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RE: Oregon St Game Thread - lex24 - 11-13-2021

(11-13-2021, 07:51 PM)gailtate Wrote:
(11-13-2021, 06:55 PM)Farm93 Wrote: The score was actually in line with my 42-17 expectations, and yet it was still hard to watch.
The entire team played better than last week, so I have some hope that against a weaker Pac-12 opponent things might be OK.

As this game is over it is time for me to remember that our program may be having a bad season, but...
I have been to 4 Rose Bowl games, I have watched my team win 2 Rose Bowl games.
That's quite a bit better than anything alums of that other Bay Area football team can claim.

And....we have the Axe.

Hate to tell ya, but next week's opponent is SUPERIOR to Stanford and will be favored.

They both stink. If McKee plays it’s a toss up. If not, Stanford gets thrashed.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - Farm93 - 11-13-2021

(11-13-2021, 08:05 PM)lex24 Wrote:
(11-13-2021, 07:51 PM)gailtate Wrote:
(11-13-2021, 06:55 PM)Farm93 Wrote: The score was actually in line with my 42-17 expectations, and yet it was still hard to watch.
The entire team played better than last week, so I have some hope that against a weaker Pac-12 opponent things might be OK.

As this game is over it is time for me to remember that our program may be having a bad season, but...
I have been to 4 Rose Bowl games, I have watched my team win 2 Rose Bowl games.
That's quite a bit better than anything alums of that other Bay Area football team can claim.

And....we have the Axe.

Hate to tell ya, but next week's opponent is SUPERIOR to Stanford and will be favored.

They both stink. If McKee plays it’s a toss up. If not, Stanford gets thrashed.

We will see how much practice the UCBers get this week. This type of lost week has been really disruptive for teams in other sports. All of the Bears with COVID are all on schedule to play on Nov 20th. If UCB had a normal bye week they would be in a good position, but this past week was not a normal bye.

If McKee plays I am hopeful. I suspect the UCB fans will be optimistic, but even with the promising October this season has been a disappointment for UCB fans too. In my 30+ years watching Big Game Cal has been favored to win a lot more often then they have actually won. I would be very happy to add 2021 to that tally.

If McKee is not playing. It could be a long afternoon.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - Mick - 11-13-2021

(11-13-2021, 05:23 PM)Row80Critic Wrote:
(11-13-2021, 04:36 PM)Austroturf Wrote: The way this game has been going, with McKee under center, we would have more than a legitimate shot at winning this game. Patu just doesn't have the rhythm yet (not surprisingly).

In part because Shaw keeps yanking him out to run the wildcat or some other Sanders special. That Sanders made 12 yards on that one run will fuel Shaw for seasons to come, now that he knows if works (once every two dozen tries).

Reminds me of Buddy Teevens and the delayed draw....

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - TrumpCard - 11-13-2021

I don’t know why/how any Stanford fan who isn’t personally connected to the players watched the game today. Predictably losing by three TDs to a mediocre team is just not fun or worth hours of my time. Loyalty is not watching this, but demanding better.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - JohnR34231 - 11-14-2021

(11-13-2021, 10:16 PM)TrumpCard Wrote: I don’t know why/how any Stanford fan who isn’t personally connected to the players watched the game today. Predictably losing by three TDs to a mediocre team is just not fun or worth hours of my time. Loyalty is not watching this, but demanding better.

Yeah, it is a little mind boggling how bad we are now. 2006 bad.
We put in a new QB and he doesn't even last three quarters before he goes out with an injury.
Incredible.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - winflop - 11-14-2021

(11-13-2021, 10:16 PM)TrumpCard Wrote: I don’t know why/how any Stanford fan who isn’t personally connected to the players watched the game today. Predictably losing by three TDs to a mediocre team is just not fun or worth hours of my time. Loyalty is not watching this, but demanding better.

Why not both? I didn't watch Q4 but I watched enough to be informed.

West was a "healthy scratch" and understandably so, but he might not be as bad as Plautz.

Praying that McKee is good to go for Big Game and that he is able to finish the game as well. Really our only chance to keep The Axe

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - JohnR34231 - 11-14-2021

(11-14-2021, 07:22 AM)winflop Wrote:
(11-13-2021, 10:16 PM)TrumpCard Wrote: I don’t know why/how any Stanford fan who isn’t personally connected to the players watched the game today. Predictably losing by three TDs to a mediocre team is just not fun or worth hours of my time. Loyalty is not watching this, but demanding better.

Why not both? I didn't watch Q4 but I watched enough to be informed.

West was a "healthy scratch" and understandably so, but he might not be as bad as Plautz.

Praying that McKee is good to go for Big Game and that he is able to finish the game as well. Really our only chance to keep The Axe

Yeah, I think that's one thing just about all of us can agree on.
With McKee in there we have at least a shot at winning Big Game.
Without him no way.
Didn't know if West was healthy or not, but if he was I guess Shaw's decision to put Plautz in there instead of him was based on the notion that the game was lost anyway, so why not reward the guy with some playing time for his scout team efforts in practice.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - gailtate - 11-14-2021

To re-state the painfully obvious, the football program is no longer the good, quality one it once was. By every measure it is now sinking below mediocre and getting worse. A flailing coach, sub-par assistants, and a dwindling fan-based that was always fragile, even in the hey-day years of NY6 bowl games. Prospects for better days ahead? Not much evidence. We're in the midst of a reversion to the historical mean of Stanford football. Does Stanford have what it will take institutionally to mount a restoration project comparable to 2007? How long must the few fans remaining have to wait to find out? This is not good for anybody.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - martyup - 11-14-2021

(11-13-2021, 10:16 PM)TrumpCard Wrote: I don’t know why/how any Stanford fan who isn’t personally connected to the players watched the game today. Predictably losing by three TDs to a mediocre team is just not fun or worth hours of my time. Loyalty is not watching this, but demanding better.

It's bad enough that I have to watch our team stink up the football field. Then, at my watch party (this game thread) I have to read post after post about how bad we are and how our coach is an idiot and needs to be fired along with the AD. But now, apparently, to be a loyal fan I shouldn't watch my team at all? I should just complain until they get better again?

I've got a better idea for true fans of Stanford football. If your only purpose to post in a game thread is to complain about the team and the coaches, then don't post on the game thread. Start your own thread and all the complainers can join you there.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - Beeg_Dawg - 11-14-2021

(11-14-2021, 08:06 AM)gailtate Wrote: To re-state the painfully obvious, the football program is no longer the good, quality one it once was. By every measure it is now sinking below mediocre and getting worse. A flailing coach, sub-par assistants, and a dwindling fan-based that was always fragile, even in the hey-day years of NY6 bowl games. Prospects for better days ahead? Not much evidence. We're in the midst of a reversion to the historical mean of Stanford football. Does Stanford have what it will take institutionally to mount a restoration project comparable to 2007? How long must the few fans remaining have to wait to find out? This is not good for anybody.

No worries. Shaw is the winningest coach in Stanford history. Somehow the apologists feel like this overcomes lazy recruiting, sloppy OL line play, (personally I think the OL must improve before they are even sloppy) and little evidence we can tackle anyone in the open field.

On a happy note, I'll always have great memories of my last Rose Bowl visit when we spanked the Hawkeyes. What makes me sad is there is nothing to look forward to with Shaw. Lots of memories, just no future.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - PAsportsfan - 11-14-2021

(11-13-2021, 06:51 PM)Sam Leopold Wrote: Darn Shaw, seems to be mysteriously incapable of beating an opponent more than 11 times in a row. What a bum.

Elizabeth Holmes started out strong too.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - JohnR34231 - 11-14-2021

(11-14-2021, 09:39 AM)martyup Wrote:
(11-13-2021, 10:16 PM)TrumpCard Wrote: I don’t know why/how any Stanford fan who isn’t personally connected to the players watched the game today. Predictably losing by three TDs to a mediocre team is just not fun or worth hours of my time. Loyalty is not watching this, but demanding better.

It's bad enough that I have to watch our team stink up the football field. Then, at my watch party (this game thread) I have to read post after post about how bad we are and how our coach is an idiot and needs to be fired along with the AD. But now, apparently, to be a loyal fan I shouldn't watch my team at all? I should just complain until they get better again?

I've got a better idea for true fans of Stanford football. If your only purpose to post in a game thread is to complain about the team and the coaches, then don't post on the game thread. Start your own thread and all the complainers can join you there.

I hear you, and I have often complained on this board about the "Negative Nellies" who never seem to find anything good to say about Stanford football. It's just after the last few games (particularly the last two) you have to dig pretty deep to find anything positive to say.
About the only thing I can think of is (what I have already said) is that if we can get McKee back we have a shot at winning Big Game.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - Austroturf - 11-14-2021

I didn't get a chance to watch the second half due to the 9-hour time difference and, clearly, I did not miss much. In the first half, Stanford had its chances; and Oregon State appeared willing to keep us in the game with holding penalties and sketchy kicks. But we were simply unable to capitalize.

In retrospect, the most frustrating point of the first half was the decision to try the monster 55-yard FG, which was subsequently blocked. Up until that point, we had been offensively challenged, to say the least. OSU was dominating TOP and had roughly double our TOP, but they were only 7 points up. We were at the OSU 37-yard line with a 4th and 5. Three minutes and 45 seconds remained in the half. Yes, 4th and 5 is not a high percentage play; but after Nolan's botched pooch punt, Ari and the offense had marched down the field from the Stanford 20 in 7 plays, including some nice strikes from Patu to Wilson. We had something akin to offensive momentum. Why not take a chance? In fact, what did we really have to lose? Make the game exciting, take a risk, go for it, mix it up and get that tying score before the half. Failure would have been no worse than a blocked or missed kick. As it was, OSU got the ball at our 37 and marched down the field to score their 2nd TD to go up 14-0, and our overworked defense got to spend another 3:45 on the field. I checked out after that, as the clock struck 01:00 AM over here. Disappointing.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - gailtate - 11-14-2021

(11-14-2021, 09:39 AM)martyup Wrote:
(11-13-2021, 10:16 PM)TrumpCard Wrote: I don’t know why/how any Stanford fan who isn’t personally connected to the players watched the game today. Predictably losing by three TDs to a mediocre team is just not fun or worth hours of my time. Loyalty is not watching this, but demanding better.

It's bad enough that I have to watch our team stink up the football field. Then, at my watch party (this game thread) I have to read post after post about how bad we are and how our coach is an idiot and needs to be fired along with the AD. But now, apparently, to be a loyal fan I shouldn't watch my team at all? I should just complain until they get better again?

I've got a better idea for true fans of Stanford football. If your only purpose to post in a game thread is to complain about the team and the coaches, then don't post on the game thread. Start your own thread and all the complainers can join you there.

"Start your own thread and all the complainers can join you there."

Capital idea! I'm in. You can bet that an informed, critical thread will offer far better analytical content than anything mandating the waving of pom-poms and pennants -- at the expense of information. May you and yours enjoy your "safe place".

(11-14-2021, 10:14 AM)PAsportsfan Wrote:
(11-13-2021, 06:51 PM)Sam Leopold Wrote: Darn Shaw, seems to be mysteriously incapable of beating an opponent more than 11 times in a row. What a bum.

Elizabeth Holmes started out strong too.

With losses piling up in the wake of confounding decision-making on and off the field, Shaw further substantiates perceptions that the first half of his career as HC was more the legacy of Harbaugh than crafted by his own hand. He (Shaw) rode the slip-stream of EUTM to the heights --only to descend to his own level today. Hard to watch.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - Phogge - 11-14-2021

If there was anything good in the first half there would have been positive posts. Don’t know about the second half, watched a movie.

FWIW I think Patu is the future. McKee is a statue.

As for not posting in the thread I don’t like being lectured to so I’ll ignore the thought after this. Never had a staff job, only followed orders form people that made sense and I’m not changing now.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - BostonCard - 11-14-2021

(11-14-2021, 10:14 AM)PAsportsfan Wrote:
(11-13-2021, 06:51 PM)Sam Leopold Wrote: Darn Shaw, seems to be mysteriously incapable of beating an opponent more than 11 times in a row. What a bum.

Elizabeth Holmes started out strong too.

Elizabeth Holmes never took her team to the Rose Bowl, though.

BC

(11-14-2021, 09:39 AM)martyup Wrote: It's bad enough that I have to watch our team stink up the football field. Then, at my watch party (this game thread) I have to read post after post about how bad we are and how our coach is an idiot and needs to be fired along with the AD. But now, apparently, to be a loyal fan I shouldn't watch my team at all? I should just complain until they get better again?

You don’t actually have to read all the posts from the nattering nabobs of negativism of they upset you. Everyone has a right to post, good, bad, or ugly; but not everyone has to be read if you find their posts tendentious. And that goes the other way too; for the people who find the Shawpologists too polyanna, you don’t have to read us.

BC

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - qwerty49 - 11-14-2021

(11-14-2021, 03:07 PM)BostonCard Wrote:

(11-14-2021, 09:39 AM)martyup Wrote: It's bad enough that I have to watch our team stink up the football field. Then, at my watch party (this game thread) I have to read post after post about how bad we are and how our coach is an idiot and needs to be fired along with the AD. But now, apparently, to be a loyal fan I shouldn't watch my team at all? I should just complain until they get better again?

You don’t actually have to read all the posts from the nattering nabobs of negativism of they upset you. Everyone has a right to post, good, bad, or ugly; but not everyone has to be read if you find their posts tendentious. And that goes the other way too; for the people who find the Shawpologists too polyanna, you don’t have to read us.

BC

I think we mostly agree this season has quickly turned into a bummer. Despite the joys of beating $C and Oregon, here we are staring 3-9 or 4-8 in the face. Some aspects of our game are just painful to watch. And we're down to "Beat Kal" as the last measure of success. We've been there before.

It sounds trite, but maybe we all need to remind ourselves that this is a discussion board, and that most discussions generally have at least two sides to them. I complain a lot, but I especially don't buy the notion that any individual "owns" a thread and therefore needs to govern the discussion. So let's Rodney-up, get along and deal with it.

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - Phogge - 11-14-2021

Q... don't get the Rodney-up. If it's the ex-DB/ESPN Rodney, last time we heard from him on Thunderdome he called a bunch of posters "haters", especially a great big bald guy.

Same Rodney?

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - cardcrimson - 11-14-2021

(11-14-2021, 03:07 PM)BostonCard Wrote: You don’t actually have to read all the posts from the nattering nabobs of negativism of they upset you. Everyone has a right to post, good, bad, or ugly; but not everyone has to be read if you find their posts tendentious. And that goes the other way too; for the people who find the Shawpologists too polyanna, you don’t have to read us.

BC

Evidently, that's not the case. Some people don't have the "right" to post, good, bad or ugly. As I'm now apparently unbanned and can post, I'm still curious why I was banned in the first place and was provided no explanation. I even reached out privately to an admin for an explanation, and disappointingly, he didn't give me the courtesy of a reply. What a bummer from a Stanford guy. . . .

RE: Oregon St Game Thread - qwerty49 - 11-15-2021

(11-14-2021, 04:26 PM)Phogge Wrote: Q... don't get the Rodney-up. If it's the ex-DB/ESPN Rodney, last time we heard from him on Thunderdome he called a bunch of posters "haters", especially a great big bald guy.

Same Rodney?

Rodney King. “Can’t we all just get along?”