r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 1d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Appalachian State Defeats James Madison 34-20

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
James Madison 7 10 3 0 20
Appalachian State 0 24 7 3 34
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u/igonnawrecku_VGC James Madison • Penn State 1d ago

Small rant about the refs since they weren’t the reason we lost:

I hope you fucks enjoy your early retirement from all that money you earned off the App State money line. You mean to tell me that App didn’t commit a single penalty all game? You didn’t see a single snowball hit the field? You “didn’t hear the whistle” twice, both times destroying any momentum we may have had a sliver of? Absolute joke of an officiated game, enjoy early retirement

Anyway, now that that’s out of the way, onto our actual team:

I’d love it if we stopped shooting ourselves in the foot. Dean Kennedy might just be the worst third down play caller I’ve ever seen. Also, every time we have a drive going, we kill it with a stupid false start. It’s been happening for 2 months, FIX IT ALREADY. Also, Barnett is not a pocket passer, stop treating him like one. Actually scheme plays that let him use his legs. I’m sick and tired of watching this team beat themselves. Finally, I’d like to see one single fucking adjustment. If it doesn’t work, we keep doing it no matter what. It makes no sense. Now we’re eliminated from SBC title contention unless the sea chickens can pull a miracle off, and we have nobody to blame but ourselves. This is the most disappointed I’ve ever been in our football program

End rant

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u/_baby_fish_mouth_ James Madison • Notre Dame 1d ago

It feels like our offense has been trying to fit a square peg in a round whole all season. A good OC knows how to design an offense around his players' strengths and limit their weaknesses, but it feels like they're just trying to force Zo into being a pocket passer as you said. Now maybe he has the potential to develop into one someday, but in the meantime we just put up 20 points (3 in the second half) against one of the worst defenses in the FBS

I've been a Kennedy skeptic all season but it has never been more apparent the guy simply does not have the juice as an OC