Saturday, September 09, 2006

Goals For Northwestern State

Here are three goals that we should have for Northwestern State:

1. Execute in the redzone.
It'd be great to get a bunch of long-yardage scores, but we need practice working in the redzone.

2. Dominate the lines.
On both offense and defense, we need to make sure that the lines are dominating. If not, then we are going to have concerns moving into the rest of our season.

3. Turnovers.
We must limit them on offense (i.e. NONE, please) and create them on defense. We should be able to get pressure with our front four, allowing our secondary and linebackers the freedom to make plays.

As much everyone is warning about not overlooking this team, I think everyone knows that we are going to win. This game isn't going to show that we have arrived the way that a win over TCU would have, but there IS an opportunity to continue to improve and to get our young players (of which there are many) some very important reps in this offense and defense.

Look for Mikhail Baker, Ernest Smith, Antonio Jones, Dwain Crawford and Jason Lamb to have big games against NSU.

Schedule Review: Baylor Men's Basketball

With the basketball schedule finally being released, it's time to get into reviewing our upcoming oppoents.

Here's the schedule:

Date Opponent Time
Nov. 4 TEXAS A&M-COMMERCE (exhibition) noon
Nov. 11 ANGELO STATE 7:00 p.m.
Nov. 14 # vs. Colorado State TBA
Nov. 15 # vs. Gonzaga / Rice TBD
Nov. 20 TEXAS SOUTHERN 7:00 p.m.
Nov. 22,24 ^ NIT Season Tip-Off TBD
Nov. 27 ALCORN STATE 7:00 p.m.
Nov. 29 GRAMBLING STATE 7:00 p.m.
Dec. 2 TEXAS STATE 3:00 p.m.
Dec. 9 SOUTH CAROLINA (FSNSW) 5:00 p.m.
Dec. 16 at Syracuse 6:00 p.m.
Dec. 22 PRAIRIE VIEW A&M 7:00 p.m.
Dec. 28 NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE 8:00 p.m.
Dec. 30 DELAWARE STATE 7:00 p.m.
Jan. 2 CENTENARY 7:00 p.m.
Jan. 6 • at Oklahoma State (ESPNU) TBA
Jan. 9 • TEXAS A&M (FSNSW) 7:00 p.m.
Jan. 13 • TEXAS TECH (ESPN Plus) 3:00 p.m.
Jan. 17 • at Kansas State (FSNMW) 7:00 p.m.
Jan. 20 • at Oklahoma (ESPN Plus) 3:00 p.m.
Jan. 24 • KANSAS (FSNSW) 7:00 p.m.
Jan. 27 • at Texas (ESPN2) 5:00 p.m.
Jan. 30 • COLORADO (FSNSW) 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 3 • at Iowa State (CTN) 5:00 p.m.
Feb. 10 • OKLAHOMA (ESPN Plus) 3:00 p.m.
Feb. 14 • at Missouri (FSNMW) 7:00 p.m.
Feb. 17 • TEXAS (FSNSW) 7:00 p.m.
Feb. 21 • NEBRASKA (FSNSW) 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 24 • at Texas A&M (ESPN Plus) 12:30 p.m.
Feb. 28 • at Texas Tech (TTTN) 7:00 p.m.
Mar. 3 • OKLAHOMA STATE (ESPN Plus) 12:30 p.m.
Mar. 8-11 * at Big 12 Championship TBD

Over the next few weeks, Baylor Sports Unlimited will give a quick preview for each of our upcoming opponents, and try to break down what the reasonable expectation for Baylor fans should be in this upcoming season.

Baylor Sports Unlimited replaces the Baylor Football Blog

With Baylor football getting revved up this year, the Men's Basketball schedule has been released and I feel that it is time to expand the coverage of Baylor sports to include more than just Football. I'll still be doing all my football coverage, but over the next few weeks, I'll be previewing each of the teams on our schedule.

I'll be moving all the Baylor football fan posts over to this blog as soon as possible, but until then, I will be updating this page with new content.