Clawson Presser: Racer Talk

So, Coach Clawson had his weekly presser yesterday.  There was not a ton of news.  He reiterated most of what he said before about the Indiana game...except to admit that we did play well on special teams (he must be a reader, HA HA).  The most interesting part of the conversation is about Murray State.  The FCS has been knocking off the FBS all over the place.  The MAC has one FCS loss already...Buffalo needed 5 OT to beat Stony Brooke and there have been a bunch of close games.  In fact, only one MAC team has beaten an FCS team by more than 14 points and there have been 8 played.  In other years, it was pretty common.

All this to say that even if this was supposed to be a guaranteed win, it won't be that easy.

The hard thing to figure out is how they ended up being picked up in the bottom half of the OVC.  Falcon Fodder talked to the Racer 'Riter and he said that the OVC is deep...and their QB, who transferred from Ole Miss, did not arrive until the start of camp.

That was the other thing that Coach mentioned.  Murray State has a number of transfers from AQ conferences...guys Clawson said he would have been interested in.  We're talking Arkansas, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Ohio State, etc.  Also, there are a number of JUCO transfers.

Peruse the following graphic.

The orange dots are JUCO transfers and the blue dots are FBS transfers.  Pretty interesting.  They are mostly on defense...which was abysmal last year.

Finally, Walter Powell, their WR is really good, in Clawson's opinion.  Says he is an NFL talent.

Just sayin'.  This might be tougher than it looked on the schedule.