Other Games Thread - Week 4

[CVilleBuff]

Utah idiot's taunting makes 4th and long turn into an automatic 1st down and BYU promptly scores a TD.

20-13 Utes, 5:13 remains

 

[DBT]

Bull**** holding call. Officiating has gotten so over the top this year.

 

[CVilleBuff]

That was a game Utah needed. Now comes UCLA, Stanford, at Arizona, at USC, Arizona State, at Oregon.

 

[Deleted member 807]

 

[SteelCity Buff]

The worst part of his recent firing, for me, is that he's back on XM radio 91 as one of the many recent fired coaches they employ. He sucks so bad. His radio persona is worse than his press conferences. He tends to steer every conversation into trying to tell everybody how much life coaching CFB coaches have to do, and that nobody realizes that, and how unappreciated CFB coaches are in this regard. He is so full of sh*t it's hard to fathom how big his ego is.

In an ironic twist, Skippy is actually the only one the ex-coaches who is even remotely entertaining and insightful. Nutt and Chizik are almost as bad as Hawk. Skippy is on a Sunday morning recap show that isn't too bad.

 

[Uncle Ken]

What's the background on the Pirate .gif?

 

[Deleted member 807]

What's the background on the Pirate .gif?

Idaho coach Paul Petrino shakes hand and says something like "what's your problem?" about defensive tactics used to preserve the shutout.

The pirate responds with a 96 Buff

http://www.cougcenter.com/2013/9/22/4757824/mike-leach-paul-petrino-handshake-video

 

[MtnBuff]

I am starting to wonder, though, if the service academies are going to find it difficult to compete again. They had a bit of a resurgence. But as we talked about a bit, the big programs have now figured out the spread offenses and have defenses designed to run sideline to sideline / make play in space.

Just like how Miami & Florida State pretty much ended option football among the major programs (sideline-to-sideline speed overwhelms it), this change may have fundamentally altered things so that the service academies don't have the speed to defend all these spread attacks and also can't be efficient enough with an option attack against a speed defense.

The Fortune 50 have now caught up with the market innovations.

I was thinking about that yesterday.

The service academies tend to lack depth of talent but have managed to overcome that by spreading the field and controlling the tempo of the game. Now that everybody seems to be going to the spread they lose both of those. To battle the spread defenses are becoming faster and much more disciplined defending the edges making the traditional option less effective. They are now also forced to play defense all over the field and for a lot more plays each game which they don't have the depth and speed to do.

Unless they can make another major adjustment like they did in going to the option game many years back it may be very hard for them to compete.

 

[BuffLuke80]

That SDSU qb **** the bed in the 4th last night, they probably should of won that game. Turnovers will kill ya 99% of the time especially when they give the comp like a pick six. That screen play was awful, the pass was so bad was hard to tell if he was just trying to throw it away or what.

 

[sackman]

classic Pirate. I don't think the rest of the PAC 12 yet fully appreciates the gem we have with him in the conference.