• The Future of Furman Football

 #115102  by FU Hoopla
 Sun Oct 25, 2026 12:52 pm
FUPlayer74 wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 25, 2026 9:44 am
Yes it will come around and some on here will be hiding under the rock they from which they came. Some are true Furman fans, some divide.


This is the typical statement made every time we have a crap football season over the past 20 years, it never ends :lol:
The blind leading the blind it seems.................
 #115103  by gofurman
 Sun Oct 25, 2026 12:53 pm
apaladin wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 25, 2026 12:30 pm
No argument the offense is the worst that has ever put on the purple. Is the team worse than 2024? Consider in 2024 we lost to UTC by 31, WCU by 32 and MU by 26. Got embarrassed at Ole Miss, lost to Charleston Southern at home and was VMI’s only win. That was VMI’s last D1 win, they have now lost 22 in a row since. It is their only win in their last 30 games.
It is disappointing that after the 3-8 2024 season we were 6-6 in 2025 and now barring a stunning upset we are going to regress and finish 3-9 unless of course we end VMI’s losing streak.
Good post. We are better - WAY better on d ! / than 2024. We will beat VMI

We better not lose to VMI. Need someone else to take the “last D1 loss to VMI
 #115106  by FU Hoopla
 Sun Oct 25, 2026 1:13 pm
BTW, I look forward to seeing more of you over on the Basketball forum threads more often this season that claim to be fans of both ;)

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 #115110  by FurmAlum
 Sun Oct 25, 2026 2:17 pm
I attended my 50th reunion at FU this weekend. It got off to a great start with beautiful weather and I shot my age at the Furman Golf Club on Thursday afternoon. Friday was great. Dinners out were great. Hanging out with my fraternity brothers was great. And then the football game....ugh.

CCH committed the cardinal sin which is losing a homecoming game in such a beautiful atmosphere to a team like Samford. Here are a few musings.

4 Players. If we had 3 All SoCon type offensive linemen and one more speedy receiver like E. James. That's all it would take. We already have the best defense in the SoCon. If we had better OL then we could run the ball which would open up the passing game. We could do it with the QB's we have.

What was the reason Garcia was put in game? Did Ackerly get yanked because he missed that wide open receiver in the end zone? Or was he injured? Clearly Garcia wasn't ready to play yet. I thought Smith looked good but don't understand trying to throw all the way to the end zone 2 times on the last possession. He had #6 standing there wide open at about the 10 or 15 yard line but he chose the longer thread the needle option that didn't work. IMHO Smith should still be the starter for the rest of the season.

I understand the calls for a head coaching change but I'm not in favor of that yet. We have 10 out of 11 starters and at least 4-6 good back up players on defense that will be back next year if they choose to do so. A coaching change could devastate that. On offense a few assistant changes might be necessary. Somehow they need to recruit some better players.

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