Gameday: Louisiana Monroe

Kick-off against Lousiana Monroe is in a couple of hours, and it's time for Aggies to make a statement today. Playing at Kyle Field against a ULM team that got routed by both Tulsa and Clemson, Texas A&M needs to erase all the doubts that arose from the nail-biter against Fresno State a week ago. Ideally the box score should look something like this:

Texas A&M 56, ULM 0
Aggie passing yards: 350, ULM passing yards: 23
Aggie rushing yards: 323, ULM rushing yards: 56

But, since this year's Aggie squad has been unable to display any sense of (a) a passing game or (b) defense, and since Coach Franchione has openly admitted that he can't figure out what's wrong with the passing game (I'll take a guess--maybe untalented receivers, weak pass protection by supposedy one of the best O-lines in the conference, and lack of imagination in the play-calling?) a more realistic box score will read something like this:

Texas A&M 31, ULM 17
Aggie passing yards: 212, ULM passing yards: 144
Aggie rushing yards: 278, ULM rushing yards: 156
Stupid Aggie penalties: 6
Dropped balls by Aggie receivers: 4
Wide open catches by ULM receivers: 5

I'm already starting to get pissed off reading my own prediction of the outcome. We need to badly pound the crap out of ULM before the Miami game. We then need to kick Miami's ass on their own home turf so that the biggest story of the week about A&M isn't that Reveille was taken to the time-out corner because she snapped at some cadet--I mean, what the hell was that? The J-Train punishes the Fresno State defense in 90 degree weather when they're putting 8-9 men in the box, and the press decides that the mascot quarantine was the big news. Crap like that drives me nuts.