My hope the last 2 games of the regular season....

[PlayerRep]

Okay, GrizRule, I will respond to several things you said.

Regarding the first pick, I agree that JJ must not have seen the linebacker. Had he waited a split second to make the throw, it probably would have been a TD. However, the fact that the linebacker was in the position, and able to drop into coverage and not be seen by JJ, was mainly because UM was throwing over the middle.

I don't find the offenses of NFL teams to have much relevance to college football. The NFL and college games are too dissimilar, in my view. Apples and oranges. Different schemes and different quality of personnel.

I have no particular views on great offensive football or championship offensive football. I just want college teams that will figure out a way to win, with defense, offense, special teams, elimination of mistakes, and having the desire, will and heart to win games. Offenses depend on coaches, personnel, conferences, etc. In college ball at the FCS level, most teams don't have enough schollies and personnel to have great offenses and defenses. Some teams allocate more to one side of the ball, to the detriment of the other side of the ball. I am fine with a team like NDSU, which found a way to recruit alot of stud player on their lines and elsewhere, and have had great success with a power (not dynamic or exciting) offense and a very good defense. Generally, I think a team wins more games with a strong defense than a prolific offense, but I'm happy with a team that finds a way to get it done anyway they want.

I am going to support the team, players and coaches alike, no matter what. I am going to be positive almost all of the time. I don't wear maroon colored glasses. I often express disappointment, negative comments and criticisms. Maybe you should pay more attention to what I actually say, instead of saying things that aren't what I said or making general "maroon colored glasses" comments.

 

[first11]

Best predictor of future behavior is past performance, as a general rule

Doing basically the same thing over and over, expecting a different result is at best an un imaginative approach leading to dysfunction

We seem to lack innovation and utilizing our best athletes in situations that best accommodate their skills

For me as former player, instructor and coach........frustrating!

 

['68griz]

Best predictor of future behavior is past performance, as a general rule

Doing basically the same thing over and over, expecting a different result is at best an un imaginative approach leading to dysfunction

We seem to lack innovation and utilizing our best athletes in situations that best accommodate their skills

For me as former player, instructor and coach........frustrating!

I totally agree. I will support the Griz until the day I die, but that does NOT mean I will not be frustrated by a coaching staff that keeps doing the same "wrong" thing again and again, and expecting that, somehow, the outcome will be different. I believe the Griz athletes are being improperly utilized by this coaching staff.

 

[Potomac Griz]

Potomac, I am tired of your inability to read.

You know what your post was implying. Everyone who responded to it knows that too as you can see from the replies. If that's not what you meant then maybe you need to do a better job communicating so you aren't the poor misunderstood PR

Moving on...

Feel free to go back and see when our offense has been it's best this season and moved the ball most consistently? It has been when they have mixed in some quick passes and used the middle of the field more often.

That's what's so frustrating for a lot of fans. We get to see glimpses of how good the offense can look only to have it return to the same-ol same-ol again. In three years we've seen what they always revert to only is capable of winning games against mediocre to bad opponents. In games against good opponents we are left trying to find any positives in the losses.

Like I said in an earlier post, if we do the same-ol same-ol against the Cats for most of the game it'll likely have similar results to what we saw in the EWU game (unless the Cats are in their end of season slide of course :lol. Statistically the Cats and EWU are very similar. The Cats pass D (just like EWUs) is bad...very bad. Our talent on offense is perfectly capable of exploiting the bad pass D.

BB season is just starting and we've already begun to see the mentality of our new coach there. Sure it's been just in a scrimmage and exhibition games...but in one of his interviews when talking about how the Griz were hot from 3 he talked about sticking with what was working at the time.

Imagine that... a coach who is willing to adapt on the fly to exploit what's working.

 

[horribilisfan8184]

MD has 40 years experience on Coastal Carolina's coach and MD got schooled in last year's playoff game. PR knows MD isn't championship coaching material and his system is antiquated and not well suited to our players, his staff, or the game the fans want to see. He will never give an inch on the subject publicly for fear of losing his insider status. His primary purpose here is agitation. In his world, if he gets in your kitchen he wins, even though he's the only one playing the game. Be thankful you're not that needy and move on.

 

[monte is a character]

Best predictor of future behavior is past performance, as a general rule

Doing basically the same thing over and over, expecting a different result is at best an un imaginative approach leading to dysfunction

We seem to lack innovation and utilizing our best athletes in situations that best accommodate their skills

For me as former player, instructor and coach........frustrating!

Don't you know that being a former player, instructor, and coach does not give you the credentials to be objective on this board? In reality, you are just another bad fan.

 

[ranco]

Delaney doesn't deserved to be bashed. He stepped up to lead a team in turmoil and he as done a good job based on his skill set. The one thing I find most impressive is the fact the kids play hard from kickoff to the final gun. However, I am a big fan of the idea that he should retire. I don't think anyone on this board would disagree with the fact, that had the HC position been opened up to a normal interview process, that Delaney would have been on anybody's list. He would not have even gotten an interview as he lacked the credentials.
The Griz are a mediocre(+) team and have been for the last 3 years. I simply don't see that changing under Delaney.

 

[IntuitiveGriz]

MD has 40 years experience on Coastal Carolina's coach and MD got schooled in last year's playoff game. PR knows MD isn't championship coaching material and his system is antiquated and not well suited to our players, his staff, or the game the fans want to see. He will never give an inch on the subject publicly for fear of losing his insider status. His primary purpose here is agitation. In his world, if he gets in your kitchen he wins, even though he's the only one playing the game. Be thankful you're not that needy and move on.

Do you mean the Griz DE's religiously ignoring their #1 responsibility (setting the edge/outside containment) and instead crashing down inside the line of scrimmage to where the center lines up, leaving it pathetically easy to run outside on them play after play? Especially on the the HUGE 3rd down play that coastal picked up the the game clinching first down at the end of the game, instead of making them punt.

Or do you mean the 50 plus yard touchdown run the the coastal RB easily had because our LB vacated his run fill gap, and instead ran the opposite way of the play? That's still a major head-scratcher!

Those were huge defensive player errors that cost us the game, coaching had nothing to do with it, execution did...as it always does.

 

['68griz]

MD has 40 years experience on Coastal Carolina's coach and MD got schooled in last year's playoff game. PR knows MD isn't championship coaching material and his system is antiquated and not well suited to our players, his staff, or the game the fans want to see. He will never give an inch on the subject publicly for fear of losing his insider status. His primary purpose here is agitation. In his world, if he gets in your kitchen he wins, even though he's the only one playing the game. Be thankful you're not that needy and move on.

Do you mean the Griz DE's religiously ignoring their #1 responsibility (setting the edge/outside containment) and instead crashing down inside the line of scrimmage to where the center lines up, leaving it pathetically easy to run outside on them play after play? Especially on the the HUGE 3rd down play that coastal picked up the the game clinching first down at the end of the game, instead of making them punt.

Or do you mean the 50 plus yard touchdown run the the coastal RB easily had because our LB vacated his run fill gap, and instead ran the opposite way of the play? That's still a major head-scratcher!

Those were huge defensive player errors that cost us the game, coaching had nothing to do with it, execution did...as it always does.

Yes, but.... Perhaps if the players had been better coached, they would have executed at a higher level?!?

 

[IntuitiveGriz]

MD has 40 years experience on Coastal Carolina's coach and MD got schooled in last year's playoff game. PR knows MD isn't championship coaching material and his system is antiquated and not well suited to our players, his staff, or the game the fans want to see. He will never give an inch on the subject publicly for fear of losing his insider status. His primary purpose here is agitation. In his world, if he gets in your kitchen he wins, even though he's the only one playing the game. Be thankful you're not that needy and move on.

Do you mean the Griz DE's religiously ignoring their #1 responsibility (setting the edge/outside containment) and instead crashing down inside the line of scrimmage to where the center lines up, leaving it pathetically easy to run outside on them play after play? Especially on the the HUGE 3rd down play that coastal picked up the the game clinching first down at the end of the game, instead of making them punt.

Or do you mean the 50 plus yard touchdown run the the coastal RB easily had because our LB vacated his run fill gap, and instead ran the opposite way of the play? That's still a major head-scratcher!

Those were huge defensive player errors that cost us the game, coaching had nothing to do with it, execution did...as it always does.

Yes, but.... Perhaps if the players had been better coached, they would have executed at a higher level?!?

With no due repect, that is idiotic.

From grade school you learn the #1 responsibility of a DE, OUTSIDE CONTAINMENT. The DE's ignored it. The coaches didn't tell them to ignore it!!! Unbelievable. :stupid: Even the announcers (coach Bennett) commented on the DE's not doing there job.

Watch the 50 yard run, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CONCIEVABLE REASON WHATSOEVER WHY THE LB DID WHAT HE DID, he failed, he didn't read his keys. You don't even know what you are talking about, Do yourself a favor and actually watch the play. Course you won't know what you are looking at, so that's a lost cause. :roll:

 

[IntuitiveGriz]

Is to take the reigns off JJ and let him be the one that makes are breaks the GRIZ. He has been through hell and back, been a great leader, and I feel it would be the best way to finish his GRIZ career. Put this offense on his back and hold nothing back in the playbook. :thumb:

My hope the last 2 games of the regular season is that mtgrizrule realizes that games are played out by the players on the field. The players make their reads and make moves based on them, block, pass, catch, run on offense. The players read their keys and react, do their assignment, get-off blocks or don't, tackle, defend passes on defense.

Coaches wear Khakis.

 

[ABQCat]

I definitely consider myself a bad fan. I haven't said anything good about the grizz or the coaches all year.

 

[get'em_griz]

Please God, please let this be Delaney's last season.

 

[1976griz]

My hope is that the Griz beat Southern Utah this weekend. I do not think it is a sure thing. Southern Utah has a lot of losses, but they aren't all blowouts. Example, Cal Poly 42, Southern Utah 39. One game at a time...

 

[IdaGriz01]

My hope is that the Griz beat Southern Utah this weekend. I do not think it is a sure thing. Southern Utah has a lot of losses, but they aren't all blowouts. Example, Cal Poly 42, Southern Utah 39. One game at a time...

Hell yeah!

All our "prognistication" about bids, rankings, etc ... don't mean ishtay without a win at SUU. The young men who matter know that, obviously. Still, it remains to be seen if they can shake off the disappointment of last Saturday and take care of business. I think they will ... but that's just "fan talk."

 

[Ursa Major]

My hope for the last two games:

Game 1:
I hope we piss-pound Southern Utah Community Kollege (SUCK).

Game 2:
I hope we break out the pumpkin and mustards for cat-Griz game.

I hope that Monte and Mo are driven out in the pregame by a classic 70’s Dodge Power Wagon. After dropping them off at midfield, I hope Booby Dildo puts it in four-high and creates a controlled burn out on the field that spells, “cats suck”, from one 30 yard line to the other 30 yard line. In doing so he “accidently” runs over Mo and eventually power slides into the North End Zone goal post.

I hope that by the end of the first quarter that Dakota Prukop is taken away on a stretcher to the psych unit at St. Patrick’s after he attempts to off himself by standing in front of the Grizzly canon following throwing 3 pick-sixes in the cats first three possessions of the game.

I hope Wags has 9 sacs in the second quarter alone.

I hope that during half-time, with the score 68-0, President Waded Cruzado publicly announces that she is resigning from msu out of sheer embarrassment.

I hope that during the third quarter there is a stoppage in play as stadium security, fearing an Ebola outbreak, respond to fan complaints about a foul odor emanating from a “fan”. A hush falls over the crowd as the television cameras capture Monte/Growler being removed from the stadium by security officers in Hazmat suits. Following fecal analysis that one lab worker describes as “abundant”, He is subsequently band from ever returning to WGS.

I hope that during the third quarter that JJ passes for 300 yards and runs for over 100 yards.

I hope that during the beginning of the fourth quarter, after the Griz reach triple digit scoring, that big g has an epiphany and realizes that he’s been full of poppycock Before God and his imaginary friends he seeks forgiveness, admits that the Griz are an elite program and swears to never post on e-griz again.

I hope that moments following the final whistle that Champ, the ironically named cat mascot, is swept into the UM student section and ripped apart limb-by-limb. I hope the current ASUM Student President takes a bite out of his still beating heart.

I hope that during the post-game presser that Coach Delaney announces his retirement. I also hope that also during the presser that the commissioner of the Mountain West Conference gets down on bended knee and begs the Griz to immediately join his conference.

I hope that the Pour Street Boys, in a rare act of charity and celebration, open the taps and everyone drinks free that night.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

Ursa, that was one of the most beautiful passages this mind has had the pleasure of reading. It is with but a faint tear down my cheek that I must point out that if one listens to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on tape backwards whilst reading Chapter 88: Endgame of Coach Ron Ash's Playing .500 Ball, it's almost a verbatim recitation of your post. It doesn't detract from the beauty of the prose. Bravo.

 

[Ursa Major]

Ursa, that was one of the most beautiful passages this mind has had the pleasure of reading. It is with but a faint tear down my cheek that I must point out that if one listens to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on tape backwards whilst reading Chapter 88: Endgame of Coach Ron Ash's Playing .500 Ball, it's almost a verbatim recitation of your post. It doesn't detract from the beauty of the prose. Bravo.

HA! You got me. Total plagiarism!

 

[CDAGRIZ]

Ursa, that was one of the most beautiful passages this mind has had the pleasure of reading. It is with but a faint tear down my cheek that I must point out that if one listens to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on tape backwards whilst reading Chapter 88: Endgame of Coach Ron Ash's Playing .500 Ball, it's almost a verbatim recitation of your post. It doesn't detract from the beauty of the prose. Bravo.

HA! You got me. Total plagiarism!

No, not total! In the Coleridge/Ash version, Ebola was the Mumps, Dakota was Carolina, and Big G didn't exist. Simpler times.

Still, the fact that it has been written only bolsters the probability of occurrence.

 

[AllWeatherFan]

Ron Ash is a blatant Homer ripoff! Christ, that whole sewage pond thing is so derivative of the Washing Pool!