LA Bowl Prediction thread
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Haener is playing, of course. I'd rather play Florida or some school like that with half the team opting out of the game or otherwise gone than a MWC champ with the whole squad intact and playing. The movement in the line reflects that, going from a pick 'em to Fresno -4.0.
I don't have a good read. There's no rational reason to expect much good for the Cougs in this, and I could see anything from something resembling last year's bowl game to the Cougs playing well out of nowhere, getting some turnovers, and winning 27-24 or something.
I don't have a good read. There's no rational reason to expect much good for the Cougs in this, and I could see anything from something resembling last year's bowl game to the Cougs playing well out of nowhere, getting some turnovers, and winning 27-24 or something.
Who’s going to be calling plays? I actually feel a little better with Morris not calling 15 tunnel screens.
I saw someone report that in a press conference, Clay McGuire said it’ll be a handful of offensive coaches calling plays, but that they’ll give Cam Ward the keys to run the show since he has more experience in this particular offense than any of the coaches. It sounded like Joel Filani may be the primary play caller.
Doesn't sound great, but at least it has a chance to be different than the screenfest.
I can think of 2 reasons.
1) More NIL $.
2) Staying in the same system and not learning a new scheme or terminology.
Otherwise I would tend to agree with you.
I don't know anything about North Texas but my guess is they have an even smaller NIL purse than WSU has.
As for scheme, Dickert says he intends to stay within the air raid tree.
If North Texas has oil $ then their NIL purse laughs at WSU.
It is possible to have a similar scheme but different terminology, expectations, fit with coaching staff, etc.
Unfortunately... I think you're right. We aren't a good enough team to have best players sit out and/or transfer
Hard to lose so many people and play our best game.
I think we are down 2 TD at the half but close the gap early in the 4th quarter. It will come down to our last possession.
If I were to guess we lose 27-23. But if that last drive goes well, we might pull it out....key stat will be rushing yards at the half. If we have more than 75, we might pull it out at the end.
I think we are down 2 TD at the half but close the gap early in the 4th quarter. It will come down to our last possession.
If I were to guess we lose 27-23. But if that last drive goes well, we might pull it out....key stat will be rushing yards at the half. If we have more than 75, we might pull it out at the end.
God wears his Coug hat and hoodie every day bro. Not just game day.
While I'm not optimistic about our chances tomorrow, I am excited to watch our young receivers get an early jump on 2023. This will probably sound like a "we didn't want him anyway" comment, but I was genuinely relieved that Stribling and Ollie entered the portal. The rumors were always present that they didn't love Pullman, and I just didn't see either of them taking the next step at this level.
I've been high on Smithson since he broke into the rotation, and I'd like to see him draw 10+ targets tomorrow. Nunnally is a kid who has a lot of raw ability, but it remains to be seen if he can develop ball skills that match his route running. Kid knows how to get open. Orion Peters is another young kid who'll be breaking into the starting the lineup.
We're lining up these 3 freshmen, along with Lincoln Victor (Jr) and Robert Ferrel (Sr). Who knows, maybe some broken routes will play to Cam Ward's strengths? F-it, go deep.
I've been high on Smithson since he broke into the rotation, and I'd like to see him draw 10+ targets tomorrow. Nunnally is a kid who has a lot of raw ability, but it remains to be seen if he can develop ball skills that match his route running. Kid knows how to get open. Orion Peters is another young kid who'll be breaking into the starting the lineup.
We're lining up these 3 freshmen, along with Lincoln Victor (Jr) and Robert Ferrel (Sr). Who knows, maybe some broken routes will play to Cam Ward's strengths? F-it, go deep.
He can't, Cam already used up his portal transfer when he transfered from Incarnate Word to WSU.
He technically can, could, but he would have to sit out for a year, according to the rules.
And Cam's NIL deal probably has a provision against transfer.
And Cam didn't do good enough to transfer, sit out a year, AND still be a starter.
Cam will still likely be the starter here at WSU, still has a awesome NIL deal here at WSU, and is likely to improve, get better QB coach, coaching, development, OC play calling, and with everything WSU has, WSU Cam probably still wins 8,9,10,11,12 games next season.
Cam would have to either be stupid, or get a way the hell better NIL deal to transfer.
Cam is NOT BLOODY DAMN LIKELY transferring.
NOT GONA HAPPEN.
Dunno. Maybe boosters would rather pay for kids than pay for a HC?
Is V. Lane Rawlins still there? That’d explain it.
Someone is not very aware of the improvement factor.
This OL is NOT very experienced. They are mostly EITHER freshmen, sophomores, with little to no experience mixed in with 1 junior, 1 senior, that have little real game playing time, etc.
Also the YOUNG, INEXPERIENCED, etc, OL, has had a lot of INJURIES, and is CURRENTLY BANGED UP, INJURED, and held together by BANDAGES, and DUCT TAPE.
And Kingston, who really is good, and would really help, is also INJURED, OUT.
There may be equally, or more banged up, injured, etc, O Lines in College Footballdom, that are doing ok, but they are the ALABAMA TYPES, not the WSU types.
Also Clay has been a TERRIBLY BAD OL COACH.
BECAUSE OF ALL THE ABOVE, this year's OL, will be improved, better, more experienced, weathered, hardened, etc, NEXT YEAR, NEXT SEASON, then this year's line.
Also college players improve most, their going from freshmen, SOPHMORE years to Junior, Senior years.
Also if improvement didn't happen, then during the Mike Price years, after the 3-8 years when WSU, Price would have a bad O Line, like this year's O Line, WSU, Price, wouldn't have gone 8-3 the next year, next season, etc, if his BAD O Line hadn't improved.
I know this improvement doesn't always happen, like with Paul WULF's O Line.
But that O Line was EPICALLY BAD, getting beat 69-0, and going 1-11 for the season, instead of, compared to this season's O Line, that tho had the defense, still technically won 7 games, instead of only 1 game, didn't get beat 69-0, and helped have good performances at times, like the 52 to 14 BLOW OUT of PAC 12 STANFORD.
The reason why WULF's line didn't improve, is that it was a BIG SKY level O Line. And that line was for the most part, a uninjured, unbanged up line, so it was not injuries, but rather the players, that weren't very good, and were UNLIKELY to improve.
Another reason was the DEPTH was terrible.
But Dickert's O line players are better, and therefore more likely to Improve, and they were injured, but despite that, still put up 52 vs Stanford, and 40+ vs Oregon.
So because of that Dickert's O Line is LIKELY to improve.
Also Dickert got BOTH 1 JC OL, and 1 non JC, Transfer Portal OL, that look good, and between that, and Kingston, and Stephen, and the rest of the OL that will probably improve, next season's OL will probably be better, just fine, ok, etc, and probably good enough to get 8,9,10,11, etc, wins, next season, provided Cam also improves, OR Mateer does good, OR WSU gets a GOOD Transfer QB, and provided that WSU gets a good WR, and at least 1 GOOD LB, to replace losing all 3 of Henly, Travion Brown, Fred Magoa.
Jesus. Reminder to self: when watching a game like this, never hit the “show ignored content” button.
Man, the ABC tv production team sucks big time. Sound going in and out and the split screen with Kimmel and the lame announcers going on & on. Jesus, they know to make this suck!
