Thought on the game.
Props to the staff. This was a fun day. Lot of smiles
Also props to the band for playing during the game and at halftime. It was cool to be there, a very unique environment.
Also, I saw Hill on the student side talking to the kids, just working the room.
As for the game, it seemed we had a game plan and stuck with it even when we went down a few points.
I saw three major fixable errors. Quattlebaumās punt muff, Kofaās personal foul, and the punt in the fourth quarter that almost hit three of our guys. There are usually ten of these a game, so three is OK.
Corbett made a great play picking a short hop long snap and getting the punt off.
The offensive kine played pretty well, but they are so shallow. Brown missing the latter part of the 2nd quarter was a problem. We need Davis back.
The Dline is also shallow, but they are probably the strongest position group we have.
I like the short throws they set up for Reynolds to move the chains. I also liked them rolling him right. We need to do that more. We also ran a counter run play. I donāt believe Iāve ever seen that before.
The running backs were big league. The grind it out mixed with short passing will beat some CUSA teams.
Anyone else have a flash back to FIU 16 in the fourth quarter?
Iāve seen Lambert bashed for forgoing the FG up ten, but I see the logic both ways. I would have kicked it, but he went for the kill shot, which is something heās rarely done. He baited ODU to burn two timeouts during the drive which paid dividends later.
All in all good game. I do think ODU is, with the possible exception of WKU, the worst team we will play this season. I donāt think weāll beat UMASS, nor will will we beat UAB. I think we might win one more and Lambert goes away on schedule.