ironman1315

Not in the Big 12. Our secondary is good. And our OL…I’m ok if Utah decides to move on from Harding. I was always a “give Harding two years with his recruiting”. Well, it’s been 2 extra years and I’m not blown away. It’s ok to keep him. He’s ok. It’s ok to move on from him…because he’s ok.

Good point. I’ve never been in the Johnson camp either. I’m in the “pray for Rose or Rising” camp.

That being said, if it’s Barnes or Johnson…eh. We are in trouble. Then I think I’m in the Barnes with Johnson running 20 plays a game camp.

9-3

This. No Jackson and Barnes = no offense. We either need Jackson to get healthy fast or a new QB.

If Rising comes back, this is a playoff team next year.

Barnes was good because the defense had to stop the run. Jackson is so much better than we give him credit for. When he was healthy and getting 6-7 yards a run, we can beat USC. When Jackson’s hurt, like OSU, Baylor games, Barnes isn’t good enough.

Once Jackson went down and we kept Barnes in, we were screwed.

Barnes is what he is. Tons of hea…[Read more]

Outside of Seattle wearing red!

I’m not sure we win. But I am sure that we will beat the shit out of them. I’m excited. Let’s pop these guys.

It’s the corp they all belong to. When that corp infantilizes their members…we can’t be surprised when their adults act like kids.

The Hog.

That video is so Oregon. I just watched that whole video…saw many different uniforms…and still have no idea what they hell they are wearing.

I agree about the LB’s. The Barton loss is huge. BUT, we have some great LB’s on this team. While Damuni isn’t as good as Barton, he’s great. He carried Stanford’s defense at times the last few years. And he knows the defense now. I don’t think there will be that big of a drop off.

I say let Vaki do what he wants to do. There is probably more money for him at the next level at Safety. And playing RB beats the crap out of your body. If he’d rather be a Safety, then do what we did against USC. 10 or so touches in the right spots.

If he wants to move to RB full time, then by all means, be our RB.

But I’d bet he stays at Safety.

I can’t wait for USC to enter the B1G. They are the fourth best program, at best. Ohio State, Michigan and Penn St are all ahead of them.

You could even argue Oregon and UW are equal/ahead of them. That would drop them down to 7th best team.

Then you have the “Utah” teams. Tough defense in a hostile environment: Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota,…[Read more]

My wife stated in the USC game: “The fact that a false start has been called and I immediately asked if it was #52…that’s bad, right?”

You have to remember that Whitt looks at everything through a DC lens. UW has better offensive numbers, but they are really reliant on the pass game. Whereas Oregon can run for 250 yards and beat you or throw for 300 yards and beat you or have Nix run for 100 and throw for 200 and beat you.

You can’t really take something away from Oregon like…[Read more]

Ha. My first thought was “no way. Dude lies about everything, you don’t need that negative noise around Utah.”

But the soon reaction. That would be beautiful.

It boils down to this:

We don’t have a dynamic throw game. If we can’t run up the middle, we can’t do anything. If we can run up the middle, it opens everything up for us.

We can play action, we can give our receivers enough time to get open, we can run predictable passing routes for Barnes.

If we can’t run up the middle, the defense spreads…[Read more]

You are absolutely right. Look. We will always recruit behind USC, UCLA, UW and Oregon.

In the Big 12, we are the best recruiting team by a few spots.

We go from history and elite institutions (on and off the field) to us being the cream of the crop.

It’s not ideal. BUT, the people seem cool, the fans are excited and I think it will be f…[Read more]

One of two things will happen:

Oregon will shut down our run game, our offense will be awful and we get destroyed.

OR

Both teams come in, both teams play great defense, and it’s a slog with a TO being returned for a TD and the winning team winning some fucked up score like 11-15 or 26-23.