[Battle of the Piney Woods] #9 Sam Houston State vs. Stephen F. Austin

I will be there. I had to buy tickets in the corner because all the sideline tickets were sold out. I heard they were starting to sell some SHSU tickets on the SFA side.

I just hope we win, but could be a shootout.

 

I was there. Over 26,000 attended. Largest ever for The Battle of the Piney Woods. Saw some d-bags I knew while I was in school there and took pleasure in the fact that they're all losers and failures nowadays either unemployed or working ****ty hourly jobs they could have done out of high school. Anyways...... I'm glad we won, but I have to seriously question to decisions made by Sam's offensive and defensive coordinators.

It took nearly the entire first half before Sam Houston got any passing yards. What's worse, they weren't even attempting passes - just running it over and over, usually losing yards when running the "Bearkat" (Wildcat) option. When we started to involve Brian Bell more in the game, we turned it around. But I have no idea why the OC took so long to adjust his gameplan. I would like to see Bell rolling out of the pocket more to pass. I've seen him throw while on the run a few times and he seems to be pretty accurate. Might as well take advantage of this and give defenses something else to think about.

As for the defense, we need to address our secondary. I guess since we have good corners the coaches feel like they could do one-on-one coverage all the time with only one safety dropping back in coverage, but I'm not a fan of approach.

I'm too lazy to look into the stats, but we've given up so, so many long pass plays in this game and especially in both our losses. That has to be addressed in some way if we hope to have a playoff run.

Again, I'm glad we won, but there are plenty of things this team can work on. I won't be able to watch the next two games (unless I decide to go to homecoming against McNeese) so I'll just check out the stats and game reports to see how they do.

 

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And Haymitch, I agree with everything you posted. They keep getting burned on big plays. And the OC's playcalling is pretty suspect, especially very early in the game.