∞∞∞ wrote:FWIW, Massey has Georgia State rated as #267 and West Alabama rated #232. To put that in perspective, the St. Francis team GSU just lost to is #292. If his computers are correct, UWA should at least give GSU a game.
Wouldn't surprise me if UWA gave them a loss.
The game is also at West Alabama, and it's gonna be their senior night. UWA is already a great D2 school, so I'm sure they'd like nothing more to beat a D1 school at home to end the season (and for some their careers).
Skjellyfetti wrote:I gotta admit, I didn't appreciate ODU's successful start as much as I should have. Watching Georgia State flounder around made me realize what a remarkable job y'all have done
...and they both pale next to the miracle Erk Russell authored in Statesboro in the 1980's.
ODUalum11 wrote:And I think next year it will only continue to go downhill as they join the CAA....
Downhill? They just lost to an NAIA squad. How much lower can they go?
You do have to realize that NAIA teams have scholly's. The are better than NCAA D3 teams. Carroll College here in Montana is 6 time NAIA champions and they would give Northern Colorado or Idaho State a run for their money if not win. They have talent but not the depth. Georgia State should not have lost to St. Francis but I have seen them play and they are no joke - they have some talent
"Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Hugh White, 1801
The once boastful GA State fans have been awfully quiet as of late. You think they are finally beginning to realize what many told them from the start?
I find it funny, one day they are calling for Bill Curry to be fired but the next day they are saying he's the one who should have the Head coaching job after he appeared in some documentary on ESPN last night.
If Georgia State never wins another game or scores another point, the Panthers and their fans can say this: On Sept. 2, 2010, a start-up college-football program outdrew a first-place big-league baseball club head to head. On its first time out of the box, GSU served notice that there’s enthusiasm in this city for this brand new team.
And that wasn’t always a given. Indeed, there were those — that’s my hand you see raised — who feared GSU would unveil its football team to an intimate gathering of friends and family beneath the cavernous Georgia Dome. But there was nothing small about the crowd Thursday night, and there was nothing intimate about the setting.
The Dome’s lower bowl was full, and the overflow spilled upward into the second tier. Cheryl Levick, GSU’s athletic director, reported that there were 11,000 students on hand, and certainly her estimate didn’t seem fanciful. The students arrived early and yelled all night — they even shrieked after a successful Panthers fair catch — and they roared their approval when the school president took a pregame walk in front of their end zone.
Said Mark Becker, the president in question, recalling his promenade: “Our student section was already full; their bodies were painted. I’ll never forget the excitement of those kids. … To see the student excitement and to see them fill the student section straight away will be with me forever.”
Someone asked Becker if he could have imagined such a crowd. “Two months ago, no,” he said. “A week ago, yes. Just the buzz around the city has been electric. … In the last couple of days, I predicted at least 25,000.”
He got it, plus 5K. Attendance was announced as 30,237. (The Braves, by way of contrast, drew 24,895 for their game against the Mets.)
henfan wrote:The once boastful GA State fans have been awfully quiet as of late. You think they are finally beginning to realize what many told them from the start?
Do you mean things like "Don't think that what Old Dominion is doing will happen to you" and "You can only dream that you can do half of what Old Dominion is doing"?
Yeah, I think they now understand.
Next up? Charlotte.
While my daughters were in high school in GA, I attended several HIGH SCHOOL football games in the Georgia Dome (both regular season opening games and playoff semi's) and the attendance appeared much greater than is shown in these pictures of Georgia State. That is sad.
LeadBolt wrote:While my daughters were in high school in GA, I attended several HIGH SCHOOL football games in the Georgia Dome (both regular season opening games and playoff semi's) and the attendance appeared much greater than is shown in these pictures of Georgia State. That is sad.
"That is sad" is a HUGE understatement. So they go from outdrawing a Major League Baseball team to high schools outdrawing them....
Someone over on panthertalk in regards to their men's soccer semifinal game against Old Dominion, "can we please beat these SOB's in something?!" Yeah, mediocrity.
ODUalum11 wrote:Someone over on panthertalk in regards to their men's soccer semifinal game against Old Dominion, "can we please beat these SOB's in something?!" Yeah, mediocrity.
"That is sad" is a HUGE understatement. So they go from outdrawing a Major League Baseball team to high schools outdrawing them....