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year_of_the_swarm

year_of_the_swarm

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  • Georgia Tech is 6-4
  • Army won Saturday to improve to 8-2
  • Air Force won Saturday to go to 4-6... They will need to beat Colorado State and Wyoming to get to a bowl
  • Navy is 2-8 this year, really struggling.. Worst season since 2002. Horrible defense but they also tried to fix something that was't broken.
  • Georgia Southern is 7-3 and will be heavy favorites in their next two games. Should finish 9-3 on the season
Navy gambled this season and it didn't pay off. They had Zach Abey at QB who had run nearly 1,500 yards and 19 touchdowns the year before. They benched him and converted their A-Back (Malcolm Perry) to the QB position and it has not gone well. Perry has 1000 yards rushing but only 7 touchdowns.

Their defense is giving up 10 more ppg this year than last year.. Switching Abey and Perry around has made both of them far more ineffective. Abey also throw for 805 yards last year, and Perry (again, a converted ABack) has thrown for 185 yards.

Really horrible decision that cost Perry, Abey, and their program a difficult setback this year. The logic was that Perry is insanely fast so they thought they would get more big plays. But he isn't nearly as good a QB as Abey.
 
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year_of_the_swarm said:
  • Georgia Tech is 6-4
  • Army won Saturday to improve to 8-2
  • Air Force won Saturday to go to 4-6... They will need to beat Colorado State and Wyoming to get to a bowl
  • Navy is 2-8 this year, really struggling.. Worst season since 2002. Horrible defense but they also tried to fix something that was't broken.
  • Georgia Southern is 7-3 and will be heavy favorites in their next two games. Should finish 9-3 on the season
Navy gambled this season and it didn't pay off. They had Zach Abey at QB who had run nearly 1,500 yards and 19 touchdowns the year before. They benched him and converted their A-Back (Malcolm Perry) to the QB position and it has not gone well. Perry has 1000 yards rushing but only 7 touchdowns.

Their defense is giving up 10 more ppg this year than last year.. Switching Abey and Perry around has made both of them far more ineffective. Abey also throw for 805 yards last year, and Perry (again, a converted ABack) has thrown for 185 yards.

Really horrible decision that cost Perry, Abey, and their program a difficult setback this year. The logic was that Perry is insanely fast so they thought they would get more big plays. But he isn't nearly as good a QB as Abey.
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Kennesaw State is 9-1 and #2 in FCS with the option offense and the Owls won their 2nd straight Big South Championship after beating Monmouth 51-14:cool:
 

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Navy has also tried to do some shotgun based zone read stuff this year and it has been a train wreck. I am convinced it cost them the game against Air Force.
 
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