NAU - ASU Football game - August 31st
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It was the right call. You can see it on the replay.Dback Jon said:
This really has sucked so far, it's embarrasing. Hopefully the Devils will pick it up in the 2nd half. I'm very impressed with the d-line so far, even without Howard and that other transfer healthy they done well. Too bad the rest of the D hasn't... Nice TD's by Torain and DeWitty.
Embarassing to be tied with a pathetic school like NAU. This is bad.
Sad...very sad, our secondary has to be the worst in the NCAA
howlincoyote2k1
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Chris Baloney with a 32 yd INT return for a TD. ASU up 21-14.
Finally, we catch a break.
Finally, we catch a break.
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Still pretty bad to only be beating nau by 7 we need to be destroying this team...
Yeah, I hope this isn't an indication of what this season will be like....
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What a run by Keegan Herring. He made a TD out of what looked like he was going absolutely nowhere.
Time to turn on the speedburners.
Time to turn on the speedburners.
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Yeah that was a Reggie Bush type of run really impressive good to be ahead by tds lets get one more and beat them by 21...
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Dimitri Nance with a rushing TD. An impressive drive, this guy had. 35-14 ASU now.
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Well, we were close for most of the game.
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NAU just wore down. No depth. They acquitted themselves well though.Dback Jon said:
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You play an entire game in not-so-good conditions against a bigger, stronger, and faster team you're going to wear down physically which is just what we saw. Reminded me of the NAU-Arizona game in 2004.
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That is one of the major differences that 22 extra scholarships make.
Still, a good game for the Jacks
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No. 24 Arizona State needs late rally to deny N. Arizona
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- Northern Arizona gave Arizona State a bit of a scare for three quarters.
The 24th-ranked Sun Devils ended any ideas of an upset with an offensive surge in the last 15 minutes.
Rudy Carpenter threw for 261 yards and two touchdowns, and the Sun Devils rallied past Division I-AA Northern Arizona 35-14 on Thursday night in the season opener for both teams.
"We wanted to get a win, and we got a win," Sun Devils coach Dirk Koetter said. "You can't have it exactly how we want it."
Chris Baloney's 35-yard interception return on the first play of the fourth quarter finally gave Arizona State its first lead at 21-14.
"I was excited," Baloney said. "I didn't know what to do. First interception in D-I and took it the house. I was so excited, my son was in the stands -- I was overwhelmed."
Keegan Herring added a 15-yard touchdown run with 11:58 left, and Dmitri Nance ran in from 6 yards to cap a late 91-yard drive that put the Sun Devils in control.
"NAU has a different style of defense that we never really see," Carpenter said. "They got three safeties, I would say they do whatever they want. It was really confusing to us. We didn't know who to block, who to throw to."
Carpenter was 17-of-24 with one interception, and Arizona State's defense sacked Jason Murrietta nine times, including three by Derron Ware.
"It was very important to set the tone," said Ware, who had eight tackles. "(Defensive coordinator) Bill Miller said before we walked out, 'We might be up first and we need to set the tone of the game.'
"We had a lot of blitz calls where I could get a free rush. I could just use my speed to get past them to try and get some sacks."
Murrietta completed 15 of 20 passes for 259 yards and two long scores, keeping the Lumberjacks tied through three quarters.
"We played well through the third quarter," Murrietta said. "However, our numbers got to us. I think if we played again we would win."
Baloney opened the final quarter by stepping in front of intended receiver Kenny Mahone and ran untouched for the score. On Arizona State's next possession, Herring took a handoff right, found no room and reversed field, went back behind the 25 and found the left corner to cap a three-play drive.
"I credit Arizona State," Lumberjacks coach Jerome Souers said. "They made plays that wore us down at the end and that became obvious. Some of the big plays that we were able to generate, we weren't able to do them consistently enough."
The Lumberjacks held off the Sun Devils in the second half by intercepting a tipped pass by Carpenter in the end zone and then stopping Arizona State at the Northern Arizona 1 on fourth-and-goal with 8:07 left in the first quarter.
Northern Arizona scored twice in the first half on big plays. Murrietta hit Alex Watson with touchdown passes of 80 and 60 yards to give the Lumberjacks the lead both times. Watson caught 11 passes for 206 yards.
Murrietta scrambled and almost was sacked by Kellen Mills before getting the ball to Watson behind Sun Devils safety Zach Catanese with 5:44 left in the first quarter to give Northern Arizona a 7-0 lead.
Arizona State answered with a seven-play, 56-yard drive, capped by Carpenter's 13-yard to Shaun DeWitty with 13:36 left in the half.
But Murrietta and Watson hooked up again with 6:13 left on a screen to the right that put the Lumberjacks back up 14-7.
The Sun Devils took advantage of a 12-yard punt by Rhian Madrid that gave Arizona State the ball at the Sun Devils 40 with 1:52 to go until the break. Carpenter hit DeWitty on a quick 21-yard out, and connected with Ryan Torain one play later on a screen as Torain outran the defense for a 39-yard score to tie it at 14.
"We had a great chance to get off to a super start and we throw an interception in the red zone on the first drive, and then we get four chances inside the 5-yard-line and can't punch it in on the second drive," Koetter said. "So we have no one to blame but ourselves."
Carpenter, a sophomore who played half a season last year after an injury to starter Sam Keller, was named the starter on Aug. 20, two days after Koetter said Keller, a senior, would start.
Keller subsequently quit the team and transferred to Nebraska.
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- Northern Arizona gave Arizona State a bit of a scare for three quarters.
The 24th-ranked Sun Devils ended any ideas of an upset with an offensive surge in the last 15 minutes.
Rudy Carpenter threw for 261 yards and two touchdowns, and the Sun Devils rallied past Division I-AA Northern Arizona 35-14 on Thursday night in the season opener for both teams.
"We wanted to get a win, and we got a win," Sun Devils coach Dirk Koetter said. "You can't have it exactly how we want it."
Chris Baloney's 35-yard interception return on the first play of the fourth quarter finally gave Arizona State its first lead at 21-14.
"I was excited," Baloney said. "I didn't know what to do. First interception in D-I and took it the house. I was so excited, my son was in the stands -- I was overwhelmed."
Keegan Herring added a 15-yard touchdown run with 11:58 left, and Dmitri Nance ran in from 6 yards to cap a late 91-yard drive that put the Sun Devils in control.
"NAU has a different style of defense that we never really see," Carpenter said. "They got three safeties, I would say they do whatever they want. It was really confusing to us. We didn't know who to block, who to throw to."
Carpenter was 17-of-24 with one interception, and Arizona State's defense sacked Jason Murrietta nine times, including three by Derron Ware.
"It was very important to set the tone," said Ware, who had eight tackles. "(Defensive coordinator) Bill Miller said before we walked out, 'We might be up first and we need to set the tone of the game.'
"We had a lot of blitz calls where I could get a free rush. I could just use my speed to get past them to try and get some sacks."
Murrietta completed 15 of 20 passes for 259 yards and two long scores, keeping the Lumberjacks tied through three quarters.
"We played well through the third quarter," Murrietta said. "However, our numbers got to us. I think if we played again we would win."
Baloney opened the final quarter by stepping in front of intended receiver Kenny Mahone and ran untouched for the score. On Arizona State's next possession, Herring took a handoff right, found no room and reversed field, went back behind the 25 and found the left corner to cap a three-play drive.
"I credit Arizona State," Lumberjacks coach Jerome Souers said. "They made plays that wore us down at the end and that became obvious. Some of the big plays that we were able to generate, we weren't able to do them consistently enough."
The Lumberjacks held off the Sun Devils in the second half by intercepting a tipped pass by Carpenter in the end zone and then stopping Arizona State at the Northern Arizona 1 on fourth-and-goal with 8:07 left in the first quarter.
Northern Arizona scored twice in the first half on big plays. Murrietta hit Alex Watson with touchdown passes of 80 and 60 yards to give the Lumberjacks the lead both times. Watson caught 11 passes for 206 yards.
Murrietta scrambled and almost was sacked by Kellen Mills before getting the ball to Watson behind Sun Devils safety Zach Catanese with 5:44 left in the first quarter to give Northern Arizona a 7-0 lead.
Arizona State answered with a seven-play, 56-yard drive, capped by Carpenter's 13-yard to Shaun DeWitty with 13:36 left in the half.
But Murrietta and Watson hooked up again with 6:13 left on a screen to the right that put the Lumberjacks back up 14-7.
The Sun Devils took advantage of a 12-yard punt by Rhian Madrid that gave Arizona State the ball at the Sun Devils 40 with 1:52 to go until the break. Carpenter hit DeWitty on a quick 21-yard out, and connected with Ryan Torain one play later on a screen as Torain outran the defense for a 39-yard score to tie it at 14.
"We had a great chance to get off to a super start and we throw an interception in the red zone on the first drive, and then we get four chances inside the 5-yard-line and can't punch it in on the second drive," Koetter said. "So we have no one to blame but ourselves."
Carpenter, a sophomore who played half a season last year after an injury to starter Sam Keller, was named the starter on Aug. 20, two days after Koetter said Keller, a senior, would start.
Keller subsequently quit the team and transferred to Nebraska.
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TEMPE: The last time NAU and ASU played, the Lumberjacks felt they were in the game until the fourth quarter -- no matter what the scoreboard may have said.
Thursday night there was little doubt NAU was in the game, but the final 15 minutes proved to be the difference as the Lumberjacks fell 35-14 to the heavily-favored Sun Devils in both teams' season opener.
Jason Murrietta, who was 15-of-20 for 259 yards and two touchdowns despite being under heavy duress all game, was intercepted by Chris Baloney on the first play of the fourth quarter. Baloney returned it 35 yards for the Sun Devils' first lead of the game, 21-14. ASU, ranked No. 24 in Division I-A, scored on its next two drives against a tired and depleted defense that had rose to occasion to that point.
"I'm proud of the character our football team showed," NAU head coach Jerome Souers said. "We lost the game, and as difficult as that is, I'm very proud of how much we've improved from a year ago."
Like three years ago, an interception for touchdown proved to be the play that swung the momentum in ASU's favor. R.J. Oliver returned a Murrietta pass 100 yards on the first play of the second quarter in 2003 and the Sun Devils went on to win 34-14.
Thursday's momentum-changer, however, could have gone the other way as both Murrietta and Souers thought ASU was offside and that it was a free play.
Murrietta, who eclipsed 200 yards passing for the second straight game against his hometown team, took numerous big hits, including a nasty-looking facemask as ASU recorded nine sacks and 13 tackles for a loss.
"I like getting hit -- it tells me I'm alive," Murrietta said.
Alex Watson had the third-most prolific game in school history with 11 catches for 206 yards. He had touchdown catches of 80 and 60 yards.
The Lumberjacks' new no-huddle offense amassed 312 yards and was dead-even with ASU in total yards at the 11:58 mark of the fourth. But it was evident a few kinks still need to be worked out. NAU was called for delay of game twice and had to use four timeouts because players were not lined up correctly.
All that, and a miscommunication that led to a fake punt on 4th-and-27 on their own 3 yard line, put an even bigger onus on the defense, which had three starters leave the game with injuries.
"We were flying around and getting to the ball," said safety Adam Wright, who had an interception to end ASU's opening drive and later had a key sack.
NAU held quarterback Rudy Carpenter and the potent Sun Devils offense to 261 passing yards. But its early run defense may have kept the Lumberjacks in the game.
After the fake punt gained just a yard, NAU stuffed four rush attempts, with senior Chris Hunsaker breaking through the line on fourth down to take down Shaun DeWitty for a loss.
"That was a big confidence boost for us," Hunsaker said of the goal line stand. "This whole game was a big confidence booster. Now, we just have to improve on a few things and carry it over to next week."
Thursday night there was little doubt NAU was in the game, but the final 15 minutes proved to be the difference as the Lumberjacks fell 35-14 to the heavily-favored Sun Devils in both teams' season opener.
Jason Murrietta, who was 15-of-20 for 259 yards and two touchdowns despite being under heavy duress all game, was intercepted by Chris Baloney on the first play of the fourth quarter. Baloney returned it 35 yards for the Sun Devils' first lead of the game, 21-14. ASU, ranked No. 24 in Division I-A, scored on its next two drives against a tired and depleted defense that had rose to occasion to that point.
"I'm proud of the character our football team showed," NAU head coach Jerome Souers said. "We lost the game, and as difficult as that is, I'm very proud of how much we've improved from a year ago."
Like three years ago, an interception for touchdown proved to be the play that swung the momentum in ASU's favor. R.J. Oliver returned a Murrietta pass 100 yards on the first play of the second quarter in 2003 and the Sun Devils went on to win 34-14.
Thursday's momentum-changer, however, could have gone the other way as both Murrietta and Souers thought ASU was offside and that it was a free play.
Murrietta, who eclipsed 200 yards passing for the second straight game against his hometown team, took numerous big hits, including a nasty-looking facemask as ASU recorded nine sacks and 13 tackles for a loss.
"I like getting hit -- it tells me I'm alive," Murrietta said.
Alex Watson had the third-most prolific game in school history with 11 catches for 206 yards. He had touchdown catches of 80 and 60 yards.
The Lumberjacks' new no-huddle offense amassed 312 yards and was dead-even with ASU in total yards at the 11:58 mark of the fourth. But it was evident a few kinks still need to be worked out. NAU was called for delay of game twice and had to use four timeouts because players were not lined up correctly.
All that, and a miscommunication that led to a fake punt on 4th-and-27 on their own 3 yard line, put an even bigger onus on the defense, which had three starters leave the game with injuries.
"We were flying around and getting to the ball," said safety Adam Wright, who had an interception to end ASU's opening drive and later had a key sack.
NAU held quarterback Rudy Carpenter and the potent Sun Devils offense to 261 passing yards. But its early run defense may have kept the Lumberjacks in the game.
After the fake punt gained just a yard, NAU stuffed four rush attempts, with senior Chris Hunsaker breaking through the line on fourth down to take down Shaun DeWitty for a loss.
"That was a big confidence boost for us," Hunsaker said of the goal line stand. "This whole game was a big confidence booster. Now, we just have to improve on a few things and carry it over to next week."
Is it basketball season yet?
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krepitch said:
Does ASU really want to ask that question?
Just like UofA and football season.
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Not this year!
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Well, there was a bit of truth in my question. I was, um, less than impressed with the performance on Thursday.
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From Stewart Mandel per CNNSI.com -
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_blogs/football/ncaa/
∙ With the whirlwind of criticism surrounding Arizona State coach Dirk Koetter the past couple weeks, his team opened its season in about the worst way imaginable Thursday night, struggling for three quarters with I-AA Northern Arizona (the game was tied 14-14 going into the fourth) before winning 35-14. QB Rudy Carpenter was unimpressive, the running game non-existent and the defense allowed two long touchdown passes. Most incriminating, however, was this quote afterward from Carpenter:
“NAU has a different style of defense that we never really see," Carpenter said. "… It was really confusing to us. We didn't know who to block, who to throw to." Jeez. You only had eight months to prepare for it.
uhh.....can you say 7 and 5 Devil fans....?
I'm not going to make a complete judgement until the next couple games because even the best teams can look bad in there first game of the year. But as Mandel points out - this couldn't have started out much worse for Dirk......
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_blogs/football/ncaa/
∙ With the whirlwind of criticism surrounding Arizona State coach Dirk Koetter the past couple weeks, his team opened its season in about the worst way imaginable Thursday night, struggling for three quarters with I-AA Northern Arizona (the game was tied 14-14 going into the fourth) before winning 35-14. QB Rudy Carpenter was unimpressive, the running game non-existent and the defense allowed two long touchdown passes. Most incriminating, however, was this quote afterward from Carpenter:
“NAU has a different style of defense that we never really see," Carpenter said. "… It was really confusing to us. We didn't know who to block, who to throw to." Jeez. You only had eight months to prepare for it.
uhh.....can you say 7 and 5 Devil fans....?
I'm not going to make a complete judgement until the next couple games because even the best teams can look bad in there first game of the year. But as Mandel points out - this couldn't have started out much worse for Dirk......
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Card Trader said:Yeah, I'm sure
Haha - we will see. If we look as bad tonight against BYU as you did against NAU i will be back tomorrow morning eating crow. I wouldn't count on it though....Looks like the surpassing of ASU football is going to come a year earlier than i thought....
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