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News breaking today that LR will play defending champion Ferris state at home on 9/10. Going to be a huge battle between the bricks.
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Should be a great game. Was LR a young team last year or are they on the rebuild?
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Depends on who you ask. Most of our LR friends on here said towards the end of the year they were playing as the preseason elite team expected of them. Rough early season but then hit a groove after they blew the doors of C-N. Ran into a really good Bowie team.Originally posted by DawgUp View PostComment
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Extremely young team. Had a few big name holdovers from the Cronic playoff run that were upperclassmen, including the starting QB, the top WR, and a few players in the trenches. But the overwhelming amount of people who played significant minutes were freshman who had a few games in their belt from the spring. Strength of the team is going to be its ability to run the ball with the lead back, Dwayne McGee and play by the defensive front seven (especially young linebackers King and Maye as well as the transfer from Barton). I see this upcoming year's team as potentially much better than the 2021 team so long as they can continue to develop those 15-20 freshman who got significant playing time last year and identify a quarterback (rumor is there is an outstanding freshman from Ashe County who redshirted last year).Originally posted by DawgUp View PostComment
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With major supply issues, soaring construction / material cost, lack of labor, and covid still impacting things in a big way, 09/10/22 will be here before you know it. So it may end up being a BYOS situation (bring your own seat) for that and possibly other games this coming season at LR. With everything that's going on, I wouldn't be surprised if the finished stadium project ends up looking much much different than what was originally planned.Comment
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Appreciate it. I felt like that is how you and Bearhof would have summed it up.Originally posted by LR1891 View PostComment
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LR did have a young team. Now, this doesn't count any people who have left the program (transferred, sent packing, etc).....but if my math is correct, approximately 58% of the 2021 roster were Freshman or Redshirt freshman, along with 12% being sophomores or redshirt sophomores. That means 70% of their roster will be 2nd and 3rd year players this fall.
And on their two-deep depth chart (per the game notes prior to Bowie State game), 47% were freshman and another 18% were sophomores.
HOWEVER, while they were young there are some big time pieces that'll be tough to replace. I swear Willingham was the Bears starting QB when I was a student at C-N. He's like former Duke basketball player Greg Paulus. He seemed to be there forever.
Bears look to be replacing four starters on offense, and five on defense. Again, if my math is correct.Comment
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100% agree. The make or break point for the Bears this upcoming season will be the way we replace the quarterback. If the new guy can be even average I believe LR has the firepower to improve in sizeable ways. Lets be honest. Grayson wasn't exactly a world-beater last season (see the UVA-Wise game).Comment
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Congratulations to both teams for scheduling this game.Comment
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Agree. I love big time non conference match-up. Carson-Newman has played a GsC team many times along with some others. We had the year when I was a student where we opened at Winona then hosted UNA. Its great for D2.Originally posted by Brandon View Post
Its also hard sometimes because schools will say no, or not want to do a home and home, or be a turd and cancel the 2nd half of the home and home. Scheduling ain't funComment
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I proposed the idea years ago when the GSC and SAC were at the same number of schools that they do a GSC-SAC scheduling thing to open the season every year. Like the ACC Big Ten basketball challenge. Whoever finished 1st in each league plays, 2nd, 3rd etc.Comment
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During the recent ground breaking ceremony which was much later than the actual start of work on the new facility, several of the speakers certainly laid out, much in the vain of the late, great Neill McGeachy, the expectation for LR Football is to "WIN" and that includes fighting for the National Championship. McGeachy, famously, said he was not interested just winning conference championships, he wanted to know which Coach was going to win the next National Championship. My understanding is that he was not limiting that to just Football.
I believe that all of the LR Family and Administration is doing everything in its power to provide the various coaches the tools to recruit and direct great performances. This new Stadium certainly demonstrates they are not interested in being average.
Many of us really felt like the major thing missing last football season was a coaching staff that was up to the level of the players. They did appear to come on later in the season but ....
I hope and pray that Coach Jacobs and staff have had a real awakening to what they need to be and do, and that they meet this challenge, hopefully exceed expectations in recruiting, in coaching, in play calling, and competing. Nothing would make any of us happier than Coach Jacobs be the head of the program for many, many years to come.
As always, GO BEARS!Comment
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The ACC / Big Ten Basketball challenge is successful because of traditional year in year out top to bottom parity in basketball between the two conferences. Unfortunately, I hate to say it, but you don't have that same type of traditional year in year out top to bottom parity between the GSC and the SAC. For instance, the GSC's NGU went undefeated this past season against SAC foes including a victory over the SAC's Champion 'Newberry' but yet finished in 6th place in the GSC. NGU finished 2-5 in GSC conference play.Originally posted by canadarican View PostComment
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And Newberry beat the GSC champions at their house in the playoffs...so...Originally posted by Eagle74 View PostComment
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