Bear Down Wildcats

btfd16 wrote:

This is cool

I would love to donate my tickets to a military member, but I'm not going to buy more tickets.

Anyone know a good way to donate tickets you already have? (I bought into the hype and got season tickets this year).

UAEebs86 wrote:

btfd16 wrote:

This is cool

I would love to donate my tickets to a military member, but I'm not going to buy more tickets.

Anyone know a good way to donate tickets you already have? (I bought into the hype and got season tickets this year).

Maybe ask the athletic department if you can have yours sent into the ticket pool they're getting from this promotion?

I heard some info about how the coaches made some decisions early and that certain key players took this as the coaches putting winning behind their agenda.

I wonder if this is Tate saying if you don't care about winning, maybe he won't either. I heard the players were pissed and I can't imagine Tate letting his teammates down but his unwillingness to use his feet for the betterment of the team is perplexing

In this weird season of ours, it felt like our team finally starting getting it around midway through the first half at UCLA. We outplayed/out worked UCLA most of the game last week and probably deserved a W, and it was also the first week Sumlin really looked engaged on the sidelines. Carried over tonight, we definitely outplayed them. Helped that first half Oregon abandoned the run and passing plays to the middle of the field, our two biggest weaknesses on D...it was like Herbert was trying to put together a draft package of throws to outside receivers on third down. Winning 2 out of our last 3 not out of the question if can play something like this.

TheGreatCatsby wrote:Winning 2 out of our last 3 not out of the question if can play something like this.

Beat Colorado and ASU, and be bowl eligible!

Not that I care about a crappy bowl, just beat ASU!

Only three games left?

Season went by fast.

Last night was a great win, but I am still not sold on this coaching staff. I don't want Tate as only a passing QB. He doesn't need to do what he did last October. If he would run for 5 -10 1st downs a game to keep some drives alive and keep defenses off balance, he would be aces in my book and our offense would be smoking.

If there's more than an injured ankle preventing him from trying to do that, I want the person responsible fired, whether it's Mazzone, Sumlin or Tate himself.

blackjacker wrote:Last night was a great win, but I am still not sold on this coaching staff. I don't want Tate as only a passing QB. He doesn't need to do what he did last October. If he would run for 5 -10 1st downs a game to keep some drives alive and keep defenses off balance, he would be aces in my book and our offense would be smoking.

If there's more than an injured ankle preventing him from trying to do that, I want the person responsible fired, whether it's Mazzone, Sumlin or Tate himself.

Tate is a pretty poor passing QB. Very strong arm, but no touch, and seems to pass to guys that are covered.

RhettRod is a better decision maker, but has a very weak arm and seems every pass over 20 yards could/should be intercepted.

Tate wasn’t great last night. Overthrows for interceptions and underthrows of wide open long bombs. But Herbert who is supposed to be a top draft pick was abysmally bad. If he was passing accurately it would have been a 42-38 kind of game.

Merkin wrote:
Tate is a pretty poor passing QB. Very strong arm, but no touch, and seems to pass to guys that are covered.

RhettRod is a better decision maker, but has a very weak arm and seems every pass over 20 yards could/should be intercepted.

Out of those choices, Ill take the decision maker any day, but if Tate would give us 50-100 rushing yards a game, his strong arm would find some more open receivers and the running backs would find some more holes.


I'll take that over Rhett.

Has anyone figure out what the information was that had the Oregon point spread dropping from 10 to 7 last week? I'm really curious to figure out what the pro gamblers knew that we didn't. I enjoyed the hell out of the win, but I sure wouldn't have put money on it.

ANGCatFan wrote:Has anyone figure out what the information was that had the Oregon point spread dropping from 10 to 7 last week? I'm really curious to figure out what the pro gamblers knew that we didn't. I enjoyed the hell out of the win, but I sure wouldn't have put money on it.

The Bear on Gameday picked UA and gave a bunch of stats and reasons. Other than that I dont think there is any public info other than Tate playing that came later on Saturday

Anything on Brightwell's injury?

whatisee wrote:Anything on Brightwell's injury?

Also what I'm curious in finding out. I like Brightwell a lot and think the combo of him and JJ is great.

This bye week is coming at a good time.

Our game vs ASU is going to be a winner go bowling loser is done game isn't it?

Seems like old times....

Alieberman wrote:Our game vs ASU is going to be a winner go bowling loser is done game isn't it?

Seems like old times....

If you compare average win/loss records over the last 40 years it's pretty much always the case where each team is at 5-6 wins

scumdevils86 wrote:

Alieberman wrote:Our game vs ASU is going to be a winner go bowling loser is done game isn't it?

Seems like old times....

If you compare average win/loss records over the last 40 years it's pretty much always the case where each team is at 5-6 wins

Oh I know... that's why I always laugh when people want this or that coach fired... it doesn't matter.... Arizona football is Arizona football

We will always lose to a team we should beat (coach needs to get fired)
We will always beat a team we should lose to (coach is amazing)

And at the end we will be fighting for a shitty bowl game

Nate Tillford sighting last night. Hopefully some more of that inside the 10 yrd line.

Alieberman wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:

Alieberman wrote:Our game vs ASU is going to be a winner go bowling loser is done game isn't it?

Seems like old times....

If you compare average win/loss records over the last 40 years it's pretty much always the case where each team is at 5-6 wins

Oh I know... that's why I always laugh when people want this or that coach fired... it doesn't matter.... Arizona football is Arizona football

We will always lose to a team we should beat (coach needs to get fired)
We will always beat a team we should lose to (coach is amazing)

And at the end we will be fighting for a shitty bowl game

At least we're consistent!

whatisee wrote:Nate Tillford sighting last night. Hopefully some more of that inside the 10 yrd line.

Not if both JJ and Brightwell are healthy.

Nice to see an uptick in our recent play. Oh the what is of an AZ football season.

What if JJ Taylor doesn't get the ball punched out and he scores against UCLA

What if we had found a way to beat USC and we could be in control of the south.

Just never seems to work out like that for us. We have to take joy from the thought we might get a bowl with a win over our rival.

Still I must say it has been fun to watch our progression on both sides of the ball and even our special teams in the last few weeks.

azcat49 wrote:Nice to see an uptick in our recent play. Oh the what is of an AZ football season.

What if JJ Taylor doesn't get the ball punched out and he scores against UCLA

What if we had found a way to beat USC and we could be in control of the south.

Just never seems to work out like that for us. We have to take joy from the thought we might get a bowl with a win over our rival.

Still I must say it has been fun to watch our progression on both sides of the ball and even our special teams in the last few weeks.

That's the difference between us and the top programs. We have those fumbles against UCLA and bad first halves against USC.

Agreed. If one play epitomizes the history of AZ football it was JJ Taylor's run against UCLA. He had a TD in the bag only to have the ball punched from his arms at the 1 yard line.

As a fan you were so happy as you thought he was going to score only to be chased down. Even then you thought we would have it at the goal line but no, the worst thing in the world couldn't happen but of course it did

I know everybody assumes we lose to WSU but I think the game will be more competitive than most people think.

Not saying we will win but we have a bye this week so we can heal some wounds and give the coaching staff more time to prepare for the Pirate.

Hopefully, Wassu totally overlooks us.

On paper it looks like a 5-6 Arizona vs a 5-6 ASU for a bowl game.

Just beat ASU. I don't care about any crappy bowl game where they are big money losers for the conference.

Yea I'd rather lose to wsu, beat ASU, then lose in the Cheez-it bowl than beat ranked wsu, lose to ASU and play in a bowl

Is there any way they could end up in the pac-12 championship game? Win that, and I don't think it's the Cheez-it bowl.. But I would agree, ASU is the priority right now, but if the cats can trip up WSU all the better

3rdand25 wrote:Is there any way they could end up in the pac-12 championship game? Win that, and I don't think it's the Cheez-it bowl.. But I would agree, ASU is the priority right now, but if the cats can trip up WSU all the better

Current standings and remaining games:

Utah 4-2 @ ASU, vs Oregon, @ Colorado
Arizona 4-3 @ WSU, vs ASU
USC 3-3 @ OSU, vs Cal, @ UCLA
UCLA 2-3 @ Oregon, @ ASU, vs USC, vs Stanford
ASU 2-3 vs Utah, vs UCLA, @ Oregon, @ Arizona
Colorado 2-4 vs WSU, vs UTAH, @ Cal

azgreg wrote:

3rdand25 wrote:Is there any way they could end up in the pac-12 championship game? Win that, and I don't think it's the Cheez-it bowl.. But I would agree, ASU is the priority right now, but if the cats can trip up WSU all the better

Current standings and remaining games:

Utah 4-2 @ ASU, vs Oregon, @ Colorado
Arizona 4-3 @ WSU, vs ASU
USC 3-3 @ OSU, vs Cal, @ UCLA
UCLA 2-3 @ Oregon, @ ASU, vs USC, vs Stanford
ASU 2-3 vs Utah, vs UCLA, @ Oregon, @ Arizona
Colorado 2-4 vs WSU, vs UTAH, @ Cal

Win out.
Utah lose 2of3.
USC lose 1of3.
UCLA lose 1of4.
?

Its a good time for the bye. By the time the Cats play Wazzu, most of the other teams will have 2 games left, and we'll know what's possible.

I am hoping for a Utah november swoon. I trust the devils will start the nosedive today. Could this be like 2014 where the Duel in the Desert decides it?

KillerKlown wrote:

azgreg wrote:

3rdand25 wrote:Is there any way they could end up in the pac-12 championship game? Win that, and I don't think it's the Cheez-it bowl.. But I would agree, ASU is the priority right now, but if the cats can trip up WSU all the better

Current standings and remaining games:

Utah 4-2 @ ASU, vs Oregon, @ Colorado
Arizona 4-3 @ WSU, vs ASU
USC 3-3 @ OSU, vs Cal, @ UCLA
UCLA 2-3 @ Oregon, @ ASU, vs USC, vs Stanford
ASU 2-3 vs Utah, vs UCLA, @ Oregon, @ Arizona
Colorado 2-4 vs WSU, vs UTAH, @ Cal

Win out.
Utah lose 2of3.
USC lose 1of3.
UCLA lose 1of4.
?

Yeah we win out, have USC lose to UCLA and UCLA lose to Oregon. Utah lose to like ASU and Oregon or something..and we're 7-5 in the title game.

Our team started in August like that indoor practice facility, not even off the ground, a patch of dust and dirt. As that's been built this fall, so has the team with the feel that something is being built up. There's at the least tangible improvement on most fronts including coaching and recruiting. We still have some extreme weaknesses. Game planning against our defense still isn't too hard if teams are paying attention. We're doing better in general at disguising them/working around them/moving on from the breakdowns. A lot of the younger players are playing smarter.

The receivers have stepped up their games. They caught some incredible passes last night. Some of those catches the guy wasn't even open. And we've made a string of field goals, an Arizona oddity. Feels like for that we're building up some horribly timed kicking torture down the road lol. Given that at various points it looked like this year was heading straight to the 2-8 wasteland of forgotten seasons, being 5-5 with a chance at a bowl game has been a small miracle salvage job of a season. Beating ASU will be a big part of completing the comeback.

The South just got a whole lot more interesting. USC has the easiest path to the title game.

azgreg wrote:The South just got a whole lot more interesting. USC has the easiest path to the title game.

Actually ASU does. All they have to do is go 3-0. Don't need any help from other conference teams. USC needs to win their last 3 conference games and have Utah and ASU each lose a game.

Most direct path is not the same as easiest.

All of this is why I’ve been advocating for people to chill a little bit. I know it’s a message board, but damn, what a bunch of drama queens. Nobody needs to be told how to live their fandom life, but here’s my advice anyway: your panic/elation meter needs to function like the throttle and brakes on a cruise ship, not like a Ferrari. Things are rarely as bad as you think they are . . . until they actually are (Mackovic). And while things look better than they did 2 months ago, we are just a two game losing streak from a disappointing 5-7 season.

We're currently tied for first in the South, not out of it yet. Weird to even consider that.

asu finishes with UCLA, Oregon, and then us. USC gets OSU, Cal, and UCLA.

Crazy that the territorial cup could decide the south champion again.

ASSU is in a great spot given they own the tiebreaker with every team but us. We are 0-2 in that regard.

Still we have a chance and who would have thought that after UCLA

The frustrating/cursed thing about Arizona football is that our strong years never seem to coincide with these down years in the conference. Hence the lack of Rose Bowls.

KillerKlown wrote: Win out.
Utah lose 2of3.
USC lose 1of3.
UCLA lose 1of4.
?

Updated:
Win out.
Utah lose 1of2.
USC lose 1of3.

KillerKlown wrote:

KillerKlown wrote: Win out.
Utah lose 2of3.
USC lose 1of3.
UCLA lose 1of4.
?

Updated:
Win out.
Utah lose 1of2.
USC lose 1of3.

We'd also need UCLA to lose a game too.

Win out
ASU beats UCLA
UCLA beats USC
Oregon beats Utah
We beat whoever in the title game

8-5 unranked Arizona in their first Rose Bowl. Lol

It's sad to see, but a little predictable. They put their athletic QB in harms way, over and over.

It won't work for a full season. Caught up to them unfortunately today. Glad that AZ is getting away from that.

This month is going to be interesting - probably disappointing. But everything is wide open as far as this conference is concerned, and the Cats are alive and its November.

ASUHATER! wrote:

KillerKlown wrote:

KillerKlown wrote: Win out.
Utah lose 2of3.
USC lose 1of3.
UCLA lose 1of4.
?

Updated:
Win out.
Utah lose 1of2.
USC lose 1of3.

We'd also need UCLA to lose a game too.

Win out
ASU beats UCLA
UCLA beats USC
Oregon beats Utah
We beat whoever in the title game

8-5 unranked Arizona in their first Rose Bowl. Lol

Man crazier stuff has happened. If it doesn't though, I'll take the Cheez It bowl provided by a win over either Wazzu of ASSwho.
What a weak division; it's wide open for anyone to take it.

At this rate the PAC 12 title game is going to be like 8-4 Stanford vs 8-4 Utah or something.

UCLA got a loss tonight. Looks like the North will probably be the winner of the Apple Cup since UDub is up 17 on Stanford about to go the the 4th quarter.

USC up by 7 at half time.

That UCLA loss really hurts now.

UAEebs86 wrote:UCLA got a loss tonight. Looks like the North will probably be the winner of the Apple Cup since UDub is up 17 on Stanford about to go the the 4th quarter.

I might have jinxed it. UDub trying to Coug it.