Two Hurricanes in Two Saturdays
by KeithDB on Sep 14, 2008 12:37 PM CDT
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Texas A&M weathered one hurricane in good form this Saturday. They face another this coming Saturday when the Miami Hurricanes roll into town. It appears now that kickoff has been set at 2:30 Kyle Field time in an ABC Regional broadcast.
The Miami Hurricanes were once a Category 5 football team, but have faded to more of a tropical storm in recent years. The Aggies rode into Miami last year with high hopes of beating them, but were easily controlled in a 34-17 loss that began to ensure that Coach Dennis Francione was in his final year on the A&M sidelines.
This year the Aggies have struggled, losing at home to an Arkansas State team that Aggie fans expected us to beat easily, and struggling to a close win over a New Mexico team where even a 4:1 turnover ratio failed to instigate a blowout. The offense could not even muster 50 yds in the second half .
Miami has cruised to an easy 52-7 win over Charleston Southern, then put up a good showing by staying with Florida for better than three quarters before allowing them to pull away late.
Aggies now ponder two questions: Who will start at QB on Saturday after Stephen McGee injured his shoulder in New Mexico and is described as likely "day to day" by Coach Sherman? Who should start at QB on Saturday given that backup Jerrod Johnson, switching to QB from wide receiver, threw three TD passes against New Mexico? Consider that McGee threw only five twelve TD passes all last year! On the other hand, Johnson struggled directing the Aggie offense in the second half.
Still, if I had to bet, I think JJ will get the nod, not because Sherman prefers him over McGee, but simply because McGee is hurt and won't have been able to practice much for this game.
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I think you're looking at McGee's rushing stats
He had 5 TDs rushing all of last season. He had 12 passing TDs in 2007.
Remember, he had 3 TD passes in the texas game alone last season.
you're missing my point
McGee had 12 TD passes last season, not 5. He had 5 RUSHING TDs all of last season. He had 9 TDs passing going into the texas game, where he added three more.
I looked up the stats for Tommie Frazier
I didn’t realize he only had one season where he hit a 50% completion percentage.
His best season was his senior year, where he was 92-163, 1,362 yds, 17 Tds, 4 INTs. His junior year, he was 19-44, 273 yds, 4 TDs, 2 INTs.
When you have a running game that sets a bowl record by going over 500 yds rushing in the national title game, you don’t have to be able to pass the ball.
That said, I think 4 years of Fran and Koenning’s de-coaching have ruined McGee as a pure passer. I think he was better coming out of HS than he is right now.
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