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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2010 14:04:03 GMT -8
Nickels State makes the South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs look extremely daunting. We follow that up with cupcake USU. Utah is a great matchup and the best game on the schedule. This should be a late season battle between 2 bowl eligible teams. Add Utah's departure to the PAC and it is a game to be excited about. AFA is always a decent, gutty team. If we've made any significant strides we should beat these guys on our home turf. I'm starting to think 5-1 at home this year, pinch me if I need to wake up. It's spelled Nicholls but no points deducted since only a dedicated no-life loser like me should be expected to know. (BTW, Nicholls lost at AFA last year 72-0 and at LA Tech by 48-13 but at Memphis in 2008 by just 31-10. I expect a close to LA Tech result.) USU: I won't bother repeating it but a check of common opponents from last year suggests that even though we're at home, it will be a pick 'em game. AFA: Although some think we'll win, I think it's probably the most unpredictable game on the schedule. Utah: Yes, THE best game on the schedule which given how much of a sandwich game it is for them could result in our biggest upset in years. |
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Post by aztech on Jul 26, 2010 14:35:57 GMT -8
OK, I did not hear the BR/Scott Kaplan commentary--don't listen to them, they are aimed at a different demographic. In my prior post I was referring to the afternoon guy, thought it was Darrin Smith [?] who was making the points about how poor our schedule is. So, sounds like our scheduling took a few hits on 1090 last week, at least morning and afternoon. As for all this talk about cupcakes I'm starting to not like cupcakes since the consensus seems to be we fall into the Twinkie Team category--well, judging from our competition anyway. Please, Brady, Please! Just end this! Don't know how much longer I can sit around and think I'm being an optimist by even daring to think we can beat a New Mexico St. or Utah St. Someone has to be kidding me! Oh, the Horror of it all. The Fred Noonan School of Navigation.  Hate to break it to you Fred, but I think it's all about our guaranteed money that's causing this cupcake scheduling. After that ridiculous showing on Halloween last year, the attendance can't be trusted to make ends meet. However, it's beyond me why they don't schedule a good team for the Skyshow game. At any rate it'll surely change when Hoke starts winning. If we go to bowl this year I could see our OOC getting tweaked, even for the 2011 season. Money can change everything. |
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Post by k5james on Jul 26, 2010 14:54:55 GMT -8
OK, I did not hear the BR/Scott Kaplan commentary--don't listen to them, they are aimed at a different demographic. In my prior post I was referring to the afternoon guy, thought it was Darrin Smith [?] who was making the points about how poor our schedule is. So, sounds like our scheduling took a few hits on 1090 last week, at least morning and afternoon. As for all this talk about cupcakes I'm starting to not like cupcakes since the consensus seems to be we fall into the Twinkie Team category--well, judging from our competition anyway. Please, Brady, Please! Just end this! Don't know how much longer I can sit around and think I'm being an optimist by even daring to think we can beat a New Mexico St. or Utah St. Someone has to be kidding me! Oh, the Horror of it all. The Fred Noonan School of Navigation. Hate to break it to you Fred, but I think it's all about our guaranteed money that's causing this cupcake scheduling. After that ridiculous showing on Halloween last year, the attendance can't be trusted to make ends meet. However, it's beyond me why they don't schedule a good team for the Skyshow game. At any rate it'll surely change when Hoke starts winning. If we go to bowl this year I could see our OOC getting tweaked, even for the 2011 season. Money can change everything. Why schedule a good team for the Skyshow when people are paying to see the Skyshow? The Skyshow will almost always be the weakest team on the schedule. |
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Post by aztecx on Jul 26, 2010 16:48:15 GMT -8
After that ridiculous showing on Halloween last year, the attendance can't be trusted to make ends meet. Hard to get people with kids to come to an aztec game on Halloween. The marketing department did a piss poor job, well really they did nothing, to try to promote the game. Did you really expect attendance to be normal for a game on Halloween evening against a winless team? |
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Post by aztech on Jul 26, 2010 17:19:46 GMT -8
Why schedule a good team for the Skyshow when people are paying to see the Skyshow? The Skyshow will almost always be the weakest team on the schedule. On the contrary. They should be able to see a good football program come into the Q with a lot of families witnessing it. Put a good show on the field as long as you have 40-45K there. By not doing so you're only enabling the crowd to come see the fireworks only, screw the s#!++y football game they're being offered. Does history show those kind of wins bring the fans back? If the administration is afraid of looking silly getting our ass kicked before the fireworks start, then we ought to go back to the WAC to play these kind of games all season. I'm confident Hoke is doing his share of changing this losing mentality. |
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Post by Fred Noonan on Jul 26, 2010 17:34:54 GMT -8
OK, I did not hear the BR/Scott Kaplan commentary--don't listen to them, they are aimed at a different demographic. In my prior post I was referring to the afternoon guy, thought it was Darrin Smith [?] who was making the points about how poor our schedule is. So, sounds like our scheduling took a few hits on 1090 last week, at least morning and afternoon. As for all this talk about cupcakes I'm starting to not like cupcakes since the consensus seems to be we fall into the Twinkie Team category--well, judging from our competition anyway. Please, Brady, Please! Just end this! Don't know how much longer I can sit around and think I'm being an optimist by even daring to think we can beat a New Mexico St. or Utah St. Someone has to be kidding me! Oh, the Horror of it all. The Fred Noonan School of Navigation. Hate to break it to you Fred, but I think it's all about our guaranteed money that's causing this cupcake scheduling. After that ridiculous showing on Halloween last year, the attendance can't be trusted to make ends meet. However, it's beyond me why they don't schedule a good team for the Skyshow game. At any rate it'll surely change when Hoke starts winning. If we go to bowl this year I could see our OOC getting tweaked, even for the 2011 season. Money can change everything. College football is all about the money. Period. After that, however, we are scheduling cupcakes so we can eke out a win and somehow get ourselves bowl eligible. Nikels St. (and by the way, I like the spelling so don't call me on it, OK?) is simply a way to get a win for us while picking up money from the skyshow. It's a "twofer." The Fred Nooonan School of Navigation. |
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Post by brokencurse on Jul 27, 2010 17:02:45 GMT -8
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Are we a cupcake also?
The point is someone is saying so and so is a cupcake so we should win handily.
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Chuck Long turned us into a cupcake.
We will not be a cupcake in Hoke's 2nd year.
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Post by chichimeca77 on Jul 27, 2010 19:39:22 GMT -8
Hate to break it to you Fred, but I think it's all about our guaranteed money that's causing this cupcake scheduling. After that ridiculous showing on Halloween last year, the attendance can't be trusted to make ends meet. However, it's beyond me why they don't schedule a good team for the Skyshow game. At any rate it'll surely change when Hoke starts winning. If we go to bowl this year I could see our OOC getting tweaked, even for the 2011 season. Money can change everything. College football is all about the money. Period. After that, however, we are scheduling cupcakes so we can eke out a win and somehow get ourselves bowl eligible. Nikels St. (and by the way, I like the spelling so don't call me on it, OK?) is simply a way to get a win for us while picking up money from the skyshow. It's a "twofer." The Fred Nooonan School of Navigation. I have to admit I have been trolling around here for a while and I had to bite at this one. I mean this is all about money. When Faulk was here we scheduled some good teams, but we also played some really crappy ones but people came because of Marshall, people came because we might win. Wouldn't we all love to have Ohio State here, or USC again and have the Trojan Band playing at the Q; making it actually feel like a college football game. At the same time the last thing we need is to have one of those big teams come in and kick the $#!+ out of us and have the UT and XX just be like buzzards on a dying carcass. What we are seeing in the stands isn't the lack of big opponents, its the product of a decades worth of losing. San Diego is the biggest bandwagon town in all of the world, if we go to a bowl game we will be the talk of the town and the next year, win or lose the opener will have people in the stands. Win two bowl games in a year and all of sudden everyone has been an SDSU fan since they can remember. Look at the success of basketball and we haven't really done something super huge yet and we have the local pro athletes on the floor seats. It is often said here and I will say it again. "Win and they will come" By the way XX Sports sucks major testicles. |
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Post by AztecTom on Jul 27, 2010 22:05:14 GMT -8
Chuck Long turned us into a cupcake. [/quote] Not according to Steve.  |
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Post by gettough on Jul 27, 2010 22:14:29 GMT -8
Steve has never said Long did not turn us into a cupcake!
He has said we would have won 6 last year with Long leading our cupcakes.
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Post by AztecTom on Jul 27, 2010 22:20:50 GMT -8
Steve has never said Long did not turn us into a cupcake! He has said we would have won 6 last year with Long leading our cupcakes. My point is Steve is all over Longs nuts.  |
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Post by brokencurse on Jul 28, 2010 2:54:46 GMT -8
Steve has never said Long did not turn us into a cupcake! He has said we would have won 6 last year with Long leading our cupcakes. ;D |
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Post by brokencurse on Jul 28, 2010 2:56:40 GMT -8
College football is all about the money. Period. After that, however, we are scheduling cupcakes so we can eke out a win and somehow get ourselves bowl eligible. Nikels St. (and by the way, I like the spelling so don't call me on it, OK?) is simply a way to get a win for us while picking up money from the skyshow. It's a "twofer." The Fred Nooonan School of Navigation. I have to admit I have been trolling around here for a while and I had to bite at this one. I mean this is all about money. When Faulk was here we scheduled some good teams, but we also played some really crappy ones but people came because of Marshall, people came because we might win. Wouldn't we all love to have Ohio State here, or USC again and have the Trojan Band playing at the Q; making it actually feel like a college football game. At the same time the last thing we need is to have one of those big teams come in and kick the $#!+ out of us and have the UT and XX just be like buzzards on a dying carcass. What we are seeing in the stands isn't the lack of big opponents, its the product of a decades worth of losing. San Diego is the biggest bandwagon town in all of the world, if we go to a bowl game we will be the talk of the town and the next year, win or lose the opener will have people in the stands. Win two bowl games in a year and all of sudden everyone has been an SDSU fan since they can remember. Look at the success of basketball and we haven't really done something super huge yet and we have the local pro athletes on the floor seats. It is often said here and I will say it again. "Win and they will come" By the way XX Sports sucks major testicles. Nail. Head. This program is in complete dire need of a bowl game. That's gotta come first. Baby steps... |
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Post by monty on Jul 28, 2010 6:37:43 GMT -8
Steve has never said Long did not turn us into a cupcake! He has said we would have won 6 last year with Long leading our cupcakes. My point is Steve is all over Longs nuts. he gobbles 'em up |
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Post by steveaztec on Jul 28, 2010 6:41:17 GMT -8
They were two of the worst teams in the WAC last year. Even the worst team in the MWC should be able to handle them and there's no excuse for not doing so. I have a feeling we'll lose to New Mexico State. I just don't think there's any excuse for it. But they are not cupcakes. If we lose to either of them, it will not be a shock. Why do you say there is no excuse for us losing to NM St. at their house. I think we will win. But it is not like they are a bad DII school. New Mexico State and Utah State are not cupcakes? But many Aztec fans considered Cal Poly to be a cupcake?  |
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Post by steveaztec on Jul 28, 2010 6:42:48 GMT -8
Sadly, we'll be underdogs in that game. I disagree. Vegas' standard is to give three points on the line to the home team, so NMSU will have that. However, we beat them by 17 last year at Qualcomm. So my guess is the betting line will be about SDSU -10. Your guess, John? John....we beat Idaho by 25 at Qualcomm with Chuck Long and then went to Idaho and lost by 10. |
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Post by steveaztec on Jul 28, 2010 6:45:47 GMT -8
Steve has never said Long did not turn us into a cupcake! He has said we would have won 6 last year with Long leading our cupcakes. My point is Steve is all over Longs nuts. Never have been Tom. I'm just stating the truth instead of jumping on the "Long Hater" train. I leave the "following" to other people.  |
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Post by steveaztec on Jul 28, 2010 6:49:16 GMT -8
My point is Steve is all over Longs nuts. he gobbles 'em up Are you sure you are 28 years old? Or are you about 10 years old.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 7:00:19 GMT -8
That game was 17-17 with 12 to go. Took two TOs deep in NMSU territory to seal it. Way closer game than the final score. NMSU beat a Lobo team in the ABQ that we struggled with at home. Our road record the past X seasons is not only awful, its really unbelievably awful. My guess? Take the Aggies and the 10. We'll blow it. Vegas' standard is to give three points on the line to the home team, so NMSU will have that. However, we beat them by 17 last year at Qualcomm. So my guess is the betting line will be about SDSU -10. Your guess, John? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2010 7:04:04 GMT -8
Still don't grasp the fact that they improved and we didn't. And it was an AZTEC road game- look up our record the last 5 years- you wouldn't be surprised we lost. I'm not. Pissed? You bet. Surprised? Nope. And we lost by 14. Watch out in Las Cruces. John....we beat Idaho by 25 at Qualcomm with Chuck Long and then went to Idaho and lost by 10. |
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