Speaker 1: Need to get your football fixed on all things Army,
Navy and Air Force. This is Yards and Stripes Service
Academy Football. Now Here are your hosts, Pryce Atkinson and
Steve Carney.
Speaker 2: Yards and Stripes Episode three. We are taking flight Army,
Navy and Air Force. That is what we do here.
And he is Stephen Carney and I am Pryce Ackinson.
And we appreciate you for tuning in this week as
we had a big weekend of college football last weekend,
we got one of only one of our teams. Two
of them are have buys this weekend. One will be
an action we'll preview that game. We'll recap all the
action from this from this past weekend. We've got our
Travis Manian Foundation on a roll segment. We also have Boy,
we got a blast from the past Stephen Mike love All,
former co host here a Yards and Stripes a couple
of seasons ago. He's a West Point alum. He's a
contributor to last Word on sports dot Com. He is
our good friend, and he joined you a little bit
earlier today to talk about Army and FAU this past weekend.
What he's seen, how the Black Knights in the past
few games. There are two games to open the twenty
twenty four season. But before we get to all that, Steven,
how are you? What's going on? I live to survive Montreal.
Speaker 3: You did, I saw, I got the pictures from McGill University.
You gotten to see the Alouettes and the BC Lions
and some Canadian football where they only play three downs
and have the rouge. As I like to joke with
my longtime friend, the late great Jim McKean, who was
a quarterback and a punter in the CFL back in
the sixties, I used to tell him, Jimmy, what the
hell is a rouge? Then he used to and which
would always make him laugh. But it was great to
see that you had a good time in Montreal. A
lot of good work was done in that time as well.
And you know what, we had three really really good
games to watch, although unfortunately only two of the Service
Academy teams started the year two and out.
Speaker 2: You know, it was funny and talking with so many
people north of the border this past weekend, including at
the game, especially one of my good Saskatchewan Roughrider fellow fans.
Now they just we all lamented how the rouge has
got to go. That's the one change that Canadian football
really needs to make.
Speaker 4: It's not to add a fourth down, is to get
rid of the rouge. I won't start.
Speaker 2: Trying to explain it to our American audience here because
it's obviously irrelevant to what we're talking about here. But nonetheless,
it was a fun trip. And boy I missed that
poutine already. My blood in cholesterol does not, But boy
it was good. All right, Steven, big weekend of college
football last weekend. I think we pretty much nailed these.
But let's get into recapping all three games. Let's start
at the Naval Academy, the Midshipman now two and Oh
Stephen getting a thirty eight to eleven win over visiting Temple.
The Midge jumped on owls from the get go, going
up fourteen to oh Blake Corvath at quarterback, who was
ended up being named the American Athletic Conference Offensive Player
of the Week, absolutely outstanding two hundred and thirty four
yards at total offense and four touchdowns. It's been a
while since we've seen two fairly consistent performances out of
a Navy quarterback, in one that is putting the kind
of production on the field and taking care of the
football like Karvath is doing. That's a big reason why
the Midshipmen are two to zero to start the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, you look at it. They were plus one
in the turnover or I should say in the fumbles,
and then they also forced two interceptions, so technically they
were plus three in the turnover ratio against Temple. And
this was, you know, thirty eight to three going into
the fourth quarter, and Navy kind of took their foot
off the gas, so to speak. But yeah, Horvath certainly
deserved being the American Athletic Conference Player of the Week.
Not only the two hundred and thirty four yards of offense,
but three touchdowns on the ground. Navy ran for almost
three hundred yards as a team, and I really thought that,
you know, apart from the you know, the work that
they did on offense. You know, we've taught I don't
know how many more times we can talk about Colon Ramos.
I mean, we sound like a broken record. Yeah, you
look at it. Fifteen tackles, six of them were solo.
He had a half of a tackle for a loss.
He also defended a pass. You know, he had a
fantastic day defensively for the mids as well, So the
midshipman had had a great day at home to start
to and zero. Really, it takes a lot of the
bad feelings that Midshipman fans have had over the last
couple of years and it kind of washes them away.
I mean, this is a great feeling.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: If you're a Navy fan, you've got uh, you've got
a two and oh start uh and now uh and
included one of those being uh in conference play, you're
one and zero conference play now and now you start
to look at, uh, the the rest of the you know,
the schedule as they move forward, They've got a really
tough stretch now here for the next uh you know,
three or four weeks. Uh, when they get back into
action here after they're by this week, they've got they've
got three really tough games in a row, including two
of these on the road.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, and you start counting, Okay, that's two you
need six to make a bowl game. You know, where
can they you know, pull out four wins the rest
of the way and maybe not counting the Army game,
of course, because by that point, the the Bulls matchups
are already announced. So you need four wins out of
the last seven or six games seven games of the
season to try and get yourself Bowl eligible. Where do
they find those?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And like you mentioned, Navy, they have got
a bye week next week, so they're going to be
off and then they come back to play a team
in the Memphis Tigers that that has been one of
the AAC you know problems, if you will, for Navy
since at least in the last probably four or five years.
I mean, they played some high, high scoring games, but
that is a team that has had Navy's number time
and time again, and if they can obviously, you're going
into the bye week flying high, feeling really good about yourself.
Speaker 4: The you know, level of competition.
Speaker 2: Notwithstanding let's let's acknowledge that buck Nell and Temple aren't
you know, any kind of teams that are going to
be playing on New Year's Day, But you know that nonetheless,
you've taken care of business and you've looked good doing it,
playing fairly mistake free football, and that it, Brent me,
Brian Newberry, is exactly what you want to spend as
you go into that bye week where you're working on
cleaning up a few things, maybe, you know, putting a
few more things in, but really trying to dial in
and zero inal Memphis, because if you can get this
win against Memphis coming up out of that bye week,
now you're starting to cook with gas a little bit
moving forward.
Speaker 3: So yeah, absolutely, But but again it's all about counting,
counting wins here and looking looking at you, Ken, where
do you where do you think they can get to
six wins by the thirtieth of November. You've got this
stretch Memphis, and then the next two weeks after that
are at UAB which is a winnable game, but you
know you're going to Birmingham and the Blazers are tough
at home. And then you've got a game at Air
Force out at foul and that game is at Falcon Stadium,
So that's a that's going to be a tough one
to deal with an Air Forces at Navy's number the
last four or five years. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Then you also have games against Notre Dame, who is
you know, even though they lost in Northern Illinois, you
know they're still going to be a formidable opponent. USF
is expected to be a very good team this year,
Tulane was one of the top two teams in the
in the preseason poll. So you've got Charlotte, Rice and
East Carolina that you probably can say those are three
very winnable games. The question is which one of these
games that are fifty to fifties can they get to
go their way and get themselves the sixth win.
Speaker 2: Well, you hear me with the phrase sample size, you
know several times over the last many years, if you've
listened to the podcast, and you know, Steven that I've
always thought that it's really a minimum of three games
before you start really kind of learning and who a
team is, what they're really made of. Almost the month
of September, you know, and I think it's hard to
really put, you know, kind of finger on maybe what
Navy is, what Army is right now, and honestly air
Force maybe, you know, with a lot of their question
marks they kept came into the season with. But you know, nonetheless,
thirty eight to eleven over Temple, we will see what
Navy really is made of. Are they could they be
better than we are even thinking or giving them credit
for it. We will find out, which lets me pivot
to Army because Army gets a twenty four to seven
win at Florida Atlantic Steep and I'm going back to
this sample size thing, and you know, maybe they're not
who we thought they are. Maybe they're more than who
we think they are. Had an Army fan hit me
up over the weekend, you know, saying, I think that
we can go to AC championship game. This looks like
it might be a clear path. And I just said, whoa, whoa,
pump the brakes hold on, I mean Army two and
oh and again I'm not raining on Armies. What I'm
trying to do is have a little perspective. Clearly, I'm
excited that Armies two is two and oh don't get
me wrong, but the two wins you've got over to
terrible teams. So you know, again, by the time you
get to mid end of September, you're usually st and
to flavor up your schedule where you might have a
cupcake in there, you might have, you know, a conference opponent,
you might have a one of your upper level conference opponents.
That's when we started to see who teams are made of.
And right now what I'm seeing Army made of is
something pretty darn good.
Speaker 4: Because they take the field.
Speaker 2: Steve in their very first American Athletic Conference game as
a member of the conference in the Black Knights getting
that win, and again like Navy, they do it in
fairly solid fashion, jumping up on Florida Atlantic early en
route to the twenty four to seven victory.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and they do it in Army style. Seven yards
per carry on the ground, they ran for four hundred
and five yards as a team. Noah Short had I
think one hundred and thirty two of them at the
break at the half there, so he had a huge
first half. You know. Really the only mistake that you
could say that was made by Army, especially in that
first half, was late in the first half when Kanye
Judo fumbled and Florida Atlantic recovered and turned the turn
that into seven points. So you know, it could have
been twenty one nothing at the half. And that's something
that I know that when I talked to Mike love All,
he pointed that out that you know, that's a fourteen
point swing, and you really credit the Black Knights for
coming out after the half after they've had that fourteen
point swing and not laying off. They They were just
as crisp and just as strong against the Owls in
the second half as they were in the first half.
And I gave Florida Atlantic a lot more credit than
how they looked on on Saturday, because that was not
a team that looked very good. I was saying, you know,
maybe you know it's Michigan State, it's big ten that
their first loss, it was by it was by less
than a touchdown. You know, let's let's hold off now.
I gotta I gotta say that. I really was kind
of shocked with how bad FA you looked, especially in
that second half. They looked like the team that was
coming down from New York and didn't and couldn't handle
the heat. Not an army.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Black Knights. They really didn't look like they
missed many beats steven because four hundred and five yards
of a rushing offense. The one pass play that Bryson
Daily hits was an over the top touchdown pass to
Casey Reynolds, a beautiful, you know, really over the top,
down the middle, forty four yard touchdown pass. They're late
in the first quarter to make it fourteen to nothing.
They didn't look back, as you know, FAU got their
loan score just before halftime with a short pass play
inside the ten yard line. But how about the think
I mean, look, let's let's go. Let's talk about the
play that a lot of people are talking about.
Speaker 4: The fake field goal. Beautiful.
Speaker 2: This is two weeks in a row now that Jeff
Munkins pulled out the bag of tricks on special teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And do it get late in the games
as kind of a statement. You know, the fake punt
came early against Lehigh, This win came late in the
game and really allowed them to put things away. At
that point, it's twenty to seven, it's still a two
score game. At this point, you get the fake field goal,
it's now twenty four to seven, it's now three scores,
no matter how you look at it. And that basically
spilled the end. And so Matthew Rhodes, you know, you
get a lot of credit because you know, you can
screw that. There are many ways you can screw that up.
And he did not screw it up. He was able
to find the hole, made a cutback and ended up
in the end zone with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just a straight option basically a straight
option read and he takes it around left side and
like you said, made a perfect reed and one cut
and bam into the end zone. Statement game set match
twenty four to seven. You know, Army with the win
over FAU and going on the road and getting a
road conference whin I mean not only their first American
Athletic conference when you do it on the road. So
that's got to give this team, Jeff Unkins team a
lot of confidence to two and oh going into the
bye week, just like the Navy Midshipman are all right
our other game to start or.
Speaker 4: At least, you know, to end week two.
Speaker 2: That Florida I'm sorry air Force Falcons welcoming San Jose
State into the Springs and boy Ken Neamatalolo his Spartans,
all the action happened in the first quarter, and the
San Jose State Spartans they come in and get a
seventeen to seven win over air Force. Now two and
oh and one and oh in the Mountain West Conference.
Now air Force dropping to one in one overall and
oh to one in the Mountain West. It was a
pretty uh I think maybe say boring would be how
you put it, Stephen, after you got past the first quarter,
because I mean literally.
Speaker 4: That's where all the fireworks were in the springs. Was
early in the football game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lackluster is probably another term that I probably we
would use after that first quarter and EMMITTT. Brown, after
throwing for nearly four hundred yards against Sacramento State the
week before for San Jose State comes out two hundred
and sixty two yards. A lot of that early early on,
including two first quarter touchdowns he threw. You know, he had,
you know a number of different guys come up with
multiple receptions, led by Nick Nasho had seven catches for
ninety yards and a score. Jackson Canan's most of his
damage came on one fifty eight yard touchdown. But you know,
I really thought that this was going to be a
game that if San Jose State was going to win,
they were going to have to abuse air Force's secondary,
and they did so early and they were able to
hold hold on for it because Air Force's offense really
didn't have much to show for it. We talked about
seven yards per carry on the ground for Army. Air
Force had just three point one yards per carry, only
one hundred and forty three yards rushing. That's not going
to cut it. If the Falcons want to keep winning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's not going to cut it. I mean
that that's not going to cut it at all. Nor's
turning the ball over two times at John Bouchet that
you know, the starting quarterback for air Force, you know,
throws the two interceptions, and that's the two turnovers that
the Falcons had in the football game. You know, seven
to twenty throw in the ball for fifty four yards
and he ran it eight times for sixteen yards. If
you're doing the math, I'll help you do it real quickly.
That's two yards of carry. That is not good enough.
Speaker 4: Simply put.
Speaker 2: Air Force has got to find ways to execute. They've
got to find ways to unlock this offense. Troy Calhoun,
we know that he likes to roll the dice. Might
he roll it going into Baylor this weekend? Because I
can't expect he's liking a whole lot what he's seen,
although you know, we've talked about a lot of new
parts here, a lot of new faces. But when something
is not working, he is quick to make a change.
Shoot any college football coaches, but Troy Calhoun, he will
roll the dice. When we at least expected to say,
get ready to go to Baylor this weekend, but nonetheless,
seventeen to seven, they fall at home in the second
game of the season to San Jose Stephen, you know,
Air Force. Right now, I think they're just we knew
there were question marks going into the season. I think
we're still left with as many question marks almost as
we had to start the season as we are here
sitting it basically going into week three.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean you look at what what what is?
What are the Falcons you know right now? And the question,
the answer to that question is we don't know. You know,
they they were able to put away a Division one
FCS school, but then lost to a team that they
had their way with the last couple of years in
the Mountain West Conference. You know, in this Mountain West
Conference is going to be a little different this year.
They're gonna have to play Oregon State later on in
the year. You know, you look at Boise State, They're
not going to have to play during the regular season,
nor will they have to play unl V. Those are
the two monster teams right now in the Mountain West.
Those are the two teams that most people believe are
going to be there when the dust settles. Boise State
was obviously the first, the number one in the preseason polling,
but with their loss to Oregon, it kind of puts
them behind the eight ball. But I look at it,
you know, those three teams are the ones that are
going to be the ones that most people are going
to be looking at at the end, and not air Force.
Speaker 2: I still think it's you know, with where air Force
is at right now, I think the next four games,
or you can even maybe go five, but the next
four games.
Speaker 4: Are gonna be really critical. I mean, they're going to Baylor.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a tough one non conference, you know,
big twelve opponent, But then you've got two of your
next three the conference games, and they're on the road
at Wyoming at New Mexico. I know, both those teams
are zero and two, and then Sandwich in the middle
of that is Navy. Uh So even though that you
you're gonna be going on the road to play to
you know, I want to say bottom of the league,
you know, Mount West Commerce teams and and in Wyoming
in New Mexico, you still got to do it on
the road.
Speaker 4: And it winning on the road.
Speaker 2: In college football is not easy. So I think Troy
Calhoun's a teammate. They've got their work cut out for
them before. These next couple of weeks are really going
to tell. I think what postseason fate might or might
not be there for Air Forces or Steve. All right,
let's give out our game balls. Uh, Steve, you want
to fire first this week? Which way you want to
go with your your game ball?
Speaker 3: You know I I had plenty of choices this week.
It was kind of amazing, uh to see Uh, you know,
I was looking at that that Army game. Noah Short
had an amazing first half. Bryceton Daily had a very
good day on the ground as well. He had one
hundred and seventeen yards. But my game ball goes to
mister Matthew Rhodes. I said it before. You know, in
a fake field goal, almost anything and everything can happen,
and most of it is not good. But Matthew Rhodes
was able to take the snap, get up, make the
make the read, make the cut, and make his way
into the end zone for that fake field goal. And
for that he gets a tip of the cap to
me from me and a game ball. How about you price, Yeah,
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: Boy.
Speaker 2: It was hard not to want to go Coloramos. Did
I go Coloramo's last week for Navy. I can't remember
if it was you did. I think it was me
and it was Kylee. It's hard not to want to
go Coloramos again. But man, I'm gonna pivot a little
bit this week. And not because, you know, because it's
Navy for any reason. I just think Blake Corvath what
he did on Saturday. Steve with a career day all
the way around, you know, run for a career high
one hundred and twenty two yards, had three touchdowns on
fifth team Cares completed five to nine through the air
for a career high one hundred and twelve yards in
a touchdown.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: The junior was named the American Athletic Quarterback Offensive Player
of the Week, A junior sixth to junior from Hilliard, Ohio.
According to ESPN Stats and Info HORVAP, this is the
first Navy player to throw for three touchdowns in the
first two games of the season. So Navy off to
the first two too start since twenty nineteen and just
the tenth time in the last thirty one years, and
a boy a big reason for that. Steven as we
mentioned during the during the recap is the play of
that junior quarterback Blake Horvath, And it's been a while
since they've had that kind of consistent play under center.
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
and Stripes Service Academy Football.
Speaker 3: Welcome back. It's Yards and Stripes your home for Service
Academy Football, where of course nothing but Army, Navy and
Air Force football. I'm Steve Carney and joining me right
now to talk about what was a very very happy
moment for Army football as they got their first American
Athletic Conference win. This week down in Boca Ratone is
our old friend Mike Loveall, former co host of this
very podcast, also a contributor to Last Word on Sports,
who we are of course affiliated with again here this year.
First off, Mike, it is great to see you. We've
got the got the video going here on this on
this Tuesday evening. You look great. How is retirement retirement
treating you?
Speaker 5: Stevid Price, It's great to be back on YOURDS and
stripesent Retirement's treat me well. That the best part is
a little bit more time to go see a little
bit more football. We were fortunate enough to be down
in Boca ratone for Army's first AAC com Prince game
in this new era of Army football, and it did
not disappoint. Looking forward to many years of Army coming
to the Sunshine State Bokery Tone Tampa for USF here
here where you and I both live. So excited about
that Army should be down here. I think I did
the math three out of every four years based on
how the AAC does their rotation. So super excited about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm curious, after seeing Army as an independent for
so long, does it take a little bit of time
to think of the Okay, now we've got a conference
schedule that we've got to look at. I mean, as
a fan, that's got to be kind of interesting because
Army always had what I thought would be a really
good strong line. I mean, going to LSU. They've always
had a chance to play some really big, strong schools
throughout the year, and now they really can't do that
because of the fact that they've got an AAC schedule
that they've got to maintain.
Speaker 5: Well, I actually think it's easier. You know, I follow
two teams, Army and of course Tennessee, so I'm used
to kind of the conference uh, the SEC being the
Conference of Conferences. You know, I don't want to get
too parochial about it, but you know where the conference
drives everything. Uh So, so I'm kind of used to
the rotational format of the scheduling, so it's I think
it's a little bit easier under this current athletic director.
Army has done a good job of being very formulaic
about their schedule as well. F c S kind of
some regional teams they like to schedule plus one big
name on the road, uh, you know, to kind of
to give the players the experience of playing at Norman
or in an arbor or in Baton Rouge at night.
You know, Elis, you know they you know, Army was
successful in getting l s U to schedule that game
at night instead of a new game, because I don't
know if you've ever been to Baton Rouge, but a
night game there is materially different, materially different than a
new game for sure. So so under the under the
leadership of the current athletic director, they've done a great job.
The COVID year getting teams scheduled to play football was
very successful. I don't think it's that much different. I
think it's actually easier and it's a little bit more predictable,
So I think for fans who like to travel, it'll
be a little bit easier, although you'll probably miss out
on some of those special trips and Arbin Norman, Baton
Rouge of course, and so different. I don't know that
it's any better or worse. I think it's easier, but
you know, self interested, I'm super excited. The Army is
going to be in the state of Florida three or
four years out of every five years, so I'm excited
kind of. I'm kind of excited about the conference. It
gives Armies win total every year a little bit more legitimacy.
So you know, if they get to six wins every year,
particularly if they get to seven wins every year and
year they're locked into a bowl. So that's very positive.
And I think it's the bottom line is Army had
to go to a conference, so it doesn't really matter
how I feel about it. They did what they had
to do going forward to secure the future of Army
football at the FBS level, So so I'm excited about
it being in a conference. Army looks competitive getting that
first win. If you look around the AAC. You look
at Tulsa Temple as well. You know, it looks like
Armies should be able to get several wins this year
in conference in their first year, which is which is
not altogether expected. I think I think they're going to
have a much stronger first year in the conference than
many people thought they would.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I certainly agree. And you know, while they can't
go to Baton Rouge at night, they do get to
go to Yankee Stadium to play Notre Dame this year,
and that's gonna be a fun one that we'll talk
about later on in the season. Let's get to what
Boca Ratone and this game specifically. I want to want
to get your thought on the atmosphere at FAU. Now
I've gotten a chance to go there a couple of times.
I know that USF played in the Boca Ratone Bowl
last year where there was a veritable cricket crowd of
crickets uh for their for their shutout win over Syracuse.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: But when when a service academy comes to town, you know,
people show up normally. So I definitely would love to
hear what you thought of the experience overall in in
Boca retown.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, aren't Army travels well. Not not the
largest fan base, you know, it's it's not It's not
the Pittsburgh Steelers, you know, not, not some of the
other big time programs. But Army travels well, particularly in
Florida and Texas, places where there's quite frankly, a large
military contingent and large alumni associations. Uh for those who
aren't necessarily familiar with the academy, the alumni network is
very active, very cohesive, very strong. Information flows very efficiently.
So you know, you got a large military presence in
Miami with Homestead Homestead and command down there. Of course,
Tampa is only three hours away. We have US com
US so com here in Tampa a lot of military
and Jacksonville not necessarily army, that's kind of a Navy town.
But the bottom line is there was a lot of
Army people retired in both the Tampa area and the
Miami so the Army contingent traveled well to Boca. I
was pretty impressed. I think the Bokery tombull. I think
I think Schnellenberger Field in late December is probably a
lot better than early September or I guess late September.
September it was pretty hot. Most of the fans, particularly
the FAU fans, watched it from the concourse. So the
Army experience, Army fans traveled well. Uh they represented well,
cheered hard, cheered well, the team played well. So so
from an Army fan experience, uh, it was it was
a good day. It was hot, but you know, the
fans soldier through. I think we showed I think we
showed ourselves as a quitted ourselves as a solid fan
base and all in all, you know, it's it's ten
degrees cooler when you win in uh so, so that
that makes it a little bit more better when you're
up seventeen points with a couple of minutes to go
in the fourth quarter for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the beer definitely tastes better when you're winning
as well. So let's get into the game itself. Bryce
and Dally, who Pryce and I have talked about, you know,
being probably the most well known player when it comes
to any of the Service Academy teams this year. The
guy that most guys, most people will go, okay, we
recognize that name. I thought he had a fantastic game,
you know, he only needed to complete one pass through
the air it did go for a touchdown, also at
eighteen carries for one hundred and seventeen yards on the ground.
I certainly thought that he really showed himself well in
his first conference game against a team that I thought
would have come out a little better. I was kind
of you know, they they lose. They lose to Michigan
State in East Lansing the first week, and people go, wells,
you know, Michigan State's not that good this year. I said, well,
there's still a Big ten team, you know. But they
certainly showed that, maybe if not quite as good as
as we thought they would were. But I thought Bryson
Daily showed that he was every bit as good as
any quarterback in this conference right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, I'm not super haven't seen the film
on some of the newer quarterbacks, and of course I'm
not super familiar with the AAC. But to your point,
I think Bryson Daily probably one of the top twenty
running backs potentially in the country, and just as a
pure running back, I don't know anybody in the AAC
that's better. The thing with Bryson is he made real
good decisions on Saturday. Of course, with le High last week,
he made better decisions than last year, but he still
had the one questionable decision a couple of times last year.
You know, the decision making needed to be improved. Did
not make a poor decision at all on Saturday. Did
what had to be done. Manage the offense. Had like
you said, had the one very pass the playfake on
that was pretty sweet as well. Not to take anything
away from Bryce and Daily or Noah Short who had
a great game, or Kanye Udo who had a great game.
But to your second point about Fau, I'm just going
to tell you, Steve and Price, I'm going to tell
you very unimpressed with the coaching on that team. That
team was unprepared to play. That team made no adjustments
on offense. Particularly. I think they only had two passes
that were in the air longer than ten yards. If
you're you know, if it's me and you're playing an
army defense, you want to stretch the field. You want
to leverage your strength. Almost every team we play is
going to be a little bit more purely talented, faster receivers,
taller receivers. I don't know why you wouldn't stretch the field.
They made no adjustments on defense. The FAU defense in
the second half played the exact same game plan as
the FAU defense in the first half. The other thing
is just questionable clock management there at the end ten
forty in the fourth quarter, they're down by seventeen, so
three scores, even with two two point conversions, now by
three scores, they go forward on fourth down, I think
at their own twenty six, right, so it's a forty
yard field goal. Even if you convert the fourth down,
which they did, you're still gonna lose one to two
minutes on the clock down seventeen. You have to have
a field goal anyway. The chart says kick the field goal,
save yourself. Two minutes of time. You're playing army. You
know what you're gonna get. You're gonna get three yards
and then cloud of dust and three minutes were gonna
come off the clock. They went forward and fourth ended
up not getting a touchdown, not getting any points, which
meant the game was over at that point. So just
not just very questionable leadership. Team was unprepared, made no
real adjustments schematically in the second half, really on offense
or defense, offense never really stretched the field, and then
the end end game management with particularly with the clock,
was not good. So my big walk away wasn't necessarily
you know, Bryce Daily or Noah Short being a better
athlete than some of the some of the people on FAU.
It was the value of Jeff Monkin to this Army team.
You saw that team. They came in black uniforms, they
were motivated that the heat seemingly didn't bother them at all.
I think maybe we had one player go down with cramps.
They were excited, they were prepared, They made adjustments against
Fau's offense, particularly on the defensive side, and you just
you don't see you don't see Jeff Munkin putting his
players in tougher situations than they need to be, like
you saw with Fau's coaching staff on Saturday. So, to me,
the big walk away is, and we've known this Army
fans have known this for several years, is that we
have a high we Army has a high caliber coach.
They're managing the sideline. And it was to me it
was plainly evident sitting in the stands that one coaching
staff on that field was materially better than the other coaching.
Speaker 3: Staff, and that that tends to you know, that makes
me scratch my head because Tom Herman is a big
time coach. He's coached at Texas Texas, he was.
Speaker 5: The offensive coordinated to Ohio State. I mean, I don't
get it. I was you, I was talking about this
in the stand. It's simple arithmetic. You're down by seventeen.
That's that's three. That's three scores, one of which is
a field goal. Right, So you kick the field goal,
you take the points, and you still have ten minutes
and thirty seconds to get two touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Again, obviously it's far more successful than me. But to me,
it's arithmetic. It really is.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I know that the next time that I'm on
the sidelines coach in a college football game will be
my first. But yeah, it does. It does mean simple arithmetic.
You brought up Noah Short. Yeah. I thought he had
a great first half. You know, I would not have
said that he would have had it was at one
hundred and forty yards on the ground in the in
the first half of the game. But I thought I
thought he looked fantastic. I thought that the rushing game overall,
I mean they put four n five yards on the ground,
which is just I mean, it's it's almost twice as
much as the FAU team had a combined offense, and
so it was ridiculous for sure.
Speaker 5: And if Noah Short can continue to have success on
the outside and pull or at least make the linebackers hesitate,
that opens up the middle run game for kanye Udo.
And once Udo got going, And the thing I love
about kanye Udo is is the game goes along, he
gets better. He just wears down the middle interior linebackers
and the interior defensive line for teams. So when you
saw Noah Short having success on the edge in the
first and second quarters, they kept going back to kanye
Udo sometimes on second third downs to get those two
and three yards they needed. You just had a feeling
that FAU defense was eventually going to break. Udo did
have the fumble, keep Key pointing the game, Armies driving
with about two minutes to go in the half, he fumbles.
Instead of twenty one zero at halftime, turns out to
be fourteen to seven at the half. I was really
impressed with how the team came back out in the
second half and closed it out instead of letting that
fourteen that you know, theoretical fourteen point turn affect affect
their disposition. So another another illustration of the quality coaching
on that coming out, not letting that swing affect them
too much, and coming out and just getting right back
to business on the first drive of the second half
instead of letting that letting that fumble kind of turn
the tide of the fortune in the game.
Speaker 3: Absolutely and then and then the last player that I
want to talk to you about is of course coach
Bunkin breaking out the trickeration early with Matthew Rhodes with
the fake field goal run in for for a touchdown.
Not something you see very often from an army team,
but it just goes to show you that when they
need to to reach into the bag of tricks, they've
got them. It's it's not like they can't pull off
the fake punt or the fake field goal.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And they they did it at the right time, and uh,
you know to a team that was uh, you know,
obviously not not you we mentioned the the poor coaching,
they probably were all very very tired and and had
the the effects of the of the heat, you know,
a lot more so than what Nate Uh than what
Army showed uh in that game as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. And you saw the fake punt last
week against Lehigh. You know this coaching staff is playing
to win games. You like to see that early on,
they're putting stuff on film. So oftentimes, particularly when you're
playing a team like Lehigh, you'll you'll run something like
that to get it on film, and you know there's
a couple of reasons why you do it. I think
in that that game was early, you got to think
it wasn't a momentum thing against Leehigh. You gotta think
it was a putting something on film, or establishing a
team identity, establishing a team culture, letting the future opponents
know that you got to be ready for anything with
this team on first, second, third, or fourth down. I
like the timing. I'm not sure I like the timing
of the fank punt in the Lehigh game. That was
really early in that game to do that, but you're
playing probably with a little bit of house money there.
Love the timing of the fake field goal in FAU
and to see ninety nine get that touchdown that that
was It was both a very well called well timed
but it was also great to see the player get
to the end zone.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, and to see it on all of the highlights,
you know, I saw it on ESPN nice. You know,
every college football highlight page on YouTube had that play,
so it was it was great to see one more
thing before we let you go here. Mike Pryce and
I talked about this last week, the Mikey Stadium preservation project.
I said that I understand why it's happening, but I
I hate the fact that if you're in the West
stands now on the home side, you're not gonna you know,
once this is uh, once this project is done and
they've rebuilt the east the East stands and they're gonna
be a lot bigger than they are, uh, you know
have been historically, you're gonna have a hard time seeing
the river. And I always thought that is the one
of the coolest parts of Mikey Stadium is that you're
sitting in the West stands, You're looking out to the east,
You're seeing the river there, and you're not gonna be
able to see that. I'm curious about what you think
of the preservation project and uh, how how excited you
are to see that? You know, Mikey is going to
be around for much much longer because of this project.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it kind of goes back to the conference
conversation we had we had earlier. It's not really something
it's really something that Army had to do. If you
look at you know, Army has clearly made the decision
that they want to be in at big time football
so FBS football, and part of that is having the
facilities to get uh FBS caliber players there and to
get revenue from your fan base.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: The the West Stands preservation project is is very nice.
They're going to have UH suites up there and you'll
be able to use them for graduation as well. Uh
that the core is going to look great in those
new stands right behind the sideline. It's it's going to
be very nice. But it's something they had to do
to improve the in game stadium experience. You know. That
that was something else that was I was kind of,
to be honest with it, this was my first time
at f AU as I was kind of, I guess
surprised at uh that that the stadium, you know, having
a team that had Lane Kiff in a couple of
years ago and now Tom Herman. I was just a
little bit, uh surprised with that. You know, you've seen
the plans for the new USF Stadium on campus. That's
gonna look really nice. Of course, you and I have
both traveled to different multiple different college stadiums across the country.
I was just just a little bit surprised that fau's
facility there. So it's it's something they've got to do
at Mikey. It's gonna be nice, it's gonna get it's
going to get the donors into the stands, you know,
multiple games a year, and it's it's being well done. Deliberate.
Uh again, I think they I think both the football
team and the athletic department are in really good hands
up there. So it was a deliberate decision. It kept, Uh,
it kept. I think I think it's going to keep
the essence of Mikey Stadium the same. I don't. It
might block the view maybe for the lower east stands,
but I think still in the upper deck in the
press box, I think you're still going to have a
view of the river. But even if it blocks a
little bit of the view of the river, you're still
going to have the Hudson high there. It's still going
to be nestled right next to Lusk Reservoir. It's still
going to be a beautiful walk up the hill to
the stadium. It's gonna be a beautiful walk down the
hill to the stadium.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, on those October and November fall saturdays. Even
from a guy growing up in sec country, there is
not many more more beautiful places to catch a college
football game than Mikey Stadium right there on the Lusk
Reservoir in October and Novembers in the fall.
Speaker 3: It should be it should be a blast, that is
for sure. I'm I know that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Price and I have talked about that's that's one of
the bucket lists, at least on my on my end,
there are there aren't many places that I am saying
I have to go and watch a game, But but
Mikey Stadium is on that short list still. Maybe maybe
one of these days I'll get them into into West
Point and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 5: Steve, let me know, Steve, let me know. We'll go
up there, we'll catch a cadet review, we'll go to
a game and uh and you'll you'll get to see
exactly how nice it is up there.
Speaker 3: I I I will. You don't temp me with a
good time, my friend.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you know, at some point in the
next five years USF will have to fly up there
and play a game there. So so what do you say,
Let's book it now, USF at mike Y Stadium, Steve,
Steve and Mike on the road.
Speaker 3: I will, I will be all for that. That that
is for sure. Mike. It is great to see you,
uh continue to success in your retirement. Uh. I know
that that you are still basically in the same gig,
you know, just not having to Yeah, you can, you
can uh let the let the facial hair grow.
Speaker 5: That's always nice in the morning every day.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: Well, just I'm just I'm just trying to look like you, Steve,
that's all.
Speaker 3: Your just looks a hell of a lot better than mine.
That's that's for sure. Mike. It's great seeing you, and
we'll have to do this again soon.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, thanks for having me on.
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Speaker 1: The latest with Navy, Army and Air Force on Yards
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in the Yards and Stripes. I'm
Pryce Akinson. He is Steven Carney and our man Mike
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one game this week, one loan game. It's kind of weird,
we got bye weeks, you know, coming this early. It
seems like Air Force is always one of the teams
that you know, had one of these early buys, but
that is not the case. It's Army and it's Navy,
and both those two teams obviously sitting at two and
oh so they're kicking back, feet up and they're going
to be watching some football, enjoying, you know, the off
weekend this weekend. But the Air Force Falcons hitting the road.
They're going to Waco, Texas to play Baylor Bears, both
teams one in one. This is gonna be a Saturday
night kickoff at seven thirty pm Eastern Standard time on
Fox Sports one. Right now as we see it, Baylor
according to the oddsmakers, that what we're looking at fifteen
and a half point favorite over under at forty two
and a half right now, Steven as this going to
be the first This begins a new two game series
with Baylor for the Falcons. The Bears will visit Falcons
Stadium on September eighth, September the eighteenth in twenty twenty seven,
but this will be the first time these two teams
meet in the regular season since nineteen seventy seven, which
resulted in a twenty eight to seven win for the
Baylor Bears.
Speaker 4: However, the last.
Speaker 2: Time these teams two teams played step that was in
the twenty twenty two Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas,
where Air Force they got a thirteen or thirty to
fifteen win, a really dominating win in a very If
you remember how cold it was, yes, I do, so
that's that's my last real memory of these two teams
seeing the field And what was the I think, if
I have it right, and I think I do, it
was the coldest bowl game of the entire Bowl season.
When was that fridgid night that we were lucky to
be watching on television.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what I was glad not to be
in Fort Worth that night. It was thorough boyeen degrees
at kickoff in that Armed Forces Bowl game in Fort Worth.
And yeah, that was the last time that these two
teams saw each other. This is going to be an
interesting game. It is Baylor's Salute a Service game. They're
going to have a pregame flyover with a pair of
F sixteen's. Each of them will be piloted with alum
from each school, So one will be an Air Force
Academy graduate, one will be a Baylor University graduate, which
is which is going to be very interesting. Also, Baylor
is going to welcome back their Southwest Conference championship team
from nineteen seventy four, which is always known as the
Miracle on the Brazos team. So, but this is a
Baylor team that was doubled up last week by Utah.
The Utes used a return field goal block for a touchdown,
and a fumble recovery on the three yard line, all
in the first half. So Baylor had a couple of
mistakes early and Utah was able to take advantage of it.
I certainly think that Air Force is going to have
to do something similar to have an opportunity to pull
out the victory in this game. You know, I'm not
trying to disparage the Mountain West Conference or the you know,
the caliber of the competition in the Mountain West, but
there is a lot there is a lot more they
can be said about Baylor playing Utah than air Force
playing Merrimac in San Jose State.
Speaker 4: Well, yes, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2: If if there's something you're looking for a silver lining
for air Force, no matter how the season's gone, you
can go back to a little history. You know, air
Force has won five straight games against teams from Power
five conferences, and so while this will be the first
Power five team the air Force has played in the
regular season since they hosted Colorado back in I think
Week two of twenty twenty two at Falcons Stadium, you know,
the Falcons have had success against Power five conference opponents
and most of those have been you know, in the postseason.
But this is going to be a fairly daunting task.
They're going to obviously McClean Stadium there one of the
most i think one of the more beautiful stadiums in
college football. For the seven thirty pm Eastern Standard time kickoff.
And you know, Dave Randa, the head coach at you know,
at Baylor, a lot of people were, I mean he
was he was a big time get when Baylor hired
him away as what he was at LSU for a
while as defensive coordinator, and it was a big hire
when when Baylor had him.
Speaker 4: It's weird that how quickly things can change. One have
you done for me lately?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: I feel like that it's kind of fallen on some
hard times for Dave Randon. Now he's under some fire
very quickly. But nonetheless, this is going to be a
very talented Baylor team. You're gonna have to go in
there and play it at night, you know, like most
times when service academies go on the road, it's a
military appreciation type theme, and obviously that's what will get
on Saturday night when Baylor and Air Force take the field.
Speaker 3: Steven, Yeah, absolutely, And I think the reason why Dave A.
Randa is under such fire, you know, his seats getting
a little warm in Waco is the fact that the
Big twelve is very much different than it was even
a year ago. You look at it. I've been joking
that they need to start calling the Big twelve the
Little twelve now that in Oklahoma or in the SEC.
Most of that is to of course disparage my friends
who are fans and alumni of the University of Central Florida,
who I like to call Winter Park Community College but
it is. But it's true that yea, you know, there's
a lot less firepower in the Big Twelve this year
than there have been in years past, and so you know,
Baylor was certainly thinking, and the boosters and the fans
were certainly thinking that, you know, this could be an
opportunity for the Bears to move themselves into you know,
I'm not saying that they would have had an opportunity
at the Big Twelve championship game, but you would think
that they might have had an opportunity to play in
a much higher caliber bowl game than say the Armed
Forces bull like they did two years ago. I think
that they thought that this was going to be a
year that they could really push and we'll see if
they can. You know, they've only had that the one
loss against Utah so far this year, so you know,
they're their Their conference season is not over by any
sense of the imagination, but they've got to win this
game and get to two.
Speaker 2: And One's funny mentioned not over. I was just thinking,
you know, the reason why I'm not pushing the panic button,
and I don't think a lot of fans should at
this point. Whoever your team is, the season is not
over no matter what it is, because with the college
football playoff now expanded, not saying that either of these
two teams, air Force or Baylors, is going to find
their way into it, but boy, you've got margin for
air now.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Some teams have less of it, especially when you come
from a non Power five, but you know you've got
chances to stub your toe and still put the band
aid on and recover. And that's what these two teams
have the chance to do on Saturday night. And so,
you know the game has changed, certainly, the conference landscape
has changed, but you know, obviously the institution of the
twelve team playoff that's made things a lot done different.
Like it or dislike it. I know we all have
opinions on it, but what we don't have an opinion
on is these two teams will take the field at
seven thirty on Fox Sports one. Baylor's a fifteen point
fifteen and a half point favorite over Under forty two
and have We're not going to a break. We're going
to plow through here, Steven. Let's go ahead to our picks.
We only got one game. Which way are you going
to go in this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah? For me? Unfortunately, for air Force. I think that
this is going to be a tough, a tough loss.
I think that this is going to be another one
of these close games. I think Baylor uh pulls it
out late. I think that as unless there's a turnover
in the fourth quarter, I think the Falcons are going
to come up short. I'm going to say that that
Baylor wins this game twenty one to thirteen.
Speaker 4: You go a little bit closer than I am.
Speaker 2: I too, I do agree with you. I think Baylor
is going to be shown the better team. I think
they will be the better team on Saturday Night. I
like the bayel of Bears to the tune of maybe
twenty seven to ten a little bit more comfortably. I
guess I've got so many questions about this Air Force
offense right now. What can they do, especially David andwho
specializes in defense. Clearly they don't have a week off
to prepare, but you know that they've spent some time
during the off season, like most every team does. When
you know you're getting ready to play a service academy,
you usually have a couple of triple option days where
you work on that in the spring. So they saw
it just a couple of years ago, so it's not
that foreign to them. But I, like you said, I too,
like Baylor, I'm going twenty seven to ten. All right, Stephen,
let's get out of here before we do just you know,
as I mentioned during the TMF on a roll segment
obviously September of the eleventh, this week, you know, we
all stop and pause. You know, heroes, you know, come
in many different uniforms, not just military, as I mentioned
during TMF, but so many people that played such a
vital role in our nation's history that day, especially if
you're in New York, Pennsylvania, the Pentagon, other places. But
I know it, you know, somebody knew that served in
the military, Steve and so many others protecting our freedom.
This is this is a time, and this is a
week where we all just stand and pause. No matter
how far away it gets, it still feels like yesterday
for a lot of us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly does. It's amazing to think that it's
now twenty three years, almost almost a quarter of a
century since that day, and you know, for some people
it's it's certainly a very fresh experience in their minds,
and for those of us that we're serving at that time.
It's certainly day that none of us will forget either.
Speaker 4: Absolutely well, said Stephen. Well, we appreciate all of you.
Speaker 2: We appreciate Mike Lovell, our friend, our former co host
here at Yards and Stripes, Army alum. I appreciate you,
Steve for catching up with him and bringing us that
interview this week. Appreciate all the hard work you do
putting this thing together. And appreciate all our listeners obviously
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enjoy the game. I know we got a lot of
others dot in the schedule. It will be college football
wall to wall this weekend, but great to talk to you.
We will do it again next week.
Speaker 4: My friend.
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