Bear Down Wildcats

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Well, other than the NY6 games with whatever contractual pool amount of payout is involved, we seem to have landed in the best available slot. Money aside, the NY6 other than the Rose & Sugar don't mean much beyond "previews of coming attractions" for the expanded playoff next year. But after that, ...

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Don't mean to jump the gun. But if Fisch says he's expecting Oklahoma, and we stayed ranked 15 in the CFP looking at the 12 NY6 slots, the Alamo pays more than the Holiday, which pays more than the Sun, which pays more than the Vegas Bowl, and we own the pertinent conference tie-breakers, it's hard ...

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Hopefully we're past the point of listening to some prof who rides his bike down Mountain to his little funky office, works on a book, lectures on a topic of debatable value, and brings in no money (i.e.: Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers ) complaining that Taylor Swift and all athletes and coaches mak...

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...Fuck ASU.

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I think the players know what to expect. ASU has no choice but to try and turn it into a one-game season. I like our team in all phases, including their determination, and the way they've improved over the course of the season. ASU can bounce off the walls at kickoff, wag their tongues, and run Stat...

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With the exception of their win over WSU, they haven't scored a ton of points. The cautionary tale would be their win at UCLA. And, it's theoretically possible their freshman QB Jaden Rashada could be healthy enough to play some against us, which would give them a different (poor man's) Jaden Daniel...

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AZCatGirl wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:57 am And good riddance!

Can we put the XII on there now? Or is it going to be the XVI?

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Wilner is such a jackass. ASU will hire an "impressive" replacement as AD for Anderson. Because Crow has done "first-rate" work. Yeah, despite the fact that he hired the guy in the first place, had a large share of responsibility for Larry Scott's long and destructive tenure, and he has somehow mana...

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Big, deep, physical, conservative, ground-and-pound. Home wins over Florida and UCLA, and road wins at USC and at Baylor. Their worst moment was a home blowout at the hands of Oregon, and they lost by two scores at Oregon St. Otherwise, an impressive season, including the narrow loss Saturday at Sea...

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Can anybody remember the last time we had a basketball/football "double" over a weekend anywhere near as big as this? I'm sure we have, it's just a question of how long ago. I'll exclude anything but the very best ASU football teams on some of those Thanksgiving weekends when Lute won some big hoops...

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That was the biggee we talked about back in the off-season; just get into a bowl game. Done, and with lots of bonuses. I think we would have been okay with the Arizona Bowl or the Independence Bowl. Any bowl would do. Now we've got a shot at the Holiday Bowl and other options. It also would have suc...

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Not sure San Jose does much for us, and not sure SDSU wants to mess with us. They've only won once in the last 6 games. We might be able to package overall home-and-homes with them including hoops and baseball. Otherwise, it's a bit like the pre-Pac. We always had lots of players on the roster from ...

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Looking at the schedule, we've got the non-conference game at K-State, so it's like 5 home and 5 road league games (even though KSU is technically non-conference.) We also play New Mexico in a one-off in Tucson, as well as NAU. There isn't the glitz of the LA schools or Oregon (and I never personall...

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WVU fans already circled coming out to Tucson in November. Looking forward to Morgantown . West Virginia is a beautiful state and would love to see more of it I was back there visiting friends not long ago. There's a lot of history there and some beautiful vineyards. Also much natural beauty with s...

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Wilner put out some snarky comment about it, naturally. One of the aspects I enjoy about the collapse of the Pac-12 is that some leeches are now in life rafts. Instead of BS-ing his way though every aspect of the Pac-12 while getting paid syndication rights for a column that included rank speculatio...

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This is another round of kicking the Pac-12's corpse. I won't get into the relatively minor sports, how aesthetic some of the locations are, or the academic PR stuff, as it's mostly irrelevant at the end of the day. You can make a case that the earliest indication of the Pac's demise was when the SE...

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Here it is. Big, physical, fast, and deep. They have some motivation after DTR had to slink off the Rose Bowl turf last season after our game in what was supposed to be "his year." Meanwhile, after all the losses, scares, and tough games we've given them through the years, I'm quite sure that neithe...

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I kind of look at this season as a celebration, and here's why. In fairly rapid succession, we had the transition from Dr. Hart to Dr. Robbins, from Byrne to Heeke, from RichRod (with the secretary thing) to Sumlin (with the booze thing), COVID, Scott to Kliavkoff, the demise of the Pac-12, and Ariz...

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I'd forgotten all about this until the Connor Stalions thing popped up. I did some work in the old press box for Arizona Athletics in 1982. The last game of the season was the famous "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" game when we knocked ASU out of the Rose Bowl. After the game, I was meeting two...

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They couldn't find a chair when the music stopped, that's for sure. In any event, some judge will decide, and they get it right as often as they do. I'll throw out one final data point on the consistency issue. Comcast will withhold $70M from all 12 teams this year stemming from Scott's financial mi...

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From a reasonableness perspective, while I'm somewhat sympathetic to their situation, I think it's hard to justify giving two schools each a whopping $50M windfall over a possible misapplication of conference by-laws. And the circumstance of two teams leaving is different than a de facto overall dis...

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No news flash, but Oregon State's a damned good football team. They're coming off a bye, just like we are, and that may be more advantageous to a team if the game after the bye is on the road. We won at WSU by a big margin, but a number of people think WSU has some schematic problems, and now that t...

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Here it is. They're coming off a bye, just like us. Obviously their wins over Utah and UCLA are particularly note-worthy. I didn't realize Uiagalelei was such a moose at 6-4 250 (with 5 rushing TDs.) Another physical note is that their two OLBs are both big and tall and obviously can function as DEs...

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I was returning home from a fairly long trip last night, and I caught some of the first half of the game on the plane, then I remembered to tune in the USC broadcast driving home. Pete Arbogast almost broke crystal wine glasses hitting a high-C while shrieking about a USC touchdown. But, the mood ev...

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Very likely true. Both LA schools have had enough losses and scares from us in football to duck any home-and-home, or even a 2 for 1 (if we were dumb enough to do that.) I'd guess the same for hoops and most other sports. From a recruiting standpoint, I assume our coaches would like to play them, ev...

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Per the first post, it should be about 60 degrees, cloudy, 10 per cent chance of rain and wind under 10 mph, which is just about perfect football weather. It's nice we catch them in mid-October up there for the last time, instead of November. Can't remember the year (maybe '82?), but Larry Smith too...

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As far as reverse order power rankings, that's probably pretty close. But none of those teams seems anywhere near as daunting as the roadies at USC and Mississippi St and the home game with Washington seemed to be prior to the season. A lot of people thought we'd get blown out in all three of them, ...

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Here's their season to date, with scores, personnel, and stats. It should be about 60 degrees, cloudy, 10 per cent chance of rain and wind under 10 mph. @ Colorado State W, 50-24 Wisconsin W, 31-22 Northern Colorado W, 64-21 Oregon State W, 38-35 - BYE - @ UCLA L, 17-25 OFFENSE QB 1 Cameron Ward 6-2...

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It would be great to have a bye right now, but that doesn't happen until after this week's trip to Pullman. That'll be another tough assignment, but I still think we can find at least three more wins in these last six games and go bowling.

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After the game, Williams gave us zero credit and complained about being hit after the whistle. I recall one play where Justin Flowe held both hands up so he wouldn't be called for Standing Too Close. Meanwhile, I think most objective people would agree that we didn't get our share of the 50/50 calls...

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No Big 12 network There are different kinds of intelligence, but it's hard to believe major university presidents could be as naive and inept as they've been on so many issues. We've heard recently about the Utah president and Kliavkoff stumbling and fumbling the last media negotiation. But way bef...

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So, in the official Pac-12 website, UCLA "fell" to Arizona in volleyball at McKale, because that's the copy/paste from UCLA's media release. Arizona was the home team, and they also provided a media release about Arizona "beating" UCLA in four. And that's part of the Pac-12's attitude problem in mic...

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Perfect!

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Well, here we are. Pretty much like playing Washington for a second straight week, only in the Coliseum. We're the sandwich home "Family Weekend" game between the hyped game at Colorado, and the following week at Notre Dame. Here's their record: San Jose St 56-28 Nevada 66-14 Stanford 56-10 @ Arizon...

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Lute's smiling up in heaven. I imagine Miller is pretty happy about it too. Who were the announcers last night? It was all UDub all the time. Don't recall so much favoritism for such a heavily favored team. You see it all the time with underdog teams v. UA MBB, but that is understandable. I general...

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If anyone wonders, I intentionally did this as a separate post, rather than adding to the endless and tired realignment thread. This year has some similarities and some differences to our last year in the WAC, 1977. Then, we were strapped for cash with spartan facilities, we were nervous about our a...

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It sure would have been interesting if Money and Norman had stuck around one more year than they did. Money, Norman, Elliott, Fleming, and Harris as starters with Myles, Rappis, Taylor, Gladney, and Gordy as backups. Wooden's last UCLA team was good, not great, with Dave Meyers and Marques Johnson. ...

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Gene, Eric Stefan’s, Freddie and a little China grove and we are all set Don't forget Harry West to narrate the intro, which sounded like he needed a whole box of Ex Lax. If you had a really good antenna so you wouldn't get a snowy signal from the transmitter in Rio Rico, you now realized that the ...

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No doubt we'll get boat-raced more than once this season, either by significantly stronger teams, or when we're beat up. It's still an interesting process to try and find those three remaining needed wins, unexpected or otherwise. As for this week's red-out game, from Seth Rogen's very fun version o...

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The University of Arizona does not have the ability to stream the game by itself? Not sure if there's any issue with rights, but they've got a pretty advanced audio/visual center right in McKale that ties to permanent stationary cameras, as well as a number of high-end portable cameras interns can ...

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Pac-12 Arizona is listing a replay of the ASU soccer team's loss at Stanford in that time slot. I'm kind of anticipating the Pac-12 Networks fizzling out like air out of a balloon as the year goes on. Feel sorry for yourself, do the minimum, save money, then slap padlocks on the equipment and wave g...

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If JDL is out there throwing interceptions like he’s got money on the Huskies, they’re going to blow us out of the water. Protect the ball and eat up clock on long drives. Keep it close and anything can happen. Well, if we're looking for hopeful signs, MSU held them to 41, and Cal scored 32 on them...

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Read it and weep. They seemingly have everything. If anybody cries that they've lost a running back and a center and are otherwise a little dinged-up, don't buy it. They're deep and big and athletic and fast. For them, it really is just Next Man Up. Boise St W 56-19 Tulsa W 43-10 @ Michigan St W 41-...

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Carroll always has some real stellar types on his team, like Metcalf. You could see how fired up Aaron Donald and the rest of the team were about beating those jackasses. Rematch is at SoFi on November 19.

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We shouldn't make too many assumptions after two weeks of the season. There's one narrative of "how ironic that the Pac-12 finally got its act together just in time to blow itself up," followed by boo-hoo or whatever. No doubt league teams are generally off to a very good start. As to Colorado, we'l...

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They brought back 19 starters from the team that beat us, in our house, by 22 points. Going toe to toe with them, losing -- in overtime -- by 7, in their house, after us having 5 TOs, gives me a lot of hope/confidence for the rest of the season. It really shows how far this team has come. And we ha...

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Charter Communications (Spectrum) is in: New York City, LA, Dallas, Tampa, Orlando, Cleveland, Charlotte, and many other markets. So, they're in contract negotiations with Disney Corp, which owns: ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU, and a number of other channels, which includes (of course) the SEC Network which is c...

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One point I hadn't noticed is their OTs line up way back of the LOS. Not sure what the rule is about that in terms of acceptable distance back, versus procedure for not having 7 on the line. Maybe they always have 4 receivers on the LOS. Otherwise, it's kind of like a batter kicking away the chalk o...

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[https://youtu.be/8NNdkly99jI?si=IroG1_3q4ARWYM62] This guy is great. While analyzing our team, he does a great job of showing us non XO guys what we were trying to do against NAU and, at the same time gives a great preview of the Miss St game. Highly recommended. Thanks for the link; that was exce...

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Maybe Fisch figures they'll get so fed up with it, they'll play angry when they hear it Down South. The history of it is that Mississippi State football fans used cowbells from the 1930s until 1974, when the SEC banned them. The NCAA currently allows noisemakers, under certain conditions. In 2010, t...

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