AC w/o the mutts: yea or nay?

Tony Bennett’s recruit Blake Buchanan had 19 points but our walk-on post LaBeau from Boise was the leading scorer with 22.

Don’t want to read to much into it but its nice to see!

Coach Smith has put together a pretty solid stable of walk-on players. Not sure if they’ll ever be more than practice players buts it’s nice to see. The twins apparently have each grown 2 inches and put on 15 lbs according to the official roster. Also Rohosy is now listed an inch taller and 10 pounds heavier.

I hadn't looked at Massey's ratings this year but I checked it out today. The good news is that our schedule is pretty damned manageable if we don't suck. Following is his breakdown:

Easy wins: CSU, N Colorado, Arizona, Stanford and Colorado
Close wins: ASU, Cal
Close losses: OSU, UCLA
Likely losses: Wisconsin, Oregon, UW

He says we beat CSU by 19, N. Colorado by 39, Arizona by 10, Stanford by 8 and Colorado by 20. His ratings are based on the past performance of teams so the Buffaloes are obviously a bit of a mystery at this point. ASU and Cal are road games and we'd be favored to beat both of them by a touchdown or more in Pullman.

OSU and UCLA are games that would be tossups in Pullman. Personally, I think UCLA is going to struggle this year. It looks like they may be starting a true freshman at QB. Their opening schedule is squishy soft and they'll probably start 3-0 but they face Utah right before they play us. I think it's a game that we have a great opportunity to win.

Massey is predicting yet another 7-5 finish for the Cougs and that wouldn't be the end of the world. Obviously a lot has to happen the right way for that to pan out.

on an update from Kyle Smith. Good stuff.

Did everyone see the new promotion by the donkoes? They are giving away free tickets to fans who attend home wins and go to the next game too. Their home games are against UCF...who will bring no fans, FCS North Dakota, a terrible San Jose St team, a terrible Wyoming team, a terrible New Mexico team and Air Force when the weather is likely going to be terrible. The computers are suggesting a close loss in the game against UCF....but it's free tickets for the rest of the year if they get over that hump.


Half of their regular season home games failed to sell out last year and only 24,000 people showed up for their MWC championship game in their home stadium. Looks like WSU isn't the only place that isn't pulling in fans when the cold weather strikes or for less popular opponents.

A look here:

2023 PRESEASON ALL-PAC-12 CONFERENCE FOOTBALL TEAM

* Will be representing their school at Pac-12 Media Day.

ALL-PAC-12 HONORABLE MENTION (received votes from four or more members of the media):

QUARTERBACK: *Bo Nix, Oregon

RUNNING BACK: Michael Wiley, Arizona; Cameron Skattebo, Arizona St.; Austin Jones, USC; Nakia Watson, Washington St.

WIDE RECEIVER: Tetairoa McMillan, Arizona; Jeremiah Hunter, California; *Travis Hunter, Colorado; Troy Franklin, Oregon

TIGHT END: *Jalin Conyers, Arizona St.; Terrance Ferguson, Oregon;

OFFENSIVE LINE: Jonah Savaiinaea, Arizona; Matthew Cindric, California; Sioape Vatikani, California; Jackson Powers-Johnson, Oregon; Josh Conerly, Jr., Oregon; Ajani Cornelius, Oregon; Heneli Bloomfield, Oregon St.; Garrett DiGiorgio, UCLA; Duke Clemens, UCLA; Michael Mokofisi, Utah; Roger Rosengarten, Washington

DEFENSIVE LINE: Brett Johnson, California; Jordan Burch, Oregon; James Rawls, Oregon St.; Bear Alexander, USC; Kyon Barrs, USC; Jonah Elliss, Utah

LINEBACKER: Justin Flowe, Arizona; *Jeffrey Bassa, Oregon; Eason Mascarenas-Arnold, Oregon St.; David Bailey, Stanford; Shane Lee, USC; *Edefuan Ulofoshio, Washington; Alphonzo Tuputala, Washington

DEFENSIVE BACK: Ro Torrence, Arizona State; Jeremiah Earby, California; Patrick McMorris, California; Trikweze Bridges, Oregon; Nikko Reed, Oregon; Ryan Cooper, Oregon St.; Christian Roland-Wallace, USC; JaTravis Broughton, Utah; Zemaiah Vaughn, Utah; Asa Turner, Washington; Jaden Hicks, Washington State

PLACE KICKER: Tyler Loop, Arizona; Dean Janikowski, Washington St.

PUNTER: Kyle Ostendorp, Arizona; Lachlan Wilson, California; Mark Vassett, Colorado

ALL-PURPOSE/SPECIAL TEAMS: Slater Zellers, Arizona St.; Jesiah Irish, Oregon St.; Jaden Green, Washington

RETURN SPECIALIST: Jimmy Horn, Jr., Colorado; Raleek Brown, USC

I find it rather interesting that in Twitter Land, almost all of the Arizona Fans & about 60% of the Colorado Fans desperately want to move to Big12.

Arizona Fan is very puzzling. Outside of Men’s Hoops, they have struggled in what many consider the weaker of the two conferences (PAC-12) in all sports for years. So by moving to a stronger conference top to bottom, they magically get better & become nationally relevant?? I just don’t see it working that way. Big12 Hoops would take away their one stranglehold they have left as an annual powerhouse.

At some point, wins on the field has to drive the boat. Ask Nebraska, Mizzou, & soon to be Oklahoma/Texas how their brand & fan apathy is doing.

Nice update!

Washington beats WSU with Sailgating vs the Gameday Flag tradition.

A BIG Nothing and from seeing an article the Pac-12 presidents and chancellors appear very comfortable with that situation of we doing nothing at this point. Media day is approaching and nothing will be reported. What a bunch of horse crap!

the commit list so far is a collection of kids without many offers from schools on the pac 12 level. weber state etc.. show up alot.
this could change but could also be a sign that we are losing the battle on recruits

as the AD or coach you would have represent university of Arizona?

On Friday JDL will be one of the players answering questions from the press.

Not going to link the news reports but they fire their FB and Baseball coaches this week over hazing and harassment charges? Good Gawd!

I had to Google them to find out WTF they even are. 12 miles North of Chicago. How is that "Northwestern"??

Picked up by the Miami heat for there summer league. Undrafted but 42% from 3 and his A/TO and size gets him a look at least.

Scroll down to see the clip from Heather Dinich. Not beautiful, but kind of a cutie. And intelligent. Unlike 90% of this board. We are so F-ing this up.

My ex gf just sent me this. I was at this game. Duck fans are the worst, I had more Ducks fans trying to
fight me...and I'm like we're not even rivals you jackass. Plus you don't know your fight song.

It was great

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I would say it’s about right on

Generally think he's a good coach. Not sure why he didn't have a better handle on what his players were doing, but feel like this got out of hand very quickly in the media.

Someone here recently asked for some new threads that weren't political, but something of interest since football stuff is so dead. Well, except for all the speculation on the coming (or not) implosion of the PAC 8/10/12/14/16 Conference. So here is one I have been meaning to post for a while now.....

Let's hear your nominations for singers that had a great career in spite of having a poor voice. Here is a start-add your own or take potshots:

Male
Bob Dylan
Rod Stewart
Johnny Cash
Neal Young
Leon Redbone
Joe Walsh
Joe Cocker
Tom Waits

Female
Janis Joplin
Melissa Etheridge


I considered adding Eric Clapton, David Gimour, and Mark Knopfler (allheavy favorites of mine) to the list but decided they just missed the cut.

Cole went in the 3rd round (85th overall) to the SF Giants. Pretty cool.