SDSU would have curb stomped us last season
- Thread starter LeachPack
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based on how we played I bet they beat us at least 6 times last season
I was going to post the same things. That if we played SDSU, NDSU, and UMS all year....we'd be lucky to be .500. NDSU's offensive line is how our line should look.
SDSU got blown out by the worst team in the Big-12....44-20..Oklahoma State. OSU was 0-9 in conference.
We took care of business vs. Texas Tech. Oklahoma State lost to Texas Tech.
I completely disagree that we would have lost to SDSU...we would have rolled them up.
We lost focus in November when Mateer and half our coaching staff were basically looking at other jobs and had one foot out the door.
We are backfilling a huge portion of our roster with the SDSU team that can man-handled by OSU.
These are the facts whether you like them or not.
We took care of business vs. Texas Tech. Oklahoma State lost to Texas Tech.
I completely disagree that we would have lost to SDSU...we would have rolled them up.
We lost focus in November when Mateer and half our coaching staff were basically looking at other jobs and had one foot out the door.
We are backfilling a huge portion of our roster with the SDSU team that can man-handled by OSU.
These are the facts whether you like them or not.
We would have beaten them in September and they would have beaten us in November.
In 2015. the Cougs lost to FCS Portland State in the opening game and went 9-3 the rest of the season. In 2016, the Cougs lost to FCS EWU and went 8-4 the rest of the season. Sometimes weird things happen in the first game that is not indicative of how good the team ultimately is.
I don't disagree. Losing in November wasn't a lack of talent, it was a lack of focus by our players and coaches. It was clear Arbuckle already had the Oklahoma gig lined up. Mateer was checked out and likely not wanting to get injured. Dickert proved the past few years that his team didn't adjust well as the season goes on.
Reading this thread, my first question is whether anyone on this board actually watched SDSU play this year? I kinda doubt it. I didn't. why the F would I, even if they were televised out here? which I am certain they weren't, except for maybe their playoff loss. I did watch a bunch of the FCS title game this week. Good game, good players. That's all well and good.
But there is a reason why all of these players are on FCS teams. And why very few FCS players are out there scoring big in the portal. They aren't FBS quality. SDSU's QB went to Iowa. Good for him. How many others from SDSU are going to FBS schools (WSU doesn't count), NIL or not? I'm fairly sure that number is.......zero.
I continue to laugh at the non-stop pandering emitting from Brand X. Now we have Robin Flugrad waxing on about how great new coach Everette Thompson is. They first crossed paths while Pflugrad was HC at Phoenix CC (not making this up), then again at N. Arizona, where Thompson apparently was let go during Pflugrad's asst coach tenure as he surfaced at a lower-level position at Cal Poly. You don't get promoted from DL coach to "defensive quality control coach". Oh but he's Polynesian - get him into every living room.
So I wish the best for our Cougs, and if we win say, 7-8 games I will come on this board and profess my stupidity for blasting our FCS coaching staff and many FCS players. Until then, and until I get to review the rest of the TBD coaching hires, color me beyond skeptical.
Bullshit. It was also a lack of talent.
The fact that we had no talent on the 2nd and 3rd string is was allowed the other cupcakes to be out there.
Yeah... we had 1st string talent and most of them became he/she with Vaginas. No one ready to take their minutes for becoming pussies.
But it was even worse from the coaches. I guarantee the coaches like Dickert knew they were bailing. They weren't trying to build and prove. They were packing their bags.
So disgusting that had they been getting ready to retire, the coaches would have tried harder to end on a good note.
Brand X is dusting off the pro-Paul Wulff propaganda campaign material from well over a decade ago. Themes of "rebuilding this the right way"...."the cupboard is bare"....are forthcoming if we slide back from a bowl team (which is arguably the new benchmark).
On Pflugrad, he was the recruiting architect for Doba and went for kids like Randy Estes. He passed on solid 3 star kids to come to Pullman. His mistakes were the prelude to the Paul Wulff years.
I'm actually happy we are going for coaches with Poly ties though. I think we can continue to find some diamonds in the rough with those type of kids.
Well we had 2 Poly coaches this year. One went to Utah with Parker, the other (Maile) has apparently been let go. The 2 we have brought in are underwhelming, as I have documented elsewhere. Assistant position coaches. Not position coaches - Assistant position coaches. At College of Idaho and Cal Poly.
Loyal, B-x put articles out selling Anne McCoy as the top choice for the AD with an interview from Jim Sterk.
The fact they were using Jim Sterk as the trusted voice of the past, should have been a huge red flag for any Coug that witnessed Jim Sterk single-handedly run Cougar football into the ground. That guy's legacy will be forever mishandling of Mike Price, hiring Doba and then Paul Wulff. Sterk got lucky with Tony Bennett is it was Dick who proposed the idea to Sterk.
Despite what's being publicly stated, McCoy and Schulz are building this staff on the cheap is my view. They claim some $4.5M number for assistant salaries but my guess is they will allocate that somewhere else.
Nothing we can do but hope Jimmy is the second coming of Nick Saban and he's a football coaching genius.
McCoy has totally botched the PR aspect of this hire. Very poorly done.
Yeah picking off their best couple of players is one thing. Reloading your roster with a dozen or so SDSU starters probably isn’t going to be a winning strategy. Its sorta trended that direction so we will see…
And a got an SDSU QB commit with zero other offers. The optics are bad. Feels like they are rushing just to get bodies and not evaluating players that might be available who want to be Cougs. The QB at Camas is a kid that through for a ton of yard, state 4A player of the year, and feels like a diamond in the rough. We need to load up on in-state kids annually in all sports. (In state tuition is cheaper on the budget)
