Buy or Sell / True or False

[scooter]

Ha! Great analogy! But as I mentioned in an earlier post, Oregon & OSU were in the doldrums during Pokey's tenure and DivII was somewhat of a novelty. Winning though will make the biggest difference. Also, keep in mind that even though the population of PDX is substantially higher, folks have a lot of choices in how to spend their $$$. Hopefully, our improved product and the local recruiting strategy will pay dividends.

 

[EWURanger]

Top 4 teams I want to see us beat this year, in order.

1. Idaho - I have hated them since their Big Sky days.
2. Montana State - Two in a row against us is bad, 3 would be completely unacceptable.
3. Washington State - This would obviously be the biggest potentil win, but only comes in at 3 for me. And, it isn't that likely.
4. Montana - This would be #1 or #2 on my list most years, but if we beat 2/3 of the above teams it makes this game slightly less important. I expect to beat them this year.

 

[EdubU10]

Buy or Sell:
EWU goes undefeated in Big Sky play.

 

[clawman1]

Buy or Sell:
EWU goes undefeated in Big Sky play.

1 loss would be realistic and a buy, going undefeated is more wishful thinking and a sell
I ll have to say sell.
Buy or sell,
EWU's only loss will NOT be at MSU

 

[EdubU10]

Buy or Sell:
EWU goes undefeated in Big Sky play.

1 loss would be realistic and a buy, going undefeated is more wishful thinking and a sell
I ll have to say sell.
Buy or sell,
EWU's only loss will NOT be at MSU

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Buy. With the schedule this year not having us go back to back with the Montana schools, we finally lay the wood to them in Bozeman since the cats never live up to expectations.

 

[LDopaPDX]

I hope you're right EDub. But the conference is going to have a lot of good teams, not just UM and Montana State, but Portland State, Cal Poly, and North Dakota that are pretty dang good. Plus, if we go into that Weber game onthe road at 0-2, I'd make that one no better than 50/50 this year.

Had our schedule been legit, I still think it would be incredibly hard to go undefeated. Our schedule makes it all but impossible IMO. The only shot we have is to remain perfectly healthy while the rest of the conference shows up for our games really banged up.

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

I hope you're right EDub. But the conference is going to have a lot of good teams, not just UM and Montana State, but Portland State, Cal Poly, and North Dakota that are pretty dang good. Plus, if we go into that Weber game onthe road at 0-2, I'd make that one no better than 50/50 this year.

Had our schedule been legit, I still think it would be incredibly hard to go undefeated. Our schedule makes it all but impossible IMO. The only shot we have is to remain perfectly healthy while the rest of the conference shows up for our games really banged up.

UND is not that good. The only reason they were 8-3 was because they played 3 drop-down games.

 

[Obzerver]

Correct me if I'm wrong but UND should be good. Last year (without using any excuses) South Dakota beat us 30-17 and UND beat South Dakota 38-37(at UND)...don't know what they have this season but this tells me they will be competetive.

 

[marceagfan5]

I hope you're right EDub. But the conference is going to have a lot of good teams, not just UM and Montana State, but Portland State, Cal Poly, and North Dakota that are pretty dang good. Plus, if we go into that Weber game onthe road at 0-2, I'd make that one no better than 50/50 this year.

Had our schedule been legit, I still think it would be incredibly hard to go undefeated. Our schedule makes it all but impossible IMO. The only shot we have is to remain perfectly healthy while the rest of the conference shows up for our games really banged up.

UND is not that good. The only reason they were 8-3 was because they played 3 drop-down games.

If we win our first two conference games then I think we will lose no more than 1 conference game all year. Playing at MSU and PSU is not going to be easy, MSU is a top 5 team and we have yet to beat McGhee but I think we will win the others and have a solid shot against MSU.

The key will be winning at Weber after two straight FBS games. Normally I hate the early season bye weeks, but I'm glad we have our bye right after Wazzu this year. I hope we are not 0-2 going into the Weber game, but the odds are that could be the case and Weber will be good this year with Hoke back, that game could be a dogfight.

I would love to go undefeated in conference this year, but our schedule doesn't setup well to do that. We didn't even go undefeated in 2010. The key is to bounce back after a tough loss, something we had trouble with last year to start the season.

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Correct me if I'm wrong but UND should be good. Last year (without using any excuses) South Dakota beat us 30-17 and UND beat South Dakota 38-37(at UND)...don't know what they have this season but this tells me they will be competetive.

Also without using any excuses, UND struggled with Sioux Falls (D-II?) and UNC, both games winning by 2. I think the team formerly known as Sioux will be 4-7 or 5-6 this year.

 

[EWURanger]

Correct me if I'm wrong but UND should be good. Last year (without using any excuses) South Dakota beat us 30-17 and UND beat South Dakota 38-37(at UND)...don't know what they have this season but this tells me they will be competetive.

Problem is, I honestly don't think that's a very good metric to use.

We faced South Dakota on the heels of a completely demoralizing loss to UW and a lengthy trip inside their Dome, which they are very competitive in. I don't think there's enough common opposition to use the transitive theory of ranking teams. I do know they played down two or three of their games. So in my book, they won fewer games than we did during our under-achieving 2011 season.

I expect they will be a middle of the pack Big Sky team with the occasional break-out season.

 

[clawman1]

Buy or sell?
T.J. Lee III will block either an extra point or field goal in the Idaho game.

 

[EWURanger]

Buy or sell?
T.J. Lee III will block either an extra point or field goal in the Idaho game.

Sell.

Buy or Sell - We will see 2 different Qb's for EWU in the Idaho game.

 

[FormerEag]

Sell, unless god forbid we suffer an injury.

Please don't misunderstand. Padron is the guy, I was told this by a very reliable source. He was before camp even started. We have two great backups in the wings, but there is really no substitute for Kyle's experience. That's not to take anything away from Vitto or Adams.

Jeff Minnerly had all the skills to be an above average qb, but when BLM came to town, we laid our best cards on the table. Simple as that.

 

[FormerEag]

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[EWURanger]

Sell, unless god forbid we suffer an injury.

Please don't misunderstand me. Padron is the guy, I was told this by a very reliable source. He was before camp even started. We have two great backups in the wings, but there is really no substitute for Kyle's experience. That's not to take anything away from Vitto or Adams.

Jeff Minnerly had all the skills to be an above average qb, but when BLM came to town, we laid our best cards on the table. Simple as that.

Word on the street is that Adams has looked very good so far in camp. He may not start, but I would be very surprised if he did not see the field this season.

Assuming KP is the man, does he go into the Idaho game with a limited playbook? He undoubtedly has all the tools to be highly successful in this offense, but he missed Spring Camp. It's not a simple offense. So I guess the question is do you go with the guy who has the experience but perhaps not a complete grasp of the offense, or do you go with one of the guys who have been in the system and know the offense, but do not have nearly as much real game experience? Not an easy one. If indeed KP does start, then he'll obviously become more comfortable as the season progresses, but the first four games of the season are the toughest stretch of the season.

And I think you have to go with one Qb as your primary, but the above does pose the question of whether or not we'll see shared reps in the first few games.

 

[clawman1]

Buy or sell?
T.J. Lee III will block either an extra point or field goal in the Idaho game.

Sell.

Buy or Sell - We will see 2 different Qb's for EWU in the Idaho game.

Thats a sell for me, unless we are up by 3 TD's in the 4th qtr and maybe not even then. I expect Baldwin, being a QB guy, to stick with whomever he starts with and it looks like that will be KP. Although, the excitement Adams brings to the field is fun to watch in practice, and Vito throws a very nice ball.
Buy/sell- we will have a 100 yard rusher and total rushing yards of over 200 against Idaho.

 

[EWUeag]

Buy or sell?
T.J. Lee III will block either an extra point or field goal in the Idaho game.

Sell.

Buy or Sell - We will see 2 different Qb's for EWU in the Idaho game.

Sell Indeed. Padron is the man barring some inability to understand the playbook.

Also, the playbook is always stunted for the first game for everyone's benefit.

 

[clawman1]

Buy or sell,
The Eagles will average more than 33 points per game this year
Why?

 

[LDopaPDX]

33 points is a lot, but I'm going to buy... but just barely. The only thing I don't know is how good the defenses of the Big Sky will be. In FCS ball, it can be much harder to predict as it only takes a few injuries to take a decent defense and turn them awful (see: EWU 2011).