CITADEL GAME THREAD

[gofurman]

GREAT Vids.

On the pass pro it is not one thing. Our FR C has heart and was battling but they got a lot of penetration right up the cack.

RBs just did not execute well and missed one or two blocks.

There was one play in particular where Trey should have seen the blitz, didn't and they had numbers and it was an ugly backside sack. There were also at least two throws, one of which Hinton would have lit up the scoreboard and he just does not pull the trigger and he takes the sack.

BUT... he also did not throw a terrible horrible interception that would have cost us the game. Sometimes the sack is not the best play but its not the worst.

So its stuff across the board I think. It usually is not one thing.

But man to the big picture. This young team has had the kitchen sink thrown at them. Death, hurricane, suspension. Would have been easy to be discouraged by all of it and just lay down.

Got up. Fought. Won. I hope we turned a bit of corner.

Good post. Right, I probably blamed the RBs a little much for the pass pro breakdowns but on one particular play I saw CCH yank the RB from the game and kinda "jack him up". So I know that was on the RB. And Hedden got lit up.

It is a combination of a FR QB (learn to see/feel the blitz)... Fr Center... Good blitzes by Citadel... and RBs missing a blocking assignment and OL/RB communication.

We do need to clean this up or else Hedden is going to get hurt or, at minimum, it costs us a game or two.

And if we do move more to passing plays and less running - which I agree we should - this will be an even more key issue as teams will blitz more. Especially vs a true FR QB. I would.

a positive is that the Citadel had to KNOW we were throwing on most plays the last two drives... and I don't think they got a sack on those drives ! (Though there was the scary "pass vs fumble" call on the last drives which means the Citadel was within half a second of time from ending the game on a fumble. Should that defender get to Hedden one second earlier....

[The Jackal]

Just my observations the last few weeks is that teams are changing a bit how they are defending Furman.

Last year, the book was crowd the box and force Tyler Huff to throw the ball. If you were going to lose to Furman, you wanted it to be because Huff was beating you in the air, not on the ground. Defenses rarely were concerned with the deep ball beating them.

From what I can see, teams are playing a bit deeper in coverage against Furman now. William & Mary seemed to recognize in the first quarter that Furman had receivers they couldn't run with, and often their safeties were not even on the screen at the snap of the ball.

Teams are still going to crowd the line and try to pressure our backfield. They know we have a freshman QB and 4 new starters on the OL and a freshman at Center. They want to create pressure in his face and force him to make decisions quickly.

We seem to be having a lot of success on intermediate routes in the 10-15 yard range. We have a couple of guys that are really tough to mark in coverage. We've got a couple of long TEs that can run that opposing linebackers are having a difficult time matching up with. It may just be that this is the way we're going to have to play this season until the running game gets ironed out.

[Roundball]

It looks like The Citadel athletic program is facing many challenges. This is the front page article in today’s P&C. “With NIL, the transfer portal and collectives, The Citadel athletics department is at a crossroads.” https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/c ... test_posts

[FUBeAR]

It looks like The Citadel athletic program is facing many challenges. This is the front page article in today’s P&C. “With NIL, the transfer portal and collectives, The Citadel athletics department is at a crossroads.” https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/c ... test_posts

Here’s a radical idea for at least 51% of bellhop alums - stop being insufferable dicks, get off your wallets, and figure it out.


NOTE: This comment by FUBeAR does not include Jack Douglas who is heavily quoted, saying the right things, amidst the rest of this whining screed. Jack is a good man and a good friend of FUBeAR’s.

[The Jackal]

The article seems to suggest is the Citadel's problem is declining enrollment, which reduces student fees and, by relation, the athletic budget.

I don't think any SoCon schools are really crushing the NIL game. The Citadel has been accepting transfers from the portal for a number of years now. It may just be that not as many people want to go to the Citadel.