Thursday Night Open Thread
Well, we get to see West Virginia tonight. I'm always interested in watching these guys play, and seeing what we do compared to how they do things. Obviously they have new coaching and some different personnel, but it's still fun to do.
Also, along with running our offense, they brought out the maize jerseys! This could be a carbon copy of a game we play a year or two from now! (sarcasm y'all)
October 1st, 2009 at 7:46 PM ^
was so awful last year. Just a terrible game - but it did give us this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/media/2008/09/bill-ste…
October 1st, 2009 at 7:50 PM ^
That picture never fails to make me laugh.
Hopefully, based on how bad Colorado has been this year, tonight's game will be another shootout in the same mold as the Toledo matchup.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:09 PM ^
AHA! I had forgotten all about that picture. One of the worst faces to make at the worst time, ever. I remember seeing it in the game and laughing and then the picture popped up on the web not too much later. Thank you.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:50 PM ^
Seriously, how embarrassing would M look in all maize uniforms similar to those now being worn by WVU? That idea should be put to rest for good.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:51 PM ^
I agree. Just bad on so many levels.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:54 PM ^
or do the uniforms look like long john pajamas? Look matching shirt and pants, ma!! I half expect to see flaps in the back, just like the real things.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:12 PM ^
I'm not sure what is worse the pajama look or what uni-watch class the leotard look (socks matching the pants:)
http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/image/getty/2008/09000d5d80…
October 1st, 2009 at 9:04 PM ^
Screw it, I'm tuning in to Toronto vs. Montreal. Yes I'd sooner watch hockey.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:56 PM ^
Anyone else see the Chick'Fil'A commercial with the cows and the wave? I had no idea they were tOSU fans.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:57 PM ^
That fake bubble screen is the exact thing that I think Brian was talking about in his UFR. The play that Webb dropped the ball. He had the deep part of the field open. As I'm typing this Noel Devine just went all Carlos Brown on them.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:59 PM ^
Ooo my, Colorado might be really, really bad.
Not that I didn't already know this, but it just keeps getting reconfirmed.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:13 PM ^
the Buffs? I honestly feel bad for the guy, it seems like they've gotten worse every year he has been there. Was he the guy who really got things going at Boise, or was he just an assistant that got promoted? Either way, to go from the teams he had at Boise to this, is somewhat perplexing.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:27 PM ^
I blame the lack of strippers on the Colorado team
October 1st, 2009 at 8:52 PM ^
This is Hawk's 4th year at Colorado.
He was very successful at Boise before coming to CU (53-11 in 5 years).
October 1st, 2009 at 11:28 PM ^
I have a lot of discussion about this with my best friend who is a CU alum disgusted with the way the Hawkins regime has turned out. Dirk Koetter was actually the guy who started the ball rolling at BSU (back-to-back 10 win seasons) before moving on to Arizona St. Hawkins was hired as head coach without ever even being a coordinator (position coach under Koetter). He did keep the ship afloat, in large part by hiring Chris Petersen to run the offense after going 8-4 his first year. Basically, BSU had double-digit win success before and after the Hawk and he really hadn't done anything prior to that to justify getting the head coaching gig.
The moves he's made at CU are baffling. He improved recruiting (a nightmare late in Barnett's tenure) but refuses to play kids with talent. His son is terrible yet remains the starting quarterback ahead of Tyler Hansen (big kid with good wheels and a strong arm who looked good in limited time against A&M last year). A 4-star wideout recruit (Simas) who is in his third year at CU just made his first catch tonight, while they regularly put 2-3 walk-on wideouts (all slow white guys under 5'11") on the field at the same time because they supposedly "know the offense." Darrell Scott (top RB recruit in the nation a couple years ago) never sees the field because supposedly he can't pass block. Our old friend Tony Clemons apparently was just quoted as saying this is the most complicated offense he has ever seen (yet it produces no results four years into Hawkins' tenure).
I'll stop there, though I'd like to go on. I have had to listen to this for the last few years so now you guys get to too. To me it is a sad state for what I think of as a legit top-25 program nationally. Hope they get somebody decent when (not if) the Hawk gets canned.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:14 PM ^
from when RR was still at WVU (nt'l rankings):
Rush ypg Pass ypg
2005 4th 115th
2006 2nd 100th
2007 3rd 114th
October 1st, 2009 at 8:25 PM ^
How similar are Jarret Brown and Devin Gardner in skills? Both are good sized guys with some speed? Sorry if it has been posted somewhere.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:29 PM ^
I can't say, but if Gardner gives up the ball as much as Jarret Brown, uhh, uh oh.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:36 PM ^
as soon as I posted he handed off to Colorado...not good
October 1st, 2009 at 8:32 PM ^
they look like a UM '08/'09 hybrid.
'09 in that they're moving the ball at will.
'08 in that they fumble it away.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:42 PM ^
...was awesome.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:47 PM ^
i remember being 10, and pretending i was him when my 6 year old brother and i were playing one-on-one football in the front yard.
anyone with a younger brother knows how fun that was. :) 'ohhh, you're gonna scorrre!!! no you're not.'
on a side note: another fumble, solidifying my previous statement of the '08/'09 UM hybrid. not a good night to have the -16.5 :(
October 1st, 2009 at 8:54 PM ^
HAHAHAHA!
Edit: If neither one of these teams want the ball, I'm sure the Jonas Brothers will take it.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:53 PM ^
Cody Hawkins throws a pick to a WVU LB, who promptly fumbles the ball back to CU.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:06 PM ^
Noel Devine is looking pretty good tonight, despite all of the turnovers.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:15 PM ^
I so hope that Stewart is a commentator after he retires/is fired.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:18 PM ^
watch my head blow off my shoulders.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:20 PM ^
comes off as a person trying too hard to act like a football coach. After Erin Andrews interviewed him on the way to halftime, my wife looked up and said, "Man, that guy is a fucking a tool."
October 1st, 2009 at 9:23 PM ^
Man, I never realized how much he and former Senator, former VP candidate, and current man whore John Edwards looked like each other.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:24 PM ^
Bill Stewart is probably apologizing to his team in the locker room after his angry stomp off the field at halftime.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:31 PM ^
Can someone PLEASE tell me how in the hell ESPN thinks this stupid segmet is a good idea? Seriously I'd rather watch a WNBA marathon than him and his cornpoe stories and idiotic slurring.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:30 PM ^
Um, it's a totally unbearable segment, but now we're straying into the issue that Lou's wife wants him stop smoking a pipe?
October 1st, 2009 at 9:33 PM ^
Lou is drunk, regardless of the fact that he says he doesn't drink
October 1st, 2009 at 9:34 PM ^
FAIL
October 1st, 2009 at 9:42 PM ^
Even Freddie Prinze, Jr. thought that was bad acting.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:50 PM ^
Time for CU to get left in the dust. Poor Hawk, his team is just awful.
Edit: Of course I say that and CU marches down and scores a TD on a nice 4th down pass to Scotty McKnight. Hawkins did a good job of stepping up into the pocket and avoiding the sack.
lol, I think it was Craig James (I think) just made a crack about the look on Bill Stewart's face.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:46 PM ^
Seriously, who would produce that video and decide that it's good enough to show to the conference officials for their consideration and, further, who at the conference would watch that and approve it for air on national tv? It was so incredibly poor.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:52 PM ^
Bill Stewart.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:53 PM ^
I have missed said commercial, I wonder if it is on the youtubes?
October 1st, 2009 at 10:04 PM ^
I remember when I was young and found out that West Virginia had the same fight song as my high school. I was crushed. I thought it was ours.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:06 PM ^
none of us want to see your guts jiggle, regardless of the W, V, or U, painted on said gut.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:08 PM ^
What in the hell is Jarret Brown doing?
October 1st, 2009 at 10:08 PM ^
Kordell Stewart Hail Mary sighting!
October 1st, 2009 at 10:09 PM ^
ARGH STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT GAME
October 1st, 2009 at 10:10 PM ^
I saw 1994 and I just knew it was coming.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:15 PM ^
I was ABOUT to feel sorry for Colorado for getting scheduled two Thursday night OOC road games in one year.
NOW they need to DIE!!!
/still a little bitter
October 1st, 2009 at 10:17 PM ^
LB Steve Morrison was on the field, in coverage, on that play will be a question I take to my grave. Give me 3 DL and 8 defensive backs, thank you.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:16 PM ^
A day that will live in infamy.
I swear they show that clip way more than the Flutie one.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:19 PM ^
there is a live stream of Southern Miss at UAB:
http://linksadoor.com/live_tv/sports/3752.html
It's 17-10 UAB with a couple minutes left in the 3rd. You'll probably have to install the player when it prompts you.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:25 PM ^
Yes West Virginia students, you definitely had every right to be angry that RR left. Because you clearly care about the game so much. What with half of your student section having left the game early to go get drunk in a 21-17 game.