Halftime Report: Sun Devils Lacking Focus, Lead Lumberjacks 17-10
by Cory Williams on Sep 11, 2010 8:47 PM MST
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At the half, the Sun Devils managed a 17-10 lead against the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks.
This game has thus far been marred by penalties and dropped passes for ASU, a bad sign for things to come. Northern Arizona has been largely mistake-free, putting up a good fight against their FBS competition.
Steven Threet has been erratic in his second game under center for ASU, throwing 18 completions for 200 yards and two touchdowns. Threet also threw a significant interception that led to an NAU touchdown late in the second quarter.
Cameron Marshall, so effective against Portland State, ran for only 16 yards on six carries in the first half.
Thomas Weber, the 2007 Lou Groza award winner, delivered a 30-yard field goal and is still perfect on the season.
Zach Bauman, NAU's freshman running back out of Hamilton High in Chandler, has been active in the first half. Bauman picked up 43 yards on 14 carries.
Michael Herrick has not lived up to the hype, completing only five passes for 78 yards on 14 attempts. He threw an interception to Deveron Carr, trying to hit his receiver down the sideline.
In total, Threet's receivers have let him down. Aaron Pflugrad dropped four passes and stymied more than one drive. ASU must be consistent with its receiving and also must focus on significantly decreasing the amount of penalties they incur.
ASU collected six penalties for 45 yards in the first half, far too much for a team playing an FCS squad.
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Same problems from last week
Too many drops, too many penalties (especially on 3rd down).
And that unsportsmanlike conduct call on Burfict was bullcrap.
This is the kind of game that we would have lost with last years offense, and Danny Sullivan at QB…
Lifelong Arizona Cardinals/Chicago Bears fan [I have always lived in Arizona, dad is from Chicago].
I can't stand fair-weather/bandwagon fans, stick with your team, throughout the good and the bad. And don't switch to whichever team wins the Super Bowl each year.
…a FCS (why can’t I call it I-AA) school comes into your home field and limits you to under 50 yards rushing last night.
The rest of the problems (penalties, dropsies, lapses in judgment) can be worked out in practice, but if you don’t have the hogs up front making a trail for you it’s going to be a long season with Mazzone’s offense.
I can’t figure out if the coaching staff is recruiting duds, or if they can’t coach them up when they get on campus, but either way the way the trenches have suffered under HCDE is horrendous. Hopefully they can get it together or, if this choice is made, you can find a HC that knows where the games are won and lost at.
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
And the roses in this grand ol' stadium are once again Crimson. - Eli Gold, CTSN Broadcast of the BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl, 1-7-2010
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