Due to travel nightmares I didn't get to write this yesterday like I normally do... So here is the day-late edition of About last night, following the Herd's pivotal victory over Coastal Carolina on what is always a special weekend in Huntington.
The good -
• Ordinary football – Call me crazy, but I enjoy watching good football when no crazy shit happens. I realize that everyone loves an upset (as long as your team is doing the upsetting) but I'm fine when the better team wins and does so in almost mundane fashion.
• Wide receivers – As a group our WRs have had an up and down year, but they were good on Saturday. Big catches at big times, contested catches, downfield blocking... Overall probably their best week as a unit so far.
• Mike Green – Good lord is that kid phenomenal... He's nearing "best season ever by an MU defensive player" type good.
• Special teams – The wildest play of the game was the blocked field goal, turned TD, which definitely provided a momentum swing in the game.
The bad –
• Special teams – You read that right... Outside of one big play on the blocked field goal, our special teams was pretty much terrible the rest of the game. Kicks out of bounds, penalties, etc.
• Game length – Penalties, timeouts, replays, injuries, reviews... It was a 1 p.m. kick and midway through the third quarter I was starting to worry about my 6:30 p.m. dinner reservation. Obviously, football unlike baseball, is only one day a week so we all live with games that drag along but man it felt like Saturdays game took forever.
The ugly –
• A 32-yard safety – It's not very often I look up and say "what the heck was that"... But so it was.... The box score says 32-yard "team safety" Lol
Overall, a quality win over a team who we hadn't played well against in the past. Braxton has emerged as the guy, which is good for everyone, and we look like a team that can win our division... Next up for the Herd is our old friends from Old Dominion. A road game against a team that we always seem to play nailbiters with. We usually win (8-1 record) but its never sexy. A Herd win would basically set up an "East Division Championship" game at JMU in the final week.
The good -
• Ordinary football – Call me crazy, but I enjoy watching good football when no crazy shit happens. I realize that everyone loves an upset (as long as your team is doing the upsetting) but I'm fine when the better team wins and does so in almost mundane fashion.
• Wide receivers – As a group our WRs have had an up and down year, but they were good on Saturday. Big catches at big times, contested catches, downfield blocking... Overall probably their best week as a unit so far.
• Mike Green – Good lord is that kid phenomenal... He's nearing "best season ever by an MU defensive player" type good.
• Special teams – The wildest play of the game was the blocked field goal, turned TD, which definitely provided a momentum swing in the game.
The bad –
• Special teams – You read that right... Outside of one big play on the blocked field goal, our special teams was pretty much terrible the rest of the game. Kicks out of bounds, penalties, etc.
• Game length – Penalties, timeouts, replays, injuries, reviews... It was a 1 p.m. kick and midway through the third quarter I was starting to worry about my 6:30 p.m. dinner reservation. Obviously, football unlike baseball, is only one day a week so we all live with games that drag along but man it felt like Saturdays game took forever.
The ugly –
• A 32-yard safety – It's not very often I look up and say "what the heck was that"... But so it was.... The box score says 32-yard "team safety" Lol
Overall, a quality win over a team who we hadn't played well against in the past. Braxton has emerged as the guy, which is good for everyone, and we look like a team that can win our division... Next up for the Herd is our old friends from Old Dominion. A road game against a team that we always seem to play nailbiters with. We usually win (8-1 record) but its never sexy. A Herd win would basically set up an "East Division Championship" game at JMU in the final week.
