Would love to see the look on the UCLA staff when they motion their RB and our backers stay home. I know folks said that Wyoming prepared all spring and fall for us. Hopefully we did the same for UCLA. The key will be our guys reaction to the motion.
How does it not have an impact? They're the best team we face until Northwestern and we're not okay with losing games, right? Or has that changed? And why shouldn't they have schemed for it? Teams like UCLA are the ones that give us the most trouble, so it will help us with more games down the road, and they're literally the only good team we face until Northwestern.
Yes. It has a huge impact. These guys are young on D, and veteran on offense. One way or the other, the outcome will have a huge impact on the confidence and motivation on this team (well, maybe not so much motivation). As I said, it's probably the biggest tone-setting noncon game this program has had in god knows how long. Probably have to go back to the USC series 6-7 years ago.
That's awesome plus 1. That was definitely a Blackshirt squad out there last night. We had something to prove and we did. I know it was Southern miss but still I came away impressed. Especially Banderas! Gregory, Gerry, Ankrah looked good, hell the whole defensive line looked solid. ZA got some time finally. Cooper looked good again. SJB and Evans. We have some real talent out there. Now we find out about this team next Saturday. This one will tell us a lot. But we asked for progress, and we got it for sure. Props to the team and staff. Good win.
Yeah, I thought that was sort of a cool stat when I was looking through the game stats this AM. Props to our DBs and D-line.
Your right they probably will. But their defense will give up 550 yards and 41 points. They have a young defense as well.
I knew I should have been more detailed in what I was trying to say. What I'm saying is as far as the impact of whether it is a win or loss it doesn't affect whether we win our division or not, which is why I said I hate to say this because there has been a general de-emphasizing of noncon games the last decade. All I'm trying to point out is that it would be pretty dumb of us to have really obsessed about beating one team all offseason, like some posters were saying. If we were going to obsess about beating one team it should be northwestern, Msu, or Michigan. I agree that it is important but honestly it isn't any more important than our other noncon games and this idea of holding things back and playing all sorts meta games in order to best ucla, I hope to god we aren't doing that. It doesn't work anyway you just have to play your best football each week and add more things each week which is really what I think we are doing and definitely what I hope we are doing.Moiraine said:
different opponents. Different defensive calls. Different players... USM has poor players. So... no.
