Here is a repost of TheDerisoReport’s live tweets from Grambling’s home win over Alabama A&M at Robinson Stadium on Saturday. Follow TDR on Twitter here — http://twitter.com/thederisoreport.
Let me shut it down, before I go over my limit again. I know later, though, I’ll be haunted by Twitter’s siren call: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
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Pippen scored twice out of the “wild-tiger” look, including a 10-yard rushing TD in the second period that gave GSU a lead it never gave up.
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Pippen worked out of the wildcat formation, a wrinkle we haven’t seen from GSU this season — and something A&M clearly wasn’t ready for.
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Frank Warren, Cornelius Walker, and Rodale Pippen scored during Grambling’s 27-points barrage to win.
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Greg Dillon, it’s fair to say, has returned. He was 13-of-25 for 183 yards and two touchdowns tonight.
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The 41-20 win was the first for Grambling in three games.
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Grambling added a FG, then saw its defense relax enough to allow A&M a steady march down the field for an easy score before it was over.
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Got kicked off earlier, late in the fourth quarter. That was new.
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Did you know there is actually a limit to the number of updates you can do. Yet this thing keeps asking, incessantly, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
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Grambling, at its own 47, direct snaps to Rodale Pippen. Some nasty stuff around the tackle leads to a flag. Face mask penalty.
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Needing a first down to milk clock, Dillon checks down to Warren — and he will not be stopped. Zig, zags, zigs again to first down.
5:26 PM Oct 10th from web
Thompson gets back to line of scrimmage on a rough hand off to the outside. 3-13 for Tigers.
5:25 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling takes over with 13:31 remaining in game.
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Mason escapes a strong push up middle by Grambling defense, and is forced to throw it away.
5:23 PM Oct 10th from web
Mist continues to fall in The Rob; field is a mess. A&M’s offense is, too. Broken play goes nowhere. Fourth down for Bulldogs.
5:23 PM Oct 10th from web
Mason screen falls incomplete. One play later, incomplete again when John Carter began to bear down on the freshman quarterback.
5:22 PM Oct 10th from web
Mason runs to inside the 32 yard line, as Grambling’s defense relaxes a bit.
5:21 PM Oct 10th from web
Rodale Pippen takes direct snap on another wildcat play, and runs in a play later. Ari Johnson kick makes it GSU 38-13 as third period ends
5:20 PM Oct 10th from web
Anthony’s fourth pick of the year, and the sixth one he’s either returned for a touchdown or to inside the 5.
5:18 PM Oct 10th from web
Christian Anthony picks off Atkins in flat, then dashes back on his way to a touchdown. Getting edged to sideline, he leaps but is out at 4.
5:16 PM Oct 10th from web
This game is a powerful argument for replay in SWAC football.
5:15 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M keeps ball; Atkins passes to Bulldogs 34.
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Ball picked up by Fleming, thinking it hit an A&M player — and runs it back for TD. Officials disagree, sending Broadway into another rage.
5:14 PM Oct 10th from web
D’Mack Bates doesn’t get much on second down. Third down … and an inside hand off? Very conservative three-and-out for Grambling.
5:13 PM Oct 10th from web
Ball falls incomplete, with Mason under heavy pressure. Grambling takes over at its own 21. GSU loses a couple on running play.
5:12 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M will go for it. Grambling defense holds.
5:11 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M will go for it.
5:10 PM Oct 10th from web
Second down on A&M incompletion. 3-10 for Bulldogs, then a fumble. A&M recovers but can’t convert. Fourth down, at GSU 20.
5:10 PM Oct 10th from web
Mason gains first down on keeper. A&M now to the Grambling 23.
5:06 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M keeps moving. Now to the Grambling 34. 2-1, late in the third quarter.
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Mason completes to Grambling 48, who found an empty spot in the coverage.
5:05 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M brings Mason, a running QB, back in for Atkins. A FG would have put Bulldogs in a three-score hole. They wouldn’t be running the ball.
5:04 PM Oct 10th from web
Bad snap leads to a broken play. Warren was open, but Dillon couldn’t get the ball out under diress. Ari returns to kick.
5:02 PM Oct 10th from web
No gain on first down, loss of a yard on second. Third and goal.
5:02 PM Oct 10th from web
Frank Warren finds a hole, shucks a tackler, cuts back, keeps going and going — and going. Warren to inside the A&M 5.
5:01 PM Oct 10th from web
Both sides are covered in mud and muck from the Robinson turf, though no more than a drizzle has fallen.
5:00 PM Oct 10th from web
Kiare Thompson runs a punt return back nearly to midfield. A former baseball player, Thompson has come into his own over the last two weeks.
4:59 PM Oct 10th from web
On 3-10, A&M’s Atkins is again taken down by Rogers, who came right down the line to stop the runner after just 4 yards. 4-6; A&M punts.
4:59 PM Oct 10th from web
Atkins is taken down by Antoine Rogers, who gets a hand on him and drags the quarterback down.
4:58 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M starting from own 26. Atkins goes long on first down, but it falls to ground. A touchdown would get some emotion going on other side.
4:57 PM Oct 10th from web
10:21 in third quarter, Grambling up 31-13 over Alabama A&M.
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One play later, Walker is in. That was impressive.
4:54 PM Oct 10th from web
Line drive punt off the side of the kicker’s foot. Grambling will have excellent field position, beginning at A&M’s 26.
4:54 PM Oct 10th from web
Christian Anthony puts a tough hit on the third down rush. Stopped again at the 1. A&M will punt from the back of its own endzone.
4:53 PM Oct 10th from web
GSU stops rush play. Second down and 10, still inside 1. Atkins again almost picked off, this time by Marcus Jemeson. 3-10.
4:52 PM Oct 10th from web
Huge stop after mistake on special teams. Stephen Tripp stops A&M returner inside the 1 yard line.
4:51 PM Oct 10th from web
Ari Johnson makes it; Grambling now leads 24-13 with 11:56 left in third period.
4:49 PM Oct 10th from web
Third and goal. Dillon tosses it up to Nick Jones on fade. But he drops it on a jump ball. Grambling will try for a field goal.
4:48 PM Oct 10th from web
Warren is all bottled up, loss of four. Dillon to corner of endzone; Bakari Maxwell catches it on second down, but he’s out of bounds.
4:48 PM Oct 10th from web
Penalty on A&M, half distance to goal.
4:47 PM Oct 10th from web
Jefferson runs the same slant play that Kiare was successful on earlier in the drive, with similar results. Grambling to 10.
4:46 PM Oct 10th from web
Rodale Pippen at quarterback; hands off to sweeping Kiare. Wildcat formation, Pippen to inside the 20. Dillon comes back in.
4:46 PM Oct 10th from web
Dillon tosses the ball over an oncoming defender to a slanting receiver, then Warren on the carry. Dillon comes out of the game.
4:45 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling receives ball, then Warren rushes to midfield.
4:44 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling heads to the Cramton Bowl next week.
4:44 PM Oct 10th from web
In other scores, Prairie View scored all 24 of its points in the second and third periods to beat Alabama State 24-10 in Montgomery today.
4:43 PM Oct 10th from web
The teams have retaken the field at Robinson Stadium.
4:40 PM Oct 10th from web
After several weeks, they ditched the Michael Jackson tribute (a good idea, worn out) and received an emotional round of supporting cheers.
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The Tiger Marching Band, wearing a combination of their gold and their black uniforms, made some welcome — and well received — updates.
4:39 PM Oct 10th from web
That’s made for a choppy playing surface. A member of the A&M marching band just tripped and fell during their show.
4:33 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling has been practicing at The Rob, since it’s the only surface with a drainage system, through weeks and weeks of rain.
4:33 PM Oct 10th from web
The field at Robinson Stadium continues to deteriorate, in particular on the south side of the 50 yard line.
4:32 PM Oct 10th from web
Offensively, I said last week I though Grambling had turned a small corner, beginning in the third period — and that’s continued.
4:29 PM Oct 10th from web
Defensively, there was more effort — though A&M did a good job of exploiting Grambling’s aggressive tendencies early on.
4:29 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling still hasn’t put together a complete half, but it is playing with the urgency expected in such an important game.
4:28 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M drive goes nowhere. End of the half, with Grambling up 21-13.
4:21 PM Oct 10th from web
Big hit by Gabriel Fleming stops A&M return cold at his own 20. Fleming showed some playmaking ability last week, too.
4:19 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M punts; then Grambling punts. Ball at the Bulldogs 39, but GSU couldn’t get a first down to run out the clock.
4:18 PM Oct 10th from web
Ari misses field goal, wide right. Grambling 21-13, with 2 minutes left in half.
4:14 PM Oct 10th from web
4:38 until half time. Grambling inside the 15 with Walker run.
4:10 PM Oct 10th from web
Holding penalty called, as well. Broadway is furious over the next in a series of questionable calls. The official didn’t have sight angle.
4:10 PM Oct 10th from web
Touchdown pass to Kiare Thompson called incomplete.
4:09 PM Oct 10th from web
Atkins is hit by Anthony and fumbles. Grambling ball at midfield.
4:07 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M threw everything at Dillon, but he found Warren on the checkdown for the score. Grambling 21-13.
4:02 PM Oct 10th from web
Dillon finds Kiare Thompson to the 12 yard line. Thompson is coming off great night in Dallas; first 100-yard performance since Oct. 2007.
4:01 PM Oct 10th from web
Dillon back on the field, with Grambling moving into the red zone.
4:00 PM Oct 10th from web
7:59 left, GSU leads 14-13, after some connectivity problems.
3:58 PM Oct 10th from web
You’d like to see more discipline from the officials. Curious calls again today.
3:37 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling pushed by to inside its own 20 on a penalty. Then A&M gives yards back on interference call.
3:36 PM Oct 10th from web
Savage then destroys ball carrier on next play. He’s underrated in a group that boasts a star like Anthony. Punt.
3:33 PM Oct 10th from web
Savage then chases A&M’s Atkins all the way back, forcing toss out of bounds.
3:33 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M gets the ball back, but there is a smarter GSU defense on the field right now. Minus-five on a first-down play when GSU sniff out play.
3:32 PM Oct 10th from web
They are hanging on Dillon during the next offensive drive like cheap suit. Seven rushed last time for A&M. If he had time, there are seams.
3:30 PM Oct 10th from web
Assignment football. Stay in your spot.
3:28 PM Oct 10th from web
… A&M was gone …
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… with what’s at stake here, but A&M is finding the soft spots in that response. When every defender followed the obvious flow of the play
3:28 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling now trails 10-7 late in the first period. Tiger defense needs to settle in. It’s playing with a lot of emotion, understandable …
3:26 PM Oct 10th from web
Mason, A&M’s other quarterback, gets behind an aggressive defense and runs all … the … way … in. 66 yard scoring play.
3:25 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M has clearly found ways to take advantage of Grambling’s pass protection problems.
3:25 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling showed a few new wrinkles in that last offensive drive, but still needs to run more out of obvious passing formations.
3:24 PM Oct 10th from web
6:42 left in the first quarter, with Grambling up 7-3.
3:24 PM Oct 10th from web
Flat pass to Damian Jefferson goes incomplete on third down play. Again, Dillon is getting chased all over the field. Punt.
3:23 PM Oct 10th from web
Hand off to Kiare Thompson sweeps around to Dillon’s left. Then a pass, but protection breaks down. Incomplete to Jesse Smith.
3:22 PM Oct 10th from web
GSU to start at its own 30 after the kickoff.
3:21 PM Oct 10th from web
26-yarder is good. GSU up 7-3 over A&M; but it’s a confidence-builder, never the less. Backs against the wall, Grambling held.
3:20 PM Oct 10th from web
Nigel Copeland again nearly picks off Atkins. He’s spying the A&M quarterback well tonight. Fourth down; Licea on to kick.
3:19 PM Oct 10th from web
3rd down again.
3:18 PM Oct 10th from web
Banks gets smacked, but still falls forward to the GSU 13. Punishing run plays close to the goaline. John Carter puts a backside smack.
3:18 PM Oct 10th from web
An amazing sideline catch when Atkins rolls out to his left. First down at GSU 16.
3:17 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M at GSU 28. Can’t find open man, runs to 23. 3-5. A red zone stop here would mean a lot to a defense that got shelled last Saturday.
3:16 PM Oct 10th from web
Third down for A&M: Quick pass out to flat converts.
3:15 PM Oct 10th from web
The Bulldogs dropped just 1 regular-season before their 2002 SCG appearance.
3:14 PM Oct 10th from web
Alabama A&M had 3 regular-season stumbles before playing in both the 2000 and 2006 games, and 2 in 2005 as well.
3:14 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M is taking advantage early of Grambling’s aggressive nature. Those little screen passes go right over the pursuit.
3:13 PM Oct 10th from web
Impressive special teams stop doesn’t allow much on the return. But Banks takes a check down pass over midfield into GSU territory.
3:12 PM Oct 10th from web
XPT makes it GSU 7-0. Terrific opening drive by an offense that seemed to be finding its groove last week — though too late to beat PV.
3:10 PM Oct 10th from web
Bakari Maxwell scores on a slanting route over the middle. Grambling goes up early.
3:10 PM Oct 10th from web
Frank Warren guts out a couple. Van Phillips makes terrific catch over middle, then gets down seam to A&M 17.
3:09 PM Oct 10th from web
Thompson bobbles resulting punt, recovers at GSU 11. He was trying to run before he had the handle.
3:07 PM Oct 10th from web
Atkins passes behind his tight end on second play of game. He completes on second down, moving to 3-2. Banks is stopped short. Punt.
3:07 PM Oct 10th from web
Banks powers on first run to the A&M 40, taking advantage of a defensive line that’s still struggling in the interior.
3:05 PM Oct 10th from web
This is a must win: GSU has advanced to six of the 10 SWAC Championship Games, but has never done so with two or more stumbles.
3:03 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling defers to open second half with the ball.
3:02 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling takes the field, which is in poor shape after weeks of rain in north Louisiana. Looks to be a sloppy day.
3:01 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling captains are Nigel Copeland, Ricky Jackson, Brandon George and Revay Smith.
3:00 PM Oct 10th from web
Grambling has played Alabama A&M in the SWAC Championship in three of its six appearances. A&M fell in all three, 2000, 2002 and 2005.
2:58 PM Oct 10th from web
… passing for less than 850 yards, rushing for less than 80 and having a hand in as many scores as picks.
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But he hasn’t found a groove yet this year …
2:57 PM Oct 10th from web
Dillon, on the way to a SWAC title, had 200 yards of total offense and two scoring passes as Grambling beat A&M 27-9 a season ago
2:57 PM Oct 10th from web
A loss to A&M would make it three, since the Bulldogs moved up two spots to No. 4 in this week’s Sheridan Broadcasting Network polling.
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… first, against No. 1 South Carolina State and then to No. 3 Prairie View.
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The Tigers’ two FCS losses came by a combined six points, and both times to Top 5 black college teams …
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Broadway insisted this week that Grambling wasn’t that far away, and its record bears that out.
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The Bulldogs have also beaten Tennessee State, Hampton and Arkansas-Pine Bluff, with their only loss coming against Jacksonville State.
2:55 PM Oct 10th from web
A&M’s Atkins reminds Broadway of his own QB: “Kevin Atkins gives you a little of that Greg Dillon playmaking ability,” Broadway said.
2:55 PM Oct 10th from web
Ulysses Banks, the conference’s leading rusher, ran 19 times for 104 yards and a touchdown.
2:54 PM Oct 10th from web
While Grambling was falling against PV, A&M exploded for 35 unanswered points to win against Tuskegee last week.
2:54 PM Oct 10th from web
Alabama A&M has never won at Grambling State, but comes in at 4-1.
2:53 PM Oct 10th from web
A light drizzle is falling in Grambling. Couple that with last week’s loss against Prairie View, and there is a sparce crowd at The Rob.
2:52 PM Oct 10th from web
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