MTSU Roster Review

Posted on: October 18, 2016 at 20:35:42 CT

In no particular order:

Look out for Number 4, I'Tavius Mathers, Senior transfer from Ole Miss, he's their 'Alex Ross', sorry to mention it but yes he was a 4 star recruit out of high school.

Look out for Number 3, Richie James, prolific receiver

Yes, starting QB red-shirt sophomore Brent Stockstill is head coach Rick Stockstill's son. Apparently the ole ball coach (well, not THE ole ball coach) played QB for Bobby Bowden at Florida State back in the day. [Stockstill strikes me as an interesting name for a QB, perhaps standing so still in the backfield the defense does not notice you?]

Apparently MTSU recruiters sent out a call for all with the name 'Ty'. We have:

94 DE Tyshun Render
92 DT Ty Nix
54 OL Ty Watkins
42 WR Ty Clemons
34 RB Tyshawn Brown
24 WR Ty Lee

of these watch out for Ty Lee, he's the starting 'Y' receiver (naturally) and also may appear as a punt returner. (Also his name reminds me of the arch nemesis in Kung Fu Panda, Tai Lung, who was a real badass: let's just hope Josh Augusta is the dragon warrior.)

Starting linebacker DJ Sanders is from Sandersville, GA, so yes, I guess they did name the city after him.

Do you recognize true freshman cornerback 17 Kylan Stribling from Thompson's Station, TN? You should, but I won't tell you why.

And watch out for true sophomore LG 73 Chandler Brewer, at 6'6" 319 he's hard to miss: started his entire freshman year as well apparently. Hopefully he's not Chester's great, great, great, great nephew or something...

Speaking of the line, this is not your father's cupcake line, weighing in left to right 323, 308, 304, 319 & 315. Of course we're hoping they're pigeon-toed, slew-footed and cross-eyed as well. We'll take whatever we can get...

Moving on to special teams we find Canon Rooker. Yeah the KO,PK is literally named 'Canon'. How does this stuff happen? 'Ma, look at the leg on that infant: he's a natural born kicker! We gotta call him Canon...'

Moving on to defense, we've heard how poor (or porous) this defense apparently is, but the line looks fairly prototypical: 319 & 330 DTs, 6-3 268, 6-4 259 bookend DEs. All seniors too, so I guess they're going to be as good as they ever will be: we'll hope that's not very good.

Linebackers also have the right numbers: 6-2 231, 6-2 225 & 6-0 225 (Sanders from Sandersville).

And finally the secondary. I'm looking for a dropoff here somewhere, I really am, but the corners are 6-2 & 5-10 (206), Safeties 6-0 191 & 6-2 170. Hopefully they are slow and/or don't tackle well.

And one more name thing:

44 RB J'Vonte Herrod
7 SS Jovante Moffatt
18 WR Jevontey Smith

Yes, those first names are all pronounced 'Juh-Von-Tay' which prompts me to say, it's not the Jimmies and Joes that matter, it's the Juh-Von-Tays, though the only one you're likely to see come game time is starting strong safety, number 7 Jovante Moffatt.

Another thing that strikes me about this team is that most players hail from GA, FL, TN, MS, SC & AL. In short, this roster looks very SEC...Not a single guy from Maine, can you believe it?

Well I won't lie, I went into this review hoping for Delaware State and came out screaming like Chris Farley: 'So you want to be a big-time football team is that right? Well, you'll probably find, as you go out there, that you won't amount to JACK SQUAT!!!1!!! and you'll end up living in a van down by the river!'

Really, probably, actually, we're going to have to play these guys straight up, they look like they're for real...

Edited by RayKinsella1922 at 20:58:10 on 10/18/16