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  1. Let's append something to the bolded sentence and make this revision: Bo was a hard coach and coached with fire that was given seven years and showed he constantly choked in the moments it mattered to get this team to championship level football.
  2. There is essentially no chance that's true. Please do tell, who said this. Frost said two hours ago that he's a game time decision for this Saturday.
  3. I hope everyone realizes that it's an "Ironic Bo." It's Bo in a typical Bo moment. It's not pro-Bo. LOL.
  4. Anyway... It's fun to hear Dr. Tom's analysis of the offensive line and the defense's intensity. I wasn't worried about our offensive line at all headed into this season. But I was very worried about both defensive scheme and defensive effort. Our game against Colorado pretty much eradicated those concerns for me. The way our linebackers are being used by Chinander and the way they played in that game should give this team a chance to win some games we weren't expected to win coming into the season.
  5. Oh, for sure. It's fun for me, too. I didn't mean that it's pointless to even talk about Bo in general. What I meant by "pointless" specifically is that if Bo had won a conference title in 2015, for example, he might have been given some leeway to stay on longer than he did. But when I compare what I believe to be his ceiling and Frost's ceiling, my opinion is that Frost's ceiling is much higher. So for that reason, Bo's success during that stretch might have actually not allowed Frost to come in. And since I don't believe Bo would have ever been capable of winning a National Championship (whereas I believe Frost is), I'm glad things played out the way they did.
  6. 2015 was an interesting year, schedule-wise, because the only teams we played from the East were Michigan State and Rutgers. Also, Wisconsin probably had its worst team of the past five seasons. So schedule-wise it was about as good a year as any for Bo to have finally broken the conference title drought. Michigan State bested Ohio State to get to Indy. Bo had matched up well against Michigan State. It would have been cool to have finally broken the conference title drought that year, but I wouldn't trade any of those hypotheticals for bringing Frost in this season. And that's why discussing Bo at this point seems so especially pointless.
  7. Assuming that Martinez winds up at the end of this season relatively healthy and we reload pretty well from graduating Foster, Farmer, and Conrad, this offense is going to crush teams. And this defense is going to crush teams. Next year is the year.
  8. ... The outcome of the fourth quarter against Colorado doesn't change my mind one way or the other about where I think we're at for this season. If we had won 35-27 instead of losing 33-28 it wouldn't make me feel any different about where I think we'll wind up. But next season, we'll go 10-2 and compete strongly for our first conference title in 20 years.
  9. If we beat Michigan do I think we win the West? I still say "no," based on the fact that our remaining scheduling when compared to Wisconsin's remaining schedule favors Wisconsin having fewer conference losses by the end of the regular season. But if we beat Michigan, this program will have built a huge head of steam that will launch this thing into high gear in general.
  10. Nice, thank you. Looking forward to reading through that.
  11. I'm very upset that you beat me to this comment. But I +1'd you anyway.
  12. Is he maybe not as fast as fans had hoped? Who knows? If he finds holes really well and picks up first downs constantly but occasionally gets tracked down by a safety, that's probably the last thing I'm worried about for this season.
  13. You might not be making the point you think you're making. The results of both games were pretty much identical - giving up what should have been a sealed-up win late in the fourth quarter. But the trajectory of the two teams after both of their first games look very different. *Edit* Specifically, in 2015 you had a QB that (I'm really sorry to say) had already reached his potential. You had a staff that had no interest in pushing the players as well as possible in the realm of strength & conditioning. And you had a head coach that really didn't have that competitive drive to be the best there is. And I'm not just saying that in hindsight; I'm talking about the attitude towards winning games that Riley had going into that first season. At any rate...that's all water under the bridge at this point. Shame on me for talking about past coaches.
  14. Yes, Hop Cat is one of the best places out of the newer scene options. Definitely recommend it.
  15. Exactly. Then you factor in an 18 year old, true Freshman QB that hasn't played in a live game environment in two years who throws for a 75% completion percentage and rushes for 117 yards. The mind boggles at how good this team could be. I feel like a lot of the above was incorrectly shoved aside by a good portion of the fan base because of how the last possession by each team went down. It honestly shouldn't.
  16. Mildly curious about which nuts will be cut and how.
  17. It's unfortunately still there. By the way, those stiletto heel boots in your profile picture look like the perfect footwear for walking to that fridge in the background, grabbing three Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers, pouring them all into a different, empty stilleto heel boot, and pounding them as fast as possible.
  18. I told you that I could get you those amphetamines, Moiraine...
  19. Here's another play I loved seeing in the first quarter - an oddly-paced motioning set into a sort of diamond formation where it's a designed pitch to Lindsey. Should play from the right point. Watch Farniok look for his assignment and seal the block:
  20. That second play from scrimmage was so awesome. Martinez looked everybody to his right as if it's a quick screen out wide to Bell, the line creates a massive hole, Martinez goes up the middle. As the disappointment slowly wears off from losing to an old Big 8 rival, I'm seriously so excited for what this offense is going to be with Martinez under center. I can't get my mind around how good it can be if our offensive line continues the improvement it's clearly gained in the offseason. Penalties hurt us quite a bit on offense in the second half. What sucks is that we put up 21 points in the first half but only mustered 7 in the second half. And what further sucks is that even if Stan catches that should-be touchdown reception, they still could have tied up the game 35-35 by going for two in the fourth quarter. In my opinion, this offense and its starting lineup should be able to average 10 points per quarter against every team except OSU and Wisconsin once we get the yips out.
  21. Here's a hypothetical that's kind of interesting to kick around regarding Martinez's status: Let's say the doctors and trainers determine that he's at 80-90% by Friday evening. Should he play? Maybe he doesn't start but comes in at halftime? Of course, we as fans never know what the doctors are actually saying. But reading between the lines I might guess that he'll be around 80-90% by game time (and this is just internet babble for discussion).
  22. Here's a hypothetical that's kind of interesting to kick around: Let's say the doctors and trainers determine that he's at 80-90% by Friday evening. Should he play? Maybe he doesn't start but comes in at halftime? Of course, we as fans never know what the doctors are actually saying. But reading between the lines I might guess that he'll be around 80-90% by game time (and this is just internet babble for discussion).
  23. What we don't have to convince ourselves of is that anything can happen. We saw in the spring game and yesterday that Bunch has good footwork and throws an accurate ball. He also has a serious competitor's attitude and focus towards the game. He'll get blitzed a ton, but that's where Frost & Co. can sweep in to draw up plays to exploit that. But yes, we do have a quarterback depth problem if Martinez is out for more than just the Troy game. Meaning that after him, there's obviously just Bunch and Masker in the QB room.
  24. It's so outlandish that I'm pretty confident it's a troll account.
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