WSU is not and never was a CFP team. There was a loss coming somewhere, just did not know where. The last couple games where it is better to be lucky than good. Well the luck ran out against New Mexico. NM found a soft spot and abused it, like any team should. Glad we can put this CFP story to rest.

ttowncoug said:

Maybe not, but the fact is:
1. Team was up and defense played great vs. UW.
2. Team has been flat the post Apple Cup and to me it's consistency and discipline.

The Mike Leach reference was he'd be on his kids weekly to treat every game like a championship game. Same mentality that went into the Apple Cup win, goes into the New Mexico second half.

As for the offensive strategy, it wasn't until late in the 4th until they started to take what the defense was giving them. It was the quick hitters and taking "chunk yards." If we do that earlier in the 3rd, we are up by 7 points to win the game.

That said, our defense just isn't getting it done. Jake is a defensive coach. Same players that beat UW. What is different? Lines up with mentality, discipline and coaching style.

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Jakes a defensive coach but he has a defensive coordinator on his staff to coordinate and call the defense. I would expect after that game he will make a change in the offseason. This is not Dickerts defense and I’m sure he’s more disgusted with the plan and execution than anyone here is.

Ultimately it falls on him so it will be up to him to find the right coaches to get back on track. There’s clearly a talent issue as well. Durant is a perfect example. How many times has he been caught flat footed and had receivers blow by him. You can scheme all you want, if your players look like that they shouldn’t be playing.

Loyal Coug1 said:

Not sure that using the Apple Cup and Mike Leach is a good analogy........

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Maybe not, but the fact is:
1. Team was up and defense played great vs. UW.
2. Team has been flat the post Apple Cup and to me it's consistency and discipline.

The Mike Leach reference was he'd be on his kids weekly to treat every game like a championship game. Same mentality that went into the Apple Cup win, goes into the New Mexico second half.

As for the offensive strategy, it wasn't until late in the 4th until they started to take what the defense was giving them. It was the quick hitters and taking "chunk yards." If we do that earlier in the 3rd, we are up by 7 points to win the game.

That said, our defense just isn't getting it done. Jake is a defensive coach. Same players that beat UW. What is different? Lines up with mentality, discipline and coaching style.

The problem is we can't recruit

ttowncoug said:

This what is clearly lacking. We are good at times but we lack consistency. This is on Jake and how they coach. Too emotional on the good wins. See Apple cup. Doesn’t leave me thinking performances like SDSU are not acceptable.

Leach was much better in this area

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Not sure that using the Apple Cup and Mike Leach is a good analogy........

ATACFD said:

Palouse Pussies? That's sadly appropriate. Honestly, someone needs to post that in the locker room and let everyone on D stare at it for 10 minutes. The coordinators for 30 minutes. Maybe that will make a difference. Of course, I'm older and come from a time where a coach could use shame as a motivator for improvement.....

As for the timeout debate there is no general rule. It's very situation specific. You have to take into account all factors. I agree with 90 and others that given that the defense was shiite, and odds were high NM would score, we need to have as much time left as possible. If we have a minute left there's a good chance we score. One factor that hasn't been mentioned is that NM still had 2 time outs themselves under a minute if I recall correctly. So us NOT calling a time out with the hopes that they would run out of time is just dumb. There's other nuances to that but I don't feel like writing a longer novel....

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They cant do it. They aren’t strong enough to play knock back, physical football. Yelling and shaming won’t help them. They need coaches that can scheme it up.

They dont have those coaches.

The CoftRW drinks the rat poison like Jonestown koolaid.

UberCougars said:

Great teams win. This team lost.

Cinderella has left the stadium.

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This is just lack of focus and discipline.


They thought they won at half time and were out coached and out played.

Great teams win. This team lost.

Cinderella has left the stadium.

M-I-Coug said:

They are a blast and convenient for football games. Lot's or work though. Fun work, but they are work.

Actually, we had so many great memories. Favorite state park is Steamboat Rock.

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Either be handy or wealthy because there is always something. Lots of small stuff. My biggest gripe is the $2500/yr for storage.

Stretch 74 said:

Realizing that WSU was playing with the Palouse Pussies in the second half and not the Palouse Posse..........

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Palouse Pussies? That's sadly appropriate. Honestly, someone needs to post that in the locker room and let everyone on D stare at it for 10 minutes. The coordinators for 30 minutes. Maybe that will make a difference. Of course, I'm older and come from a time where a coach could use shame as a motivator for improvement.....

As for the timeout debate there is no general rule. It's very situation specific. You have to take into account all factors. I agree with 90 and others that given that the defense was shiite, and odds were high NM would score, we need to have as much time left as possible. If we have a minute left there's a good chance we score. One factor that hasn't been mentioned is that NM still had 2 time outs themselves under a minute if I recall correctly. So us NOT calling a time out with the hopes that they would run out of time is just dumb. There's other nuances to that but I don't feel like writing a longer novel....

LoveJeffersonFanClub said:

My parents bought an rv years ago. Got another one later. I've learned that I'm never getting an rv.

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They are a blast and convenient for football games. Lot's or work though. Fun work, but they are work.

Actually, we had so many great memories. Favorite state park is Steamboat Rock.

95coug said:

Until last night, I thought we had an offense that maybe belonged in the top 25, and a defense firmly entrenched in the bottom 10.

But, a top 25 offense doesn’t get shut down like that by a bad UNM offense, which by the way had half its secondary banged up.

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Yup, the D sucked but I don’t watch those games and blame the defense. We knew the D sucked going into the game. We knew the D sucked at halftime. Our offense did whatever they wanted to in the first half and should have been fully capable of driving down to start the third quarter and effectively ending the game. But they F’d around and couldn’t get it back on track.

CougPatrol said:

I thought the scheme was atrocious yesterday. We sat in the same ineffective 4-3 defense the entire 2nd half. Bill Doba would have never allowed them to keep gutting us with the same 3 plays. He would have changed to a 5-man front and said FU, run something else.

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Are you serious . Oregon in 2001 had two backs over 200 yards for a total of 446. He made no adjustments and because the wind was so strong Harrington couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

It was one week later we played UCLA and the leading rusher in the country in Foster. He finally made an adjustment where he went to 5 down lineman .

So I know people look way better over time, but they all seem slow to adjust.

And before you claim it is New Mexico, they run such an unconventional offense i would think people would understand it is a horrible match up on top of the DE not holding an edge.

My parents bought an rv years ago. Got another one later. I've learned that I'm never getting an rv.

dgibbons said:

Responding to one of your pathetic posts is not stalking you.

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Let's see stalker. Just in this thread I learned that I am ignorant, desperate and pathetic. Appreciate the insight. And here I thought that I was just fine. What revelations!

So why don't you just f-ing ignore my posts? I ignore yours (as does most of the board) except when you come out of nowhere just to insult me. Not anyone else, just me. So yeah you are a stalker. Creep.

BSpike76 said:

My son bought one to haul his car and sleep in when racing 2 years ago. What a POS. The frame stated cracking before 1,000 miles. He was lucky enough to be able to sue and get his money back. The welds looked they had been done by someone who didn’t know how to weld. Just a few globs here and there.

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This is exactly what I'm talking about. There is no quality regulation or certification, like the aerospace or auto industry. These RV manufactures can build, (and brag about how long they've been in business, Signature Series, even with the founder's signature inside the door), and a $1,000,000 MSRP price tag, while the build quality is pathetic, and downright shameful. Leaky ceilings and roofs, frames cracking, showers's leaking, consistant water intrusion, mold, mildew and welding nightmares.

I don't care if it's a Thor or an Airstream, they're all guilty. What's funny is you think the more it cost the higher quality. Not true with an RV. Unregulated nightmare ready to happen.

There needs to be a reform in the industry, and the dealers are the middle man. They're not the manufacture, and most of the time, if the root cause is poor workmanship from the factory, they can't do anything about it, even though it's in warranty.

Non responsive phone calls or emails, or delayed responses and expensive new rigs sitting for months to get reworked or repaired, all while in warranty! Can you imagine if you're on the road, on vacation, retired, or RV'ing full time, and you have a major breakdown due to a manufacturing defect? It actually happens all the time. You're basically shut down. Good luck with a quick remediation, because its unheard of, even though the dealer says..."we're here for you". When the owners' (victims) are at their last wits, they go to Liz. Then it finally gets attention and responsiveness.

Because of Liz, basically a consumer advocate with her YouTube channel, she indeed gets a response from the executives stepping up with lip service, after a painful act of congress of extensive suffering from their victims, customers.

Run don't walk.

What's funny is that Liz started her channel about 7 years ago just traveling in her RV full time, making episodes about her life...living in an RV. She even changed rigs about 4 times. We've been following her from the beginning.

About a year ago, after doing a hundred travel episodes, because of consumers in peril with serious quality issues, she turned from an RV travel channel to an RV consumer advocate channel. As a result, she's more popular than ever.

chipdouglas said:

This is interesting. I was actually 99% on purchasing a new Airstream 25 until about 2-3 weeks ago (even bought a new Sequoia exclusively to tow it) but - even if I pay all cash and the mechanical is sound - the monthly cash flow equation was just outrageous.

I can afford it, but storage, insurance, taxes (annual where I live), maintenance/repairs was just way beyond what I would have gotten back out of it. Glad I skipped; planning on spending that on better vacations now.

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We bought a new travel trailer 1-1/2 ago. Used it the first three weekends we had it then never again. Wasn’t our thing. Sold it on consignment at a huge loss.

M-I-Coug said:

You forgot about getting downgraded from a Power 4 to a G5.

Not sure if you're serious about the RV thing, but you better buy used and hire a good independent inspector. I'm sure you know the RV industry is in peril going through a tragic serious tailspin? Avoid buying new at all costs, and I don't care if it's a $25K Travel Trailer, a $100K 5th wheel, or a $800K motorhome.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, hit the Subscribe button for Liz Amazing, on her YouTube channel, and you'll thank me later.

Personally, we used to own a nice travel trailer in 2003, (quality was fine back then), I would avoid new RV's at all costs, until the unregulated quality issues have serious quality reform and accountability.

It's a complete total nightmare....with all manufactures and price points. I'm only referring to new builds.

Liz Amazing

An RV consumer advocate shining the light on the good and the bad of the RV industry. Fridays at 5pm Eastern Time.

www.youtube.com

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My son bought one to haul his car and sleep in when racing 2 years ago. What a POS. The frame stated cracking before 1,000 miles. He was lucky enough to be able to sue and get his money back. The welds looked they had been done by someone who didn’t know how to weld. Just a few globs here and there.

chipdouglas said:

This is interesting. I was actually 99% on purchasing a new Airstream 25 until about 2-3 weeks ago (even bought a new Sequoia exclusively to tow it) but - even if I pay all cash and the mechanical is sound - the monthly cash flow equation was just outrageous.

I can afford it, but storage, insurance, taxes (annual where I live), maintenance/repairs was just way beyond what I would have gotten back out of it. Glad I skipped; planning on spending that on better vacations now.

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Yeah, it's smarter to just spend your vacation money on hotels, Airbnb, or VRBO's than buying a new RV and dealing with the nightmare of rework and repairs, with months and months of headaches.

Hope this has helped. The more you watch Liz Amazing, and the victims who are suffering, the more you'll want to run.

BleedCrimsonandGray said:

So 5 sub par DL is better than 4 sub par DL?

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When we can’t line up before the snap does it really matter?

Loyal Coug1 said:

If it's not about me, why do you keep stalking me? We have a fun thread going, talking about cars and trucks. But you interject yourself simply and only to insult me. So who is the desperate one?

Still not telling us what you drive.

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Responding to one of your pathetic posts is not stalking you.

Too many turnovers and there was zero flow in the game. Still playing a lot of players, but nobody really stepping up to consistently make shots beyond E Villa. It was good to see J Villa knock down a few 3s in the 2nd half after turning down an open 3 in the 1st half. We seem to play a bit tight and sloppy at the same time. Not a good combo.

Iowa in a week. No more Clark, but they are still really good.

M-I-Coug said:

You forgot about getting downgraded from a Power 4 to a G5.

Not sure if you're serious about the RV thing, but you better buy used and hire a good independent inspector. I'm sure you know the RV industry is in peril going through a tragic serious tailspin? Avoid buying new at all costs, and I don't care if it's a $25K Travel Trailer, a $100K 5th wheel, or a $800K motorhome.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, hit the Subscribe button for Liz Amazing, on her YouTube channel, and you'll thank me later.

Personally, we used to own a nice travel trailer in 2003, (quality was fine back then), I would avoid new RV's at all costs, until the unregulated quality issues have serious quality reform and accountability.

It's a complete total nightmare....with all manufactures and price points. I'm only referring to new builds.

Liz Amazing

An RV consumer advocate shining the light on the good and the bad of the RV industry. Fridays at 5pm Eastern Time.

www.youtube.com

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This is interesting. I was actually 99% on purchasing a new Airstream 25 until about 2-3 weeks ago (even bought a new Sequoia exclusively to tow it) but - even if I pay all cash and the mechanical is sound - the monthly cash flow equation was just outrageous.

I can afford it, but storage, insurance, taxes (annual where I live), maintenance/repairs was just way beyond what I would have gotten back out of it. Glad I skipped; planning on spending that on better vacations now.