Friday, August 29, 2008

Memphis Preview

(Try catching the ball now Singleton)

Words can not describe how excited I am for this game tomorrow. Yet I'll try anyway cause that's what I do. After years of watching a program I love bottom out under one of the worst coaches ever I get to watch them spring anew under a legitimate head coach again. They just happen to play Memphis who even Orgeron went 3-0 against. Time for a new team, a brazen bunch of wild brutal wookies, to take the field.



THE PLAYERS

The have two great wide receivers. Duke Calhoun and Carlos Singleton are both big fast tall and NFL prospects. They had a running back Charlie Jones transfer into Memphis last year from Miami and he's eligible to play this year. He's a former five star recruit and is currently listed as second team on their depth chart.

On defense the return two former Ole Miss players Corey Mills and Jada Brown at defensive end. The Fox mentioned their starting defensive tackles Clinton McDonald and Freddie Barnett as the strength of the defense. Nutt actually signed Barnett while at Arkansas.

THE HEEL

Starting at quarterback for the Tigers is Arkelon Hall in his Memphis debut. He came to Memphis after spending one season at The College of the Sequoia's after leaving Washington State. Lets just say after the last College of the Sequoia's quarterback to transfer to the mid south I'm not that impressed with quarterbacks from the College of the Sequoia's. Especially since he didn't even put up as good of numbers there as Schaeffer did.

The offensive line is made up of transfers from every where and jucos. Their starting left tackle
Cody Stubblefield looks more like a dentist than a college lineman. If the Rebel defensive line can win up front and pressure Hall in his first start he won't have much chance to get the ball deep down field to the tall receivers and Memphis won't pose much of a threat. A good pass rush and the Rebels could rout Memphis. Otherwise they will be in for a long night if it becomes a shooting match because you never know what could happen in those. We all remember the Pam Ward hosted loss in the Liberty Bowl Eli's senior season.

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