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Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

And some of our fans pretend that we wouldn’t have done the same thing to them if we were given the opportunity.

Apple Cup is the single biggest sporting event in WSU history by a massive margin. That’s not the case for UW. They sell out for many of their home games.

We couldn’t even crack 28k for a solid home game vs. Texas Tech and some of our fans want to cancel the game. LOL, and replace it with what? The only P4 school that will consistently (if ever) visit Pullman is UW.
The Apple Cup no longer exists. It should be referenced in the past tense.

Just saying.

Texas Tech at Washington State game highlights ~ 9/7/24

Hutson is actually quite good, electric. And MOST of the time he is pretty semi good, decent, ok, semi awesome, etc.

But at occasional semi uncommon to semi rare times, he is going to drop balls, not do what he should have done to prevent that INT, etc.

That's the price WSU will pay for the PSU Hutson that made amazing catches, ran good routes, had awesome speed, shiftyness, YAC, etc.
I agree. He’s a good player, he just got alligator arms there. It might happen again, he may not be the right guy to be sending over the middle on routes where a guy has to be willing to take a shot. Some guys go for that ball, some don’t doesn’t mean they aren’t good players. Gabe marks woulda gone for that with zero consideration of his body. Marquis Wilson probably makes the same decision Hutson did.

Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

Curious:

Why won’t UW fans support their team while playing in their own home town against an in state opponent 5 miles from campus?
They are losing fans. Their replacing of in state students with out of state and internationals is catching up to them. They pay a shit ton of money for a degree and feel no loyalty to the university thereafter. That doesn’t lend itself to future support, attendance at games, etc.

Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

Damnit, I forgot my defensive concerns. Rushing lanes were too big, our interior DL can’t control them and our LBs are out of position too much. 7-8 yards up the middle consistently, getting stopped by the safeties es no bueno.
Too many times giving up yards on the outside, especially on little screens and outside throws, relying on inside out pursuit for LBs when there’s only 2 of them on the field. Our corners did come up big on some of those plays in short yardage though, so maybe that got addressed.
What was really bothering me late though was the pillowy soft playcalling on a couple of TT drives. We went from making them work for yards to basically surrendering 12 yards a pop, with predictable results. We had some cushion at that point, but the game was not over. Our offense hadn’t been terribly effective in the previous drives and it really looked like surrendering momentum. It worked out, but in the moment I didn’t like it at all.

Also wondering if janikowski got kicked in the nuts or something. He’s usually pretty reliable, but last night was not his night.
I'd like to say taking on the punting duties while Faberer is out has distracted him. Shrug emoji.

Texas Tech at Washington State game highlights ~ 9/7/24

dafuq with the squib kicks? was that some kind in homage to CML to give all the fans ptsd again?
Their return guy took 2 of them back 60+ yards in week 1, so my guess is we just weren’t kicking to him. Worked out ok on the opening kick, but after that we were really just surrendering decent field position.

I remember one of the squib kicks, the guy who received it had plenty of opportunity to lateral to their returner, who had a lane. Fortunately he didn’t notice.

Texas Tech at Washington State game highlights ~ 9/7/24

dafuq with the squib kicks? was that some kind in homage to CML to give all the fans ptsd again?

Especially since the Kicker Ryan Harris can, does kick the ball either 7 yards deep into endzone, or out of end zone or out of stadium.

I understand, get that if he pooch it right, and if the special teams coverage is good enough, etc, that can put it on the 3 to 23 yard line. But that can be very risky. Especially when the other team has one of the best kick returners in the whole entire nation.

I would rather Ryan, WSU, Dickert, special teams coach boot it to either 1 yard line, 6 yards deep into end zone, out the end zone, out of stadium, and have opposing offense start at 25 every time, then to pooch kick it to 13 to 25 to 33, and have offense start at 33 to 43 to 53 to in FG range, to in the red zone, to a kick return TD, etc.

Pooching it just does not make sense most of the time, so don't get why it was being done a lot.

Way past time for WSU, coaching staff, Ryan to stop doing that, stop pooching it.

Just blast the thing into the end zone, out back of endzone and beyond, have opposing offenses start at the 25, etc.

Texas Tech at Washington State game highlights ~ 9/7/24

I just watched the whole thing and agree 110% on the pick. Which I missed last night, was late turning the game on. WTF was Hutson doing? He sensed the DB and basically stopped. Hell he could have caught that ball. Or gotten a PI call. Even offensive PI would have been preferable. Add in his drop(s/) and he is not on my list of guys who should be out there.

Couple of other thoughts:
  • Love the under-center plays, especially the I formation. I think we saw under center and I formation under Leach - let's see - never?
  • Mateer beating the defenders to the corner twice was amazing. Kid has some wheels
  • While Mateer seemed to bail and run a little often, hey if it's open take the sure thing. F- 'em. As he said postgame, "I don't think they'll be dropping 8 anymore"

Hutson is actually quite good, electric. And MOST of the time he is pretty semi good, decent, ok, semi awesome, etc.

But at occasional semi uncommon to semi rare times, he is going to drop balls, not do what he should have done to prevent that INT, etc.

That's the price WSU will pay for the PSU Hutson that made amazing catches, ran good routes, had awesome speed, shiftyness, YAC, etc.

Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

You keep striving to make us playing fuw a big deal.

F*ck em. They F*cked us.

No reason to be in the same room with them.

We aren't going to make a zillion dollars playing them. I'm still awestruck how anyone wants to give any money to Seattle.

We'd be doing better to play at Auburn like Cal did or having a game at home against Grambling State.

The Apple Cup is dead
And some of our fans pretend that we wouldn’t have done the same thing to them if we were given the opportunity.

Apple Cup is the single biggest sporting event in WSU history by a massive margin. That’s not the case for UW. They sell out for many of their home games.

We couldn’t even crack 28k for a solid home game vs. Texas Tech and some of our fans want to cancel the game. LOL, and replace it with what? The only P4 school that will consistently (if ever) visit Pullman is UW.
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I love this. Perfect way to view this game and state of the program.

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yeah, well... he's the only one who thinks that. the court of public opinion has rendered their judgement: We're G5 and we're punching up every time.

Oh, but eternally ZERO credit for competing at the highest level despite our disadvantages and financially and resource-wise being G5.

Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

Good guess. I considered that as well. It was 1930, tho...9-0

And as far as "this isn't the apple cup", while I get what you're getting at, I do think the winner gets possession of it.

If we win, would you say "don't take it"?
No if we win we take it and set fire to it and bury it somewhere it won’t be found. F UW and F the AC.
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