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UberCougars said:
So, just going to ignore the fact Mom was desperately warning the school ahead of time but couldn’t find anyone to take her seriously?

We now know, FBI knew, Mom knew, School knew, Counselor knew, who else knew in advance this troubled teen was about to snap?
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Certainly warning signs. Now imagine if a 14 year old couldn’t own a semi auto gun because a state has such F,d up gun laws and the only thing we’d have to worry about is a troubled kid getting ahold of some scissors.
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Tastiest dog breed thread - poll coming

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UberCougars said:
So, just going to ignore the fact Mom was desperately warning the school ahead of time but couldn’t find anyone to take her seriously?

We now know, FBI knew, Mom knew, School knew, Counselor knew, who else knew in advance this troubled teen was about to snap?
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Busy this morning aren't you Uber?

However, I concur with you on this one. Major F-up by the school. Couldn't find the kid? Why the F weren't police called right away? Whole thing might have been prevented. Heads will probably roll.

From what I've read the school did have some pretty substantial security (2 armed resource officers?) and locking classroom doors and some sort of emergency messaging system. Probably why only 4 were killed. No idea how the kid got an AR-15 past all that to begin with.

To me the worst thing is this Dad buying his 13-year-old son an AR-15. Geezus Christ. And it was apparently readily accessible to the kid (duh). Oh and Mom wasn't exactly a saint either......
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Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

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Coug90 said:
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Washington State 37-16 Texas Tech (Sep 7, 2024) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Washington State Cougars vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders NCAAF game, final score 37-16, from September 7, 2024 on ESPN.
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We have a different definition of dominated. They out gained us, out first downed us, rushed for 5.5 a pop. Penalties and turnovers. Now those are often forced so I’m not discounting them, but they had 500 yards of offense and it wasn’t all in garbage time. I’m interested to see if we can win a bunch of games running the ball and playing bend/don’t break turnover forcing defense. Fun game, great result.
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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.
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Texas Tech at Washington State game highlights ~ 9/7/24

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Flatlandcoug said:
That first pick was 90% Hutson giving up on the ball because he flinched when he felt the DB's presence. It was not a good throw by Mateer but an actual good wide receiver goes up and gets that. Our receivers in 2001 when Gesser was QB caught those balls 90% of the time.
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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"
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Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

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CougPatrol said:
What is it then? We’re playing for the same trophy we always have.
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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
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Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

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BleedCrimsonandGray said:
the team dominated from the first score on, yet the pitching continued all during the game.

There's a lot to like. Not only can they run the ball, they took what the d was giving and did run the ball. Much better play calling that complements the match up and team strengths.
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Washington State 37-16 Texas Tech (Sep 7, 2024) Final Score - ESPN

Game summary of the Washington State Cougars vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders NCAAF game, final score 37-16, from September 7, 2024 on ESPN.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

We have a different definition of dominated. They out gained us, out first downed us, rushed for 5.5 a pop. Penalties and turnovers. Now those are often forced so I’m not discounting them, but they had 500 yards of offense and it wasn’t all in garbage time. I’m interested to see if we can win a bunch of games running the ball and playing bend/don’t break turnover forcing defense. Fun game, great result.
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Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

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UberCougars said:
OK Sparky,

Perhaps realtime reaction during games just isn’t your thing. I get that but, please, scolding fans for in-game reactions, after the game has been played, might be a little much, dontcha think?
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the team dominated from the first score on, yet the pitching continued all during the game.

There's a lot to like. Not only can they run the ball, they took what the d was giving and did run the ball. Much better play calling that complements the match up and team strengths.
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COUGinNCW said:
I was on Section 8 last night. I was the drunk guy wearing crimson.
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Apparently we should have been in your section.

I saw a gal carry nachos and try to walk past a dude doing the gator chomp on 3rd down. Guess what. Nachos went airborne. That’s on you honey, hold on to your nachos till a break in the action then go to your seat. Everyone was giving the guy grief when this gal might as well have chucked them herself. Unbelievable. It pisses me off to no end when our fans are grumpy assholes. That’s not the Coug way, I’d expect that at a Husky game.
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Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

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95coug said:
Actually, I’m going to double down on concerns -
Against Portland state, our OL wasn’t getting to the second level to run block. The way TT has played last night, there weren’t as many examples of that, but where the problem showed up was in short yardage they couldn’t consistently control the DL, and we got stuffed. Doesn’t help that our formations tend to telegraph whether we’re running or passing, so the defense can anticipate.
Mateer’s running also concerns me. For one, because it means he takes more hits than he needs to. Another issue was that a lot of his runs were not by design, but were because nobody could get open against the ‘drop 8’ and (worse) the ‘rush 3’ was getting close.
I’ll grant that the OL has gotten better by quite a bit, but I’m not prepared to agree that they’re a strength of the team. I think their improvement combined with Mateer’s decisiveness in the run game and willingness to take off is the difference - his running is masking some of their weakness (and his style is a much better fit for their play than Ward’s was).

Mateer needs to settle faster and learn some touch. stop throwing fastballs from 5 yards away, and figure out that the sidearm on the run delivery is inaccurate.
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I was watching from the stands but had a pretty good view. I couldn’t see drops as well as people probably could watching on tv. Two things I will say for sure. His scrambling ability is creating a lot more time to find receivers, and receivers are getting a ton of space as a result. Something we all knew we would see in this offense with a true running threat at QB.

The problem with that fact is he’s late getting the ball out. Several times guys were breaking open and he wouldn’t pull the trigger. I’m not even gonna argue with anyone on that, it was clear as day. If he can figure that out quickly we’ve got something really special.
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Official & Unofficial game thread of Texas Tech at WSU

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Coug90 said:
Ha, no shit. It’s a football chat board FFS, you want kumbaya unicorns and rainbows read a self help book.
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Actually, I’m going to double down on concerns -
Against Portland state, our OL wasn’t getting to the second level to run block. The way TT has played last night, there weren’t as many examples of that, but where the problem showed up was in short yardage they couldn’t consistently control the DL, and we got stuffed. Doesn’t help that our formations tend to telegraph whether we’re running or passing, so the defense can anticipate.
Mateer’s running also concerns me. For one, because it means he takes more hits than he needs to. Another issue was that a lot of his runs were not by design, but were because nobody could get open against the ‘drop 8’ and (worse) the ‘rush 3’ was getting close.
I’ll grant that the OL has gotten better by quite a bit, but I’m not prepared to agree that they’re a strength of the team. I think their improvement combined with Mateer’s decisiveness in the run game and willingness to take off is the difference - his running is masking some of their weakness (and his style is a much better fit for their play than Ward’s was).

Mateer needs to settle faster and learn some touch. stop throwing fastballs from 5 yards away, and figure out that the sidearm on the run delivery is inaccurate.
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