The Dude

What is Rhule doing with his mouth?  Looks like a coke head.

Isn't it past Garrett's bed time?  How late did they let Doogie Howser work?

Looked like a catch.

Damn.  Hit the ground.

The Haarberg era starts now.

HH using the ref for a basketball screen. 

Whoa.  It's been years since I've seen a gang of Blackshirts appear like that to stop a first down.

Should have been sending the house on that punt . . .

At least our punting game has been pretty good.  That'll be huge for our defense this season.

They're all over that same Kemp route now.

That single back formation is underrated and underused.

I'd take three yards and a cloud of dust at this point, but our offensive line is good for negative three yards.

Just do the scripted opening plays again.

Does the offense give opposing teams more points than they score?  Because I don't think that would be a viable strategy. 

The was the most hilarious sack ever.

Poop

This is what it looks like when a backup takes the starter's job.

3 hours ago, admo said:

Thought the leaders got single digit numbers ?  

 

That's the toughest guys.  

I know nothing about this NIU team.  Hopefully it's a team we can whip the s#!t out of.  Those still exist, right?

11 minutes ago, Wistrom Disciple said:

Haha whatever you say man. Deion is a good recruiter, but recruiting does not equal coaching. And no, I am not yet convinced that he is better at getting his players ready to play nor better at building a program. But I don’t view that based on a single game or month. 
 

Again, judging a coach two games in should not be how we determine whether the coach will be successful long-term.

Recruiting is part of the job description of being a coach, probably the most important part.  That might be where we disagree.  

I don't think anyone here would be saying "we can judge yet!" if it was Rhule doing a significantly better job than Sanders.  We can totally judge the job they've done so far.

12 hours ago, teachercd said:

Do people "bum vapes" like they do/did with heaters?

 

I really don't even know how it works.  Do I have to download something and charge it?

I think it it's more like a joint, "let me get a hit off of that".  Some are disposable, some are rechargeable.   Of course there's probably some where you need an app. 

Just speculating here, but I assume if you need a whole backpack full of vapes then you intend on selling them.  And obviously the market is kids not old enough to buy vapes themselves.  Do those kids even have jobs?  Just wouldn't be my scheme, I guess.

20 hours ago, Wistrom Disciple said:

Based on your sarcasm and the six days of analysis you took before the reply, it is possible that both are in fact true. Deion and his high powered offense with "allegedly" two Heisman contenders putting up a zero 25 minutes into the game would not be considered "good." Rhule made it pretty clear that they didn't want to get into a shootout. Having hit the post on a field goal and a fumble on the first possession result in zero points given up, 0-0 seemed like a decent spot to be in for us. < It does helps that we were averaging 4-5 yards per rush at that point despite having nothing on the scoreboard. 

 

In the end, yes Colorado won and their offense took advantage of our miscues. They have some talented players and to their credit, they did make some halftime coaching adjustments to help themselves get going in the second half. However, I still do believe that Rhule is the better coach for our program than Deion would have been and strongly believe that using the first two games as the barometer of whether we made the right or wrong choice between the two is foolish. 

To be fair, this is an overwhelming amount of mental gymnastics.   It takes a while to sort out.  I still don't think we disagree that much.  Based on everything you've said we both agree that Sanders is better at acquiring talent and getting them ready to play.  Even if you take the scenic route getting there.

Is the underground vape market really that lucrative?

On 9/9/2023 at 10:56 PM, Wistrom Disciple said:

He didn’t get them ready to play… they were actually pretty bad until we started giving away turnovers. Nothing about his coaching stood out today at least to me. Yes, I will admit my bias but I do believe Rhule & Co. had a sound strategy until the fumbles started occurring. 
 

Recruiting, sure he’s good, but I think you and those who share your mindset look at the end and use it to justify the means. I’ll be very curious if his style of running a program will hold water over the season and years going forward. 

When it was a 0-0 stalemate for almost 2 quarters it was "pretty bad" on Deion's part, but a "sound strategy" on Rhule’s part?  Interesting viewpoint.

Colorado making far fewer costly mistakes and winning by 3 TDs makes it clear cut that they were more ready to play.   Assuming the point of playing is to win.

I wouldn't say never.  I think we'll be good 2 coaching staffs from now.  It's just going to be a long 8-10 years until then.  It's all cyclical.

On 9/9/2023 at 5:52 PM, Undone said:

I'm saying that I believe the obsession with p0WeR f00TBalL got us Sims

Rhule said he went after Sims because many people around the league said he was an NFL talent.  I believe they were just trying to get Rhule to draft him.  Probably would have worked too.