2008 National Champ

I don’t think you can discount Barnes practicing against these schemes and players for 4 years.

The ball to Parks was well underthrown and the defender did not make a good play on the ball, thus PI. Parks was not turning that throw into a TD. Which is why I call it a bad throw and potential pick. Just like I would not blame Snowden’s pick on Barnes even though it will show up in his stats.

can we at least agree on the bad pick he just threw or is that a figment of my imagination also?

gave up two 4th down conversions on this drive

took a leave of absence based on cryptic tweet from before the Baylor game. No one who knows the full story is telling

The PI was one. Don’t remember the defender that bobbled and dropped one in the first quarter. And the pass to Kuithe in the end zone should have been picked.

There’s Bernard.

add in 3 drops of potential picks by Utah State in that first half

at what point do posi-trolls become as insufferable as nega-trolls? asking for a friend

the only thing worse than getting homered is when you’re the home team. talk about every call going against you

100% mental. You end up throwing against air in a situation where you are primed to throw against coverage. It’s so easy to relax and lose your technique

publicly stated, no. The few times I’ve heard Shah mentioned or he’s been asked directly, he’s said that he was happy with his current role.

I was wondering if people had been hearing otherwise and I had missed it.

It’s often overlooked but if you think about the 4 big TD’s against SUU, all Rising did was not screw it up. Don’t get me wrong, some of the toughest throws to make are placement passes. Stanley on both his catches and two of Kuithe’s were so wide open that Rising just needed to make sure to give them time to run under the ball.

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turn it up, thank me later

Spavital – We’ve seen his offense last week and last year with Cal. At Cal under Sonny Dykes and West Virginia under Holgerson he ran wide open, pass heavy offenses. Under Wilcox and Aranda, I haven’t been impressed so perhaps it’s more about what the Head Coach wants than his specific influence. He did coach Manziel and Kyler Murray so it’s…[Read more]

has Shah ever expressed interest in the DC job? Everything I’ve seen over the years is that he is happy just coaching the corners and wasn’t looking to get stepped up.

he doesn’t need to show out. he doesn’t need to be the hero. run the plays as designed and let the other 10 guys on the offense do their jobs.

Rising looked great game one because he made the right decisions and didn’t force anything. Wilson looked bad game one because he kept going for the highest degree of difficulty. He tried to get away…[Read more]

That CCG was a tough loss but I’ve got to go with 2010 TCU. I was absolutely convinced that 2010 team was going to make another BCS run. With a win over #4 TCU and then follow it up by winning @ Notre Dame the following week.,, maybe Utah gets Auburn instead of Oregon. Probably not since TCU ended up in the Rose Bowl against Wisconsin but I had…[Read more]