Hampton Game Thread

[jd of de]

That punt return is a ESPN Top 10, not for the return but for the return coverage. I’ve never seen 5 guys BEHIND the punt returner when the catch is made. Ever!

[Hens79]

What in the hell do all of you negative asses want from our football team? I've posted before that we have control over who we can schedule for 3-4 games a year. As long as we are in the CAA, we are going to play some bad teams, period. The CAA decides who we play in conference games, period. We play the schedule that they give us, period. We do not get to choose which teams we play in conference, period!!! Is it a dogs breakfast, yes!!! Until we move up and change conferences, this is what we are going to see. We won today with our backup QB by 44 freaking points and our defense gave up 220 yds and 3 points. We are 6-1, ranked 7th in the country, what the hell do we have to be unhappy about? I swear to the good Lord above some of you are the types that if you won $10 million in the lottery, you'd bitch about not winning $20 million. Give it a break guys, Lord have mercy. Would you rather go back to 3-4 seasons after 7 games in the era of "relevance"? Give me a break!!!

Get off your high horse and take a chill pill. The vast majority of the posts in the thread were more than complimentary. All some folks are calling out, and I think rightfully so, is that our FCS schedule up to this point has been relatively weak. Other than New Hampshire, we truly haven’t played any strong FCS teams. And over the past 4 or 5 years, this program has not finished seasons well. All 4 games remaining on the schedule are more than winnable. I’d like to think we should win at least 3, and hopefully all 4. But until this team goes out and does it, I think a fair amount of skepticism is reasonable. You got one thing right though. Until we leave the dregs of the CAA behind us, all we can do is play the teams on our schedule. Now let’s go take care of business against Towson.

Pretty much agree although the FCS schedule to date has been worse than “relatively weak” and UNH is not a “strong team”. They are an almost defenseless average team. Might as well make a deep playoff run while the Hens FCS and CAA days are winding down.

[77HEN]

FOIA request?

MUST the CAA comply with FOiA requests, or is that only government entities? I'd love to see the votes for allowing the MEAC schools to join the CAA! Thanks

That vote was surely unanimous and it carried the stipulation the name be changed. Why hasn’t Del State been added yet?

[Hengrad07]

FOIA request?

MUST the CAA comply with FOiA requests, or is that only government entities? I'd love to see the votes for allowing the MEAC schools to join the CAA! Thanks

That vote was surely unanimous and it carried the stipulation the name be changed. Why hasn’t Del State been added yet?

Wait, so CR and our president/board are approving the “slugs” being added to the CAA? I’m shocked

[tomdawg00022]

FOIA request?

MUST the CAA comply with FOiA requests, or is that only government entities? I'd love to see the votes for allowing the MEAC schools to join the CAA! Thanks

That vote was surely unanimous and it carried the stipulation the name be changed. Why hasn’t Del State been added yet?

Wait, so CR and our president/board are approving the “slugs” being added to the CAA? I’m shocked

The powers that be at UD didn't want to look bad voting to keep out a HBCU even if the quality of the CAA would slip. We weren't the only ones who felt that way.

[Info Hound]

"Delaware's lopsided win at Hampton in front of tiny crowd makes FBS move more appealing"

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/sp ... 989938007/


Agreed

[77HEN]

It was great to see all the young guys get some time yesterday. But, you know, it was also great to see Quincy Watson get some carries too. Things have not turned out so well for #23. He is the 3rd guy of upperclassmen in the RB order and so he is somewhat the forgotten man. It sucks, not saying it’s unfair, but it sucks to work so long and find yourself in the situation he’s in. Stick in their Q, there may be need for you still this season (not wishing injury on MY or CK but, you never know how things develop). GoHens.

[Jaxhen1]

It was great to see all the young guys get some time yesterday. But, you know, it was also great to see Quincy Watson get some carries too. Things have not turned out so well for #23. He is the 3rd guy of upperclassmen in the RB order and so he is somewhat the forgotten man. It sucks, not saying it’s unfair, but it sucks to work so long and find yourself in the situation he’s in. Stick in their Q, there may be need for you still this season (not wishing injury on MY or CK but, you never know how things develop). GoHens.

My sentiments exactly. I was happy to see him get some playing time and he ran well yesterday. Just before he entered the game. I was wondering why he wasn’t playing, and was concerned that he may no longer be on the team. Yarns and Cumby are great backs and certainly deserve to be the top two RBs, but it was great to see Quincy get some playing time. Hopefully, he’ll get opportunities in the future to contribute.

[BlueHenBobby]

I find it absolutely amazing Hampton beat Richmond. A bad team. A great game for UD in terms of building depth. Marker was superb. What a contrast with the Brock and Rocco years with regard to QB depth. The real season begins on Saturday at Towson.

[Caribbean Hen]

I find it absolutely amazing Hampton beat Richmond. A bad team. A great game for UD in terms of building depth. Marker was superb. What a contrast with the Brock and Rocco years with regard to QB depth. The real season begins on Saturday at Towson.

I hear you BHB, but without the starting QB and young Star RB, Hampton knew what was coming and it showed in the body language. Besides, they had to practice with that QB all week and they knew it just wasn’t going to work.

Carty absolutely deserves credit for pulling in Marker from the Midwest as now, if starter gets hurt the season is not over.

[HensRock]

With the weakness of the CAA, we should no longer be looking for creampuffs to fill our OOC games.
The fact that we scheduled St. Francis and Duquesne this season has only amplified this terrible schedule.
It would not have been so bad if we had a couple of competitive games in there against 2 decent FCS teams.

As long as we are in THIS CAA (and now with Bryant being added) our OOC scheduling policy needs to change, IMO.
We need to play better teams than the CAA has to offer if we want to improve.

And we need to attract fans to Delaware Stadium!

[Udforever1]

With the weakness of the CAA, we should no longer be looking for creampuffs to fill our OOC games.
The fact that we scheduled St. Francis and Duquesne this season has only amplified this terrible schedule.
It would not have been so bad if we had a couple of competitive games in there against 2 decent FCS teams.

As long as we are in THIS CAA (and now with Bryant being added) our OOC scheduling policy needs to change, IMO.
We need to play better teams than the CAA has to offer if we want to improve.

And we need to attract fans to Delaware Stadium!

We had North Dakota State in a few years ago and couldn’t even sell the place out.

[HensRock]

We had North Dakota State in a few years ago and couldn’t even sell the place out.

True. But we could have if we had a better team that year.
We should concentrate on some UD at least has a history with. Like YSU, Lehigh (I wish they were better), Lafayette, maybe even UNI, SIU, EKU, The Citadel,

[Housthen18]

Just was able to watch highlights on YouTube. Two comments:

1. That was potentially the worst college football broadcast I have ever laid eyes on. Just abysmal. Video resolution was like 480p.

2. Either we are the Georgia Bulldogs of FCS this year or that team should not be able to call itself a Division 1 team. Talent disparity looked staggering.

[77HEN]

With the weakness of the CAA, we should no longer be looking for creampuffs to fill our OOC games.
The fact that we scheduled St. Francis and Duquesne this season has only amplified this terrible schedule.
It would not have been so bad if we had a couple of competitive games in there against 2 decent FCS teams.

As long as we are in THIS CAA (and now with Bryant being added) our OOC scheduling policy needs to change, IMO.
We need to play better teams than the CAA has to offer if we want to improve.

And we need to attract fans to Delaware Stadium!

We had North Dakota State in a few years ago and couldn’t even sell the place out.

SOUTH Dakota State - and that was before they were championship material or even very well regarded. It was 2010 and the Hens, who played EWU in the NC game, whooped SDSU 26-3 in Newark. The return game in Brookings never happened. Bring SDSU or NDSU in now and the fans will come.