Cardinalblacktrojan

Whew... you underestimate the huge amount of alumni/fans in the Pensacola/Mobile area. Short drive for all of them.

Most of LSU's yards came in the 4th Quarter with less than 7 minutes left when they were down 24-7. If you look at the box score details, you'll see that. That's why they had no 3rd Down conversions but all those yards... because they began slinging it around on 1st and 2nd downs in desperation to tie the game. BTW, that kicker is riding the bench now after his 0 for 3 game against South Alabama. The new kicker that took his place is 7 for 9 since then and is way better.

The academic requirements are in line with other Sun Belt and CUSA schools. I've never seen any evidence of the whole academic requirements issue from back then. It was only ever mentioned while Troy was winning the Sun Belt, of course. When Arkansas State and ULL started winning the Sun Belt, the same questions were brought up about their academics as well (for really no good reason). Now, what I do know is that from 2004 to roughly 2011 or so, Larry Blakeney would oversign recruits. Troy would have recruiting classes exceeding 25 and sometimes 30 players. Nick Saban was also doing the same thing at Alabama at that time. It was "legal" by NCAA standards to do it back then, so Blakeney technically never did anything wrong. He was just recruiting the high 3-star, 4-star, and sometimes 5-star athletes that most schools thought wouldn't make the grades to get into college. Blakeney was hoping that they'd wind up making their grades. It worked out well on many occasions and Troy got some phenomenal players that kept their head straight and graduated college. Some others either flunked out their freshman year or left Troy to go to JUCO. Whether that was a good idea or bad idea by Blakeney is up for debate. Either way, Troy hasn't recruited that way in years now. Troy has great recruits now because we have some fantastic assistant coaches that have been getting the job done in a big way.

You guys think you can stop this??? 😁

You obviously didn't watch the Troy/LSU game. LSU came to play, but they were simply dominated on both sides of the line of scrimmage and physically outplayed. Troy held them to zero 3rd Down conversions, which says a lot. One thing that is never mentioned is Troy has recruited bigger, lengthier players on all sides of the ball since Neal Brown has come in. That's one reason Troy could matchup with LSU and do what they did.