Florida Atlantic Week: News and Notes

SUU plays its first I-A team in three years when the school takes on Florida Atlantic this Thursday.
Not only is it a chance for the T-Birds to get some national exposure on a nontraditional college footbal night, but SUU desperately needs a win after heart-breaking losses to Cal Poly and McNeese State the past two weeks.

Can the T-Birds win? Absolutely, but they've got to get a handle on turnovers. Nine turnovers in two games is unbelievable and impossible to win with.

Props to Johnny Sanchez for a great effort in Louisiana on Saturday. Sanchez's 161 yards rushing was the best running effort by a T-Bird in four years. Sanchez was named Great West Offensive Player of the week for his performance.

You hate to talk about moral victories at the college level, but you've got to like how SUU came back from a 17-0 deficit to briefly take the lead in the fourth quarter against the Cowboys. On that same note, it's bothersome the T-Birds haven't found a way to win the close one on the road yet.

He hasn't received a lot of press (I'm pretty much the only one to blame on that front) but Joey Hew Len is quietly having a great year. The senior receiver caught his sixth and seventh touchdown receptions of the season agaisnt the Cowboys. That puts him in a six-way tie for the third-best mark in SUU history. Bob Stockley holds the T-Bird recored with nine TD catches during the 1990 season.