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OMG. You beat me to it. Knights lose 16-15 to an FCS school. Furman is a liberal arts school in South Carolina. I only know that because I met the Director of Bands from Furman who was also a well known music arranger for marching bands and drum and bugle corps. O'Leary has to be feeling some heat after this one.
I rewatched this game on Sunday. I am starting to think the players, or at least some of them, threw this game. Not for gambling reasons. They just don't care or want GOL out or something. A lot of people look like they quit. The OLine clearly didnt get the spark you normally get when the back up QB comes in for a struggling team.
The backup split time about equally the week before, so whatever bump they got from the switch was probably then. Now it's more platooning.
Its easy to get confused by UCF's idiotic offense. The starter of Game 1 was Justin Holman, who got hurt against Stanford on the first drive. They sent in Bo Schneider who was marginally effective as an emergency QB2. He's a freshman. They tried Tyler Harris out towards the end of the game. GOL then decided to start Bo Schneider against Furman, but again sent in Tyler Harris. I was talking about how they moved the ball in the Wildcat with QB4/WR3, Nick Patti, against Furman. He's a local favorite and was largely responsible for building their lead. That's who I was talking about giving them a bump. He didnt. So they sent Harris back out there and got dog crap results. While the starter Schneider played catch on the sidelines during the fourth quarter, Harris played catch with Furman's DBs. UCF is so bad, you can't tell if the players are trolling GOL or if GOLs decisions are trolling the players. Its like Texas under Fred Akers.
They lose their starting QB against Stanford with a broken finger and now lose their top WR. They've lost a bunch to injury this season.
Shannon Green– @osknights
GOL said initial prognosis for Jordan Akins is an ACL tear. He is out for the season.
10:01 AM - 21 Sep 2015
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Shannon Green– @osknights
GOL said initial prognosis for Jordan Akins is an ACL tear. He is out for the season.
10:01 AM - 21 Sep 2015
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And UCF has just entered dumpster fire territory. They have just dismissed all-AAC RB Will Stanback
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...cf-dismisses-will-stanback-20150922-post.html
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...cf-dismisses-will-stanback-20150922-post.html
I don't remember all the player departure's, player injuries, player suspensions, going along with losing to fcs type low level teams, and seeing a football program decimated in 3 games.
There were enough people on this board who predicted our downfall was coming because of the coach. UCF didn't. They knew there might be a small drop off because they lost some really talented players but not to the point of losing to FIU and an FCS school.
Hi . . . proud member of the Furman University Class of 2003 and TU Law Class of 2007. Furman is a great southern liberal arts university with a beautiful campus. Furman doesn't make a lot of noise sports wise but while I was there our men's soccer team was pretty badass with Clint Dempsey and Ricardo Clark (played in the World Cup). We also beat UNC-Chapel Hill by 30 in football while I was there. Ronald Curry was UNC's QB at the time and they got embarrassed on their home field. I think this is the first I-A win for Furman since then. I'm happy for Furman and the kids on the team but like everyone else said, UCF has no business losing to Furman in football, absolutely none.
I was pulling for them to beat an SEC team. Wins by teams like Toledo and Northern Illinois are making other mid-major conferences look stronger than ours.
Haven't watched the game, but the highlights all look like busted coverages or forced turnovers (pick 6)
So was James Madison a good school that I've never heard of outside of the basketball tourney? I figured SMU would smoke those guys.
JMU is probably only in their 2nd or 3rd year of FBS football. I looked at stats from the game and JMU rushed for over 400 yards and had 729 yes of total offense. They also turned the ball over 3 times (SMU, 2x). SMU can move the ball on offense but their D may be worse off than ours right now.
JMU is still FCS but one of the top FCS teams on the east coast. Their QB is a GA Tech transfer, big, strong and fast. He rushed for over 200 yards.