Bear Down Wildcats

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Gibson's committed to Ohio State.

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CalStateTempe wrote:Kadeem made a stupid decision to leave.

No, he didn't...

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Bummed but win the next 2 and blue skies all around heading into 2 tough ones. Still moderately concerned with recruiting, especially on the defensive side of the ball. ASSU is killing us in that aspect I'm liking what I'm seeing defensively. At corner McCall is improving and growing up fast. Denso...

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Throws were off, the line was not playing well at all, passes dropped, untimely penalties (the OPI against Grant was a game changer)... Solomon didn't play well but no one else on offense did either. Part of the learning curve.

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Since he's been here, the team has always responded well after a loss. In 2012 they took Stanford to OT on the road after getting blown out in Autzen. After the UCLA shellacking that year they then won the next two, including on the road at Utah. Last year after Washington they shook off the rust af...

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I think, while he's trying to win every damn game he can this year, that he's also playing Solomon with an eye towards the future. Hence the amount of pass attempts. He knows the team is good this year but that they've got a chance to do huge things the next two years. Solomon is gaining a ton of ex...

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That 70 yard pass wasn't the dagger, the offense's play was the dagger. To that point UCLA only has 10 points, and you can't expect the defense to hold them completely down the whole game. If your defense holds a team like that to 17 you should win. I still think one of the biggest plays of the game...

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Not a lot (except on third and long... third and one or two and they'll stop you cold but third and 17, move those chains.) The defense has been improving as the season goes on. They've already matched last year's sack total. The two losses this year are not on the defense; they've given the offense...

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This same team dropped 62 on Graham.

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PieceOfMeat wrote:
gumby wrote:
PieceOfMeat wrote:I have this nagging suspicion that I'll have to bump my "Every. Damn. Time." thread after the UCLA game.
Only one way to blow up this mindset....

it didn't get blown up.

sigh

Well, you got to bump it, so you've got that going for you.

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I ain't gonna pile on; I'm not really the type that enjoys that. Tough night, but UCLA's gonna lose at least one more and Arizona's got this out of their system. Yeah, I've seen this happen too many times, but I'm not the fatalist type. Every game from here on out is winnable. Not easy but winnable....

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Anu switched to a #18 jersey. Hope that's a good omen. Tyler Slavin switched into #18 at the NM bowl.

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The passes where he throws it on the run right before he gets to the line of scrimmage are simply deadly. (As ESPN put it, attachment plays.) It's a nightmare for defenses because he does run, but if you bring a guy off of coverage to come attack him, he's liable to hit the guy you just left uncover...

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The one thing these rankings tell us is that no matter what we think this team is or isn't capable of, they have a shot to play for this. And at this point that's all you can ask.

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The LA Steel unis aren't new. They broke those out last season.

As for RR and him saying the 2012 game has been bugging him ever since, I believe it. He sure as hell didn't forget the 2012 thumping in Autzen.

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Utah just lost Dres Anderson for the year. They're still a tough out but this is going to hurt them. We'll see if ASU can stop Utah's run game this weekend.

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He turned down Alabama and then left for Michigan, so no, I do not believe it clears any paths. He left for Michigan after WV didn't come through on the promises they made when he turned down Alabama. You're correct no state income tax in FL but there is in AZ. Though the highest income tax rates a...

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If Arizona holds UCLA to 33 again this year, then the Wildcats win.

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I am a one game at a time cat, but we are going to start hearing this if we keep winning. Some guy at bleacher report predicts us as a dark horse for the playoffs . Back in 2010 ESPN was giving the Cats some run as a BCS title game dark horse. 7-1, top ten win (Iowa) and they were rolling. Then the...

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You predicted a 9-4 record for the UA....which obviously implies you think UA will beat WSU. Halliday, by the way, is starting to smoke Rutgers.........do YOU want to change your WSU prediction???? Nope. Not one bit. WSU is a one trick pony. Agree on the one trick pony comment...........but you sti...

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Arizona can still beat Utah. If they do it will be because of the lessons learned against USC's D -line.

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I think this series is the microcosm of RichRod's philosophy of building a program. Lose big, lose small, win small, win big. Cats take this one 34-30. Last year UCLA did their damnedest to hand the game over on a silver platter and the Cats couldn't take it. Time to take this one; I thought this wa...

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That was too easy... oh, that's why.

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That's how you handle getting the ball to start the half.

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Love the way TJ held that ball tight even after he got up.

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Welp.

That sucked.

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Score here, 3 or 7. Then they get the ball back after the half.

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They should have figured out the paywall strategy 15 years ago. A bigger problem is that they weren't investing those profits into content - you have to have something for readers to want to pick up the paper or click online. Over the last few years I had so many people mention to me how much small...

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In Berks column today he mentions some slap saying that RR "would have to upgrade his staff" if he were going to take the Florida job. The guy didn't come out and say it but you know he was saying that RR would have to get a new defensive staff. That's not going to happen. There's no chance that he...

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Thanks for the inside scoop on my profession. You a reporter, advertising, production...? I was in advertising. Well, still am, just not with the newspaper. Once we hit mid-2007, what was once a fun job started getting brutal. Stuck around for five more years because there wasn't much else out ther...

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Thanks for the inside scoop on my profession. You a reporter, advertising, production...? I was in advertising. Well, still am, just not with the newspaper. Once we hit mid-2007, what was once a fun job started getting brutal. Stuck around for five more years because there wasn't much else out ther...

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ghostwhitehorse wrote:

Get outta here.

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Thanks for the inside scoop on my profession. You a reporter, advertising, production...? I was in advertising. Well, still am, just not with the newspaper. Once we hit mid-2007, what was once a fun job started getting brutal. Stuck around for five more years because there wasn't much else out there.

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Online subscription fees ain't gonna do much to save the newspaper industry. The amount of money they used to make on print ads is absolutely staggering. Don't know about "staggering", but enough for workers to feed and clothe a family. Trust me, it was indeed a staggering amount. It takes a lot of...

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Online subscription fees ain't gonna do much to save the newspaper industry. The amount of money they used to make on print ads is absolutely staggering.

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I knew something was going to be different in recruiting when RR made that push to bring in Devin Fuller. 4 star QB from the east coast, not the type of thing UA would normally push for, especially late in the cycle. Doesn't matter, he went after him anyway. Fuller ended up going to UCLA and is play...

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Most teams that hold Washington State to 24 points win handily. It's not like they dominated the Cats last year by putting up video game numbers. The Cats offense fell flat, they gave the ball away, and you have to give credit to Wazzu for a solid game plan and for executing that plan. WSU is danger...

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I'm thinking a lot of money is going to go to Arizona and the line will move accordingly. Not saying Arizona is going to necessarily blow the Cougs out, but I can see a lot of bettors taking the Cats at 4 thinking they'll win by a TD.

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The Cats' corners have actually been pretty effective against bubble screens. The problem for passing defense has been over the middle. QBs are finding wide open guys in the flat. They can't run the ball. They've got about the same amount of carries as last year... and they're averaging ten less yar...

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Cayleb Jones was amazing on that onside kick. He wasn't going to be denied.

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If Arizona plays a complete game they will beat anyone in the country. They haven't played one yet, really, and they're a FG away from 6-0. As the younger guys get better this team will keep rising.

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What's been working all season has been simple: When in doubt, throw it to Cayleb Jones.

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Quarterbacks do sometimes regress... but that certainly isn't the pattern under RichRod.

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gumby wrote:Game starts at 2 pm PST. I'm figuring on 140 passes and getting home at midnight.

What, and miss the second half?

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One look at that web page design and he'll be scared the hell away. I've seen better stuff on Geocities.

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Also, Casey is not a flopper. Looks like roughing the kicker to me. http://a1.fssta.com/content/dam/fsdigital/fscom/ncaa-fb/images/2014/10/13/101314-CFB-wildcats-casey-skowron-misses-field-goal-ahn-PI.vadapt.955.medium.0.jpg Still a flopper, but great shot. I tweeted it to him. Any ST coach worth t...

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First off, I am not trying to dump on this guy in any way, I love this kid's heart and how he has thrown the ball this year. But does anyone else seem to notice that Anu often times makes the wrong read on the read option? I can think of a few times each game (specifically most recently the 2pt con...

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Bingo. It shouldn't have even gotten to that point - Arizona had their chances to win this game long before that kick. The fact they even got the chance to kick that was because of a perfectly executed onside kick by Skowron. Without his FG kicking so far this year the Cats are 3-3 instead of 5-1. R...

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Well, if you put a couple of three stars together you get one six star. We're really gonna have some high star talent then!!!

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/searches for rep button
//dammit, it still ain't there

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