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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Ruff for Tuesday Houston game


Hey, I’m back from a not-so-relaxing vacation at Myrtle Beach (with four teenagers), and I’m ready to get back to it.

This week’s sports stories have focused on the Herd’s next opponent — Houston — and their vaunted aerial attack. Conference USA has been described as a pass-happy league, and the Houston Cougars are the giddiest. If fact, of the top 10 passing teams in the nation, four of them are from C-USA: #2 Houston, #6 Tulsa, #7 SMU and #9 Rice. Marshall finishes this season against Rice and Tulsa.

So this idea is pretty straight-up, with a title “Defending the H-Bomb (yeah, “H” is for Houston). I have preliminarily put Marco in a foxhole, with H-Bombs falling around, but I don’t think this will represent the situation well enough, as Marco needs to defend himself, rather than sit passively waiting for these things to go off.
I’m thinking doing one really big bomb coming in while Marco operates a 20mm.