tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52341537520355467572024-03-05T10:38:19.137-05:00The Unbalanced Line<img src="https://i.ibb.co/HVSqmDg/NYC-zps02aa7ed9.jpg">Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.comBlogger695125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-3280715054520427762023-09-14T01:56:00.005-04:002023-09-14T01:56:53.657-04:00Army UTSA Game Notes<p> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the game notes for Army <a href="https://goarmywestpoint.com/documents/2023/9/12/Army_2023_Game_Notes__3__at_UTSA_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">Army</a></p><p>...and <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/goutsa-prod/2023/09/12/Tg681JBYNdW0rdoFxWBbKnHYdq6nmzjpjNoiEEWp.pdf" target="_blank">UT San Antonio</a> (.pdf)</p><p><br /></p><p>Army has some changes on the O Line, UTSA boasts seven sacks last week, a school record for one game. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>_</p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-49002079118853050382023-08-31T07:45:00.000-04:002023-08-31T07:45:28.619-04:00Army / Louisiana Monroe Game Notes<p> The game notes are up for this one. </p><p>Louisiana Monroe will be wearing a P-40 themed uniform. I have seen nothing about ULM's aviation themed uniforms having propellers affixed to the helmets.</p><p>This was surely an unintentional historical oversight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Army <a href="https://goarmywestpoint.com/documents/2023/8/29/Army_FB_Game_Notes_Week_1_at_ULM_1_.pdf" target="_blank">game notes</a></p><p>Louisiana Monroe <a href="https://ulmwarhawks.com/documents/2023/8/29/2023_ULM_FB_Notes_vs._Army_9-2.pdf" target="_blank">game notes</a></p><p>_</p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-15456825775157213842022-09-10T12:10:00.003-04:002022-09-10T12:13:40.825-04:00Home Game Live<p> <a href="UTSA @Army live stream" target="_blank">UTSA @Army live stream</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>_</p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-41063308543634498492022-09-03T20:52:00.004-04:002022-09-10T12:06:47.983-04:00Radio Edit<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was kind of tricky to find, so I thought I would post the </p><p>Army/ Coastal Carolina Live Stream.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>_</p><p><br /></p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-71929310438267665482020-10-23T13:56:00.001-04:002020-10-23T13:56:15.029-04:00Army to Host Navy Football at West Point<p><br /></p><p> Here's an interesting scheduling change, the academies <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30174560/army-navy-game-played-west-point-first-world-war-ii" target="_blank">move this year's Army/Navy game</a> to West Point. </p><p>This will be the first time since 1943 that the game will be played on either school's campus. We will miss out on the atmosphere of a packed stadium, but how cool will it be to have only Cadets and Midshipmen in attendance. </p><p>Venue secured, the next move is to have Ben Holden and Ross Tucker call the game. Just no more Gary Danielson. They ought to fire Gary Danielson out of a cannon at halftime or they can let him parachute the ball in for all I care, but if you ask me: Ben Holden needs to get the nod for the big one. </p><p><br /><br />_<br /><br /></p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-32722189820778600472020-10-10T12:50:00.003-04:002020-10-10T12:50:40.513-04:00Army 3-1<p> </p><p>Army / Abilene Christian <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401240040" target="_blank">story</a>, <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=401240040" target="_blank">stats</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP07Kw8a64w&t" target="_blank">highlights</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OriuK0xA6WY" target="_blank">replay</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>_</p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-67212470837078865422020-10-05T11:05:00.002-04:002020-10-05T11:05:59.689-04:00Army 2-1<p>Army @ Cincinnati</p><p>Cincy came out on offense and moved the chains early. After a first down they went with an option look, which looked a lot like Urban Meyer's anemic option set in 2014 with Ohio State.</p><p>Jabari Moore swiped the option pitch for the game's first score and I really thought Army would put a stranglehold on the game there with some ball control. When the dust settled, Cincinnati proved they belonged in the rankings and showed Army the door. </p><p><br /></p><p>After the defensive score, Army just couldn't get the motor going on offense. Penalties played a big role all day as Army continually found themselves behind the sticks on offense. Army's first half drives were: </p><p>9 play punt</p><p>6 play punt</p><p>3 play punt</p><p>and that's just not going to win many football games. </p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn't all bad, there was some damn fine execution in the second drive. </p><p>They took a shot on a first down for an incompletion and in the scheme of things this put Army behind the sticks once again. Army played on fourth down and this time, with Cincy expecting the run, Christian Anderson was brought down in the backfield. Turnover on Downs. And that was pretty much the story of the day: penalties and poor execution that stalled drives and lost the game.</p><p>Army was getting the defense they needed all game. Again Jabari Moore, this time back in coverage turns up his second takeaway of the game. Army also had a huge goal line stand to keep the game close. </p><p>Army found themselves behind the sticks a lot of the time and the Bearcats defense deserves a lot of credit for taking away the inside. Brent Davis showed some new plays, but they were played out of the fullback dive, so if they wanted to run in the middle they would have to get creative. They ran the inside counter 'Doc'once for like 6 yards. Might have been nice to see them play the triple option for that counter instead of calling for some of the early passing. </p><p>Cincinnati played well, and it just sucks that Army has to list this as a missed opportunity. Army hasn't beaten a ranked opponent since 1972, and apparently that's not going to change this season. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Army Cincinnati <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401240996" target="_blank">story</a>, <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=401240996" target="_blank">stats</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfQv3kXBpJA" target="_blank">highlights </a>and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWhQHEI8740" target="_blank">replay</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-24151784292180951112020-09-26T15:53:00.002-04:002020-09-26T15:53:32.675-04:00Army/Cincinnati Game notes<p>Army/Cincinatti game notes are up. </p><p><br /></p><p>Cinci's is <a href="https://gobearcats.com/documents/2020/9/22//20_FB_Notes_02_Army_West_Point.pdf?id=14926" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Army has theirs <a href="https://gobearcats.com/documents/2020/9/22//200926army_notes.pdf?id=14927" target="_blank">here</a>. Army also has an online <a href="https://goarmywestpoint.com/publications/army-cincinnati-fb" target="_blank">game program</a> (.pdf) available for fans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Army is overdue to knock off a ranked opponent, we'll find out how well Cinci's defense holds up down the stretch. </p><p><br />_</p><div><br /></div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-66209496523749779892020-09-24T20:19:00.005-04:002020-09-24T20:19:52.042-04:00Army 2-0<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Army dispatched the ULM Warhawks last Saturday 37-7 after a hard fought first half. </p><p>The Warhawks were a game and worthy opponent until ULM head coach sprinkled on some of that Wannstedt clock-management magic. After that bonus round two minute drill to end the half Army sharpened their game and ended up with a second straight blowout win. </p><p><br /></p><p>The one thing I'd like to mention for future reference is that Army is at a point in the season where they have shown the depth of their bench a lot more than the depth of their playbook. </p><p>Army sits first in the nation in rushing offense with infinity rush ypg, #1 in 3rd down conversion pct. (.714), 4th in total defense (192 ypg), #4 in scoring defense (3.5 ppg). After two games, that's a good place to be looking ahead to a nationally ranked road test. </p><p>You have to wonder what they have in store for the nationally ranked Cincinnati bearcats. </p><p>After 2 weeks of play puts Army among only 9 teams that are undefeated and uninfected after 2 games. </p><p>ULM Army <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401240113" target="_blank">story</a>, <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=401240113" target="_blank">stats</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lffEBiAtlAI" target="_blank">highlights</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mUOn73BFP8&t=1208s" target="_blank">replay</a>. </p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-16879642050972919312020-09-11T14:55:00.000-04:002020-09-11T14:55:10.751-04:00Army Louisiana-Monroe Game Notes<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Army has <a href="https://goarmywestpoint.com/documents/2020/9/10/Final_GameNotesvsULM.pdf" target="_blank">game notes</a> up for Louisiana-Monroe.</p><p><a href="https://ulmwarhawks.com/documents/2020/9/11//ULM_FB_G1_vs_Army_GameDay_Final.pdf" target="_blank">Louisiana-Monroe</a> has game notes up for Army. </p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-3207149001666362282020-09-11T00:44:00.464-04:002020-09-13T10:34:42.721-04:00Yearbook: Northeastern Louisiana State Chacahoula<p>Before the school was known as Univ. of Louisiana-Monroe it was called Northeastern Louisiana State. </p><p><a href="https://issuu.com/chacahoula_archives" target="_blank">The Northeastern State yearbook</a> has online offerings which seem to include a small selection of years: 1954 and then 1958 through 1977. Looking more closely at the site, there is searchable access to years: 1933 through 1977</p><p>There are some football pages therein, if you care to do some digging. overall this is a good effort by the ULM archivist to get this collection of Chacahoula online.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOI8CnInUQ4Qrkq2sVNtWPwxB9qX5k8JB8wXP0eD_LLiY0r9JSFMRj6S_6yveIRvgPCjYvGHBg5f0OLYpmc83zpdhz5dVtL8tTReJBbpwcfM_TsHtjRtyzvJfs3ukhJoiK9STsyRhJCwDa/s474/ulm.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOI8CnInUQ4Qrkq2sVNtWPwxB9qX5k8JB8wXP0eD_LLiY0r9JSFMRj6S_6yveIRvgPCjYvGHBg5f0OLYpmc83zpdhz5dVtL8tTReJBbpwcfM_TsHtjRtyzvJfs3ukhJoiK9STsyRhJCwDa/s320/ulm.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>One of the things you get a lot of the time in these annuals is an intentional bias in the sports reporting, in fact the reporting in yearbooks is so low stake, you have to expect a student bias toward their teams. <div><br /></div><div>Bias in reporting is there to be seen, and yearbooks do a great job of illustrating how American collegiate culture has changed through the years, school by school. One of the things that can be seen pretty clearly is some of the attitudes toward race not just in college admissions, but in terms of student life, participation on teams and access to diverse student groups. </div><div><br />A comparison of the class pictures through the years can give us a simple idea about a school's diversity and attitudes toward race and sports are well documented elsewhere. Pay attention to the theme of segregation and see in what ways you might find evidence of a bifurcation of social spaces and ideals. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>One thing easily noticed in any school's yearbook collection is that just as sure as these institutions offered an avenue of higher learning - there have always been attitudes, some more common than others, that have presented obstacles for a large selection of students and potential students, athletes and aspiring athletes. Time may have moved on and the names of the schools may even have been changed, but some of these attitudes and ideals have remained. Today, this mechanization of racism is no longer a mission of the college admissions office, but may still reside in local culture, in the behaviors of students and in the the makeup of the school's administration and student organizations.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_p74mfS9hWIlNtlDA9zhHDZ6r11bMZeOGia4jztN76mfVmQXemNt3nPrHHz8cQx9Zl8GW3fxbqQIK2gWlux5842KSO3yIul_2ezS97vvvmbB2wGcup9y3cv6pGz5pgt53edv31BgqnWSt/s1538/ULM+1958+bASEBALL.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1538" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_p74mfS9hWIlNtlDA9zhHDZ6r11bMZeOGia4jztN76mfVmQXemNt3nPrHHz8cQx9Zl8GW3fxbqQIK2gWlux5842KSO3yIul_2ezS97vvvmbB2wGcup9y3cv6pGz5pgt53edv31BgqnWSt/w500-h364/ULM+1958+bASEBALL.png" width="500" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Baseball 1958</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8n9q8Nb5nKsAGSfbt7JIjS8Ly0MQ8LXLV8vpnlp23tUSb3H8fFwYVqRDW0RexdEJsjBPW1hR3GBKHbPsr0Q5W62LjLXifkhpn8uUVf4e4h_xTj1RIn5PVsHhiWL7hcPvwlgFFuymP9oDO/s337/58+cheer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="337" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8n9q8Nb5nKsAGSfbt7JIjS8Ly0MQ8LXLV8vpnlp23tUSb3H8fFwYVqRDW0RexdEJsjBPW1hR3GBKHbPsr0Q5W62LjLXifkhpn8uUVf4e4h_xTj1RIn5PVsHhiWL7hcPvwlgFFuymP9oDO/w400-h300/58+cheer.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">NESCCheer 1958</div></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP81CzDh4s_WKXUBKLK2a4nKXKeKs7Crt-RVAK3T5hRfzpwSSlHMRanwIgL6Z_oh6ZNSgDbkNTMUx8kSlsq5rE3zJ2OGlPePLDKJUXq6Vu0YtYFpdriTvwAySyWb17O5f7uGeCjnK5iQNv/s486/ulm+warbonnets+77.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="486" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP81CzDh4s_WKXUBKLK2a4nKXKeKs7Crt-RVAK3T5hRfzpwSSlHMRanwIgL6Z_oh6ZNSgDbkNTMUx8kSlsq5rE3zJ2OGlPePLDKJUXq6Vu0YtYFpdriTvwAySyWb17O5f7uGeCjnK5iQNv/w400-h296/ulm+warbonnets+77.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 'Warbonnets' Cheer squad 1977</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The point to be made is not that racism is evident in today's America, it's that there are a number of different levels of racism which effect citizens in different ways and at different times. Whereas an all white cheerleading squad seemed to be the ideal before Northeast Louisiana State's desegregation efforts, it wasn't until the 1970's when the first black cheerleader participated at ULM. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDygUuacY8cgbzf5DeQaK_eEEI3Wlciug9BZ0jRL3JMI3_Yy8SwUH8m_EhrRhSSDn5EMOAv71Rq7az-lpW51tEAPZnkS29NaJBSXGJhpJYnfxHWH_wiX8TVROuKbAHtGrJza87aUAb7HIt/s564/ULM+1975+wARBONNets+cheer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDygUuacY8cgbzf5DeQaK_eEEI3Wlciug9BZ0jRL3JMI3_Yy8SwUH8m_EhrRhSSDn5EMOAv71Rq7az-lpW51tEAPZnkS29NaJBSXGJhpJYnfxHWH_wiX8TVROuKbAHtGrJza87aUAb7HIt/s320/ULM+1975+wARBONNets+cheer.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Two members of the 'Ten little Indians' cheer team in 1975</div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div>Over time racial attitudes changed and the makeup of the student population shifted in accordance with more inclusive admissions policies. It is also important to iterate that some attitudes regarding racial (in)equality remained in place and is still active today. Sure, black inclusion in the cheerleading squad can be seen as progress, but what for if you're just going to spend your 4 years dressing up as a native American squaw? As it played out, ULM didn't move to change their original "Indians" nickname until the NCAA cracked down on using native American imagery in college sports in 2007. </div><div><br /></div><div>I don't want to give the impression that this is the case only at Louisiana Monroe, this is most every traditional college and college town in the US. There is plenty of ULM history to be had with the Northeastern Louisiana State Chacahoula yearbook. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p>__</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-34465814039147460812020-09-08T04:16:00.000-04:002020-09-08T11:14:01.524-04:00Army 1--0Army put up a very clean 42 points on Saturday, opening the season with a home win against Middle Tennessee State.
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Firstly, if you don't want your defense to get hurt teach them how to make a stop before a 13 minute or 19 play drive, whichever comes first. Secondly, ask the players how they got hurt on Saturday... ZERO injuries had anything to do with low blocks as Coach Stockstill pretends. Army's blocks are legal and defensive players should be coached to use their hands on low blocks. </div>
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Regarding protecting home field, Army demonstrated a unique home field advantage with the socially distanced corps of cadets moving out of the east stands and not only reclaiming traditional cadet seating, but expanding to take over the west stands and parts of Eastern and Central New York down to the southern tier. </div>
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<i><b>We have another token </b>(sic)<b> team, 9-0 Denver University, Rocky Mountain champs, but they were almost completely ignored by the national press this season, and I suspect that most writers would have known nothing about them until they read the football annuals after the season. Furthermore, Denver repeatedly struggled to beat mediocre-to-bad teams, including an egregious 20-19 win at 0-8-1 Tulsa, a team that lost to Oklahoma State by 39 and to Oklahoma by 80 over the following 2 weeks.</b></i></blockquote>
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-79497479390383150372020-09-02T00:02:00.002-04:002020-09-05T00:43:02.004-04:00Yearbook: Middle Tennessee State Midlander<p>We're lucky enough to have access to MTSU's online yearbooks. I figured I would squeeze this yearbook entry in since it will be a while before the Blue Raiders come back around on the schedule. </p><p>MTSU's library and digital collections presents the <a href="http://digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/search/collection/p15838coll3" target="_blank">Midlander yearbook</a> online collection. The university's .pdf interface is a little bit clunky, but usable, but the deal breaker is that searching within each yearbook leaves a lot to be desired. I saw that Lyrasis digitized the collection, so I checked the internet archive and found a <a href="https://archive.org/details/middletennesseestateuniversity?sort=titleSorter&and[]=firstTitle:M" target="_blank">searchable collection of Midlander</a>s. That one is going to be better for all-around use. </p><p>Thrill-a-minute I know.</p><p>The yearbook has some solid writing from student-journalists that followed school sports closely. They have nice <a href="http://digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15838coll3/id/17908" target="_blank">spotlight stories</a> about those in the sports programs and the takeaway is that of a collection that offers a very polished history of Middle Tennessee's sporting legacy. </p><p>You can find a list of other college yearbooks along with the Middle Tennessee State Midlander under the <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/theunbalancedlineyearbooks/" target="_blank">Yearbooks tab</a> above.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">It is the mission of The Unbalanced Line Online Library to present important and interesting historical texts to college football fans. Items will be added regularly as blog postings and can be easily indexed in the Yearbooks button on the site bar.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Copyrighted material is used expressly under the fair use guidelines of U.S. Code 17 #107 through #118 stating that the criticism, comment, news reporting, educational use or research of copyrighted material is not held in violation of copyright laws.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: "trebuchet ms", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">_______________ © 2020 The Unbalanced Line _______________</div><p><br />_</p><p><br /></p><p>--</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-23517428965931902422019-11-15T21:54:00.001-05:002019-11-15T21:54:15.594-05:00Army 4-6<br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-71443896961621126842019-10-18T15:19:00.002-04:002019-10-18T20:52:44.198-04:00Army 3-3This is football 2019, you're not going to go undefeated for life. It's a loss, if it's a losing streak, you still have to get up, address the problem(s) and play on.<br />
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Everything about this game was unsettling, everything. The referees had quiet whistles, Western Kentucky had a snazzy red white and blue Hilltoppers logo on their helmets. I picked up on it watching on tv, but there was also a television production element that really added to the funhouse mirror effect. Maybe it was the camera angles, or the crew, but the coverage was dizzying. Then add in that the whole thing had kind of a groundhog Day effect to it with the rhythmic droning of "FIRST DOWN HILLTOPPERS!!!"<br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6dHubbwNoE&feature=oneboxChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-67177303258062307782019-10-11T02:43:00.000-04:002019-10-11T02:43:24.228-04:00Army WKU Game Notes<br />
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Army's last two losses were of the overtime variety (Michigan and Oklahoma in'18). Prior to that was the season opener loss at Duke. Before that there was the 2017 North Texas last second North Texas loss....<br />
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So the team is down 14-7, Anderson steps on the field and - within one play the game is tied. It took just one more quarter and Army had a 24-14 half time lead.<br />
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30,000 people showed up, which is a decent crowd. San Antonio, TX pretty good place for a ball game. I know there was a post game alma mater misunderstanding with the UTSA band. That's the kind of thing you just gotta let go.The Army football program and its traditions have the respect of UTSA its program and its people. I know UTSA will show that whenever Army makes another trip to the Alamodome. It's nice to get the show on the road once in a while. Army will be home for the next month with games against Morgan State, then a bye week, and then Tulane.<br />
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Kell Walker had 80 yards on 5 carries. Connor Slomka had 17 carries for 59 yards.<br />
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Here's the Army/UTSA <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401114261" target="_blank">story</a>, <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=401114261" target="_blank">stats</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YeoRJ0-9Tk" target="_blank">highlights</a>.<br />
<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-75026326978787322342019-09-13T17:09:00.000-04:002019-09-13T17:09:21.320-04:00Army UT-San Antonio Game Notes<br />
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Army game notes can be found <a href="https://goarmywestpoint.com/news/2019/9/11/football-game-notes-army-takes-on-utsa-in-the-alamodome.aspx" target="_blank">here</a> (.pdf)<br />
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UT San Antonio game notes are <a href="https://goutsa.com/documents/2019/9/10//03_ARMY.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> (.pdf)<br />
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_Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10304065061303081586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5234153752035546757.post-90025428424305679212019-09-13T17:01:00.000-04:002019-09-13T17:01:59.573-04:00Army 1-1It takes a game like that to kind of snap ourselves back into reality. This as Army's first loss since September 22 <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=401013066" target="_blank">last year</a>. It takes a road game to ranked Michigan to knock this team off their game. This was a winnable game, in a long, long line of winnable games. There were some coaching decisions that hurt Army's chances of winning, <br />
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Michigan's 4th down fake was pretty snappy. Army showed the
same pressure after the UM penalty on 4th so the Wolverines audible into
a little pass play.<br />
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I would really rather talk about what Jeff Monken and company have done for the fortunes of Army football. It's amazing. <br />
<br />I don't know if you could ask for a more exciting ball game either. <br />
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With such a great run of success Army football has sort realized some other measures of their success. It's a strange measure to mark these twin OT losses to Oklahoma and Michigan as Army's measuring stick simply because they are, after all, losses. This game just like Oklahoma last season should be a valid measuring stick by
which to judge Army football. It's no wonder why I believe ties are a
good thing for football. You won't be able to convince me that the
institution of overtime is a good thing for college football.<br />
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What a second half. Army gets Michigan to go 3 and out to open the half. They get a 2 yard run from Slomka and then Artice Hobbs pulls in a 34 yard catch and run that set Army up for what would have been a go ahead score. Army works the ball down to the Michigan 1 yard (2nd and 1) line before a penalty turned the situation into a 3rd and goal from the 6. It's rare for the offense to go into panic mode but panic set in on 3rd down - timeout called and then Army comes in and tries to throw when they know they have 2 downs to score. Army has pounded the ball and dominated possession for the last two years. I think if the coaching staff had a chance to call that 3rd down again they would probably run Slomka and another keeper with Hopkins.<br />
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Michigan played solid defense out of the 3-3-5 stack. Not every team can succeed against Army's option with the 3-3-5, but Michigan's defense played alright. The Michigan Defensive Coordinator said they played out of the stack and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz9ymWg05B0" target="_blank">blitzed every down</a>. I thought Army kept it pretty simple on offense. <br />
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What might we take away from another loss like this one?<br />
Well, for one we can look forward to dealing out some pay back as soon as Oklahoma comes calling next year.<br />
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Other than that it's Army's first loss in a year, OT loss - probably should have been a win.<br />
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<br />Here's the Michigan Army <a href="http://www.pointerview.com/2019/09/12/football-shows-fight-edged-by-no-7-michigan-in-ot/" target="_blank">story</a>, <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=401112223" target="_blank">stats</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqv-DiYAQjk&t=376s" target="_blank">highlights</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH66NVQ3hao" target="_blank">replay</a>.<br />
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