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WYO @ USU

Get to watch Wyoming for the first time tonight. Their RB, Brian Hill (I think thats his name), is actually pretty good and some MWC fans say he's the best all around back in the MWC, HA!. Anyways, I'm glad our game against them is after a bye. A team with that record is hard to get motivating for and I wouldn't want that dragged into trap game territory.
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Max Smith

When I asked Rocky if Maxwell Smith had applied for a medical hardship waiver for a sixth year prior to the season, he basically said Maxwell never brought it up and nobody on the staff discussed it.

"We haven't even discussed that and I haven't even thought about it," Long said at that time. "He's a fifth year guy. You'd have to apply for a sixth year and I don't know if he's done enough to get it, or if he even wants to do it. We haven't talked to him about it."

I asked him about it today, and while he said Maxwell still hasn't brought up the possibility, he certainly seemed a little more thoughtful of the idea. It will just depend on Maxwell.

"I guess he could apply for a sixth year if he wanted to," Long said. "I don't think we've asked him yet. I have no idea if he wants to or not. Six years is a long time unless you think you're an NFL guy and that's your last chance to make an impression for the NFL. But six years is a long time to play football in college."

Sounds like the option is now there if Maxwell wants it.

Side note: Rocky joked that Maxwell is the oldest player on the team but would be average age on Utah State's team.
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Your "Not So Early Anymore" Projected Starting Five

Mine:

1. Jeremy Hemsley
2. Trey Kell
3. Malik Pope
4. Winston Shepard
5. Skylar Spencer

Reserve:
1. D'Erryl Williams
2. Dakari Allen
3.
4. Zylan Cheatham
5. Angelo Chol

The numbers above don't really mean much, as most of the positions (especially 2-4) are all interchangeable to some extent.

Man...we sure could have used Shrigs this season. One of our walk-on's is going to get some serious playing time. Parker U'u has a season in Coach Fisher's system in his belt, but I really like Ben Perez to make a case for some playing time as well.

So what do we think Aztec fans?

Interested to see what thoughts are after the beat down we put on Utah St? Hard to believe this is the same team that lost to So. Alabama. Boys were jacked up last night and the fact that everyone in the stadium knew we were gonna run until they stopped us even made it more impressive. Exploiting a #6 run defense like that was pretty awesome! Let's see if our boys can keep it up down the stretch??

Injury updates

Marcus Stamps (knee) has a strained ligament but there's no structural damage. Stamps felt stiff and sore on Saturday but should be OK with rest.

Jordan Watson suffered a mild high ankle sprain.

Rocky said that, since he knows both of them well, he expects Stamps to play and Watson to take some time off. Seemed like kind of a dig at Watson.

Trey Lomax

When Trey Lomax (dislocated knee cap) went down in the season-opener, he was expected to miss 4-6 weeks. As of now, it's looking like it will take the full six weeks. He probably won't be available to return until the San Jose State game from the sound of it.

Should we recruit and offer schollies to Fullbacks?

Let's face it, we got pretty lucky with Chad Young and he probably helped in us getting Dakota Gordon, but what do you think of us recruiting the best fullbacks in the country and offering them out of HS? We may be one of the only schools to do that, and we could get a big, P5 quality guy in our program for 4-5 years. Offering a HS fullback every other year or so wouldn't really effect our schollies too much, and we could continue our dominance in that position. I don't like just hoping to find another JC guy or hoping Bawden/Seau are the answer.
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