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[Changes need to be made]

I keep seeing "VU isn't truly committed to football". Well its about time they start committing to football and start getting serious. Every team in the athletics at VU is pretty competitive and it looks like our women's basketball team will be pretty solid this year with a new coach. Then there's the football team.....getting blown out the majority of their games  Our basketball team is riding high right now, just playing on ESPN in the 24 Hour Tip-off Marathon while our football team is enjoying winning one game a year. Changes need to be made. I'm sorry but going 2-30 in three years (most likely 2-31 after Morehead State) is atrocious! I know we don't have the best talent, we are never going to have tons of talent but there is a enough talent to win 3 or 4 games a year and not get blown out pretty much every game. There is no progress what so ever, 2 wins in 3 years!? That's progress!? Please.

To say that Carlson's job isn't to win football games but rather to keep a full roster of football players that pay full tuition to go to Valpo maybe true, but to quote Herm Edwards...

"YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!"

That's a bad attitude to have as an athletic department and university if your main focus isn't to win in football since you are spending lots of money to fund the football program

Luckily men's basketball has their first exhibition game later on Saturday. Not a big embarrassment in this one but I'll be surprised if Valpo keeps it close.

Marist  35
Valpo  13

Well all I have to say is thank God basketball season is right around the corner 

Valpo   21
Dayton 31

I think Valpo will run the ball like they did against Drake in this one but we still have to cut down on stupid penalties and turnovers, which I think will ultimately hurt VU in this game. They keep it close however and show progress to perhaps winning 3 or 4 games this year but they have to keep it close. You can't compete and keep it close against Drake and get blown out by Dayton. If that happens, expect maybe a win against Campbell or Davidson.

[St. Joe - 35 for 129 yds]

Valpo ran the ball really well against Drake, they even ran the ball well against Butler. Here are the rushing stats for each game

St. Joe - 35 for 129 yds
YSU - 25 for 47 yds
Duq - 30 for 67 yds
SD - 17 for 34 yds
But - 40 for 112 yds
Dra - 41 for 162 yds

You see once Valpo has around 35 to 40 rushes a game, they get atleast 100 yards. We had to run the ball against Drake, because it was going to be hard to throw the ball around in that weather we had Saturday. It would be nice to see Valpo have more balance in the offense. Jake Hutson has been running the ball really well and hopefully Ali-El isn't hurt too much longer.

It was nice to be competitive against Drake, but that doesn't mean Valpo is going to turn things around just yet. They still need more consistency. They need to beat Dayton or atleast keep it close. If they get blown out, its back to square one.