Cougars fans can stand proud knowing that Leach's teams are continuing to follow the long tradition of Cooging it.
Excellent move by Moos last year extending Leach's contract out till 2018.

Hey look everyone, we lost but at least our QB got a NCAA record!

An insignificant fact: Houston's David Klinger whose single game record of 716 passing yards was broken by Halliday last night, won his record setting game.

Was tuned into gamecast last night and stayed up till 11:30 after everybody went to bed at the cabin. Looked like the Cougs had control of the game at the end. Good thing I didn't record the game. The air raid is a great offense but it seems like the air raid teams don't know how to play defense. Was hoping for a Coug win to top off a great day of crabbing and hanging out on the beach. I wasn't surprised to see Utah beat UCLA.

So a drunken gang of leprechauns chopped down the trees ?









Flavor of the week is Auburn.
Those Barners are lookin' pretty good.
Coach Malzahn is a good one.

So...which of the "players running the system" decided to kick a field goal with 19 seconds left and two downs to go when your QB had just passed for sixteen million yards and Cal's defense couldn't stop anyone or anything?

Air Fail.

The only "modification" that the Air Raid makes is that it takes any offensive system and completely removes the running game...which won't work against good teams in a power conference.

Fish on...

Todd

I believe Mike Leach has had one running back drafted in all his time as a head coach.
The players aren't running the system.....or running the ball.
Erickson, Kelly and Price all had decent running backs and running games.

I'm surprised Leach had one running back go to the NFL, stonefish. After all, he's been quoted as saying he likes to "use the pass to establish the pass."

As questionable (and out of character) as the field goal try was, it seems to me the Air Raid offense did about as much to help the team win as could ever be asked. I'd say the swiss cheese defense (not capitalized, because they haven't officially adopted the name yet) was much more to blame for that loss. I think Cal scored on it's last 7 possessions, and the only thing that stopped them on the 8th was the clock expiring. Cal's got a great offense, but even the second-worst defense in college football could have done enough to win that game for the Coogs.

On another note, the parity has always been what makes college football great. Amazingly, despite the forming of "super-conferences" and rules that favor perennial powerhouse programs, the parity is probably better than ever so far this year. It will be fun to see if a 3-loss team makes the championship playoff.

The "Air Raid" mostly worked on Saturday because Cal's defense is as bad as the Coogs' defense...and the reference to the stupid call to kick so early with so much time left was to further bolster my argument that Leach needs to go back to a shittty conference and coach football...that wasn't any "players" fault...that was a crappy coaching call.

Fish on...

Todd

So you have to be a D-1 coach to question the Pirate of the Palouse?

If that's the case then he'll be there forever and the Coogs will continue to suck...

Forever.

They will, however, continue to be a very exciting 2-9 team to watch lose every week...they do somehow manage to be more spectacular at losing every week, no boring losses. After years of doing it you'd think they'd eventually run out of ways to Coog it, yet here they are, week after week, coming up with new and exciting ways to lose spectacularly.

Congrats.

Fish on...

Todd

All the good spread offenses have a pretty good balance between pass and run.
Not so with the Coogs. You'd think Leach was Norm Chow's long lost brother the way he manages the end of games.

Pieholes......ok there Cowpie

Coogs just fired their special teams coach.
I wonder why.....

Did someone say "Goat"?
That should bring out the board's biggest Coog fan....

If you think...

1. The "Air Raid" is just the spread offense, or

2. Firing the Special Teams Coach will fix what is wrong with the Coogs...

...then you don't know much about football.

In other words...you are a Coog fan.

Fish on...

Todd

1st and goal Cougar RB Wicks had the ball over the goal line but the fuggin Pac 12 refs didn't review it. Between bad officiating and bad special teams and defense the Cougs are screwed. Need to fire some Pac 12 refs.

Don't forget Mahle dropped a TD pass, I believe it was on that last drive too.

Plenty of blame to go around for all of this. Leach fired his friend quickly instead of keeping him around for another year, unlike Sark and Nick Holte.

Nick Holt or Nick Nolte?

Sorry Chachi, but ex Dawgs.
Condom Sark and Hilltopper Nick.
Maybe Leach will get it correct soon...and just fire himself.

Coog fans will be happy to learn that Halliday has moved up in the Heisman race (from 167th to 166th ) as actual Heisman hopeful Todd Gurley of UGA just got suspended indefinitely and is under investigation for violation of undisclosed NCAA rules violation.

Seriously...are there any stars in the SEC that don't break a rule or six every year?

Fish on...

Todd

Why do you think Mississippi State and Ole Miss are so good this year. The last few years at the high school invitational games, when the 5 stars all gather around with different hats laid out on the table, those 5 stars have been reaching past all the other hats to grab the Miss St and Ole Miss hats. And then walked past the party buses Bama, LSU, UGA and SC etc... had out front straight to the party penthouse rooms Ole Miss and Miss St had set up so they could get laid and find an envelope full of cash.

And the sad thing is this isn't even kept hidden. Like I said those schools where setting up right out front. The SEC is a total joke and everyone knows it including their sugerdaddy ESPN and the NCAA.

Funny how any infractions by USC or Wa (dare I add Penn St which wasn't even an infraction) get in so much trouble with the NCAA all the while Bristol is sending out the annual August memo that says the SEC is the best conference in the country.

When my brother was in SC he would send me all sorts of stories and anecdotes of what was really going on (he called Ole Miss and Miss St btw as he was following those infractions real time). He also attending about six or more High School games a year thru out the tri-state area and he would see NCAA violations right out in the open every time. They would line up to be next in line to see if they could out violate the previous violation. Just to have Ole Miss swoop in and seal the deal.

So now that some one tattled on the UGA kid expect a UGA booster to tattle on whomever they think tattled on them and then they will all sit down, pass around some envelops, and decide it's in all their best interests to stop tattling.

I mean there are pictures of that booster in Miami handing checks at center court an hour after getting recruits laid on his yacht. And yet USC and Pete Carrol are cheaters??? And what, Miami self sanctioned themselves one post season??

Watch or Tivo those High School invitationals as they are pretty funny. First watching some 5 star try and speak and explain why they picked Ole Miss over LSU, Ohio St and Alabama. And then it's also really funny watching those schools reaction when they thought that same recruit was "in the bag."

It sure is a good thing that smart kids make pretty good football players or the Pac 12 would never win an OOC game!

This, especially.

Fish on...

Todd