Here was JMU's offensive depth chart against SDSU:
QB 17 Bryan Schor Sr. 6-2 211 12 Cole Johnson So. 6-5 210
RB 29 Marcus Marshall -or- Jr. 5-10 207 1 Trai Sharp -or- Jr. 5-9 208 20 Taylor Woods Sr. 5-9 197 31 Percy Agyei-Obese Fr. 5-11 196
WR 13 Ishmael Hyman -or- R-Sr. 6-0 188 19 David Eldridge Jr. 6-1 180
WR 10 Riley Stapleton R-So. 6-5 218 19 David Eldridge Jr. 6-1 180WR 7 Terrence Alls R-Sr. 6-1 193 85 Ezrah Archie Fr. 6-0 185
TE 88 Jonathan Kloosterman Sr. 6-3 245 37 Clayton Cheatham Fr. 6-3 219
LT 70 Aaron Stinnie R-Sr. 6-5 309 75 Michael Faulkner R-Fr. 6-4 279
LG 67 Zaire Bethea R-Fr. 6-3 300 71 EJ Donahue R-So. 6-3 308
C 73 Mac Patrick So. 6-2 295 63 J.T. Timming R-Fr. 6-2 308
RG 55 Nick Edwards R-Sr. 6-4 28777 Liam Fornadel Fr. 6-4 309
RT 60 Jahee Jackson R-So. 6-3 292 79 Raymond Gillespie R-Fr. 6-5 275
I only saw the first half of the SDSU game - wasn't Alls killing them along with Stapleton?
It kinda bugs me when others do this so I'm not going to act like this is a huge indictment of the JMU offense but you take out those two big 3rd quarter runs by Marshall where Rozeboom, among others, decided to go rogue and JMU finished the game with 37 rushes for 105 yards (2.8 ypc). NDSU finished the marker game with 108 yard on 27 carries (4.0 ypc). You expand that out to the total offense and without those two big runs JMU put up 311 yards on 68 plays (4.6 yards per play). Even with the awful offensive strategy in the marker game NDSU put up 337 yards on 55 plays (6.1 yards per play).
However, the biggest different in those two games for SDSU was they were +4 in turnover margin in one and -9 in the other. But the fact that SDSU's defense did a great job limiting JMU's offense with the exception of those 3rd quarter lapses gives me confidence that the Bison defense can hold them down as well without those lapses. And I think they'll need to because I don't think NDSU's offense is going to put up more than 20-24 points against that JMU defense.
Remove the two worst plays and two biggest plays from most any game stats and you will see a huge difference in stat totals when "comparison shopping"! JMU we know is for real, they beat us in our own house last year. I'm picking Bison by a touchdown but this game is a "PICK'M".
watching Rosenboom on those two long runs is almost unbelievable. Kid is not going to want to watch that film. The bigger problem is that SDSU just quit on the run, which was working.
Everyone just relax, all right? Believe me, if there's one thing Ron Burgundy knows, it's women.