Get to know your “Dins”
In come the Furman Paladins, or “Dins” as they are affectionately called by their fans on their message boards. Funny story about the Paladins that I say is true as I am telling it and it is coincidentally funny. Furman College originally had the Christian Knight as it’s mascot. The change in mascots came when they obtained enough colleges to become a university and it was realized that the Furman University Christian Knights, or F.U.C.K., just wouldn’t stick with the religious and righteous tone they were going for, hence the Paladin was adopted.
Aaaaaanyway, here is your “get to know the ‘dins” for this week. Furmans own fans are looking for this to be a blowout, much opposed to the decision of LoMo to not go App State on the Tigers last week. I have seen ranges from 70-3 to 35-21, either way they have accepted defeat. From the numbers the ‘dins are scoring just slightly more than they are allowing with a 28.5 and 24 ppg respectively. They are an aerial assault team with over 570 yards through the air to the tune of a 72.5% completion percentage on 34 attempts per game and 6 TD’s and 2 INT’s. The longball was for 42 yards and the O-line has allowed 3 sacks so far this season. The rushing game pans out as follows: 81 rushes for 276 yards or an average of 3.4 yards per carry. 1 TD has been scored on the ground and their longest rush was for 25 yards.
Defensively the numbers are a bit more lopsided and favor the Tigers to set another passing record if they hold true. Furman has allowed 593 yards through the air in comparison to 152 on the ground. Oddly enough, 4 TD’s have been by land and 1 by air. The ‘dins have picked off 2 passes but have not sacked a QB to date this season.
Special teams aren’t anything serious to look at, a 37 yard punt average and 12 and 18 yard return averages on the punt and kick respectively.
All in all look for the Tigers to get some more experience with Korn and Harper to possibly break his own records depending on what the game plan is for the day. This should be a scrimmage for the Tigers and they should be able to use it as an opportunity to practice the basics as well as get the 2′s and 3′s more experience as well as an opportunity to redeem themselves from the poor performance that they had against LoMo last week.
Depending on the offensive plan, I see Clemson by 40 easy. Clemson 56 Furman 13
I’m thinking more like 31-21 myself. Unless our D wakes the heck up.
We hang 35 on them first half and cruise from there. 48-10 Final, they score the touchdown late slinging it around. Our D or Special Teams get a TD this week. As a freind says, “Put it on the fridge.”