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11:12 left in first qtr The Citadel 7 Presby 0 70 yrd TD Drive for Dogs Blanchard complets 7yrd TD pass to Andre Roberts.

5:04 left in 1st The Citadel 7 Presby 7 presby 74 yrd td drive aided by 2 personal foul excessive celebration penalties on sacks of the qb

That was a BS celebration call on Reese. That one penalty gave PC their score.

Missed PAT an ominous reminder of last year.

13-7 Dogs.

49 seconds left in 1st The Citadel 13 Presby 7 Dogs aided by roughing the kicker penalty....make up for excessive celebration? 8 play 73 yd TD drive 25 yard pass from Cadet Blanchard to Cadet Sellars

Go Bulldogs!

Tighten up D

Td Presby 40yrd TD run on 4th and 2 3:56 left in 2nd Presby 14 The Citadel 13

Td Presby 40yrd TD run on 4th and 2 3:56 left in 2nd Presby 14 The Citadel 13

Darn it Citty, stop sandbagging us! First McNeese did it vs Henderson, then Samford did it against Miles College and now El Cit is doing it.

55 sec left in 2nd the Citadel 20 Presby 14 Dogs 9 play 90 yrd drive Cadet Blanchard to Cadet Roberts 11yrd TD Cadet Roberts in 1st half 8 receptions for 121yrds 2 Td's

Halftime The Citadel 20 Presby 14

Defense playing very flat. We need to be stuffing these guys. I want to see a knockout punch on the opening series of the second half.

Andre Roberts is having a great night so far, though.

Final The Citadel 46 Presby 21

QB Cadet Bart Blanchard 20-32 263 6 Touchdowns ties a 30 year old school record with the 6 Td passes

WR Cadet Andre Roberts 12 Receptions 184 yrds 4 TD's

nice win for the Cadets

Lets get ready for Appy on Sat at 1300hrs

El Cid has a chance at the conference or at least an at-large this season.

bobbythekidd wrote:El Cid has a chance at the conference or at least an at-large this season.

There are still some things that need to come together for our team for that to even be possible. We had some issues against Princeton, and tonight we had issues against PC. Our defense looked like it was much improved over last year's squad, but then tonight we allowed something like 200 yards on the ground. That is not going to win you many SoCon games. (I do think we game planned heavily against the pass, and PC came out running)

The offense is pretty darn good, but then we missed two PATs tonight which is a nightmare flashback to last year. Last week the offense was flat. Our placekicking up until tonight had been stellar. I'm hoping that we just played down to PC on defense. Last week the defense looked inspired. Tonight they were flat. If we can play a game where the defense from Princeton and the offense from the PC game both show up on the same day, we'll be dangerous.

CID1990 wrote:

bobbythekidd wrote:El Cid has a chance at the conference or at least an at-large this season.

There are still some things that need to come together for our team for that to even be possible. We had some issues against Princeton, and tonight we had issues against PC. Our defense looked like it was much improved over last year's squad, but then tonight we allowed something like 200 yards on the ground. That is not going to win you many SoCon games. (I do think we game planned heavily against the pass, and PC came out running)

The offense is pretty darn good, but then we missed two PATs tonight which is a nightmare flashback to last year. Last week the offense was flat. Our placekicking up until tonight had been stellar. I'm hoping that we just played down to PC on defense. Last week the defense looked inspired. Tonight they were flat. If we can play a game where the defense from Princeton and the offense from the PC game both show up on the same day, we'll be dangerous.

I think PC got two scores off of bad penatly calls. The excessive celebration and the biggest dive I've ever seen including any soccer player. There punter had his back to the ref and fell when Terrance Reece landed about a foot away from him. They scored on both those drives. Our second and third string were in for the last TD. Unfortunately the D didn't step up and stop them.

PC ran so many HB draws that our linebackers never really figured out they were running so they were in pass protection with huge holes right up the middle. Our corners were, what it looked like, trying to contain big throws, but not step up to stop them. PC had one dropped pass that would have been a TD had the reciever caught it.

We may be in the hunt for a middle of the road record 4-4 or 3-5 in the conference again. I think we will know more this week when App St is in town. I thought we had the home schedule for a big year with Wofford, ASU, Samford, and Furman at home. Looks like Elon is going to be one we wished was a home game over Wofford.

... At least we have a shot to beat Wofford for the first time since I was a knob (1998).

Yeah, that's about what I am thinking. Somewhere around .500 in the SoCon. Higher than predicted (which most of us knew already) but not top three unless we step things up a little. If we get a little more blocking then we could have a shot at the top three.

PC is a good offensive club and will win a couple of games in the "little south conference". they ran 80 plays and when you run that many the yards will pile up. we will know a whole lot more about our team this time next week. on the injury front we came through our non-conference portion of our schedule healthy and ready to go and compete for the Southern Conference Championship.

citdog wrote:PC is a good offensive club and will win a couple of games in the "little south conference". they ran 80 plays and when you run that many the yards will pile up. we will know a whole lot more about our team this time next week. on the injury front we came through our non-conference portion of our schedule healthy and ready to go and compete for the Southern Conference Championship.

There's something to be said for that. Running game is looking much better. Punter can kick, so we aren't losing as much field position there. I thought the FG kicking was solved, but Keeler missing 2 PAT's.

I wonder if some of PC's success can be attributed to playing four straight SoCon teams?

We had a PC Head Coach from the early 1970's at our tailgate ... he coached the 1971 and 1979 teams that beat The Citadel team. (I nicely greeted him with "Go Newberry". They still have some tension in that rivalry.) He was very surprised at how well PC moved the ball on us. He expected our offensive performance. They only have 46 or 47 full scholarships and have until the Clemson game next year to 57 full sholarships. So I would say they are doing well considering there progression into the FCS ranks.