediocrity. I don't know why, but I have higher hopes for these athletic programs than that...perhaps I'm the one with my head in the clouds.Jacobs4Heisman wrote:Not to ruffle any feathers, but as far as Brandon is concerned, I heard the terms "make or break" and "watershed" a lot before last season.
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I wouldn't want us to change our grass to field turf, unless if we got orange field turf. Now that would be awesome!
Going into next year, our home schedule kicks complete ass, compared to last season's which sucked horribly. We got the worst 3 teams in the MAC, and a team that we thought would suck (Kent) that did better than expected. It's not easy to have great attendance with that kind of a home schedule, not to mention horrible weather for EVERY game except for maybe EMU. I mean take a look at this
Wisconsin - drizzly, unseasonably cold
Buffalo - T-storms cause 2 delays
Kent State - cloudy, rainy throughout parts, not incredibly warm
Eastern Michigan - partly cloudy, not too bad
Miami - cold, windy, pouring down rain, about the absolute worst weather possible.
Mother Nature was definently not a BG fan last season. But we can't control that. We CAN control the opponents (to some degree) and the team's performance. The lineup is GREAT. Boise State and Toledo will be sellouts no questions asked. Northern Illinois and Navy should draw very well as you have a good OOC opponent and a top-class MAC program coming in. Akron should be a good draw with how we have gotten screwed over against them the last two years (Turner TD fumble in 05, Ruiz offensive pass interference in 06). Really, Ohio is the only team that might not draw well since they generally aren't very good, although they DID win the East division this past year (which is scary seeing as we beat them no problem)
So attendance won't be a problem, especially if the weather cooperates. What about the team? There are several keys.
1.The quarterback - Can Anthony Turner step up and become the throwing/running threat we all thought he would be? And if not, is Tyler Sheehan or Anthony Glaud going to be able to step in and take the offense to the next level? This is the part that concerns me the most right now.
2.The offensive line - Will they be as good as last year? I'm pretty confident about their ability to QB protect and run block for Bulluck, who is likely to be our offensive MVP next year.
3.Outside of Dyrell Briggs and Erique Dozier, do we have anybody on defense who has clue how to play? I'm convinced that we will likely never have a great defense at BG. However, if we can play better overall, it would help our offense out immensely, because the last few years, if we didn't score at least 30 points in a game, we weren't going to win. Our secondary was crap last year. They were good for at least 2 big plays of 50+ yards every game. Now they were very young last season. Hopefully they can grow up quickly and make some plays, especially the safeties, who were commonly out of position on many passing plays.
4.The Coach - I'm pretty much a Brandon supporter, and I think everybody was ready to kick him while he was down last year. We hit a rough spot in recruiting, and had to play many young guys, especially on defense. The question will be can he and the staff take these guys and make them into good, or at least serviceable players, particularly on the defensive side of the ball? Another point of contention is play-calling. We need to have some faith in our QB, whoever it is, to throw downfield and open things up and not run a million QB draws. I'm confident that GB will do this in 07.
5.The Special Teams - This is perhaps the biggest question mark of all. Our kicking/punting game cost us at least two games last year (Temple, Miami) and almost cost us two more (Buffalo, FIU). We have to be able to cover kicks, block for punts, and actually make some field goals occasionally like any other team. This SHOULDN'T be too much to ask, but I'm a bit leery on this.
In the end, I think the offense will be good, the defense will be same old, same old, and the ST will be same old, same old. I expect another year like how we had in 2005, all O, no D.
Going into next year, our home schedule kicks complete ass, compared to last season's which sucked horribly. We got the worst 3 teams in the MAC, and a team that we thought would suck (Kent) that did better than expected. It's not easy to have great attendance with that kind of a home schedule, not to mention horrible weather for EVERY game except for maybe EMU. I mean take a look at this
Wisconsin - drizzly, unseasonably cold
Buffalo - T-storms cause 2 delays
Kent State - cloudy, rainy throughout parts, not incredibly warm
Eastern Michigan - partly cloudy, not too bad
Miami - cold, windy, pouring down rain, about the absolute worst weather possible.
Mother Nature was definently not a BG fan last season. But we can't control that. We CAN control the opponents (to some degree) and the team's performance. The lineup is GREAT. Boise State and Toledo will be sellouts no questions asked. Northern Illinois and Navy should draw very well as you have a good OOC opponent and a top-class MAC program coming in. Akron should be a good draw with how we have gotten screwed over against them the last two years (Turner TD fumble in 05, Ruiz offensive pass interference in 06). Really, Ohio is the only team that might not draw well since they generally aren't very good, although they DID win the East division this past year (which is scary seeing as we beat them no problem)
So attendance won't be a problem, especially if the weather cooperates. What about the team? There are several keys.
1.The quarterback - Can Anthony Turner step up and become the throwing/running threat we all thought he would be? And if not, is Tyler Sheehan or Anthony Glaud going to be able to step in and take the offense to the next level? This is the part that concerns me the most right now.
2.The offensive line - Will they be as good as last year? I'm pretty confident about their ability to QB protect and run block for Bulluck, who is likely to be our offensive MVP next year.
3.Outside of Dyrell Briggs and Erique Dozier, do we have anybody on defense who has clue how to play? I'm convinced that we will likely never have a great defense at BG. However, if we can play better overall, it would help our offense out immensely, because the last few years, if we didn't score at least 30 points in a game, we weren't going to win. Our secondary was crap last year. They were good for at least 2 big plays of 50+ yards every game. Now they were very young last season. Hopefully they can grow up quickly and make some plays, especially the safeties, who were commonly out of position on many passing plays.
4.The Coach - I'm pretty much a Brandon supporter, and I think everybody was ready to kick him while he was down last year. We hit a rough spot in recruiting, and had to play many young guys, especially on defense. The question will be can he and the staff take these guys and make them into good, or at least serviceable players, particularly on the defensive side of the ball? Another point of contention is play-calling. We need to have some faith in our QB, whoever it is, to throw downfield and open things up and not run a million QB draws. I'm confident that GB will do this in 07.
5.The Special Teams - This is perhaps the biggest question mark of all. Our kicking/punting game cost us at least two games last year (Temple, Miami) and almost cost us two more (Buffalo, FIU). We have to be able to cover kicks, block for punts, and actually make some field goals occasionally like any other team. This SHOULDN'T be too much to ask, but I'm a bit leery on this.
In the end, I think the offense will be good, the defense will be same old, same old, and the ST will be same old, same old. I expect another year like how we had in 2005, all O, no D.
