Archive for November, 2007

This was the season that everything was supposed to come together for the Arkansas State football team. In his fifth year, Steve Roberts was fielding a team featuring 18 seniors that he and his staff had recruited. The foundation of the staff had remained in place since coming to ASU with very few changes. The team would be featuring what was arguably the best defense at the school in over 20 years.
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With the Mean Green of North Texas up by three with just :14 left in the game, you had to ask yourself just how is Arkansas State going to finish their last game as the Indians at home. Just :12 later, you had your answer. On a drive that started at the Arkansas State 20 yard line, the Indians of Arkansas State began their march to the end zone. Converting two third-downs while going 51 yards to the North Texas 29, Sophomore quarterback Corey Leonard spiked the ball with :14 on the game clock. “I thought we did a good job on that last drive, I called Corey over and told him he’s got two options, throw the ball out-of-bounds or in the endzone and that’s the only two things he could do and make sure it didn’t take 14 seconds to get that done and he used 12 of them” said Arkansas State head coach Steve Roberts. Read the rest of this entry »

It certainly didn’t feel like ASU out-gained FIU by more than 100 yards. It also didn’t feel like Reggie Arnold had 120 yards rushing.

The Indian offense moved the ball rather effectively at times but coming up with points was a huge battle for the Tribe.

What seemed more noticeable was that FIU got its 3rd and 4th leads of the entire season on ASU.

Even more noticeable was that Darren Toney provided some huge plays that helped rally ASU to the win. His interception return for a TD and key kick returns provided the spark that got ASU over the hump and into the victory column.