ckparrothead
Premium Member
Slimm has mentioned this already but Drew Anderson has really hit his stride with Murray State. We have been talking about him for a long time now. His team scored another 34 points today in a clobbering of Eastern Kentucky, who had entered the game 3-3.
Murray State has now scored 172 points in the last 4 games, won all 4 games, and are 4-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Over the stretch, Drew Anderson is 95 of 149 for 1,159 yards, 11 TDs and 3 INTs, with 4 sacks. He's added 27 runs for 186 yards and 3 more TDs on the ground.
The Racers are on top of a conference they haven't won since 2002. That was the last time they went to the playoffs, as well. They lost in the 1st round.
They have a shot of winning 6 to 8 games this year, depending on the outcome of tough upcoming games against Jacksonville State and SE Missouri State. They haven't won 7 games since 2011. They haven't won 8 games since Houston Nutt was coaching them in 1996.
Last year they won 3 games. They have a 0.333 record over the last 5 years before Anderson got there. He's 0.571 right now with a shot at being anywhere from 0.545 to 0.727, pending playoff action.
This is exactly what he needed to do to stay on radar. He's ended up in a bad situation IMO, because with only one year of eligibility his options for transfer were quite slim, and so he ended up on a bad football team. For three games, they continued to be bad, and he was bad with them (51 of 98 for 477 yards, 1 TD, 3 INTs, 3 sacks, 8 runs for 12 yards and no TDs).
But as a late transfer, it was always going to be a while before he could really establish himself and help them to BUILD an offense...and that's what they're doing. A year ago they scored just 21 points per game. The last four games they've scored 43 points per game.
Murray State has now scored 172 points in the last 4 games, won all 4 games, and are 4-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Over the stretch, Drew Anderson is 95 of 149 for 1,159 yards, 11 TDs and 3 INTs, with 4 sacks. He's added 27 runs for 186 yards and 3 more TDs on the ground.
The Racers are on top of a conference they haven't won since 2002. That was the last time they went to the playoffs, as well. They lost in the 1st round.
They have a shot of winning 6 to 8 games this year, depending on the outcome of tough upcoming games against Jacksonville State and SE Missouri State. They haven't won 7 games since 2011. They haven't won 8 games since Houston Nutt was coaching them in 1996.
Last year they won 3 games. They have a 0.333 record over the last 5 years before Anderson got there. He's 0.571 right now with a shot at being anywhere from 0.545 to 0.727, pending playoff action.
This is exactly what he needed to do to stay on radar. He's ended up in a bad situation IMO, because with only one year of eligibility his options for transfer were quite slim, and so he ended up on a bad football team. For three games, they continued to be bad, and he was bad with them (51 of 98 for 477 yards, 1 TD, 3 INTs, 3 sacks, 8 runs for 12 yards and no TDs).
But as a late transfer, it was always going to be a while before he could really establish himself and help them to BUILD an offense...and that's what they're doing. A year ago they scored just 21 points per game. The last four games they've scored 43 points per game.