Month: July 2022

Men’s basketball 2022-2023 home and road SEC opponents announced

Men’s basketball 2022-2023 home and road SEC opponents announced

The Aggies learned their 2022-2023 Southeast Conference home and road schedule earlier this week. Their home slate will consist of Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Missouri, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Their road schedule has the Aggies playing at Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi St., Missouri and South Carolina.

Game dates, tip-off times, and viewing information will be confirmed and released at a later date.

The Aggies’ non-conference schedule will be announced at a later date, as well, when opponents and game details are finalized.

The Aggies will look to improve in conference play in 2022-2023 as they finished 9-9 in regular-season conference contests last season – a 5-4 home record and a 4-5 record away from Reed Arena. Finding greater success in the 2021-2022 SEC Tournament, Coach Williams will look to get his guys off to a strong SEC-start this season as conference success is one of the clearest paths to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

Do Panthers repent QB mistakes, take Justin Fields in 2021 redraft?

If the Panthers were once again given the choice between QB Justin Fields and CB Jaycee Horn, would they make the same decision? Here’s what PFF thinks.

If the Carolina Panthers had . . . one shot, or one opportunity . . . to redo the 2021 NFL draft . . . and seize a quarterback . . . would they capture it . . . or just let it slip (again)?

Lose yourself a year back in time with Pro Football Focus lead NFL analyst Sam Monson and find out. Monson recently rewound on last spring’s draft—setting up a similar scenario for the passer-needy Panthers.

As Carolina’s No. 8 overall pick turned up, Ohio State University quarterback Justin Fields and University of South Carolina cornerback Jaycee Horn—like they actually did 14 months ago—remained on the board. But, knowing what we do now with the franchise even more desperate for an answer under center, does Monson forgo Horn and grab Fields?

Nope. Snap back to reality.

“The Panthers would have to give serious consideration to going offensive line here the way Miami did, with Creed Humphrey the best-graded center in the game as a rookie, but taking a center in the top-10 would be unprecedented in the modern era,” writes Monson, who later sends Fields to the Denver Broncos at No. 9. “Ultimately, they stick with their decision and re-draft Horn. Horn looked impressive right out of the gate, allowing just one catch in three games before he was lost for the season.”

Time will tell if Horn was the right pick for this team, especially given the fact that Fields wasn’t the only impressive rookie passer on the board. That doesn’t, however, make him a bad pick.

Horn, as Monson alludes to, flashed just about everything you’d want to see out of a future shutdown star in the limited time he had. We saw the eye-opening athleticism, we saw the swagger and we saw the results—and we’ll see plenty more in 2022.

What we have yet to see, though, is an effective plan from this organization for the most important position in the sport. And even though Fields didn’t exactly set the football world on fire in his opening campaign, at least in the box score, there’s plenty of promise to be tapped into moving forward.

Well, the beat goes on . . . da-da-dom, da-dom, dah-dah, dah-dah.

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