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Post by SK80 on Dec 28, 2019 15:32:20 GMT -8
LSU is making the CFP look like what we've been seeing in the Trinity League and CIF-SS D1 playoffs for the past several years. Break up the Tigers! The top 3 teams in NCAA football appear to be head and shoulders above the rest, even a #4 team with a seasoned senior QB like Hurts Oklahoma isn't even in the picture here at the half.... 49-14 LSU  |
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Post by Credo on Dec 28, 2019 15:35:27 GMT -8
This first game is a good argument against expanding this CFP tourney to eight teams.
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Post by MDDad on Dec 28, 2019 16:18:43 GMT -8
The SEC and ACC should kick LSU, Alabama and Clemson out of their conference, and every school in the southeastern United States should refuse to schedule them. Force them to play other schools around the world that cheat like they do. After all, how else could they have gotten so much better than everyone else?
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Post by Bick on Dec 28, 2019 16:34:24 GMT -8
The SEC and ACC should kick LSU, Alabama and Clemson out of their conference, and every school in the southeastern United States should refuse to schedule them. Force them to play other schools around the world that cheat like they do. After all, how else could they have gotten so much better than everyone else? Just LSU & Clemson 😉 |
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Post by Bick on Dec 28, 2019 17:05:16 GMT -8
Joe Burrow = "Nuke" Laloosh
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Post by SK80 on Dec 29, 2019 8:28:41 GMT -8
That was a game for the ages, Ohio State and Clemson put on a show and have talent that i simply stellar all over the field. LSU and Clemson looks legit too.
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Post by MDDad on Dec 29, 2019 8:56:01 GMT -8
LSU has a QB who can't lose, and Clemson has a QB who refuses to lose. It should be a blast to watch.
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Post by Bick on Dec 29, 2019 9:33:29 GMT -8
That was a game for the ages, Ohio State and Clemson put on a show and have talent that i simply stellar all over the field. LSU and Clemson looks legit too. Not only were they very talented, but those guys on both squads seemed to be all about TEAM. Those guys got ROCKED, but kept getting back up. Higgins, Dobbins, Lawrence, and a few others really manned up. |
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Post by SK80 on Dec 30, 2019 13:03:52 GMT -8
GOOD LUCK to my guy and our OC guy Chase Garbers today.... FOX 1 PM PST  Cal Football: Chase Garbers Gives His Mom Something Special to Watch This Seasonwww.si.com/college/cal/news/chase-garbers-helps-lead-cal-into-redbox-bowl
Playing football is hard.
Playing quarterback is harder.
Perhaps no job is more difficult than being a quarterback’s mom.
“I watch through my fingers,” said Angelique Garbers, mother of Cal quarterback Chase Garbers. “It’s hard to watch.”
This season was especially painful for Angelique, and her son.
Chase Garbers was injured twice — breaking his right collarbone on vs. Arizona State on Sept. 27, then sustaining a concussion 50 days later vs. USC in his first game back on Nov. 16.
“It’s pretty scary to see your kid out there when you know he's not right,” Angelique said.
Garbers overcame both injuries and has helped the Cal offense play its best football of the season heading into its Dec. 30 matchup against Illinois at the Redbox Bowl at Levi’s Stadium.
Both of Garbers’ injuries came while he was running the ball, a skill that adds significantly to the Bears’ offensive arsenal. He gets regular reminders from virtually everyone that he should slide when he sees a defender approaching.
But Garbers has no intention of letting injury diminish his aggressive approach to playing the position.
“I’m not going to be afraid of contact. I’m not going to be afraid of going to get yards,” Garbers said. “But I have learned, especially in the last two weeks, to get down.
“I think I did a good job in the UCLA game, not taking any unnecessary hits, sliding a bunch and getting yards where we can. I think that just comes with experience.”
Garbers knows this part of he game can be tough on those who care about him most.
“My mom actually hates it every time I run the ball,” he said. “She gets a little scared.”
Angelique Garbers had to like what she saw peaking through her fingers Saturday night in Cerritos. Younger son Ethan — who has committed to play at Washington next season — threw four touchdown passes to lead unbeaten Newport Harbor-Corona del Mar to a 35-27 victory over San Mateo-Serra for the CIF state Division I-A championship.
Ethan Garbers finished the season with a CIF Southern Section record 71 TD passes.
Big brother Chase’s progress this season twice was stalled by injury. The Bears are 6-0 this season when he starts and finishes games, just 1-5 otherwise.
Garbers is healthy now and played well as the Bears closed out their regular season with road victories over Stanford and UCLA. But he laments missing time.
“The first one was a freak accident,” Garbers said of the collarbone injury that sidelined him for four full games over a stretch of six weeks. “The second one, a big guy lands on me awkwardly. It happens.
“Classic concussion feelings, I guess,” he added in a casual way certain to make his mother cringe.
The interruptions prevented the Bears from developing a consistent rhythm on offense for most of the season. They rank last in the Pac-12 in scoring and total yards, and they clearly missed Garbers, who has helped Cal assemble an 11-2 record the past two seasons when he plays at least half the game.
Garbers enters the Redbox Bowl having passed for 1,500 yards and 10 touchdowns this season while rushing for 242 yards and two more scores.
A year ago, Garbers started 10 games as a redshirt freshman, but often alternated with Brandon McIlwain, designated as more of a running quarterback.
McIlwain quit football to focus on baseball after last season and Garbers held off challenges last spring and in fall camp from UCLA transfer Devon Modster to secure the No. 1 spot.
He says his mindset this season has been entirely different. A year older, with greater experience, Garbers takes the field for every practice and every game knowing he’s the clear-cut starter.
“Last year, being a redshirt freshman, being a new guy in an older guys’ offense . . . we had a really good defense, so the mindset was just don’t put the defense in a bad situation.
“It was kind of implied … especially playing as a freshman, you don’t want to screw things up trying to win games.”
Garbers has greater belief in himself this season, and his coaches share that confidence. It has meant a different outlook from Day 1. “My mindset every game was just try to be the most dominant player on the field,” he said.
With injuries and new pieces seemingly every week along the O-line and at wideout, the Bears didn’t always click.
But there were flashes of what they could become:
— In Week 2 at Washington in a game delayed for 2 hours, 40 minutes by a lightning storm, Garbers drove the Bears 74 yards in the final 2 minutes to set up Greg Thomas’ 17-yard game-winning field goal with 8 seconds left.
— In Week 4 at Ole Miss, playing in SEC country, Garbers had the best statistical game of his career, passing for 357 yards and four touchdowns in a 28-20 victory.
— At Stanford last month, having recovering from his concussion, Garbers orchestrated fourth-quarter touchdown drives of 84 and 75 yards and the Bears ended a nine-year Big Game losing streak with a 24-20 triumph. He passed for 285 yards and a touchdown and ran for 72 yards, scoring the game-winning TD on a 16-yard scramble with 1:19 left.
— In the regular-season finale at the Rose Bowl, Garbers passed for 230 yards and a touchdown and ran for a TD as the Bears toppled UCLA 28-18 for their seventh win of the season.
A year from now, with All-America linebacker Evan Weaver and other key defensive players gone, the offense will be expected to shoulder a heavier load. Ten starters are scheduled to return, including the entire offensive line, running back Christopher Brown Jr., and most of the receiving corps.
“We’ll have an experienced offense next year,” Garbers said. “I think it’ll be fun.”
For now, the focus is Illinois and the Redbox Bowl.
While Angelique Garbers sneaks looks through her fingers, hoping her son stays upright, Chase has just one goal in mind for Dec. 30.
“We want to win.”
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Post by Credo on Jan 1, 2020 16:23:00 GMT -8
Good thing Spencer Lytle, Titus Toler, and Sean Dollars transferred for their senior year to those superior HSFB schools in order to be better prepared for the next level. It really paid off in terms of the huge impact they've all had in today's Rose Bowl game between Oregon and Wisconsin.
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Post by Bick on Jan 1, 2020 18:18:38 GMT -8
You're a bad guy credo
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Post by Credo on Jan 1, 2020 19:45:58 GMT -8
Just dispelling a myth and upsetting the status quo. Same for Jeremiah Criddell, who appeared in spot duty in three whole games for Oklahoma this year. My comment has nothing to do with those young men personally. I'm confident they are all good kids and will have their day on the field somewhere down the road. If nothing else, they have earned the opportunity at a tuition-free education. Not a bad deal! |
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Post by SK80 on Jan 3, 2020 9:53:21 GMT -8
After the REDBOX BOWL victory Cal's OC moved onto his new gig as HC at CAL POLY. Today Cal announced their new guy.... going with an NFL replacement in Bill Musgrave. He looks to be walking into a pretty good situation with an entire offense returning. Garbers has to be happy he is getting a coach whom played QB at the NCAA and NFL level. Report: Bill Musgrave to be Cal's Next Offensive Coordinatorcal.rivals.com/news/report-bill-musgrave-to-be-cal-s-next-offensive-coordinatorPer Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports and the Athletic, Cal will be hiring Bill Musgrave to fill their offensive coordinator position. Musgrave succeeds Beau Baldwin, who was hired last month by Cal Poly to be their head coach, and will likely take the QB coach role. Musgrave last worked as the offensive coordinator of the Denver Broncos in 2018, not being retained after Vic Fangio became the Broncos head coach. Musgrave notably worked for two years as the offensive coordinator for the Oakland Raiders, as QB Derek Carr had a career season with Musgrave in 2016 (12-3 record as a starter, 28 TDs to 6 INTs). Musgrave, a former quarterback at Oregon and in the pros with the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos, last coached at the college level in 2002, his second year coaching Matt Schaub at the University of Virginia. In total, Musgrave has had 20 years of coaching experience at the pro level, with the two years at Virginia serving as his sole two years of college experience. |
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Post by Luca on Jan 3, 2020 12:33:20 GMT -8
When my son was a freshman at Tesoro, Matt Poston (current varsity head coach) was the head coach for the Freshman team. At the first meeting with all of the parents, he said that he was aware that many parents just know how special their son is and how there are expectations for him to play football in college and possibly beyond. He continued that he wanted to put into perspective how things were at each level. He began by saying at the high school varsity level, there will be one game during the year where there will be one player on the opposing team who has very unique skills & abilities. At the college level, at every game, there will be one player on the opposing team that falls into that category. At the pro level, every player on the field is that player. He went on to explain he gives parents this example not to bring down their hopes for their son, but rather to fully enjoy the experience their son has during his time playing high school football. Don't look at high school football as a stepping stone, it is its own entity. If it does lead to playing in the upper levels, great, but don't ruin the present with unrealistic expectations of the future. A few years later, Tesoro's D9 champion varsity team included Scottie McKnight, who set receiving records at Colorado but never played a down in the NFL, Sean Calcagnie, who had back to back 400 rushing games in the CIF playoffs, but never played a down as a walk-on at USC........ I got lost and ran into this post from 4 months ago, RSM. It’s an excellent post and I congratulate you on it. Or maybe I should credit Matt Poston (I’ve been following HSFB a long time and the names are starting to run together, but my son played in the OC All-Star game years ago with a running back from Edison named Poston. Same guy?) How many times have we seen seemingly NFL bound high school sophomores who flame out in college? Or merely excellent players who don’t realize soon enough that they're not even JC quality? How many of these kids (or their parents) have sacrificed what could have been the happiest years of their lives by chasing a mirage? They leave their initial school of choice (and teammates) to pursue a perceived greater stage. They enroll in a school an hour or more away from home just to play football. They attend two to four high schools in search of an illusion. The parents make the situation miserable with insufferable demands and hubris. We all know examples. Your post gives an excellent verbal graphic that puts the reality into an accurate perspective. It's a more poetic parable than the prosaic axiom I’m familiar with: " If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No sense being a damned fool about it." Traditional HSFB is an end in itself and was always intended to be such. It teaches you lessons you should never forget and friendships that last forever. If you are fortunate and if you are blessed with sufficient ability it can get you into a university that would never otherwise have considered you. But never sacrifice the values for that chimera that is now brandished to naïve kids and their clueless parents. The moral was probably best summarized by that legendary football coach, Bob Dylan: "The moral of this story
The moral of this song
Is simply one should never be
Where one does not belong.
So when you see your neighbor struggling
Help him with his load
And don’t go mistaking Paradise
For that home across the road" |
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