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Post by sportnlyf on Dec 8, 2013 19:21:38 GMT -8
Branded Bull, loved your comment about the team refusing to go to the Tangerine Bowl because of their position on black players. Before coming back home to San Diego, I spent a year at Humboldt State. A few years before my arrival, their team too was invited to play in the Tangerine Bowl. Upon arrival, they were told by bowl officials that their lone black player (a star running back who later played in the AFL) would be given comparable but separate quarter to stay in while in Florida. When they failed to yield to the coach's protest over this, he gathered up his team and travelling party and call for the buses to return and take them back to the airport for an early flight back to California. It is my understanding that the bowl officials backed down, prevailed upon the host hotel and that the entire team stayed together as planned. Good for the position you guys took and the posititon taken by Humboldt State a few years later (I think it may have been 1961).
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Post by uncledougy on Dec 8, 2013 19:29:36 GMT -8
5 OT's with Stoneybrook? And still only 26-23.....what happened there?
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Post by brandedbull on Dec 8, 2013 20:06:09 GMT -8
Keep in mind that when Buffalo played THE Ohio State it was the first game of the season and many starters (like so many Urban players) were suspended. You faced a much deeper team.
Khalil Mack is the real deal. Projected to possibly be a top ten draft pick this year. A finalist for the Butkus award (I think Barr wins this) and just won the Lambert award. Mack set the NCAA all time forced fumble record and tied the NCAA tackle for loss record. So one tackle for loss and he will be alone in first.
Some questions for you. 1. After winning the conference last year, your record has to not be what the fans expected. Can you provide detail into the season (injuries, hard schedule. or etc.?)
2. From a Buffalo perspective, you have a strong QB, WR, and RB. Your offense seems to have a strong balance. What does the offense do well and were does the team struggle.
3. Buffalo has a great Defensive Line, All American Mack at Linebacker, but struggles in the secondary. Buffalo does well when the pressure on the QB creates happy feet. How is the Aztec's offensive line?
4. As stated earlier, I expect the Aztec fans to be 10 to 1 (or maybe more) in the stands as compared to Buffalo. Does the fans travel with the team? What do you expect the turnout to be?
5. Buffalo sounds very similar on the offensive side of the ball. UB has Bo Oliver who set Buffalo's all time yards and attempts (beat current Green Bay Packer James Starks records). Bo is a small runner pushing 5'8" but can punish you (work out freak), juke, or flat out run away. Bo looks to possibly be a late round draft pick or at the last will be invited to a camp. UB with a run of 5 straight years with a different QB, found a QB late last year in Joe Licata. Only a sophomore but plays very smart. Does not try to force plays and is the pure definition of a pocket passer. Wide receiver Alex Neutz is a stud. Set UB's TD record and was a one man wrecking machine against Baylor (well the only one who had any success against Baylor. Another player looking at late round draft. UB also has up and coming tight ends. Tell me about SDSU's defense.
6. Special teams. Buffalo does not have a player who will threaten running back kicks. Buffalo does have a kicker with a cannon leg and could hit from 55+ if asked.
7. What else should we know about the team? What players should we key on that has a chance to play on Sunday's?
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Post by brandedbull on Dec 8, 2013 20:10:04 GMT -8
5 OT's with Stoneybrook? And still only 26-23.....what happened there? That was a nightmare game. Lead running back missed the game. Coming off back to back throttling by Ohio State and still worndown at the track meet called Baylor. UB should have lost that game to a FCS team. UB really had the stars align and beat teams that were down. Lost to teams that they could have beat. Have Bowling Green down 7 - 3 at half to get beat in the second half. Bowling Green goes to MAC championship and beats #14 NIU. UB loses to Stony Brook and we would not be having this conversation.
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Post by Simsonic on Dec 8, 2013 20:16:26 GMT -8
Even if it wasn't a test, we'd make it one.... We have a penchant for that.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2013 20:21:45 GMT -8
branded -
On defense, we lost our leading tackler for the season with injury, Jake Fely. Another leading tackler, Largent, hasn't been 100% all season. And we lost our best CB, Leon McFadden, to the NFL. Fourth rounder IIRC. Regardless, the defense has been a major disappointment and most of us believe Rocky Long shouldn't be his own DC.
On offense, our stud RB, Adam Muema, wasn't 100% until about a month ago. We changed quarterbacks to JUCO transfer Quinn Kaehler four games into the season and although he's just a game manager type, he's helped tremendously. However, we lost our leading receiver, TE Gavin Escobar, to the Cowboys in the third round and our leading WRs are both very athletic but very erratic. OC Bob Toledo has similarly been very erratic.
Our special teams are good in coverage but that's it. We haven't kicked a FG since September 28 and have missed our last eight, I believe, and our punting leaves much to be desired.
That's it in a nutshell.
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Post by AztecFemBone on Dec 8, 2013 20:25:30 GMT -8
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Post by smoothcat on Dec 8, 2013 20:42:19 GMT -8
Boise is gorgeous this time of year, bring your bathing suits and flip flops.
Is Buffalo even a Division I team?
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Post by badfish on Dec 8, 2013 20:46:53 GMT -8
Keep in mind that when Buffalo played THE Ohio State it was the first game of the season and many starters (like so many Urban players) were suspended. You faced a much deeper team. Khalil Mack is the real deal. Projected to possibly be a top ten draft pick this year. A finalist for the Butkus award (I think Barr wins this) and just won the Lambert award. Mack set the NCAA all time forced fumble record and tied the NCAA tackle for loss record. So one tackle for loss and he will be alone in first. Some questions for you. 1. After winning the conference last year, your record has to not be what the fans expected. Can you provide detail into the season (injuries, hard schedule. or etc.?) 2. From a Buffalo perspective, you have a strong QB, WR, and RB. Your offense seems to have a strong balance. What does the offense do well and were does the team struggle. 3. Buffalo has a great Defensive Line, All American Mack at Linebacker, but struggles in the secondary. Buffalo does well when the pressure on the QB creates happy feet. How is the Aztec's offensive line? 4. As stated earlier, I expect the Aztec fans to be 10 to 1 (or maybe more) in the stands as compared to Buffalo. Does the fans travel with the team? What do you expect the turnout to be? 5. Buffalo sounds very similar on the offensive side of the ball. UB has Bo Oliver who set Buffalo's all time yards and attempts (beat current Green Bay Packer James Starks records). Bo is a small runner pushing 5'8" but can punish you (work out freak), juke, or flat out run away. Bo looks to possibly be a late round draft pick or at the last will be invited to a camp. UB with a run of 5 straight years with a different QB, found a QB late last year in Joe Licata. Only a sophomore but plays very smart. Does not try to force plays and is the pure definition of a pocket passer. Wide receiver Alex Neutz is a stud. Set UB's TD record and was a one man wrecking machine against Baylor (well the only one who had any success against Baylor. Another player looking at late round draft. UB also has up and coming tight ends. Tell me about SDSU's defense. 6. Special teams. Buffalo does not have a player who will threaten running back kicks. Buffalo does have a kicker with a cannon leg and could hit from 55+ if asked. 7. What else should we know about the team? What players should we key on that has a chance to play on Sunday's? 1. Starting QB started off REALLY cold and was benched in the Ohio St. game for a walk-on QB who played well, but not great, for the rest of the season. Early season injuries to our RB (Muema) slowed him down, best LB in the conference out for the season early and our NT is out, but we stayed pretty healthy besides that. EIU is one of the top FCS schools and we took them lightly. We deserved to lose that game for sure. We should have beaten Oregon St. at home, but threw a late pic 6 and they stole the W. We did well the rest of the year, taking #16 Fresno to the last play of the game, but missing the winning FG. We took UNLV lightly and got smacked out last game of the year. We had 4 overtime games this year (most in FBS history) and mostly close games. Wild season for sure. 2. Our QB is very inexperienced, accurate, but has a noodle arm. We have a legit burner in WR Lockett, and an emerging star in WR Ruffin. Our horse at RB is Muema who is a bruiser, similar to Oliver. We have an NFL fullback in Chad Young. Young has blocked for I think 5 1,000 yard guys now, IIRC, and he will lay some wood. We have a true frosh RB in Pumphrey who will be the fastest player on the field for sure. Our play calling is limited because our QB has such a weak arm, and we don't have a pass catching TE to speak of. With weather being an issue, expect a heavy dose of Muema, Young and Pumphrey. 3. Our O-line is incredibly inconsistent, and struggled a lot last week. They are better run blockers than they are pass protectors, and our QB won't scramble ever. Expect a lot of sacks and screen plays because of this. 4. We average 33K at home games, but we don't travel well at all, that's why we barely got accepted to a bowl game despite being 7-5 and 3rd in MWC. It is hard to get people to leave SD to go to Idaho, especially with a lackluster season (especially with the way it ended). I'm not a numbers guy, but for sure <5K Aztec fans. Boise is in our conference and somewhat of a rival since we beat them 2 years in a row, so the fans may be rooting for us or against us. We do have a victory (1-0) on the smurf turf, so we have some experience there. 5. We run a 3-3-5. Our D-line is experienced but small. Our LB corps are studs despite losing the best LB in the MWC to injury. We are deep at LB and rotate a lot of guys. Our "Safeties" are the stars of our defense with a couple possible late round NFL guys. Nat Berhe is a stat machine and always around the ball and Erik Pinkins likes to try and kill people when he hits them. Our CBs were very green to start the year, but REALLY stepped up and are pretty good now. Whitaker had 2 INTs and a TD against Boise, and makes a lot of big plays. Our redzone D is the worst in the country. No really, it is. Fun fact: Junior Seau's nephew is #55 and plays LB. We play a few true frosh on D who have made a lot of mistakes this season, but get better and better every game. RS freshman DB Demontae Kazee always seems to make a big play when we need it. 6. We have the worst kicking game in the country. No really, we do. We do not kick field goals anymore and we have missed a few extra points. Our HC also has balls of steel and will go for it on 4th down anywhere past our own 40. Our kicking game cost us the game vs. Fresno St. SDSU is notorious for having a terrible kicking game. Our punter is pretty good though. We have a homerun KR in Lockett who had a couple last year, and PR Tim Vizzi has a PR for TD in 2 straight games, he is good. 7. We are SDSU, not SD ST or San Diego. We will play an exciting game, making huge plays and shooting ourselves in the foot too. We run at least 2-3 trick plays a game, and we do pretty well with them. Our best players are: RB Muema, DB Berhe, LB Tenhaff, WR Ruffin and RB Pumphrey. If this game is anything like our season, it will go to OT. Our highlight of the year is beating Boise again and our lowlight is losing our season opener (also a firework show in which 40K+ people attend) to an FCS school. IF we win, we will be only the 5th team in FBS history to start a season 0-3 and finish with 8 wins.
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Post by tonatiuh on Dec 8, 2013 20:51:01 GMT -8
How do you cook buffalo anyway? Over the Bar B Q, how else? Leaner than beef, and tastes great!
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Post by brandedbull on Dec 8, 2013 20:59:53 GMT -8
Thank you Ron Burgundy. Let me know if their is anything I can answer on the Bulls.
We have the worst kicking game in the country. No really, we do. We do not kick field goals anymore and we have missed a few extra points. Wow.
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Post by smoothcat on Dec 8, 2013 21:09:14 GMT -8
Thank you Ron Burgundy. Let me know if their is anything I can answer on the Bulls. We have the worst kicking game in the country. No really, we do. We do not kick field goals anymore and we have missed a few extra points. Wow. Ours is worse, I can guarantee that despite never seeing a University of Buffalo (or is it Buffalo University?) game ever.
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Post by badfish on Dec 8, 2013 21:11:43 GMT -8
Thank you Ron Burgundy. Let me know if their is anything I can answer on the Bulls. We have the worst kicking game in the country. No really, we do. We do not kick field goals anymore and we have missed a few extra points. Wow. Ours is worse, I can guarantee that despite never seeing a University of Buffalo (or is it Buffalo University?) game ever. I think he quoted me. No way can anybody believe their kicking game is worse than ours. Infamous Seamus.
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Post by brandedbull on Dec 8, 2013 21:14:46 GMT -8
It is the University at Buffalo (Actually State University of New York at Buffalo)
By enrollment, UB is the largest of SUNY's four comprehensive university centers,and also the largest public university in the northeastern United States (comprising New York state and the New England region). In addition, by either endowment or research funding, UB is also the largest one of SUNY's four comprehensive flagship university centers.
As of 2012, the university enrolls 28,601 students in 13 separate colleges. The university houses the largest state-operated medical school and features the only state law school, architecture and urban planning school, and pharmacy school in the state of New York. The university offers over 100 bachelor's, 205 master's, 84 doctoral, and 10 professional areas of study.
According to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the University at Buffalo is a Research University with Very High Research Activity (RU/VH). In 1989, UB was elected to the Association of American Universities, which represents 62 prestigious, leading research universities in the United States and Canada. UB's alumni and faculty have produced a U.S. President, a Prime Minister, astronauts, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, Academy Award winners, Emmy Award winners, Rhodes Scholars, and other notable individuals in their fields.
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Post by brandedbull on Dec 8, 2013 21:17:11 GMT -8
I will go out on a limb and say the Aztec's will be favored by 3.5 when the line comes out.
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Post by smoothcat on Dec 8, 2013 21:19:17 GMT -8
It is the University at Buffalo (Actually State University of New York at Buffalo) By enrollment, UB is the largest of SUNY's four comprehensive university centers,and also the largest public university in the northeastern United States (comprising New York state and the New England region). In addition, by either endowment or research funding, UB is also the largest one of SUNY's four comprehensive flagship university centers. As of 2012, the university enrolls 28,601 students in 13 separate colleges. The university houses the largest state-operated medical school and features the only state law school, architecture and urban planning school, and pharmacy school in the state of New York. The university offers over 100 bachelor's, 205 master's, 84 doctoral, and 10 professional areas of study. According to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the University at Buffalo is a Research University with Very High Research Activity (RU/VH). In 1989, UB was elected to the Association of American Universities, which represents 62 prestigious, leading research universities in the United States and Canada. UB's alumni and faculty have produced a U.S. President, a Prime Minister, astronauts, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, Academy Award winners, Emmy Award winners, Rhodes Scholars, and other notable individuals in their fields. Wow, thanks for that...I didn't realize that your school had so many students. I actually do remember when Turner Gill was your coach just because I remembered him from his playing career. You seem like a good guy, best of luck in the Bowl Game, I hope it is an entertaining one.
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Post by AZK619 on Dec 8, 2013 21:27:41 GMT -8
Our kicking game is atrocious, Mr. Bull. Your team has a good shot at beating us. Seems like a good match-up.
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Post by brandedbull on Dec 8, 2013 21:32:18 GMT -8
UB like your team is feeling grateful be in a Bowl game. Could have easily been passed over. We are as giddy as a school girl to be in a bowl. Turner was a great coach at UB. UB has sucked so bad that we should act like we have been here before but really we haven't.
Feel free to jump into the mix at UBBullrun.com. We are classy only because UB has been everyone whipping dogs and we really cannot talk any trash.
It's going to be freaking cold but still look forward to the game. I was in Boise this year for business and a really cool city. That is the steepest stadium I have ever seen.
Mack will be our Faulk. He will be the best to come out of UB. Watch this kid play. And to think he had zero D1 scholarships. I did see the Mosely from Alabama won the Butkus award.
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Post by sdsuballer on Dec 8, 2013 21:42:24 GMT -8
I will go out on a limb and say the Aztec's will be favored by 3.5 when the line comes out. Don't worry.... I'll give your coach the game plan to beating SDSU.... Throw the ball on every possession and get rid of it fast.... Every team that's won against us this year has run some type of spread offense.... Rocky tends to send everyone on blitz's because our defense can't create pressure leaving our db's expose....
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Post by sdsu2000 on Dec 9, 2013 6:10:37 GMT -8
Excited our team got picked for a bowl game. Happy the seniors got what they deserved. Happy the game is on a Saturday. More happy that it gives more time for practices since it's on the 21st.
But won't really be stoked unless Rocky can actually win a bowl game. Your program can't grow unless you win these.
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