Goin' to the Poin! 2012 Poinsettia Bowl Thread

[PaloAltoCougar]

Given that all of the damage inflicted on the Aztecs last night was by non-RMs, and that the OL where RMs were most plentiful was perhaps the weakest element of last night's performance, the age argument is pretty strange. In addition to the stars (KVN, Hoff, Ziggy, etc.), I think Jamaal is quite young, perhaps even a freshman, but that never gets mentioned by the announcers.

[SCcoug]

SDSU fans and media are still large babies.

Old player conspiracy! http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/...tball-players/

Replay gate! http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/...-against-sdsu/

Haddow sighting on the first one.

I was looking forward to SDSU whining after the replay I'm glad they didn't disappoint.

[LiveCoug]

Jay Drew tweeted this out about those stories:





Lord only knows what the Aztec sports online forums are saying.

The delusion is so profound. Aztec fans truly believe that Chad Bunn was solely responsible for the call and that he had BYU's backing and support to not overturn that call. It's amazing, actually

[USUC]

SDSU fans and media are still large babies.

Old player conspiracy! http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/...tball-players/

Replay gate! http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/...-against-sdsu/

Jay Drew tweeted this out about those stories:

Jay Drew @drewjay

Reading stories from San Diego paper about last night's game in SD airport; Now DiLuigi's non-overturned fumble went for a touchdown in 2010

Jay Drew @drewjay

And there were now two BYU alums in Replay Booth in 2010; Chad Bunn is a proud USU alum, actually.

Lord only knows what the Aztec sports online forums are saying.

[LiveCoug]

It wasn't a dumb thing to say! It was right on the money, as the events of the second half proved. Our offense was hopeless due to an inexperienced QB and a horrible OL. They key to the game was to get field position and let the defense with the game.

Like FM said, it was accurate, but dumb.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Jeff could be right, of course, but as stated, it was a lame thing to say. Bronco says a lot of dumb things. You know this.

It wasn't a dumb thing to say! It was right on the money, as the events of the second half proved. Our offense was hopeless due to an inexperienced QB and a horrible OL. They key to the game was to get field position and let the defense with the game.

[Indy Coug]

Jeff could be right, of course, but as stated, it was a lame thing to say. Bronco says a lot of dumb things. You know this.

Halftime interviews are stupid. Halftime interviews have a wonderful habit of bringing out the best responses out of coaches of all descriptions.

[LiveCoug]

You're not an apologist, you're simply identifying a bogus criticism. There's a very distinct difference between the two.

Jeff could be right, of course, but as stated, it was a lame thing to say. Bronco says a lot of dumb things. You know this.

[FMCoug]

It was both a "very accurate statement" and a "stupid comment"?

There are lots of accurate things that shouldn't be said. If he had said "our offense sucks and we can't do anything about that so our best hope is to punt well to win the field position game" that would be even more accurate. But that would be even more stupid.

Who knows, maybe that's what he said and the sideline reporter bailed him out.

[Indy Coug]

Let's not forget that we never heard Bronco's comment to the sideline reporter. We heard her short summation of their conversation. You have no idea exactly what Bronco said or how the question was worded.

Look at me. A Bronco apologist.

You're not an apologist, you're simply identifying a bogus criticism. There's a very distinct difference between the two.

[Jeff Lebowski]

It was still a stupid thing to say. Maybe if the question were "what is the key to the second half?", that would have been appropriate in such a defensive battle. The question, however, was about what changes were needed in the OFFENSE. The OFFENSE. He could have addressed that. What the OFFENSE needed to do better.

Let's not forget that we never heard Bronco's comment to the sideline reporter. We heard her short summation of their conversation. You have no idea exactly what Bronco said or how the question was worded.

Look at me. A Bronco apologist.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I still think it was a stupid comment. But I think he answered literally as to what can be done on the offensive side of the game to improve things. He knows very well he has no QB, no OL, no hope from the offense. So the only thing to give them a fighting chance is field position. It was a very accurate statement given the situation in the game / this team. Which makes me want to cry.

It was both a "very accurate statement" and a "stupid comment"?

[Indy Coug]

It was still a stupid thing to say. Maybe if the question were "what is the key to the second half?", that would have been appropriate in such a defensive battle. The question, however, was about what changes were needed in the OFFENSE. The OFFENSE. He could have addressed that. What the OFFENSE needed to do better.

The simple answer was "EVERYTHING". But he knew damn well they weren't going to do much of anything better, so the more reasonable response was to have your #2 ranked punter start to punt like a #2 ranked punter and then unleash your #3 defense on SDSU while they are bottled up deep in their own territory.

[FMCoug]

It was still a stupid thing to say. Maybe if the question were "what is the key to the second half?", that would have been appropriate in such a defensive battle. The question, however, was about what changes were needed in the OFFENSE. The OFFENSE. He could have addressed that. What the OFFENSE needed to do better.

I still think it was a stupid comment. But I think he answered literally as to what can be done on the offensive side of the game to improve things. He knows very well he has no QB, no OL, no hope from the offense. So the only thing to give them a fighting chance is field position. It was a very accurate statement given the situation in the game / this team. Which makes me want to cry.

[LiveCoug]

I agree. I wasn't online during the game, but went back and read the whole thread last night. In hindsight it is pretty comical how people were blasting Bronco's for his comments. If I had heard them, I would have felt the same way.

In reality, the punting game was huge in the second half and may have saved the game for us. Steelblue's son kind of laughed when he said that Stephenson should be the offensive MVP. I kind of agree.

It was still a stupid thing to say. Maybe if the question were "what is the key to the second half?", that would have been appropriate in such a defensive battle. The question, however, was about what changes were needed in the OFFENSE. The OFFENSE. He could have addressed that. What the OFFENSE needed to do better.