{"id":345,"date":"2004-11-13T00:27:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=345"},"modified":"2004-11-13T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2004-11-13T06:27:06","slug":"target-centermass-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Target Centermass, out …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Signing off for a bit. Heading back to the Motherland. Taking a brief pilgramage to Mecca. In other words, going to Aggieland.<\/p>\n

I’m going down to College Station with the girlfriend (a Red Raider) and a dear ol’ college chum for the A&M-Texas Tech game. Unfortunately, work and my dad’s funeral have wreaked havoc on plans, so it’s just a there-and-back-again, same-day jaunt. Otherwise, I would’ve tried to meet Phil from Shades of Gray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As to the game, I’m not hopeful for the Ags. They’re definitely showing improvement under Coach Franchione, but I don’t think they have the horses yet for a prepared gimmick offense like Tech’s. Tech is all about flooding the field with receivers, counting on quick slants and crossing patterns, wide receiver bubble screens and shovel-passes out of the backfield. To counter, the option is a strong secondary and\/or a quick pressure from the defensive front. I don’t think we yet have the talent or depth in the defensive backfield or the experience and consistency in our front four. My prediction: Tech 42, Aggies 31 (assuming Reggie McNeil is healthy; otherwise, Aggies 17).<\/p>\n

To counter my negativism, I must relate that last weekend I ran into a dude at Whataburger who claimed to have inside knowledge on the Ags’ football program. According to this random guy in far north Dallas, the Ags have a perfect defensive scheme planned. In case random guy is right, I’ll post a hedge prediction of A&M 38- Tech 28. I hope that random Whataburger guy is right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Signing off for a bit. Heading back to the Motherland. Taking a brief pilgramage to Mecca. In other words, going to Aggieland. I’m going down to College Station with the girlfriend (a Red Raider) and a dear ol’ college chum for the A&M-Texas Tech game. Unfortunately, work and my dad’s funeral have wreaked havoc on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}