Wednesday, October 9, 2013

ASU NOTEBOOK: Rams rested, refocused after bye week


ALBANY, Georgia  --  The Albany State football team has five games left in the regular season, and the 1-3 Rams will likely have to run the table to represent the East Division in the Nov. 16 SIAC championship game.
 
And thanks to a bye week following the Sept. 28 loss to Miles, the rested Rams think they are ready to turn their season around starting Saturday at Lane.
 
“I feel rested, but you can’t get too much rest with the kind of record we have,” ASU linebacker Marcavius Dudley said. “I really feel like this was our week to get refocused and think about what we did wrong in the past week and get sharpened up on what we were doing right.”
 
It was a week where the Rams didn’t focus on Lane — a team that upset ASU in 2011 in the Rams’ last trip to Jackson, Tenn. — but instead tried to fix their own problems that have caused a second straight 1-3 start to the season. After the loss to Miles, ASU coach Mike White said he was surprised by the way his team failed to handle its emotions in a game where the Rams racked up 16 penalties for 194 yards, including eight personal fouls and unsportsmanlike penalties.
 

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