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Post by Mista Don't Play on Oct 15, 2013 15:20:00 GMT -5
I know the numbers don't really back me up this season, but I'm just not sold that Mettenberger is on that level. Not that he hasn't improved significantly as a QB, I'm just hesitant to put him on the same level as Boyd, Bridgewater, Manziel, and Murray. I see him as more of a guy you want to keep in the 20-25 pass attempt range, not someone you want to ask to go out and win you the game. Maybe its just me, though.
I honestly haven't watched Oregon enough to decide if Mariota is that great or if its him flourishing in the system. I think its probably a bit of both.
You know what else was hit at that 2007 Boston College game? Some poor Clemson fan, by some nachos Brad kicked across the stands when Matty Ice threw a 43-yard TD with 1:46 to go in the game. Good times.
You know what else was hit at that 2007 Boston College game? Some poor Clemson fan, by some nachos Brad kicked across the stands when Matty Ice threw a 43-yard TD with 1:46 to go in the game. Good times.
haha, that's the game I was talking about earlier. god that was awful.
Grew up in Anderson, SC which means I also grew up around Clemson football. I know first hand that many Clemson fans are very cocky when it comes to this season and this game will be huge (I'm coming and I live in Auburn). There is a good chance that y'all win Saturday, but the season is far from over..
BRONX, N.Y. -- A two-hour Tuesday afternoon practice had just concluded, but Joe Moorhead was still barking at his Fordham Rams. After the team's final huddle, a few of his players were leisurely walking toward the locker room.
"If you're staying on the field, do something!" Moorhead bellowed. "If not, run off!"
Every moment is precious to Moorhead. Players sprinted from drill to drill. The coach spoke to them about having a sense of urgency. Perhaps it's no wonder he needed such little time to turn Fordham football around.
The Rams, 1-10 two years ago before Moorhead took over, are now 7-0 -- their best start since 1930.
"I feel like I need to pinch myself," said senior running back Carlton Koonce.
New York isn't a college football town -- at least not anymore. But prior to World War II, Fordham boasted one of the top collegiate football programs in the country, and played in front of huge crowds at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds. The team finished the 1937 season No. 3 in the nation, and played in the Cotton Bowl and Sugar Bowl following the 1940 and '41 seasons, respectively.
[+] EnlargeVince Lombardi AP Photo Legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi was one of the shapers of Fordham's proud football history.
The program, however, is best remembered for the "Seven Blocks of Granite," the nickname given to two sets of dominant Fordham linemen -- the 1929-30 group, and the 1936-37 group, which included legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi.
At the end of the 1942 season, Fordham suspended all intercollegiate sports for the duration of World War II (1943-45), and the football program never recovered. The university discontinued football entirely in 1954. It was reinstated at the club level a decade later. The Rams began competing at the Division III level in 1970, and made the jump to Division I-AA, now known as the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), in 1988.
The Rams have won the Patriot League and qualified for the I-AA playoffs twice, in 2002 and 2007, but failed to get past the quarterfinals. And then they hit rock-bottom, winning just one game in 2011.
Enter Moorhead, who attended Fordham and played quarterback for the Rams in the mid-1990s, setting school records at the time. He was hired after spending the previous three years as the offensive coordinator and QBs coach at the University of Connecticut.
The program was in dire straits, but that didn't deter him.
"You've got one of the top academic schools in the country, situated in the heart of New York City -- the cultural and business epicenter of the Western Hemisphere," Moorhead said. "As a player, my teammates and I would always talk about the potential of this place, and I'm just glad to have an opportunity to help the school realize it."
Koonce said he'll never forget the first team meeting after Moorhead took the job.
"He comes in and gives a whole spiel, and he goes, 'We're gonna be blue-collar' -- all that good stuff, all the mushy stuff," Koonce said. "And then he goes, 'We walk around campus [with] no earrings in, hats off inside, we're gonna show respect to everybody around us; treat women as somebody's sister or daughter or mother,' all that stuff. I was like, 'Aw man, this guy is serious!'"
"It's good though," Koonce added. "I feel like we needed that. Needed to set that foundation, that discipline on the team. With him it was all about the little things, and I think that with the little things, it definitely goes a long way."
"We talked about building a foundation last year and having accountability, attention to detail and effort be kind of the trademarks or the foundation, the pillars of success for us," Moorhead said. "And I think the kids have bought into that."
Koonce has played a big role in the team's resurgence. A preseason All-American, he rushed for 1,596 yards last season as a junior, setting a new school record, and is averaging 111 yards per game on the ground this year.
It also helped that Moorhead lured a couple talented players away from UConn, quarterback Michael Nebrich and wide receiver Tebucky Jones. Nebrich went 35-for-45 for 405 yards in a win over Georgetown last week (and tied an FCS record by completing 20 passes in a row to start the game). Jones, the son of former NFL safety Tebucky Jones Sr., hauled in 12 of those throws for 182 yards.
Neither Nebrich nor Jones got much of a chance to play at Connecticut. And both said Moorhead was the primary reason they transferred to Fordham.
"He's just an unbelievable guy," Nebrich said. "He really just gets you motivated to play every single day. He lets the guys have fun -- and that's, I think, the biggest part of college football, is letting the team have fun. Obviously he has his moments when he needs to tighten down, but I think he's just the perfect coach in knowing when to have fun, knowing when to be serious and stuff like that. And I think the guys really appreciate it and respond to it."
Last season Fordham improved to 6-5, the second-best turnaround in the Football Championship Subdivision. This year the Rams are one of five remaining unbeaten FCS teams, are ranked No. 8 in the country, and have defeated two Top 10 opponents (Villanova and Lehigh).
7 Blocks of Granite Kieran Darcy/ESPNNewYork.com The Seven Blocks of Granite are immortalized outside of Fordham's Coffey Field.
But the Rams' biggest victory was a 30-29 upset of Football Bowl Subdivision member Temple at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Sept. 14. Nebrich found freshman wideout Sam Ajala in the end zone with just four seconds left in the game, giving Fordham its first win over a Division I-A opponent since 1954.
"I think that win really just kind of solidified everybody's confidence in how good of a team we are," Nebrich said.
Next up is a game at Yale on Saturday. The Rams have four more after that, and then hope to receive one of 13 at-large bids to the 24-team FCS tournament. (They won't be eligible for the Patriot League's automatic bid until next season, since they began offering football scholarships two years prior to the rest of the league.)
Nebrich and Jones are both juniors, so the team should compete at a high level next season, too. But Moorhead believes Fordham can be successful far beyond that.
"We want to be a perennial Patriot League championship team that qualifies for the playoffs and consistently makes a run for the national championship," Moorhead said. "And I think we have the ability to do that."
As for the players, they are well aware of Fordham's storied football history. How could they not be, with a monument to the Seven Blocks of Granite outside their football stadium, and a sealed locker honoring Lombardi in their locker room.
But these Rams are more concerned with making their own history.
"It's great that people think back to the past and how good we were then," Nebrich said. "But when this year's all said and done with we want people to remember this team, as the 2013 Rams, and how we put the team back on the map."
Michael Nebrich threw for 405 yards, Tebucky Jones had 12 catches for 182 yards, and Fordham won at Georgetown, 34-12, in a Patriot League game Saturday and moved to 7-0 for the first time since 1930.
Nebrich opened the game with 20 straight completions, setting a league record and tying the Football Championship Subdivision record, and was also the Rams’ leading rusher with 51 yards. Fordham, which piled up 536 yards of offense, pushed its lead to 31-0 before the Hoyas (1-5) kicked a field goal late in the third quarter.
G, in the event Clemson loses Saturday, would you volunteer to take sang home and make sure all the sharp objects are put away?
custeph, should we be on the lookout for the giant heads again for gameday?
Giant heads will be on Gameday again. Actually just reprinted them because they got rained on a little bit after Gameday for first go around, & they looked like they all had measles or something. And this time I will try to get messages on the back side as well.
custeph - true story: When I was young I had "WD" buzzed into my crew-cut for a Mr. Warrick Dunn, one of my favorite players growing up.
That being said, I don't think my boss would appreciate me coming in with a tomahawk etched into the side of my head.
He probably doesn't appreciate NWA Thursdays, but you do it anyway.
My boss is like 35 and loves NWA, ftr. It's everyone else in my office that hates it.
The only thing my company cares about is appearance. I can't go around looking like a dope because they show me off in front of clients like a shiny toy. It plays right into my vanity, so I couldn't care less, but that means no tomahawk haircuts, mohawks, corn rows, etc.
Players' complaints included the firing of Williams just two games into the season, the rundown state of athletics facilities and the fact the team had to ride buses roughly 1,200 miles round trip for a game in Kansas City, Mo., and 1,500 miles for a game last week in Indianapolis.
It's a tradition that after some special recognition or award people are allowed to ring it. They also ring it once a month in honor of Pearl Harbor and after every home football victory.
Or in my case after 3 years working in the union I know where the key is that would open the door.