After watching the 'fuzzy' Idaho game I can give you several reasons why we will beat WSU.
1) - Kyle Padron, granted he had a shaky start, but now that he's warmed up, watch out. I'm hoping he will settle down in the pocket and have a quicker release picking the WSU def. apart.
And with our lethargic secondary, I could see him doing an excellent job of that. By far, our biggest weakness is your strength.
2) - The best wide recieving corps in FCS football. (Hope they play Cory Mitchell more).
Agreed, but we have a pretty darn good receiving corps, too. Our problem last week was our quarterback's inability to make a decision, despite having 6 or 7 seconds to throw the ball. He's played like a great quarterback and future NFL 3rd round draft pick at times, but it appears the rust from not playing last year hasn't been shaken. On thursday, he looked like a true freshman.
3) - Solid shutdown defense. Ronnie Hamlin is a beast and TJ Lee will get at least two picks.
I have respect for your defense, and this isn't a dig, but I do think BYU's defense is tougher than Eastern's. In fact, BYU's defense might be the toughest we play besides Oregon's (we don't play USC this year). Eastern's defense, particularly your All-American corner and All-American safety, scare me a bit.
4) - Jake Miller, but hoping he never has to come in.
5) - Beau Baldwin vs. Mike Leach. Edge: Baldwin Everyone knows what Leach is going to do but Leach will get outcoached and caught off guard.
Well, so far in 2012, that appears to be the case. But Leach's entire body of work, I would disagree with you on that one. However, it doesn't matter what Leach did, it matters what he can still do. He definitely has his work cut out.
6) - Fans, I'm pretty sure that we will be louder and match thier numbers. If you don't travel to this game, your ticket priveleges for the rest of the season should be revoked.
This is really the only thing on your post I downright disagree with. We have +30K tickets sold so far for a stadium that seats 35K. We'll be much louder...As long as we aren't getting our @$$es kicked.
7) - Running Game, something we didn't have last year.
Yep. You got us on that one.
8) - Pride
We probably will never come to an agreement on this one, but after the last few years, our confidence is not exactly sky high right now. Still, if you still have pride in a 9-41 team, you can be pretty sure that at the very least, you don't have as many band wagon fans as some other programs might (cough cough, UW).
9) - Experience
Yep. Got us there. No argument here.
10) - The will for a perfect season and coming back to Frisco so I can attend a game. :clap:
I suppose, our desire to reach a bowl game hinges on winning all the winnable games. While this game scares the crap out of me, and is entirely losable, it's also winnable. So our will for a bowl game might be our equivalent to your will for a perfect season. For the record, I know that a lot of EWU fans seem to think the feeling at WSU is that we don't respect you and we think we'll just smash you, but that's not the case. We all saw the UW game last year, we all are familiar with the program (when Wulff was hired, we all kind of adopted Eastern as our FCS favorite), and we know you guys are a legitimate threat to us. Hopefully it's a good game and no players on either side our seriously injured.
