I think Gould lucked into Manzanares,a jc transfer summer walk-on.
But I find it interesting that while you would expect Gould to excel in recruiting running backs, our best two freshmen RB recruits may be in last year’s class, Hawkins’ first.

I think Gould had an outlook that was something along the lines of if you execute well and you’re the better team you’ll win. Problem was we weren’t often the better team. You have to win some where you’re not the better team so you can become a place where better players want to go. No upsets under Gould. His style is more suited to Stanford.
If Gilliam and Thomas are as good as they show promise of being, Hawkins in his first year got a better haul of running backs than Gould did in any of his freshmen recruiting classes.

we seem to have two very good backs judging from small samples of work.
We also seem to have some young linemen who have won starting jobs in the offensive line. Not sure about the Sac game last year as far as whether having a big lead made then soft against the run but we had three backs put up a lot of yardage, This week against a supposedly good line, if we accept their opinion of themselves in the pregame hype, we had success on running plays. So it will be interesting to see what happens this week.

yeah probably that and they apparently love Gilliam.
So after puttting up good rushing numbers against Sac last year and San Jose this year, do you think we’ve got a good running game? Hopefully this will again be the case against San Diego.

I listened to the entire stream and they may have speculated that but they didn’t say it, it was more along the lines of them thinking they see his number on the sidelines.
His status is obviously a noteworthy issue.
I would have liked them to note the three first time starters on the offensive line and comment on how the line was doing with the new starters

I understand the partisanship.
It would have been nice to hear the starting lineup, and some commentary there on,
Maybe it was in a portion not streamed but I had to wait until the final stats were posted to see who played; if they didn’t touch the ball or make a tackle they weren’t noted. Exactly what does our color commenter from UCLA bring to the broadcast?

I believe the radio announcers thought he was on the sidelines suited up. But as usual they left room for doubt; one thing you can say about the radio team is they aren’t too informative. Maybe someone at the game looked for him?

There’s that also. The game featured phases. Before the QB change our defense had the better of it against San Jose. After the QB change they consistently moved the ball, but our defense rose to the occasion a few times.

I see your point regarding the defense; but in their favor they had two interceptions, s fumble recovery and forced six punts. When you have an offense running without a huddle and scoring on multiple possessions in a about a minute off the clock you can’t judge the defense just by yards allowed.They got the ball back for the offense without allowing a score multiple times.

Only fair, why should a 35-7 loss to a previously unranked team knock a team off the list?
Polls are meaningless this early

I don’t know, but maybe someone else does. I definitely feel we need two quality tailbacks so I hope he gets his chance

Who would have picked the Ags to win with three esentially riokie offensive linemen, although Richardson played in one game last year, and also playing without Logan Montgomery and Tehran Thomas?

We had two tackles and a guard who were making their first startColton Lamson, Jake Parks and Kooper Richardson

yep, be open minded about it.
When they lose to teams like Cincinnati you see the need for selectivity,

crazy move. Had to go a year without scholarship, that has to be costly. Wish him well, now will some UCLA player please transfer here?

Portland State looked respectable in losing to bad FBS teams, whereas we won against a bad FBS team. There’s a big difference.
It will be interesting to see what happens with San Jose this season, They were obviously not prepared for our offense. I think players had that attitude the media covering their team had that we were just a tune up

last year it was 14-7 in the second half we went for it on fourth down and Justin Williams ran 72 yards for a TD. Their coach if I recall,blamed himself, I think they called a blitz.
But you are right it was more onesided than I recalled in the stats.

this is a a different kind of challenge, but will be equally telling in evaluating our team. SD isnt as unsettled as San Jose and will be ready to play. Last year the game was more competitive than the score would indicate. They are probably anxious for a do over.

somehow because were 15 miles out of their city limits we’re not the hometown team, and we aren’t significant because we’re not the PAC 12, and even if we were we’re not Cal or Stanford. So basically nothing in the Bee. The the Enterprise covers high school and the university about the same, and covers all the minor sports together in a level similar to football. The University should promote some coverage on the site, get students to write content. Etc. We have no real newspaper coverage so we need to promote web content

The sky is falling because they lost to FCS. Stanford lost to us in 2005 and one of their players said something along the lines of “well they are a pretty good football team” and then I think he was sent to a re-education camp.
So what if we were picked ninth in the big sky? No one should believe that stuff as it’s based on next to nothing. Example; Even among those who try to follow the team, almost none of us expected Gilliam to play much less be any good. The voters in those polls don’t know much except how the teams played over the years