Comments on: Football: A conversation with Todd Howard

By: covinared

covinared — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:18:46 +0000

Wisdom: I agree, but recruiting is more focused on projected needs at least 1-2 years down the line. Its pretty rare that true freshmen are good enough to significantly contribute right away, even at receiver.

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:01:25 +0000

Feb1 is the first day they can sign.

By: rollonubears

rollonubears — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:48:30 +0000

Is feb1 a signing deadline, or just the first day you can commit in writing? Heard talk about shaq not committing until AFTER feb1.

By: The Wisdom Cow

The Wisdom Cow — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:17:41 +0000

Covinared, without looking at the roster, the only NEED this year on the OL was another center, and Cochran is a consensus top 5 at the position. The other recruits for the line all look promising as well, two rated well above Cochran (though OTs tend to rate higher than Cs). I have complete faith in the coaching staff’s ability to keep the OL program rolling with our guru back.

By: covinared

covinared — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:54:02 +0000

what about the linemen? It seems that a good team needs a dominate line more than its needs to be three deep in receivers.

By: Juancho

Juancho — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:58 +0000

I’ll never forget Jason Kidd’s quote. Still brings me a laugh. Turning something around 360 degrees essentially doesn’t turn it around at all. You start and stop in the same spot.

What he wanted to say was turn it around 180 degrees.

By: rollonubears

rollonubears — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:40:54 +0000

wisdom cow, now you’ve got me all turned around.

By: DelthaForce

DelthaForce — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:34:56 +0000

Wisdom Cow, that reminds me of one my favorite Jason Kidd quotes: “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” Kidd must not have gotten anywhere Heart Mining Circle or any part of campus dealing with numbers. Go Bears!

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:56:22 +0000

it’s us and ASU for Foster, we’ll see what happens.

By: The Wisdom Cow

The Wisdom Cow — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:55:17 +0000

On the WR recruiting for this year, one thing keeps me uneasy. There can be no denying Leach can and will promise playing time and deliver it, too.

I still think some of the more savy WR recruits see the value of Cal and U$C over the “gimmick” offenses because of the propensity to use pro sets, but that almost gets thrown out the window after Leach was hired. He’ll be running 4 guys, stressing routes and reads, and it will be a serious selling point for Pullman.

Juancho, I couldn’t help but laugh now that you are adding some translations. I don’t even try, having been out of the loop for so long. I discovered I got old (ouch, over a decade ago) when I needed clarification from a client as to what “off the hook” meant.

Oooh, on that, TO ALL PROSPECTIVE BEARS, I learned a new term being used ad nauseum is that a person went “xbox”. For context, a defendant says his girlfriend went “xbox” in that she completely changed her story. Please, everyone, realize just how ignorant this is. It is not clever, to use “xbox” to to say someone flipped positions, altering 360 degrees.

End rant. Go bears!