re: UCLA @ Texas A&M

Excited to catch this game. Gonna be entertaining.

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Gets miserable in the cheap seats where you can almost touch the sun

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Fresno State was a legitimately dangerous game for both the players and the fans. It should have never been played at the time it was. It still wasn't an advantage for us because those Central Valley boys could take the heat.

90 degrees is a chilly day by central Texas standards. Bring a jacket.

yeah you are right but you have to have superior offensive line which UCLA did not have and TAMU is lacking as well and Mazzone makes for no compensation for it eaither.

for all the great offensive stats that Mazzone put up last two glaring ones no here likes to talk about.

UCLA was 125th in time of possession kind of explains why the defense was so bad besides losing 3 starters and a slew of other players off and on during the year.

UCLA was 89th for plays for a loss, rushing offense 59th which is horrible. Passing offense for a true freshman was 25th good for Rosen despite the bad play calling. Mazzone is a stat guru yet he has failed to take his teams very far.

Cut and paste your team update into this thread so we can discuss

The stands reflect heat to the playing surface. This will be an endurance contest.

I was picking A&M until I saw how bad their run defense was last year, 105th. There will be huge holes in the D-line. Also, UCLA has the better quarterback. That being said the score will be close and both teams will be in it late in the 4th quarter.

So last years run D = this years run D?

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Bo Pelini from NU's last Big 12 year says hi baw

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One example from 6 years ago when both schools had different coaches and were in different conferences? Man, you are really disproving my point.

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Heard they were really struggling just to get the calls in earlier this Spring and they had a bunch of delay penalties. The terminology for the offense must be difficult for the QBs.


They had one off-season in today's limited practice environment to install a WCO, coming from Mazzone's handful of simple Air Raid-type plays. Anyone remember Sherman's first game after trying to install a whole legit WCO playbook? Whoa boy...[/quote]

People are assuming UCLA will run a WCO because they are incorporating pro style concepts into their offense. UCLA's offense will be more complex, but likely far less than a WCO. From what I have read and seen, it is a hybrid offense using many different styles Polamalu has picked up along the way. And that includes Mazzone's offense, which Rosen ran in High School as well as his first year in college. Already knowing a portion of the offense given you ran it last year should help any offense transitioning to a new one.

Something to think about regarding offenses in college. The QB in shotgun with four wide and running the zone read is practically the norm now and defenses are much more used to playing against this type of offense than one with a TE and a FB. Teams in general will have much more to prepare for when playing UCLA than the last 4 years under Mazzone. Go Bruins!

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You say it must not be hard to deal w/b/c we haven't won as much while I'd say we've won games we might not have and have stayed more competitive in games that would be bigger loses had they been on the road.

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What are the site lines like, the stadium looks beautiful. The Rose Bowl has great site lines no matter where you sit, though the seats are small like 1940's era small and 1/3 of the seating are bench seating.