Blake Countess visiting Arizona
Blake Countess is officially visiting Arizona. In case you don't remember, he committed to Rich Rodriguez at Michigan shortly before Rodriguez got fired. This seems like an apt landing spot if it does indeed happen.
As far as I can tell, Arizona has one returning corner (Jarvis McCall, Jr.) with a battle between Cam Denson (two starts) and converted wide receiver Davonte' Neal for the other spot. I would think that Countess could go in and win the job opposite McCall.
Wish Blake all the best and hope he finds a good spot be it Arizona or somewhere else.
I like that and hope it is a win for both Countess and Rodriguez.
Hope he has a great season.
That program should be solid next year, and Countess would go along way toward helping a shakey D.
last year.
FEI Ranking: 27
S&P: 40
They're above average, not shaky. Of course, the defense is led by the Pac-12 DPOY, Scooby Wright, is a potential day 2 draft pick.
Dude was 9th in the Heisman voting. He could easily go day 1 after this year.
He could go All-Name Team too.
Heisman voting translates to NFL... How? Tebow for example.
I know, I know. You think it's a little different for a defender. But being productive in college doesn't necessarily translate to NFL success. The NFL tends to go towards freakish athleticism and potential over production in college.
I mean come on, who in their right minds would draft Frank Clark over Jake Ryan if that were the case?
Tebow was a first round draft pick by Denver, I don't see your point.
is Tebow sucks as a NFL QB and it shows on the field.
But the point being discussed was heisman voting and getting drafted early, so his point was shitty
That whole winning record and playoff victory thing was terrible. I hate seeing QBs lead teams that way.
Denver defense and running game. Tebow absolutely sucked at QB and his completion percentage was below 50% and rarely crack 150 passing yards.
Did you not watch or see the results from this year's draft???
Why are you assuming that he isn't a great athlete? Scooby Wright's SPARQ score was higher than that of both Tebow and Reggie Bush. He's a great athlete. Also, the numbers he put up last year are easily the best of any college defensive player in at least the past decade.
He was first in the nation in tackles, TFLs, and forced fumbles and third in the nation in sacks, as a true sophomore.
Kiper and McShay both have him going in the first round in 2016. Just watch him play.
Jason White won the Heisman and went undrafted. College success =/= pro success. If that's the case, then Timmy Chang or Colt Brennan would be the top QB in the NFL.
Counterpoint: Michael Sam, who was SEC DPOY and barely got drafted. Turns out that was for good reason. And I don't buy the "but he's gay" argument. Sure homophobia is real and probably some teams held their noses and turned the other way at the prospect of bringing an openly gay man into the team; fuck all of them, whoever they are. But there were serious legit football concerns about his ability to play in the pros. Namely, that he's too small to be an effective DE and too slow to be an effective LB.
I don't know anything about Scooby Wright, but it IS possible to be a great college football player who will never be a star or even a roleplayer in the NFL and who gets drafted (or not) accordingly. Just as it's possible to be a great college basketball player who never gets a cup of coffee in the NBA.
He was also a unanimous All-American and the Lombardi, Nagurski, Bednarik, and Lambert award winner.
Yep - ranked as good as UM or better in most advanced stats and Arizona faces a lot more difficult offenses week in and week out - there was no Washington, Cal, Oregon type offenses in the Big 10 in terms of pass crazy action. If anything Blake is going to get a ton of opportunities in the game to pass defend as any DB will in the Pac 12.
Seems like a good opportunity to get a full time starting gig.
RR was obviously tampering with Blake.
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By the way, I have also thought of WVU as a possible landing spot because Rodriguez's boy Tony Gibson is the defensive coordinator there, although he coaches linebackers (Brian Mitchell is the cornerbacks coach). Cullen Christian followed Gibson to Pitt and then to WVU, so maybe Countess feels connected to Gibson, too.
Cullen Christian went from Pitt to WVU? That's like a Boren move isn't it?
I hope he continues to rock the Michigan gear like he was on Saturday.
But how does it relate to Nike and Adidas?!
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Arizona is a Nike school, so clearly we need to switch to Nike.
You're good people Magnus. Thanks for breaking it down for me. I'm going to start a thread explaining this to the world!!!
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Arizona and Oreo both begin and end with the same letters (respectively). Nike and Jorts do not begin and end with the same letters.
Connect the dots ... .
You know what else begins and ends with the same letter?
Al-Qaeda.
You just blew my mind. My brain exploded. Terrorists blew off my head is what I'm getting at.
and this kind of stuff is exactly why I like to read through the comments. I don't lnow what this says about my maturity level, but well-done!
Dang. I thought once people hit 40, they were banned from using the internet except to order Metamucil and Bayer aspirin.
with stereotyping. I'm almost 50 and I use the internet for plenty of things beyond getting my Metamucil and Bayer. I also buy Depends and scour the the internet for the best early bird dinner specials.
It took me a long time to reply becuase I forgot how to get on this interweb thing. Damn it!
Thanks OBAMA
Too political for me... This is a jersey talk. Obama wears Nikes with Adidas socks.
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My wife normally has very good fashion awareness, but she can't understand why I never cross brand my shoes/socks. Glad this bothers someone else!
I wear Haines socks. Because the brand crossing bugs me
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....America.
So clearly, Blake Countess...wait what's the game again?
Not a game, not a game, not a game.
We talkin' 'bout practice.
Countess first came to Michigan and wore #18. 1+8=9. Then he switched to #2. 9+2=11.
9/11, dude. 9/11.
Asplode
it looks the towers collapsing on the back...............The Arizona bagman will give Countess 20 bucks to come there.
BLAKE COUNTESS CANT MELT STEEL BEAMS
I hope he is able to find a landing spot in a Big 5 conference, and it would be nice for him to finish up with the coach who recruited him. Especially if he's reasonable assured that he has a starting spot for his last year of eligibility.
Nothing but best wishes to Countess moving forward.
The title of this post will now apparently be the earworm of the afternoon, so thanks for that.
Second, as a general note, I really do wish Countess the best wherever he lands too - he stuck with Michigan after the coach that recruited him was fired, played well and worked hard and got that Michigan degree.
Just wondering here, do people root for Arizona? They aren't my second team by any means, but I do pull for them. I like Rich Rod and his offenses are really fun to watch.
I root for them to do slightly worse than Michigan. That's not working out so well for me. On the one hand, Rodriguez got a raw deal and it would bug me if his whole reputation was tarnished because of what happened at Michigan. On the other hand, I don't want everyone for years and years and years saying Michigan really screwed up by letting Rodriguez go. So I hope he goes 9-3 every year while Michigan goes 10-2 or better.
I agree that Rodriguez's offenses are fun to watch, and I think they're more fun now that he has a solid passing quarterback (Anu Solomon) instead of running backs/wide receivers masquerading as quarterbacks. I enjoyed watching Denard, but sometimes the offense in total was pretty painful to watch.
I agree with Magnus 100% on this
RR "got screwed" and RR "got a raw deal". We're getting there, people! 5 more years and it might fade away completely....