CSUN HOPES TO END DAVIS JINX : UC DAVIS (0-0) AT CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE (0-1).Byline: Kevin Acee Daily News Staff Writer Shut up. That's what it is time for the Cal State Northridge football team to do - shut up and put up. The players know it. The coach isn't saying it. But he knows it, too. It is time to stop complimenting UC Davis and just win. The opening-week loss at Utah State was expected. Tonight, at 6:05, the Matadors have their real coming out. Against Davis. In Northridge. Since moving to Division I in 1993, Northridge is 1-2 against the Division II Aggies. In the past 10 years, Davis has beaten the Matadors seven times. Overall, Davis leads the series 13-5. ``These guys are no pushovers,'' Northridge coach Dave Baldwin Dave Baldwin was the head football coach of San Jose State University from 1997-2000. During his tenure, he had three straight wins over Stanford (including their rosebowl season of 1999). In 1997, SJSU upset No. said this week. So Davis is a good Division II team. The losing to Division II teams must end, especially the losing to a non-scholarship Division II team. Especially now. Upsets happen, but it can't happen (programming) can't happen - The traditional program comment for code executed under a condition that should never be true, for example a file size computed as negative. Often, such a condition being true indicates data corruption or a faulty algorithm; it is almost always handled this week for the Matadors. Tonight is Northridge's first home game since its recruiting renaissance. In the offseason, the Matadors supposedly became a legitimate Division I-AA team, with 40 scholarships and some - just some - of the other perks perk 1 v. perked, perk·ing, perks v.intr. 1. To stick up or jut out: dogs' ears that perk. 2. To carry oneself in a lively and jaunty manner. . There has been talk within the program of being competitive in the Big Sky Conference immediately. Well, big-time teams don't lose to a team of ag and managerial economics managerial economics Application of economic principles to decision making in business firms or other management units. The basic concepts are drawn from microeconomic theory, but new tools of analysis have been added. majors who have to work part-time at the five-and-dime to pay their tuition. And the UC Davis football team has a lot of future ag and managerial economists who currently use the phrase, ``Paper of plastic?'' quite often. ``This is the one that gives us a chance to get over the hump hump (hump) a rounded eminence. dowager's hump popular name for dorsal kyphosis caused by multiple wedge fractures of the thoracic vertebrae seen in osteoporosis. ,'' Northridge quarterback Aaron Flowers said. ``And if we don't get this one there are some serious questions.'' Like, if the Matadors can't beat Davis, what the heck heck interj. Used as a mild oath. n. Slang Used as an intensive: had a heck of a lot of money; was crowded as heck. [Alteration of hell. are they doing in the Big Sky Conference? ``I'm not saying we're a better team than them, but we need to win this game,'' Baldwin said. ``This is a measuring stick.'' Baldwin, whose team lost 38-8 at Davis last season, was careful all week to make it clear Davis is a good team, that victory is not certain. ``I think we have to win it.'' Baldwin said. ``There's no doubt about that. But I also think they're a good football team, and we're not looking past them.'' No, no. Don't do that. But don't lose to them either. In Northridge's favor - in addition to the fact it gives its players money for tuition, room, board and books - is the fact that the home team has won the past seven meetings in this series. That the game is at home is what Baldwin bases his must-win theory on. ``To tell this community that we've made strides, we need to win a home game,'' he said. ``And this is a home game.'' Baldwin does not believe, though, that if the Matadors lose the folks of the Valley, who just maybe are a little bit interested in his team for the first time, will go back to believing the program is a joke. He has told his players that they need to win because of the timing. Next week, the Matadors travel to play Division I-A New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). State (their third straight game against a team nicknamed the Aggies, by the way. The following week, they are at powerful Northern Arizona Northern Arizona is dominated by the Colorado Plateau, the southern border of which in Arizona is called the Mogollon Rim. In the West lies the Grand Canyon, which was cut by the flow of the Colorado River while the land slowly rose around it. for their Big Sky opener. ``I do not think we are a floundering program or anything like that,'' Baldwin said. ``We need a victory going into New Mexico (State). Then we go right into the Big Sky Conference. It would be tremendous to get a victory. This team hasn't figured out how to win.'' Did we mention that now is the time to do so? Kickoff: 6:05 p.m. at North Campus Stadium (capacity 6,000). TV/Radio: No TV; KWNK-AM (670). Injury update: Northridge offensive lineman David Joralemon (wrist) is probable. Davis wide receiver Ernest Perkins (knee) is out. Wide receiver Vince Lagatta (hamstring hamstring /ham·string/ (ham´string) one of the tendons bounding the popliteal space laterally and medially. inner hamstring the tendons of gracilis, sartorius, and two other muscles of the leg. ) and cornerback cor·ner·back also corner back n. Football Either of two defensive halfbacks stationed a short distance behind the linebackers and relatively near the sidelines. Noun 1. Jeremy Wilgus (arm) are probable. Players to watch: Northridge quarterback Aaron Flowers. He has to be over the nerves and in control of the offense. . . . Northridge linebacker Marc Goodson. The junior transfer was everywhere against Utah State. This time, his excellent play needs to extend to his long snapping. . . . UC Davis running back Jermaine Rucker. He finished last season with four 100-plus-yard rushing games. The first of those was against the Matadors. . . . Davis quarterback Mark Grieb Mark Grieb (born May 23, 1974, in Torrance, California) is an Arena Football League quarterback for the San Jose SaberCats. Grieb led the team to ArenaBowl titles in 2004 and 2007. . He's started all three years under Davis coach Bob Biggs. . . . Davis free safety Colin Hardesty. If Northridge's offense is clicking, he will be busy. Keys for CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge : The offense should be better able to sustain a rally. . . . Attention, receivers: You have to catch the ball for a big play to be a big play. . . . The defensive backs have no reason to be intimidated in·tim·i·date tr.v. in·tim·i·dat·ed, in·tim·i·dat·ing, in·tim·i·dates 1. To make timid; fill with fear. 2. To coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats. this week. CAPTION(S): Box Box: UC DAVIS (0-0) at CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE (0-1) (see text) |
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