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  • 2021 Football Recruiting

    I don’t get too interested when little guys are fast but it’s pretty significant if a guy has some size and is also fast .Example: Herschel Walker 10.23 seconds 100 meters. The guy hitting him often got the worst of it.
  • 2021 Football Recruiting
    muscle contractions do that without mechanical assistance. I suppose this replaces walking to cool down.
  • Big Sky Honors
    Worth noting that Nick Amoah and McCallan Castles were unanimous first team selections. Since the honor is voted by the coaches, that’s meaningful.
  • Big Sky Honors
    What a poorly written press release. They don’t say Ford made second team.
  • HC records - Biggs, Gould & Hawkins
    I suppose he might have recruited Harrell and Vaughn just to block but I doubt it.
  • HC records - Biggs, Gould & Hawkins
    My attention fell off during the Gould years, but I followed Randy’s career as he’s from my hometown. I speculate without having watched much of the later years that part of Gould’s problem winning after Randy's era ended was due to his inability to recruit a productive quarterback or to coach them to be productive. Maybe it was the system, but I don’t think that’s all of it.
  • HC records - Biggs, Gould & Hawkins
    Randy played 2010-2013, after redshirting in 2009. So all but the last Sac victory was under Biggs.
  • HC records - Biggs, Gould & Hawkins
    In 2014 their only victory was Cal Poly.
  • HC records - Biggs, Gould & Hawkins
    We still had five or so Gould signees on the roster; this year is maybe the end of them. Two of the most prominent are ironically wide receivers, Vaughn and Harrell, who are better suited to Hawkins’ offense.
    I wonder what Randy Wright thinks of the three coaches since he’s had an inside view of all three.
  • HC records - Biggs, Gould & Hawkins
    your winning record in league for Biggs includes just the four years and is for both the Great West and Big Sky?
  • HC records - Biggs, Gould & Hawkins
    My main memory of Gould was prior to his first game where he said that from now on, things were going to be organized, implying they weren’t before.
    And amusingly, when an opposing coach was trying to say nice things about an upcoming opponent, pretty much all he could come up with was something like “they line up in the right place”
  • 2021 Spring Playoffs
    I don’t think you can make good decisions without considering both teams. You could have a simulation which has all the performance perameters of each team and then match them up. So if your plays that gain a lot of yardage correspond to their plays that they can’t defend well you run those plays. The problem with those simulations is they a built from season statistics so once you get enough data, it’s outdated.
  • 2021 Spring Playoffs
    It depends what the stats are. If they are like Eastern Washington gives up 4 yards on average run plays on third down and less than 3. Maybe that’s useful. but if so the coach has probably sensed that from watching film.
  • 2021 Spring Playoffs
    I think the type of stats you’re looking for are taken from the set of all college teams, and as such would be unlikely to apply to one team. Whether to kick an extra point would depend on a lot of variables specific to the two teams. How the average teams do in that situation would be of little relevance. Those generic stats would be productive reading for future decisions but using them for game time decisions would be giving them more weight than they deserve.
  • 2021 Spring Playoffs
    We had severe depth issues during 2019 at running back and wide receiver. Remember Niko Harris having to play running back and then he got injured? We lost Kraft and Crawford to season ending injuries by mid season.
    On the other side of the ball we had a freshman all American become academically ineligible, lost most the veteran linebackers to graduation or injury, and filled in with JC transfers. Lots of reasons besides losing Doss for 2019’s falloff.
  • 2021 Spring Playoffs
    That’s not a movie about a guy saying we're happy to miss the medal round.
  • 2021 Spring Playoffs
    if we were competitive with everyone we would have beat some of them when the playoffs were on the line. We’re 0-8 against Eastern and what is it, maybe losing the last five to Weber? Weber’s coach says their freshmen class this year is the best they’ve ever had. We will have a struggle to make the playoffs this fall.
  • 2021 Spring Playoffs
    Rebuilding from Maier definitely, But not from Doss. How many years do we want to be missing a wide receiver who was a undrafted free agent. Every team we play losses players of that caliber frequently, it’s not something to dwell on two years later.
  • 2021 Spring Playoffs
    Liking what you got is a key to happiness.

    On the other hand, if, perchance, we had qualified, isn’t winning a championship a goal? We have no guarantee of making the playoffs in the fall; indeed the odds are against it. If we had made the playoffs it would have been a net positive.
  • Big Sky Scores, April 10
    The evolution is interesting because the single wing first gained popularity when the forward pass was made legal, but retained the ability to run the ball. Being the predominate offense for forty years or so there are almost an infinite number of variations. After it lost favor to the T, and then colleges started favoring spread formations with the direct snap and wing backs. there was a realization that the ideas behind the single wing run plays could work from the spread. With teams like ours that line up in multiple formations, why not throw in some wildcat or single wing type formations? Offenses are getting harder to classify as they're not wedded to a formation but can chose different ones. This is nothing new. Notre Dame used to switch between a T and a single Wing variant just before the snap, The wildcat, as used originally in the pros usually used the same personnel and just moved the QB out as a flanker. so a team could change with the same personnel. It’s all just a way to try to either fool the opponent or to get double team blocks at the point of attack.

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