[TH Spangler]

Two early loses to D1-A teams and one to a first place, 7-1 Ivy League team. After that they have run the table I don't think these guys are getting the respect they deserve in the polls

With the lack of respect being shown them in the polls ..... they have to be in a bad mood. Game should be a classic.

Play the run, period .... make them out score us through the air.

[BJWilliams]

If they are so worried about where they stand in the polls TH, they have bigger problems than we thought.

[TH Spangler]

Forget Milli Vanilli .... Saturday forecast is 54, partly cloudy, 20% chance of rain.

[R i]

With S.B. being so run oriented, our fate could rest upon the rain.

20% I like our odds. If you wanna join the "water only" fast, for the week, feel free.

[Chris Lang]

http://www2.newsadvance.com/sports/2011 ... r-1458363/

[Sly Fox]

I'm not sure everyone will appreciate it, but Chris had to put a ton of effort into that piece. Well done, Scribe. Well done.

[R i]

Thanks Chris. My head hurts, but great work. The kickoff stat is the one that shocks me the most. I hope coach Roberts has a scheme that works. Francis Bah was awesome on Special teams last year.

[truthorconsequences]

That is a beat writer delivering some great info....thanks. Could be a classic.

[Chris Lang]

I should have noted in there -- and I'll go back and edit -- that Liberty has only faced two solid rushing teams this season: JMU (16th) and Gardner-Webb (45th). JMU ran for 173, Gardner-Webb 119.

[PAmedic]

excellent job as usual LANG.

gonna be a heckofa game

[TDDance234]

It's good to se Lehigh ranked so highly. That was a tough loss but not as bad as it seemed at the time.

[LUconn]

Seems like every year the game we need to win the most is on the road.

Forecast for Saturday, is partly cloudy and 51. The next day is supposed to be 61. Hopefully that shifts to Saturday as I think our offense doesn't like the cold.

[R i]

Hopefully that shifts to Saturday as I think our offense doesn't like the cold.

The Seawolves ran for 446 yards and five touchdowns in sloppy, windy, cold conditions at SBU;

[BJWilliams]

So what...just because of that theyre going to mow right over us like they did CCU?

[R i]

Bj. So what!

[BJWilliams]

You cant just assume that they are going to replicate those numbers against us...as our resident scribe so astutely noted. When we beat CCU we forced two fumbles in their first three possessions and went up 49-0 at one point...and SBU is facing one of the better run defenses they will face all year when we head up to NY this weekend

[BiggAl57]

Nice work Chris as always.

[seawolf]

http://www2.newsadvance.com/sports/2011 ... r-1458363/

Every team that Stony Brook has played has an outlier in rushing yards against because they've played the 4th best rushing team in fcs football. If you remove the Stony Brook game from their stats, which is what Liberty stats are until saturday, the rushing numbers look like this

GW=133 rushing yards against/game
CSU=210
CCU=150
VMI=191
Lafayette=152
Brown=122

Compared to Liberty's 130 rushing yards against per game. Liberty is good against the run, but I don't think this is any unusual challenge for Stony Brook's running game.

[R i]

There is no denying that a cold and rainy game favors SBU. B.J., Please see your P.M. for the personal attack portion of this post.

[BiggAl57]

weatherunderground is showing a high of 54, 13 mph winds and 0% chance of rain

[TH Spangler]

Every team that Stony Brook has played has an outlier in rushing yards against because they've played the 4th best rushing team in fcs football.

Any idea what the attendance will be Saturday .... big crowd?

[Chris Lang]

Seawolf, you're right. And Liberty's run defense rank is partially skewed by allowing eight yards against Kentucky Wesleyan. But over the course of 10 games, those things average themselves out a bit. The two best run teams LU played (JMU and GWU) had success running the ball. I certainly don't expect a repeat of last year when SBU struggled to get going on the ground down here.

I really just kind of wanted to get the numbers on paper and see what they looked like. I'm not necessarily trying to draw conclusions from them. I also didn't mention SBU's struggles running the ball at LU last year because that game has no bearing on this one. Different set of circumstances.

[BJWilliams]

There is no denying that a cold and rainy game favors SBU. B.J., Please see your P.M. for the personal attack portion of this post.

Oh, Thou hast cut me to the quick! I cannot stand before such deadly wit!

This is going to be a good game, that much is assured. If its anything like the last meeting up there, let's hope the scoreboard can keep up.

[thepostman]

So what...just because of that theyre going to mow right over us like they did CCU?

why are you so touchy this week Beej??? I don't quite understand...this is a dangerous team we're playing. We could just as easily lose this game as we could win it. There is every justification in the world to be nervous about this game. I just don't get you BJ when it comes to your support of this team. Its all sunshine all the time and if anybody says anything differently you get all bent out of shape.

Now here comes the normal "I agree postie, but...blah, blah, blah, blah,blah" post

[BJWilliams]

I had surgery this past weekend and I am in quite a bit of pain (and on some very stiff medication for said pain) so Im a little touchier than usual...check out The Chapel for the 411 on that...and its not all sunshine all the time either. Now I do tend to skew to the positive side of things, but I was citing our fair scribe who said in his piece that to cite future results based on past numbers (or something to that effect) is dicey at best. That being said, We could lose the game of course, but its not like we can just hand this game over to them because of what theyve done this year. I'll cite what Lang said about last year...

Stony Brook dominated Coastal Carolina on the road last season, and Liberty lost at Coastal Carolina. So the natural inclination was to believe SBU would beat Liberty in Lynchburg. The Flames won 54-28. Again, read into common results at your own peril.

As I said, we could just as easily lose on Saturday, but that will bear itself out ON Saturday...which is why Im glad football games are decided on the field...not on message boards by a bunch of keyboard jockeys...