agalum
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Post by agalum on Oct 9, 2010 22:42:30 GMT -6
Just got home from the game. This game was everything we thought it was going to be. It was a tough close game. Wright really looked great tonight. Both teams had dropped passes, but the Ags seem to be improving in that department. I was surprised that we did not pass on 3rd and 6 towards the end of the game. They ran it. Last week we passed against SJ in that situation. There was a tremendous amountof excitment during the game and the stadium was packed. We tried to get some of the Yotes to join us at the tailgate but they had their own party on the south side of the field.
Best wishes Yotes for the rest of the season. You have a good football team (and a very loud coach!) ;D
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Post by drmike on Oct 9, 2010 22:46:58 GMT -6
agalum..was the crowd as electric as it sounded on the radio? sounds like the Aggie Pack was off the hook, especially for key defensive stands. i hope so..that would be the most exciting game alot of these students have seen, and should build the attendence for the rest of the year.
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Post by usdfbalum on Oct 9, 2010 22:52:11 GMT -6
Just got home from the game. This game was everything we thought it was going to be. It was a tough close game. Wright really looked great tonight. Both teams had dropped passes, but the Ags seem to be improving in that department. I was surprised that we did not pass on 3rd and 6 towards the end of the game. They ran it. Last week we passed against SJ in that situation. There was a tremendous amountof excitment during the game and the stadium was packed. We tried to get some of the Yotes to join us at the tailgate but they had their own party on the south side of the field. Best wishes Yotes for the rest of the season. You have a good football team (and a very loud coach!) ;D Is the UC Davis defense that good or did USD just not look good offensively tonight?
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agalum
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Post by agalum on Oct 9, 2010 22:56:01 GMT -6
agalum..was the crowd as electric as it sounded on the radio? sounds like the Aggie Pack was off the hook, especially for key defensive stands. i hope so..that would be the most exciting game alot of these students have seen, and should build the attendence for the rest of the year. The crowd was awesome. The student who was the cheer leader for the Aggie Pack last year (he was at our tailgate, nice kid) was sitting in our section on the west side. He had his megaphone and was initiating the "GO"--------then "Ags" from the pack. The pack was very loud when the Yotes had the ball and that had to be a factor for Yote audibles.
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agalum
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Post by agalum on Oct 9, 2010 23:01:22 GMT -6
Just got home from the game. This game was everything we thought it was going to be. It was a tough close game. Wright really looked great tonight. Both teams had dropped passes, but the Ags seem to be improving in that department. I was surprised that we did not pass on 3rd and 6 towards the end of the game. They ran it. Last week we passed against SJ in that situation. There was a tremendous amountof excitment during the game and the stadium was packed. We tried to get some of the Yotes to join us at the tailgate but they had their own party on the south side of the field. Best wishes Yotes for the rest of the season. You have a good football team (and a very loud coach!) ;D Is the UC Davis defense that good or did USD just not look good offensively tonight? Our D really came on in this game. I just caught a few of the stats at the end of the game. Sounds like Yotes out gained us. The difference I think was our secondary in this game. We made the big plays on D when we needed them, and your offense did not. The last Yote drive was very exciting. The whole stadium was on it's feet. It was on the north side, so the Yote fans could not see it as they were on the south end. The hit on the Yote receiver on the last Yote play was so loud we heard it up in the stands. Your guy was open, but our secondary guy, forgot his name, went for the ball and there ended up being two defenders with your receiver, going for the ball. There was a collision that echoed across the stadium, and our guy was flat out for about 3 minutes. He came around and walked off. Wright took the snap, kneeled, and that was it. Great game to watch, could have gone either way, but my take was that the Aggies really controlled the game even though the score was close.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Oct 9, 2010 23:28:34 GMT -6
Congrats to UC Davis for the win but as a Coyote fan I am sick and tired of losing these games that come down to the end. The Minnesota game really never got to a last possession wins type game.
This year lost to UC Davis on a last possession game.
Last year lost to UND in OT on a last possession game.
Last year lost to UC Davis in OT in a last possession game.
The Poly win last year was basically a near collapse job where a Poly hail mary didn't hit. Not really considered winning in crunch time.
2 years ago against SE Louisiana lost on last play of game (I believe a 2 pnt Conv)
I am not sure but the UNC game may have come down to the last possession as well but either way a loss.
The most recent win I can think of in a last second game was the playoff game at Northwood in 2006 where USD really didn't play that well in but still won. The Yotes should have won that game by 3 touchdowns.
Minnesota State in 2006, last second loss on a fluke play but MSU deserved the game for most of it.
I think the UMD game in Minnesota may have been a last possession game that USD won. I think that may have been 2008 but USD collapsed that season.
The Coyotes just don't play well under pressure. It has been proven time and time again. Tonight was another example of a USD team that just doesn't make the plays that it takes to win games. I thought those things were supposed to even out but the Yotes almost always fall short in these big moments.
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Post by usdfbalum on Oct 10, 2010 6:35:26 GMT -6
USD IMO lost the game because: 1. they could not score TD's in the first half. 2. two big penalties on special teams that cost huge field position 3. Lack of attack by the offense (when they did attack they seemed to move the ball.) I do not think this is the case of USD just losing a close game in the end. They lost the entire game from start to finish.
When time was running out USD moved the ball down the field quickly. The sense of urgency actually helped them.
There were more drops than I can remember. USD only had three receivers make receptions all night. When you hold a team to under 50 yds rushing, hold them to 17 points, and have a similar Time of Possession as your opponent - you should have an opportunity even with an average defense.
Either the UC Daivs Corners and FS are the best pass secondary USD has seen, or USD's offensive skill players did not show up.
Really hope Jesse Weisbroad is not out next week against UNI - he is the biggest and most physical DL USD has and he will be needed to battle the giant OL coming to the Dome next week.
Hope the USD fans come out and scream - few will prob realize that UNI is the best team to be in the Dome in years. With the Pheasant opener I am skeptical. Did anyone see how empty the Alerus Center was for the Southern Utah game - it was terrible.
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Post by #1CoyoteFan (Admin) on Oct 10, 2010 9:05:09 GMT -6
The biggest problem of the game was the passing game. It was Minnesota Vikings bad. They basically asked Ganious to do it all. Whether it was bad throws by Dante, bad blocking by the offensive line that forced Dante to get rid of it early or dropped passes, everything went wrong for the passing game today, plain and simple.
Plus the penalties were horrible. WHEN IS ED GOING TO FIX THIS! This has been a problem for a while, but he is too stubborn to get it changed it seems.
Someone said USD isn't goo in these high pressure situations, and I thought that had changed with the Minnesota win, but apparently it didn't. I think this is a DIRECT result from coaching, COMPLETELY. This needs to be fixed or else USD will NEVER be a consistent top 25 team.
This isn't a game USD should've lost. Yes, I agree it was a bend-don't-break defense, but they got the job done, especially with the offensive struggles. UC Davis has plenty of opportunities to score and the defense held them to 17 points, with injuries. I think a lot of props needs to be given to the defense. Complain all you want, but they kept USD in the game the WHOLE time.
Also, with the play-by-play, I listen to UC Davis' broadcast, which called the game both ways, and actually did an accurate job of calling the game. With Sayler in as the AD, I think this is the last year Swain and RJ are the radio broadcast team. He is not going to put up with this kind of crappy broadcast from both of them. It's time they bring in a real D-I broadcast team.
USD needs a complete regroup for next week, because the offense faces a LOT tougher team and it has to be SOOOOOOOOOO much more effective. The passing game needs to practice their a** off this week, that's for sure. The defense can't be bend but don't break next week either against UNI offense that put up some points.
I think one of the things that hurt here is that USD completely overlooked UC Davis and had the sights set on UNI.
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Post by aggiefinn on Oct 10, 2010 9:20:06 GMT -6
USD looked good, but ultimately I think this came back to QB play. Warren just got outplayed by a 19 year old in Randy Wright. It was on Warrens' shoulders all night, and he continued to miss receivers down field. Seems to me that's not really his game, he was much more accurate on short to intermediate passes...and when those were working their were drops. Tough loss for the Vermillion faithful. The 12th Man really showed up last night for Davis, there were false starts that looked out of place on the Yote line. It's going to be another wild Great West ride again this season. We're all going 2-2 in league.
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Post by notkiotees on Oct 10, 2010 10:23:33 GMT -6
Everybody but the Sue.
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Post by Coyote Fan on Oct 10, 2010 10:49:03 GMT -6
There are a couple of things that come to mind this morning. USD just doesn't seize momentum when they have a crack in the opponents armour. When USD went ahead they needed to jump all over Davis at that point. They kind of went into a shell when they got ahead and it ultimately ended up in a run-run-run possession that ended up with Warren fumbling the ball away. USD's defensive and offensive units just don't seem to pick up one another enough when it's needed. The offense deserves the whipping after this game. The D did tire out and I believe they allowed a young QB to rip them apart for way too much of the game. But the D wasn't the reason the game was ultimately lost. Ya can't complete less than 30% of passes or it's almost never going to end well.
Now onto UNI. I think people look at them like they are the Floriday Gators. They are a decent team but it's not like they are head and shoulder the best team USD has played at the FCS level. They have already lost 3 games and were beaten by a struggling S. Illinois team. USD should be the type of team that can give the Panthers real problems on offense provided they are well verses in how to attack them. Basically USD need to come out and be ready to pass all over them.
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drmike
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Post by drmike on Oct 10, 2010 17:42:34 GMT -6
Did anybody on the boards make it down to Davis? curious what their reaction was to the game, and the game experience at Davis. We had a pretty big crowd (10,500), 2000-3000 students all decked out in Aggie Blue, and it sounded about as loud as its has ever been. Hopefully, they found the Davis folk to be hospitable, and they enjoyed the trip (besides the outcome).
College football under the lights on a warm fall night, with a crazy crowd.....don't get much better than that!
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Post by goags72 on Oct 10, 2010 23:41:17 GMT -6
The Aggie Pack student section was awesome and the noise was terrific for the whole game. Pretty much one whole side of the stadium was students and Aggie Band-uh. The game turned out as I predicted - two even teams with the Aggies winning on home field advantage. I was disappointed by the low South Dakota attendance - I'm sure there are USD alumni in California. Someone needs to organize them. I can't afford to go to South Dakota so I know how that is, but I will say that North Dakota does have organized attendance from California alumni. Of course, I was also disappointed by the Aggie season ticket holders who didn't show up in sizeable numbers despite great weather or maybe because of it.
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Post by drmike on Oct 11, 2010 10:15:45 GMT -6
Somebody posted this on the Davis boards: www.argusleader.com/article/20101011/SPORTS0203/10110305/1052/OPINION01Title and Subtitle: UC Davis defeat tough to swallow Officials receive low marks from USD's Meierkort Penalties: USD 8-69 UCD 5-40 doesn't seem much difference. Not like this stat: Passing USD 7-26-89 yards UCD 25-34-260 yards, 1 TD "I can see why the Great West is disbanding," Meierkort said. "I don't want to take any credit away from UC Davis but I've never seen a team get homered like our team got homered (Saturday night). That was ridiculous. You know me, I do not gripe about officiating after games, but that's the worst officiated game that affected the outcome that I've ever been a part of in 18 years as a head coach." so, bad officiating is why the Great West is disbanding? we're leaving for the BigSky because they had better officials? damn, i thought it was because this was a fragile 5-team, football-only conference, and the BigSky will be a 10-team, AQ league with alot of stability. to paraphrase Will Ferrel in Anchorman: "Stay classy, Ed!'
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Post by oldgoat on Oct 11, 2010 11:44:29 GMT -6
Somebody posted this on the Davis boards: www.argusleader.com/article/20101011/SPORTS0203/10110305/1052/OPINION01Title and Subtitle: UC Davis defeat tough to swallow Officials receive low marks from USD's Meierkort Penalties: USD 8-69 UCD 5-40 doesn't seem much difference. Not like this stat: Passing USD 7-26-89 yards UCD 25-34-260 yards, 1 TD "I can see why the Great West is disbanding," Meierkort said. "I don't want to take any credit away from UC Davis but I've never seen a team get homered like our team got homered (Saturday night). That was ridiculous. You know me, I do not gripe about officiating after games, but that's the worst officiated game that affected the outcome that I've ever been a part of in 18 years as a head coach." so, bad officiating is why the Great West is disbanding? we're leaving for the BigSky because they had better officials? damn, i thought it was because this was a fragile 5-team, football-only conference, and the BigSky will be a 10-team, AQ league with alot of stability. to paraphrase Will Ferrel in Anchorman: "Stay classy, Ed!' ya same thing i thought when i read that. it was just a matter of time berfore he said something to make himself and the program sound cheap.somebody in a earlier thread made a comment about how ed carries himself and how he comes off somtimes and a few came on and said they didnt care what he acted like as long as he keeps winning well i really didnt agree with that then and i sure dont now.i like ed and i like what he has done with the program but he has to be carefull. i dont know maybe its no big deal what are your thoughts
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