Two in a row on the road? @gtpddEvan shares what it’ll take:

I had a conversation this morning with someone who is familiar with Jim Henderson. I wanted to get his opinion on Henderson, which was positive.

He also offered this about the ULS system: The athletic departments at all of the FCS schools have been overwhelmed by skyrocketing costs on all levels.

The athletic departments at the two HBCUs along with NSU, McNeese, Nichols, and SLU are all now at a breaking point financially. He thought UNO was starting to have issues, as well.

He said that Tech, ULL, and ULM are all having problems, but it's nothing like what's going on at the FCS schools, which need million of dollars more in cash in order to cover basic costs.

I really get the sense the ULS Board in going to have to allow its member schools to impose athletics fees, without this silly student vote. Maybe as early as next school year.

I posted this before, but it's worth repeating. When Dr. Taylor was retired but still a fixture at Tech athletic events, in 1992, I asked him about the need for a student vote on the fee for Centennial Plaza. He told me that the student fee vote only started with the Vietnam War and the push to give more power to that age group. He laughed and said "the draft has been gone for over 20 years, but we still give the students that much influence."

Well now it's over 50 years. It's a stunning lack of leadership.

Let’s hear ‘em!!

I’m going with my heart:

Tech 23
Middle Tenn 16

We will do this every week:

Amik Robertson (Raiders) -- 59 snaps played, 65.2 PFF grade, 2 tackles, 1 STOP, allowed 5/8 passes to be completed for 55 yards, 1 TD

L'Jarius Sneed (Chiefs) -- 59 snaps played, 50.8 PFF Grade, 3 tackles, 1 QB Pressure, allowed 4/7 passes to be completed for 33 yards (ESPN wrote an article on free-agents-to-be that will get paid big bucks in the off-season, and he was on the list. He's guarding an opponents top WR every week.)

Trent Taylor (Bears) -- 0 snaps played, 62.6 punt return grade, 1 return for 8 yards, 3 fair catches

Xavier Woods (Panthers) -- DNP (Hamstring)

Milton Williams (Eagles) -- 36 snaps played, 59.4 PFF Grade, 3 QB pressures, 1 QB hit, 2 QB Hurries, 2 tackles, 2 STOPs

Boston Scott (Eagles) -- Was active, but he didn't get any snaps

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Reminder midweek CUSA starts in a couple of hours.

Jack will be the starter for the MTSU game. Coach Cumbie appears has decided that Jack is his QB and unless Jack throws 3 ints or loses fumbles etc, Hank will not play. Cumbie has decided to float his stick with Jack Playtime Turner. The 2 Freshmen QB’s won’t play this year unless they’re needed in an emergency situation.

At the game vs WKU I was right behind the players bench and heard a lot of what was going on. If you remember Smoke sat out 2 series OR in fact he was benched for 2 series because he and Cumbie didn’t see eye 2 eye 👁️. Smoke wanted the ball like #11 Corley. He was not happy about touches and had some choice words for the staff. This is why we saw McCallister in the game a bunch. D Lautulas has been moved to 3rd string and will lose his red-shirt by playing punt defense corner on special teams 😳.

I also saw and heard Cyrus if you remember had an implosion on the sideline throwing his helmet and choice words. Several coaches and GA’s tried to calm him down. He was pissed that Jack missed him on the streak route in the endzone. He was yelling “it never hit my hands”!! He said hack has to put touch on the ball “I had the guy beat”!!!

Max will start this week 2nd Tru, 3rd JLew and 4th DeColdest.

TE will be #34, #17, #84

Slot will be Smoke, McCallister, Latulas and Solo is still a scout team hero !! Look for Cumbie to move Smoke around this week to get him touches. Like WKU did Corley.

Z will be Cyrus, Marlion, and Duru. Staff believes Marlion has starter abilities even though has little to no production. Duru has 2 TD’s and plays with fire.

RB will be Shelton, Charvis “hobbled” Thornton, Moody and Fields

On Defense nothing really changes this week. #0 will be back. #19 played well and other than that 1 big missed tackle, he came up and had double digit tackles. I’m very concerned with #2. Just don’t want to hit and takes bad angles to avoid contact. Seen it several times this season.

Look for #6 Randle to make appearance no later than Oct 24th vs New Mex St!!!!

#13 & #8 will continue to make plays.

Dline rotation will remain the same.

This is a must win game. A loss Tuesday and we are 85% not making a
Bowl Game.

I will yield any remaining time to Ben C.

Practice is at 8 PM tonight. I'll have it covered.

Sam Doughton w/ MTSU Athletics helps preview the the Blue Raiders:

Career start #13 is expected for Vattiato on Tuesday night:

Tech opens as a 2-point underdog at MTSU on Tuesday night.

O/U at 56.

Miami was on the 30 yd line of Ga Tech leading by 3 and Ga Tech had used all of their time-outs. It's 3rd down with less than 40 seconds left on the clock. You would think they would take knee and the game is over. They run the ball up the middle and Ga Tech strips the ball out and Ga Tech covers it with about 25 seconds left on the clock. Haynes King completes a pass down to the 44 of Miami with 10 seconds left. He then hits his WR whose running alone behind the DBs and he scores. There was no one even close to him. That was Miami's first loss of the season.

Stat Attack | Middle Tennessee

@ntruppel dives into the turnover numbers prior to the matchup on Tuesday night:

I would like to see royal blue helmet with "RUSTON" on it ala Iowa State tonight.

Say what you want but our defense did not start fighting until someone lit a fire under their ass in the locker room at halftime. If Mr. Nasty (Brevin Randle) plays we win that game because NOBODY wanted to tackle!! Give me 11 Mr. Nasties on defense and I will deliver you a CUSA championship.

But hey y’all get lost in the Wood’s in Cumbie land and the other schools will recruit the Nasty players!!! Keep outing your best players on the internet and calling it good and see where that get’s ya. Talk about culture…..I want more Brevin Randle’s type of culture on the football field. He stands up while he takes a piss!

Enjoy your Saturday:

PFF Player Grades | #LATech vs WKU

- Shelton & Smoke carry the load on offense
- Shelby, Roberts, and Wood make big plays on defense
- Hall w/ 4 QB Pressures

https://latech.rivals.com/news/pff-player-grades-la-tech-vs-wku-1

Takeaways:

- Bunch of guys back from injury
- Rivera & Jones combine to play 74 of 82 snaps at TE.
- Singleton continues to see role decrease, Mcelvane increase

Western Kentucky Game Week

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Thursday - Three Keys to Victory, Game Preview, Game Thread, Postgame Show 107.5 FM

Friday - Game Recap

Saturday - Snap Count Totals, PFF Player Grades

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The tale of the tape will be the following:

Offense
Can we run the football against a bad WKU defense?

Can Jack complete more than 15 passes?

Are we gonna put our most athletic WR package on the field to stretch WKU defense and hopefully open up Cyrus and Smoke?

Defense
I’m hearing reports that Power will only have 4 in the box vs the spread. I’m hearing we may have 3DL and 1 MLB!!! If this happens WKU will run for a 1000.

Can we limit #11 from torching us?

Will Power trust our #26 pass defense and dial up some pressure??

On obvious passing downs, will we get the slow LB’s off the field and go to more of a dime package with DGT & Mike R??

Limit their offense to under 350 yards. Am I asking too much?

Let’s hear ‘em!!

WKU 43
LA Tech 24