Injured players status

The following left the Miami game due to injury:
1. Sconiers
2. Price
3. Dillard
4. Marcoux
5. Straight

Does anyone have information about the availability of these players for Saturday's game??

Jihadists at K...ent???

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/28/profe...test=latestnews

Althletic subsidy

http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index...pend_on_st.html

One reason....

3. Somebody should be watching Mario Cristobal: It was a nice little story last week when Florida International went on the road and beat Louisville 24-17. It was the first win ever against a team from an AQ conference for FIU. Now the Golden Panthers have stepped out there and done something serious.

They beat UCF, the defending Conference USA champion, 17-10 on Saturday before the largest crowd in school history (20,205). And FIU basically did it without all-world receiver T.Y. Hilton, who left the game after three catches with a hamstring issue.

The Panthers shared the Sun Belt title with Troy last season after starting 0-4. This season they are off to the best start in school history. Look at the schedule. Yes, FIU could win them all.

"When you have a victory like this the eyes continue to open and open wide," said Cristobal, in his fifth season as a head coach, who said that FIU is "a program on the rise." He just signed a new five-year deal this summer.

http://www.cbssports.com/#!/collegefoo...-fius-on-a-roll



Head coaching recordYear Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP°
Florida International University (Sun Belt Conference) (2007–present)
2007 FIU 1–11 1–6 T–7th
2008 FIU 5–7 3–4 T–5th
2009 FIU 3–9 3–5 T–6th
2010 FIU 7–6 6–2 T–1st W Little Caesars Pizza
2011 FIU 2–0 1–0
FIU: 18–33 14–17
Total: 18–33

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Cristobal

His resume prior to his recent success in not that impressive.

I think we need to give the team and current coach to the end of the year before making any coaching change decisions. (although 0-4 would be unacceptable here)

Team travel safety

I often am amazed that there are not more fatal accidents involving sports teams. Only Marshall. Today...a Russian plane crashes with 45 on board and all but 2 are killed. It was one of Russia's best teams (or so the preliminary report says).

My question goes out to the former athletes on the board who have traveled for games. Was most of the travel by bus??? Have you heard of any close calls and did you worry about flight/travel safety.

It really is amazing that travel has been so incident free. Is that due to something the schools/teams do or is it just lack of reporting and there are many issues that we are unaware of??


http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/07....html?hpt=hp_t1


I know this may be a hockey story...but all teams travel.