With his 295 all-purpose yards against Louisiana last Saturday, FIU freshman receiver/kick return sensation T.Y. Hilton now leads the nation in all-purpose yards with 1,536 all-purpose yards -- an average of 192 all-purpose yards per game.
T.Y. Goodbye took the opening kickoff 90 yards for a TD last week and had 192 yards in kick returns to go with 96 yards receiving. He also leads the Golden Panthers with 6 TDs.
Asked Hilton if he knew he lead the country in all-purpose yards and the freshman said: "Some times I go on ESPN.com. When I saw it the other night, I was like, 'Oh'. I was kind of surprised."
GOLDEN PANTHER PAWSE
Will have the FIU/Arkansas State preview and GPP prediction on here on Friday.
Will have a LIVE GPP BLOG from Saturday's game and FIU may not be better than Louisiana in football this season, but the FIU wireless beats the UL wireless every day of the week and twice on Sunday. So the GPP should be logged on around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday from FIU Stadium.
Last chance to get FIU/ASU scores in for the WIN A GPP BLOG contest is Saturday at 6:59 p.m. GPP time.
Time for another GPP Poll Question:
Congrats Goodbye, keep up the good work!
Posted by: nycfiufan | November 06, 2008 at 09:38 PM
ridgepanther: SO PETE WILL THESE INJURIES BE ANY FACTOR WHEN PG EVALUATES BBALL AT THE END OF THE SEASON?
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I think PG evaluates on SR's entire time as FIU coach, not just this injury-plagued season.
Posted by: Pete Pelegrin | November 06, 2008 at 10:08 PM
fiufan751: PP - please treat us to a baseball blog now that the Fall season is over. Thanks
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Will talk to TT soon and his thoughts on fall ball and the coming season and have it on here.
Posted by: Pete Pelegrin | November 06, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Ultimate FIU Fan: Pete, I heard they got a new sponsor for the Arena. Is this true? I heard it was a local bank.
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FIU Arena is now known as U.S. Century Bank Arena. We'll just call it the Bank here on the GPP.
Posted by: Pete Pelegrin | November 06, 2008 at 10:22 PM
My prediction for Saturday is
ASU 21
FIU 24
Last year game was the biggest teaser in FIU history so close to get our first win in two seasons, and the best game in WY career. I hope I am wrong with the score and we can give them hell, but they seem to have a good defense. So this might come down to our defense and our special team scoring 17 points and I hope our defense could blank them, but that could be just wishful thinking
Posted by: Baltimorepanther | November 06, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Pete,
The quality of this blog decreases every time scUMbags talk smack nobody really cares about. Can't you blacklist their referring IP so that we can have a nice clean blog and not have this turn into a Greg Cote type of redundant crap blog?
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There were folks from Coral Gables on the GPP? Really, didn't notice it.
Posted by: Pete Pelegrin | November 06, 2008 at 10:25 PM
A win against ASU should come this time around. Im sure Cristobal and Co. have been riding the players about not making mistakes and scoring early. If FIU can score on its first three posessions (hopefully TD's) then that should give them momentum for the rest of the game. In any case it should be a good game.
Posted by: alt7787 | November 06, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Way to go T.Y!! Good info there Pete....BTW, nice meeting you in Louisiana.
Posted by: FIU Fanatic | November 07, 2008 at 12:47 AM
Pete don't know if you saw my last post so i write it again. Let me know how you would like to set up an eventual interview with Cedric Mack. When i told him know that you where willing to talk with him, he thought i was lying. LOL! Im not saying this to hurry you, i just would like to keep him informed. let me know anything i can pass on to him, (since i am the intermidiate). I think it'll be good for him and the FIU community. He'll be at the game watching from the stands.
Posted by: esteban688 | November 07, 2008 at 02:54 AM
Tell Cedric we can't wait for him to get out there.
We Are. The Pride. FIU.
Posted by: FIUFloridaPower&Light | November 07, 2008 at 05:53 AM
I tell him all the time, that the fans that read the herald are always mentioning him... how they would like to see him play... i try to motivate him. Specially now that he started to workout. I want him to be in top play level. He has his eyes set on the NFL, that is his goal, so he wants to work hard.
Posted by: esteban688 | November 07, 2008 at 07:30 AM
T.Y. should be called Bulls Eye from here on out because every team has got him in the center of their radar. Others need to step up, they should be finding a lot more space out there as T.Y. garners so much attention.
Looking forward to a great performance from the Defense come Saturday night.
Go Panthers !!!
Posted by: FIUFan | November 07, 2008 at 09:18 AM
Ark St 28
FIU 24
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Posted by: Quijote | November 07, 2008 at 10:56 AM
What time is kick off on Saturday?
Posted by: NYCFIUFan | November 07, 2008 at 12:57 PM
ASU - 27
FIU - 24
Posted by: Fomenter | November 07, 2008 at 01:21 PM
ASU 55
FIU 24
Posted by: CrazyCane | November 07, 2008 at 01:25 PM
FIU - 34
ASU - 24
Posted by: FIUBlueandGold | November 07, 2008 at 02:36 PM
Kickoff is at 7 PM.
Posted by: Pantera Dorada | November 07, 2008 at 03:40 PM
ASU 42
FIU 14
Posted by: MIA/NY Josh | November 07, 2008 at 03:50 PM
T.Y. stands for Total Yards Hilton. Way to go, T.Y., keep it up!
Posted by: SouthPaw | November 07, 2008 at 05:47 PM
YES WE CAN!
Posted by: Gold | November 07, 2008 at 06:09 PM
I hope we get back to playing some sound, fundamental, football. I hope our OL plays a decent game, and our Defense shows up to play....
FIU 28 ASU 20
Posted by: FIU Fanatic | November 07, 2008 at 06:31 PM
fiu 21
ASU 12
Posted by: The OC Panther | November 08, 2008 at 08:06 AM