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Gameday was a blast. That was a lot of fun seeing Corso toss the Cougar head and then Lavell snatch it up and put it on. Lavell's awesome. He reminds me of GBH. Old, grandfathery, brilliant on PR, but you're not sure how competent they were in their actual trade...football x's and o's for Lavell and doctrinal understanding for GBH. I was near some nerdy late-20's type Ute fans who brought along one of those substance-less annoying starbucks chicks (do you know the type I'm talking about?). Was that boylenover's group? At the end a cop made the guy with the Ute flag take it down. Even my 7 yo Ute hating son knew that wasn't fair. The cop said "the cameraman told me to take it down". Yeah, right. At the beginning I saw a security guy scanning the scene for signs. He made a guy take down a sign that said BOGUS CORRUPT SYSTEM. What??
My scalper buddy cost me some cash. I needed to sell my two season tickets and buy three tickets so I could take two kids. He tells me to buy Friday online and sell Saturday before the game, and I'd come out ahead. I buy tickets Friday at $50 apiece and Saturday I stand there for 45 minutes without a single person interested. Couldn't even give them away.
That was the most depressing home game I think I've ever sat through. Completely demoralized. Even worse than the Florida State game. At least in that game we moved the ball at will for a large part of the game.
3rd and 8 at the 30 or so down 14-0, you run it???????? What the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP was that? That is so chicken shit. Let's take the three points and move on. What???? First of all the three points are not a given. You don't trust your FG kicker, and at the time it was cold with swirling winds. Second, Hall had been struggling but was in somewhat of a rhythm at the time. I don't get upset at playcalls too much, and I discount the criticism like "everyone knew we were going to run right there, what a stupid play call". But that was seriously a ridiculously chicken shit idiotic play call.
Another play call: QB draw down 38-7 in garbage time????????????
Max Hall idiocy: 4th and 20 and you try to run it for a first down? Hell at least throw it up for a jump ball or something. Max, you're seriously going to juke six TCU defenders on your way to a 20 yard gain. Watch the tape, Max. You looked like an idiot trying to juke ONE TCU defender let alone the six it would've taken to get the first down.
Hey I can take solace that were are 5-0 or whatever against teams ranked 80 or below.
Our speed on defense is so bad and our secondary is so disgustingly embarassingly bad it's nearly enough to send me to Archaea level depression and pessimism.
What are we against top 50 teams the last three years? 2-8 maybe? Let's not kid ourselves with 10 win seasons. Our 10 win seasons are collected against teams ranked 80 through 120.
Last rant on recruiting strategy:
That Colby Clawson ESPN gameday segment was worth about $10M in LDS church PR dollars. Maybe even more.
If you want more of those segments, recruit one non-LDS for every Colby Clawson and find a way to attract the Teo's of the world and keep them in school whether they like to down an occasional adult beverage or not. People don't really care whether or not our whole team is boy scouts. They're impressed enough spiritually that a large portion of our team is boy scouts. We don't need 100 of them.
Gameday was a blast. That was a lot of fun seeing Corso toss the Cougar head and then Lavell snatch it up and put it on. Lavell's awesome. He reminds me of GBH. Old, grandfathery, brilliant on PR, but you're not sure how competent they were in their actual trade...football x's and o's for Lavell and doctrinal understanding for GBH. I was near some nerdy late-20's type Ute fans who brought along one of those substance-less annoying starbucks chicks (do you know the type I'm talking about?). Was that boylenover's group? At the end a cop made the guy with the Ute flag take it down. Even my 7 yo Ute hating son knew that wasn't fair. The cop said "the cameraman told me to take it down". Yeah, right. At the beginning I saw a security guy scanning the scene for signs. He made a guy take down a sign that said BOGUS CORRUPT SYSTEM. What??
My scalper buddy cost me some cash. I needed to sell my two season tickets and buy three tickets so I could take two kids. He tells me to buy Friday online and sell Saturday before the game, and I'd come out ahead. I buy tickets Friday at $50 apiece and Saturday I stand there for 45 minutes without a single person interested. Couldn't even give them away.
That was the most depressing home game I think I've ever sat through. Completely demoralized. Even worse than the Florida State game. At least in that game we moved the ball at will for a large part of the game.
3rd and 8 at the 30 or so down 14-0, you run it???????? What the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP was that? That is so chicken shit. Let's take the three points and move on. What???? First of all the three points are not a given. You don't trust your FG kicker, and at the time it was cold with swirling winds. Second, Hall had been struggling but was in somewhat of a rhythm at the time. I don't get upset at playcalls too much, and I discount the criticism like "everyone knew we were going to run right there, what a stupid play call". But that was seriously a ridiculously chicken shit idiotic play call.
Another play call: QB draw down 38-7 in garbage time????????????
Max Hall idiocy: 4th and 20 and you try to run it for a first down? Hell at least throw it up for a jump ball or something. Max, you're seriously going to juke six TCU defenders on your way to a 20 yard gain. Watch the tape, Max. You looked like an idiot trying to juke ONE TCU defender let alone the six it would've taken to get the first down.
Hey I can take solace that were are 5-0 or whatever against teams ranked 80 or below.
Our speed on defense is so bad and our secondary is so disgustingly embarassingly bad it's nearly enough to send me to Archaea level depression and pessimism.
What are we against top 50 teams the last three years? 2-8 maybe? Let's not kid ourselves with 10 win seasons. Our 10 win seasons are collected against teams ranked 80 through 120.
Last rant on recruiting strategy:
That Colby Clawson ESPN gameday segment was worth about $10M in LDS church PR dollars. Maybe even more.
If you want more of those segments, recruit one non-LDS for every Colby Clawson and find a way to attract the Teo's of the world and keep them in school whether they like to down an occasional adult beverage or not. People don't really care whether or not our whole team is boy scouts. They're impressed enough spiritually that a large portion of our team is boy scouts. We don't need 100 of them.
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