Monthly Archives: August 2008

A look ahead

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 31, 2008 | Comments closed
Here’s how Army’s future 2008 opponents fared in week one of the college football season: New Hampshire: 0-0, opens its season at Army Saturday Akron: 0-1, lost at No. 13 Wisconsin 38-17.Chris Jacquemain threw two TD passes for Akron. Texas A&M: 0-1, Dropped its home opener to Arkansas State 18-14. Texas A&M turned the ball over twice in the fourth quarter. Mike [...]
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The D against Temple

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 30, 2008 | Comments closed
His defense played well enough for Army to win, coach Stan Brock said. Take away a special-teams touchdown and two scores set up by turnovers and Army’s D was really responsible for 14 of Temple’s 35 points. Senior linebacker Frank Scappaticci disagreed with Brock. When asked if Army’s D played well enough to win, Scappaticci was brief and to [...]
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Brown’s link to Army

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 30, 2008 | Comments closed
It was a little ironic Morkeith Brown was the player, who scooped up a fumble by Army quarterback Carson Williams and returned it 17 yards for a score. Brown is a 23-year-old, 6-foot-6 freshman defensive end, who was playing in his first college game. He enlisted in the Army after graduating Central Dauphin East (Pa.) High [...]
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A quarterback change already?

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 30, 2008 | Comments closed
Army coach Stan Brock used all three of his second-half timeouts within the last 26 seconds of the game when the outcome was long decided. Brock had good reason. He wanted to give sophomore quarterback Chip Bowden as many touches as possible in his first college game. “In the end, I used my timeouts because I wanted [...]
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Pregame depth chart notes

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 29, 2008 | Comments closed
Army senior center Trey Miranne will make his 18th straight start. Miranne was No. 2 on the depth chart behind senior Tyson Quink in game notes earlier this week. Freshman linebacker Steve Erzinger has rose to No. 2 behind senior strongside linebacker John Plumstead. Sophomore Rod Murray is listed as No. 2 at weakside linebacker behind sophomore Josh [...]
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Rule changes

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 29, 2008 | Comments closed
A couple rule changes to watch if you are taking in the game on ESPN Classic 1. Clock operation: Take notes on this one. Instead of a 25-second clock, which was started when the officials signaled the ball ready for play, a 40-second play clock will start when the ball becomes dead on every play. When [...]
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More Tim Walsh on Army’s offense

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 28, 2008 | Comments closed
Check out my story on Army offensive coordinator Tim Walsh online today. Here’s more of what Walsh had to say about the Army offense: On when the thought of changing the offense started “I think we all felt after week four last year, week three maybe, that we could compete at times but we may struggle to win six [...]
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More Brock from Tuesday

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 27, 2008 | Comments closed
Caught up with Army coach Stan Brock for a few minutes after Tuesday’s press conference. We talked about a few position battles and Carlo Sandiego’s role in the offense. Defenses will have to guess where Sandiego will be lining up this year. Sandiego could be in the slot, split out wide or under center. On how important [...]
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Temple coach Al Golden on Friday’s game

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 27, 2008 | Comments closed
Here are highlights from a teleconference with Temple coach Al Golden as he prepares for the Owls’ season-opener at Michie Stadium Friday. On the optimism for Temple football in 2008 “There was only one way for the optimism to go, so it’s all relative. We have a good group coming back. We have a long way to go [...]
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Coach Brock’s Tuesday press conference

By Sal Interdonato | Published: August 26, 2008 | Comments closed
Here are the highlights from Army coach Stan Brock’s Tuesday press conference. The interesting nugget of the presser was Brock said he hasn’t decided anything with the special teams yet. I should have asked him specifically if he just meant the kicking game. I assumed senior Andrew Rinehart had the punting duties locked up. Sports [...]
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