Moving on to UTC

[Mocs123]

Mocs123. thanks! Amazing, Actual football discussion on a football board !!

I forgot that Quay Wiggles a DL that doesn't start but plays a ton of snaps for us left the VMI game and didn't return. My guess is from the way he left the field that he will not play on Saturday.

[FUBeAR]

Mocs123. thanks! Amazing, Actual football discussion on a football board !!

I forgot that Quay Wiggles a DL that doesn't start but plays a ton of snaps for us left the VMI game and didn't return. My guess is from the way he left the field that he will not play on Saturday.

FUBeAR has been an admirer of Mr. Wiggles very aggressive, high-energy DLine play since he was a young NestlingSnakeletTrainDriverTrainee.

Not sure why he is not viewed as highly by the Chatt staff as he is by FUBeAR, but FUBeAR ain't at Chatt's practices EVERY day...only 2 days this week (so far)...Sorry to learn of his injury & hope he returns to full health soon.

[Mocs123]

Actually I went and looked at the stats and Quay Wiggles has started 8 games this season. We rotate 4-5 guys in at the DT spots but he's certainly one of the key guys on our defensive front. He had two starts coming into this season and has been a key reserve with a bunch of snaps the past few years. I agree he's a good player.

[The Jackal]

Two memories pop into my head from recent UTC games.

First, I can't help but think of that game last year when UTC's offense ran a flea flicker screen and it fooled literally everyone in Greenville County except Cally Chizik. The entire Moc offensive line was in front of the ball carrier and not a one of them managed to block the only dude over there.

Second, Furman trying to run the clock out and Hamp Sisson going for broke to get Devin Abrams a few yards.

[The Jackal]

Watching that Chizik play again - should be a teach tape on tackling.

I mean, the receivers feet go two yards before hitting the ground again.

[gofurman]

Mocs123. thanks! Amazing, Actual football discussion on a football board !!

I forgot that Quay Wiggles a DL that doesn't start but plays a ton of snaps for us left the VMI game and didn't return. My guess is from the way he left the field that he will not play on Saturday.

Thanks for the football discussion. Hope he returns healthy... just right after we play you all

[apaladin]

[FurmAlum]

Watching that Chizik play again - should be a teach tape on tackling.

I mean, the receivers feet go two yards before hitting the ground again.

I've always thought Chizik was a good player with some talent and a high football IQ. You can tell he is a coach's son. Now I think he is a great player. Good cover guy and as sure a tackler as we have. Leads the FCS in interceptions.

He would be on my All-SoCon team.

[The Jackal]

Watching that Chizik play again - should be a teach tape on tackling.

I mean, the receivers feet go two yards before hitting the ground again.

I've always thought Chizik was a good player with some talent and a high football IQ. You can tell he is a coach's son. Now I think he is a great player. Good cover guy and as sure a tackler as we have. Leads the FCS in interceptions.

He would be on my All-SoCon team.

Not only should be all conference, but in my opinion he's in the conversation as one of the top handful of defensive players in the league.

No Furman defender is going to rack up the gaudy stat line. We simply rotate too many players. ChiIk just always seems to have a knack for where the ball is, tackles well, defends the pass, and forces turnovers. Just an all around excellent player for us.

[gofurman]

Two memories pop into my head from recent UTC games.

First, I can't help but think of that game last year when UTC's offense ran a flea flicker screen and it fooled literally everyone in Greenville County except Cally Chizik. The entire Moc offensive line was in front of the ball carrier and not a one of them managed to block the only dude over there.

Second, Furman trying to run the clock out and Hamp Sisson going for broke to get Devin Abrams a few yards.

that first play is so great (and honestly we were completely outcoached...) both GREAT by Chizik and, as you said, our other guys were way out of position to help. X and O UTC shoulda scored there. no doubt. great play call. chizik just beat the entire OL !

[gofurman]

Mocs123. thanks! Amazing, Actual football discussion on a football board !!

I forgot that Quay Wiggles a DL that doesn't start but plays a ton of snaps for us left the VMI game and didn't return. My guess is from the way he left the field that he will not play on Saturday.

FUBeAR has been an admirer of Mr. Wiggles very aggressive, high-energy DLine play since he was a young NestlingSnakeletTrainDriverTrainee.

Not sure why he is not viewed as highly by the Chatt staff as he is by FUBeAR, but FUBeAR ain't at Chatt's practices EVERY day...only 2 days this week (so far)...Sorry to learn of his injury & hope he returns to full health soon.

FUBeAR doing hi best Harbaugh impression?

[FUBeAR]

2 outstanding Football Teams that do a lot of things right are going to face off in this de facto SoCon Championship Game. Losing RB Ford is a tough blow for the Mocs (and for him), but his former understudies can certainly do enough (at least) to keep Defenses from risking light boxes to focus only on covering their 3 outstanding waterbug type receivers. The KaliforniaKid gunslinger the TrainBirds hired to clean up this SoCon town is a slick dealer. He makes quick, fearless decisions and the ball flies out with pace. That has given the Chatt O a different look this year. And the D has looked different too. Not better though. Talented, yes...but a little 'off' somehow. Maybe meshing in so many new Players comes with challenges. Anyway...Furman is just solid everywhere. Sure, their Kicking Team may have an off-game in Cullowhee or their O may not be clicking on Homecoming, but another unit just picks up the slack and the Paladins put together another victory. FUBeAR thinks Chatt is going to be challenged to stop Furman's running game and the game is gonna get shorter because of that...and then FU is gonna toss it around a little bit to the 6-7 TE or the RoBerto out of the backfield or Shiflett or Harris or Ferguson or the other Harris or....well, you get the point. And, I think FU has enough talent and D-Front Depth that Artopeous is gonna feel some of that 9-sack heat that Hiers felt and that double the number of previous total sacks that Gonzales felt. It's gonna be a war and it's not gonna be easy for either Team, but the Paladins, currently alone in 1st place in the SoCon, pull away and clinch the AutoBid...and at least a share of the SoCon Championship.

FINAL SCORE: Furman 33 - Chattanooga 21


HISTORICAL NOTE / LONG TALE (for those who might be interested in such):

In early November of 1981, the Paladins played a game on the road that was a defacto SoCon Championship game. Our opponent that day, VMI, was playing their final SoCon game against the Paladins with only an FBS-level game remaining on their slate at VaTech. Furman still had part of our SoCon schedule remaining and we were playing a differing number of SoCon games than VMI, but a win that November day ensured the Paladins would win their 2nd consecutive (3rd in 4 years) SoCon title on percentage points and a Furman loss would ensure that VMI would win their 1st SoCon title since 1977. This seems very familiar / similar. Huh?

So....It was a hard-fought game. Your Paladins jumped out to an early lead and pulled away to 20-7 in the 2nd quarter on the strength of 2 Stanford Jennings TD's and a highly reliable (<---- this is known as foreshadowing) Tim Sorrells to TE Terry Clark connection, but the Keydets would not be thwarted and closed the gap to 20-14 with a long bomb pass from Raber to Radle (2 tough Keydets and excellent Players) only seconds before halftime .

At halftime, your Paladins found out our locker room had been broken into during the 1st half and ALL of our valuables (including 1978 and 1980 SoCon Championship rings) had been stolen. Now this was pre-NIL days, so the only 'valuables' most of us had was a couple of bucks (maybe) in our wallets and those rings, which were made of "lustrium" with fake amethyst / purple resin stones. Somehow, when VMI's insurance adjusters interviewed FUBeAR's Teammates though - it seems many of them had (virtually) 'acquired' very expensive watches, full-length expensive leather coats (John Shaft's coolness was still fresh in our young minds), and had stuffed their wallets with hundreds before heading to the GSP Airport on Friday. But FUBeAR digresses...

While the Paladins were angered by the robbery that had taken place, we were also distracted by it. We didn't move the ball effectively in the 3rd quarter and we allowed VMI's All-Everything RB, Floyd Allen (FUBeAR's HS Teammate and Best Friend, who FU didn't want to recruit - but that's yet another digression) to score and take the lead 21-20 early in the 3rd quarter. FUBeAR won't digress too far, but Furman had lost a game @ VMI in 1979 by that same score of 21-20...and let's just say we believe, to this day, that loss was supernaturally decreed as a result of a direct transgression that day by a previous Specialist...and we had failed on an XP in the 2nd quarter of this Championship game to get to that EERIE, HAUNTING score...just after Halloween...and they had a graveyard (REALLY!) with crosses with our names on them set up just behind the endzone (but that's another digression).

But your Heroes, your very Paladins were not to be denied. We shook off the mental and emotional effects of the villainous larcen, said our chosen prayers of penance and for protection from evil to get spiritually right, and then, physically, kicked some Keydet a$$ in the 4th quarter. Early in the 4th, Sorrells to Clark again (you saw it coming, didn't you?), on a great sliding catch in the back of the end zone, put us in the lead for good at 26-21 (2 point try failed...Were we afraid lightning might strike our Kicker (even though he was not the '79 transgresser)? Possibly...we very well may have been). The strong Paladin Defense, now feeling positive about the new watches and leather coats they would soon have, kept VMI scoreless in the 4th...and for a little icing on the Championship Cake...with under 2 minutes to play, Standiford Jenkins scored his 3rd TD of the day and we kicked the XP without any lightning strikes.

FINAL SCORE: Furman 33 - SoCon Championship Hopeful, but NAH....21

https://furmanpaladins.com/documents/20 ... _Stats.pdf - DIG IN!

Ooops - Just realized that FUBeAR has mis-remembered part of this. The locker room theft was in '79...the 21-20 loss...on the missed XP. Oh well, the story is better this way.

[Roundball]

FCS Week 10 Predictions: Furman-Chattanooga, NDSU-SDSU, Sac State-Montana + More. https://herosports.com/fcs-week-10-pred ... tana-bzbz/

[FUBeAR]

FCS Week 10 Predictions: Furman-Chattanooga, NDSU-SDSU, Sac State-Montana + More. https://herosports.com/fcs-week-10-pred ... tana-bzbz/

Why would anyone wanna read Herder's boring drivel when they have FUBeAR's expert and enriched Prediculations?

Pretty close on our score predictions though...he just ain't got enough faith in the Paladin D. No 63 scholarship Team has scored over 21 on Furman this season...and the 1 Team scoring 21 was the usually high-scoring Samford Bulldogs and Furman held them 9+ points below their Avg. Based on Chatt's Avg and the amount FU has been holding 63 scholarship Teams below their Average, Chatt should score about 25.

FUBeAR sez 21 cuz the FU D will be UP for this one....and, again, NO 63 SCHOLARSHIP TEAM HAS SCORED OVER 21 ON FU THIS SEASON

[FurmanATT]

Paladins are bringing their steelies and their crystals for the big game of marbles. -- MD
#Paladins are road warriors again. https://wellpilgrim.wordpress.com/2023/ ... attanooga/