Did you know the new coach of the Arkansas St. Red Wolves is Gus Malzahn? He's made his rep as an innovative offensive coordinator, who, it just so happens, was the OC for Cam Newton and the National Titlists of 2010, the Auburn Tigers. He's put a nice coaching staff together, but, he's never been a coach at a major college program. We'll see how he responds to the new position.
Just finished my evaluations of each position on the ArkSt team, and updated the stats for their first four games. My early impressions of this Sun Belt representative are: good offense, porous defense.
Wolves have QB Aplin back from last year's squad(1st team SBC QB), a decent O-line, serviceable running backs( although new RB Oku, completely unknown to me, has had some good games), above average receivers, and, theoretically, a well conceived offensive attack.
It's their defense that will probably have a great affect on my thinking for tomorrow night's contest vs. FIU. They've lost 6 all-SBC defenders from last year's highly rated defense. Included in those losses are both cornerbacks(!), SBC defensive Player of the Year Brandon Joiner ( 13 sacks in '11!!!), and 3rd round draft choice, and #1 tackler from last year's team, LB Demario Davis. Those are gigantic, humongous, losses.
I'll do my ratings of the Red Wolves later, but, I have a feeling I'm looking at a team that will score some points tomorrow night, but, will also give up a mess-load of points as well.
Next on the agenda: early impressions of the FIU Golden Panthers!
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