Army this year is 8-2. They have beaten Duke, shut out Air Force decisively, won in exciting and miraculous manners over solid Eastern Michigan and over a decent Temple team. They probably deserved to lose against Temple but when your blood is coarsing with the spirit that fueled the "embattled farmers who once stood and fired the shots heard round the world" shit is going to go your way on occasion. It is like what we used to say: "magic happens." I call it Manifest Destiny, or something like that!
It is hard to recruit to a Service Academy, given the various restrictions and expectations. So from that small slice of athletes you have 3 academies from which to choose. In 4 years Monken has taken Army's talent level to equality, IMO, with both Air Force and Navy. This is always difficult given that it is much more sexy to fly planes than pound the ground looking for gawdless militant insurgents to kill - but to do so in the wake of a long, unpopular and contracted ground war that disproportionately impacts US Army personnel is nothing short of amazing.
With wins against UNT and Navy (two straight against Brother Niamotololo!) Army could win the CIC Trophy and perhaps enter the Armed Forces Bowl ranked in the top 25. All that and they have not tried a pass in two games and failed to complete one in 3 others.
The Army Team is the Pride and Dream of every heart in gray...ON BRAVE OLD ARMY TEAM!
Seriously, Monken should be in consideration for NCOTY.
It is hard to recruit to a Service Academy, given the various restrictions and expectations. So from that small slice of athletes you have 3 academies from which to choose. In 4 years Monken has taken Army's talent level to equality, IMO, with both Air Force and Navy. This is always difficult given that it is much more sexy to fly planes than pound the ground looking for gawdless militant insurgents to kill - but to do so in the wake of a long, unpopular and contracted ground war that disproportionately impacts US Army personnel is nothing short of amazing.
With wins against UNT and Navy (two straight against Brother Niamotololo!) Army could win the CIC Trophy and perhaps enter the Armed Forces Bowl ranked in the top 25. All that and they have not tried a pass in two games and failed to complete one in 3 others.
The Army Team is the Pride and Dream of every heart in gray...ON BRAVE OLD ARMY TEAM!
Seriously, Monken should be in consideration for NCOTY.
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