Anybody else love the ManningCast. Peyton, Eli, and Belichick. What a great way to watch MNF! It's like watching the game with three uncles who REALLY REALLY know football. Entertaining as hell. I do wish they would stop talking over one another. That is annoying. If they get that worked out, home run show!

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I said in an earlier post that I wasn't concerned that Southern Miss might lose. I was curious in the way USM would win the game. Would it be a closer contest than should have been and the Eagles pulled away late. Would it be an ugly game that showed no growth but was won because of more athletes and scholarship numbers. Or would it be a dominant win that any FBS should have over a normal FCS opponent.

This team has talent on it. By any metrics available, this is Hall's best team he has had since becoming the HC. I had hoped to see this team start to show signs of growth. We didn't see that.

The OL was pushed around by an FCS front. That shouldn't happen. No push in the running game and Tate was throwing off his back foot all game. It's going to be a long season if this is the blocking we see.

Defense played pretty good. Thank goodness the Lions couldn't catch a cold. They had guys running open and they just dropped a number of passes. Great play by Lawrence on the pick-6. He baited the QB to throw that.

If there is no growth this week, USF will come in here and put a loss on this group. Then a trip to Jacksonville State looks even more unwinnable. This team starts 1-3 and a bowl could be out of reach.

I wonder if this storm continues on its projected path and if South Florida will have to adjust its travel plans.

Watching the Houston-OU game and feeling sad thinking what might’ve been….

Click on link: Doug Nussmeier turns down So Miss

All I saw on the West side was the old beer. I don’t know ?

I know I’m just a female & know nothing about football, but are we now convinced that Will Hall isn’t the answer when USM is struggling against SELA?

I thought their OL was good. Not so sure now.

The Golden Eagles must win here and look good doing it. A sloppy, ugly game will not cut it.
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21-3 with over 9 mins to go in 1st half. They look very good.

For the uninformed....these arent the good old days of the 1980's or 1990's. Ive heard the whining about something Coach Hall said about the Kentucky game in which he referenced the athletic department getting paid for playing the game. THIS IS NOTHING NEW!!! A little reference here: Southern Miss had been scheduled to play Ohio State to begin the season and Kentucky was to begin with Akron. Kentucky apparently wanted out of the two game Akron contract. So a swap was made.... Kentucky paid Akron $1.2-mill for the buyout....paid Southern Miss $950K to play and had Ohio State pay Southern Miss $950k for the swap. The original deal for Southern Miss and Ohio State was $1.9-mil. While I would have more than likely gone to watch Southern Miss at the Horseshoe, I knew that it was going to be a good old fashioned butt whipping for the Golden Eagles!!! Foe safety sakes Kentucky was a much better fit as an opener!!!

Now to the part about how things are different with college football......Its not just about NIL, the transfer portal etc....The media money is so much different than it was 20 and 30 years ago.....and im not talking about inflation....The SEC is estimated to start distributing between $60-70-million dollars per year to each team in the conference. That figure is more than twice the athletic budget at Southern Miss which recorded a record $30-mill in revenue for the 2023-24 year...for comparison Kentucky reported an athletic budget of $176.1-million for FY 23-24. Kentucky had the 16th highest athletic budget overall and was 7th in the SEC. This is not a level playing field... its not just tilted.....its like a waterfall.....

The idea NOW that Southern Miss will go into Lexington, Starkville, Auburn, etc and come away with a victory is a less than 1% proposition. We also dont generate enough revenue to do without those money games, so lets be honest and real about it.... WE NEED THE PAYCHECK!!! Quit B@$%&*#@ about Coach Hall being honest!!! unless you want to go the route of FCS and drop down to the Southland Conference and have a home schedule of Houston Christian, Incarnate Word, Nicholls, and Lamar!!! If you think thats gonna help.... it wont, because folks will donate less and buy fewer season tickets. NIL will be less and there will be transfers out not in!

There is a path for success.... but its not gonna be the same as the glory days of beating Alabama, Auburn, Nebraska, Florida State etc. We can build a team for a playoff run...but we will have to do it all over again the next season because Kentucky, Mississippi State Florida and all the other big money teams will buy the roster out from under us. This is our existence now. It can be done.... but were not in a position yet from the train wreck of Hopson to be competitive with a power 4 team currently.

For USM to win this game or any future game, they must control their potential for fighting after a play is done. It seems coaches encourage this type of play. They strive to be the nasty bunch but go about it incorrectly. The original nasty bunch were simply hard hitters and not fight starters.

I expect to win this game anywhere from 21 to 31 points.

Outfield assist from the right field wall to second base to nail baserunner.

Wallner outfield assist

DB Sabbatini and WR Danis Jackson are out

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Some of these guys cut will be re-signed as practice players.