PSUVikings2
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Never good to have that relieved feeling at the end of the season. Relieved that its all over, is next year a hot seat year for Glanville? The Viks end with the Bears.
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Northern Colorado vs Portland State Thread
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WiViking
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I think it is if they don't have some guys step up in a big way-- specifically at linebacker (because of graduation) and quarterback. How about a running attack? Even with a spread out offense, there has to be something there to give whoever is playing quarterback more time. Granted, the offense isn't Glanville's responsibility, but a team that wins is. Without a productive offense, the defense looks substantially worse.
He needs to fill in this recruiting class with one that is as good as last year's, and do whatever it takes to get the team ready to have a winning in-conference record. If the team can win in-conference, he should get another year.
He needs to fill in this recruiting class with one that is as good as last year's, and do whatever it takes to get the team ready to have a winning in-conference record. If the team can win in-conference, he should get another year.
Game notes for the Northern Colorado game:
Football Team Hopes To Finish Season On A Positive Note At Home
http://www.goviks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?temp_site=NO&DB_OEM_ID=19300&ATCLID=1626956
On a side note: I think Glanville needs to get a better recruiting class than last year's. Picking up Carl Sommer was huge, but Glanville really needs to pick up a shocker, such as Myles Wade or somebody of the stature. He seems to dislike FBS drop downs, but look how Bone and Viking basketball has benefited from this. Hope Glanville and company have a great recruiting season.
Football Team Hopes To Finish Season On A Positive Note At Home
http://www.goviks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?temp_site=NO&DB_OEM_ID=19300&ATCLID=1626956
On a side note: I think Glanville needs to get a better recruiting class than last year's. Picking up Carl Sommer was huge, but Glanville really needs to pick up a shocker, such as Myles Wade or somebody of the stature. He seems to dislike FBS drop downs, but look how Bone and Viking basketball has benefited from this. Hope Glanville and company have a great recruiting season.
ManOfVision
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I do think a win against UNC helps PSU craft the "4-7 is better than 3-8 so we're moving in the right direction" argument. Other than that, the only real reason to pay attention is congratulating our seniors. I really like both JG and Mouse (especially Mouse), but they both seem so rigid in their approach...
ManOfVision said:
ManofVision you just hit the nail on the head. I want to think JG and Mouse's rigid approach is the correct one and the future will prove them right, but I have honest doubts at times. As much as Walsh's run dominated offense was boring, I do see the importance of the run game which has almost been non-existent in the run and shoot thus far. Let's just win this game and have a great recruiting day in Feb. Go Viks!
ManOfVision said:
How much better is 4-7 versus 3-8? Heck, what if we end up 3-8 again? That team that played at MSU could just deliver that. I was really hoping we could break .500 this season, or fall back on a 5-6. We barely made progress this season.
california dad
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The Viks can't run, and they can't stop the run. That means the offensive line doesn't stay on the field long enough to be cconsistent; the defensive line gets no rest.
VikThunder1
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martymoose said:
If we win on Saturday and end up 4-7, that isn't any improvement over last year's 3-8. One win this year was against Western Oregon.
Football is a young man's game. I think Jerry and Mouse are too rigidly set in their systems and harldy tweak anything. They'll take the ship down with them rather than tweak their systems.
VIKING NOTES: PSU game plan mostly status quo for finale
Northern Colorado has only one win, but Glanville calls Bears one of the two most-improved teams in Big Sky
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=122712294135536600
THE GAME: Northern Colorado (1-9, 1-6 Big Sky) at Portland State (3-7, 2-5)
WHEN, WHERE: 1 p.m. Saturday, PGE Park
RADIO: KTRO (910 AM)
• PSU coach Jerry Glanville says he won’t do anything very different with his lineup because it’s the last game of the season.
“I would try to play seniors who don’t normally play, but I wouldn’t jeopardize the results of the game,” he says. “You play it like it’s your first game. You try to win the game first.
“We have some backup seniors we’d like to get in the game, but the game would have to allow you to do that.”
• Glanville says the two most improved teams in the conference are Sacramento State, which can finish 7-5 by beating winless Idaho State at Pocatello on Saturday, and Northern Colorado, whose only victory was over Idaho State 29-9 Oct. 11 at Greeley, Colo.
“They are a whole lot better than they were a year ago,” Glanville says.
• The Bears went to Division I four years ago. Since joining the Big Sky in 2006, they are 3-30 overall and 2-21 in the conference.
• The Vikings have won the last four games in the series.
• PSU is 3-1 at home this season (beating Western Oregon, Eastern Washington, Idaho State, losing to Montana).
• Portland State won at Northern Colorado 31-21 to end the 2007 season.
“In the fourth quarter, it was still anybody’s game,” Glanville recalls.
PSU led 17-0 but committed six turnovers (four interceptions); those things have been a problem of late this year, too, for the Vikings.
Then-backup Jimmy Collins, now the third-string quarterback, led the Viks on two touchdown drives in the fourth quarter.
• Northern Colorado coach Scott Dowling says the Bears won’t change much in their personnel, either, because it’s a season finale.
“We’ve been playing a lot of guys the last half of the season” anyway, he says. “I feel like we’ve got a set rotation.”
• Dowling recognizes that both teams are going to be thirsty for a win.
“We’ve got to be able to match their intensity, or exceed it,” he says.
• What would a victory mean to the Bears?
“It would be huge,” Dowling says. “It validates what your program is doing, and that’s what we sorely need.”
Northern Colorado has only one win, but Glanville calls Bears one of the two most-improved teams in Big Sky
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=122712294135536600
THE GAME: Northern Colorado (1-9, 1-6 Big Sky) at Portland State (3-7, 2-5)
WHEN, WHERE: 1 p.m. Saturday, PGE Park
RADIO: KTRO (910 AM)
• PSU coach Jerry Glanville says he won’t do anything very different with his lineup because it’s the last game of the season.
“I would try to play seniors who don’t normally play, but I wouldn’t jeopardize the results of the game,” he says. “You play it like it’s your first game. You try to win the game first.
“We have some backup seniors we’d like to get in the game, but the game would have to allow you to do that.”
• Glanville says the two most improved teams in the conference are Sacramento State, which can finish 7-5 by beating winless Idaho State at Pocatello on Saturday, and Northern Colorado, whose only victory was over Idaho State 29-9 Oct. 11 at Greeley, Colo.
“They are a whole lot better than they were a year ago,” Glanville says.
• The Bears went to Division I four years ago. Since joining the Big Sky in 2006, they are 3-30 overall and 2-21 in the conference.
• The Vikings have won the last four games in the series.
• PSU is 3-1 at home this season (beating Western Oregon, Eastern Washington, Idaho State, losing to Montana).
• Portland State won at Northern Colorado 31-21 to end the 2007 season.
“In the fourth quarter, it was still anybody’s game,” Glanville recalls.
PSU led 17-0 but committed six turnovers (four interceptions); those things have been a problem of late this year, too, for the Vikings.
Then-backup Jimmy Collins, now the third-string quarterback, led the Viks on two touchdown drives in the fourth quarter.
• Northern Colorado coach Scott Dowling says the Bears won’t change much in their personnel, either, because it’s a season finale.
“We’ve been playing a lot of guys the last half of the season” anyway, he says. “I feel like we’ve got a set rotation.”
• Dowling recognizes that both teams are going to be thirsty for a win.
“We’ve got to be able to match their intensity, or exceed it,” he says.
• What would a victory mean to the Bears?
“It would be huge,” Dowling says. “It validates what your program is doing, and that’s what we sorely need.”
One last shot
Vikings get the opportunity to earn fourth win in the final game of a disappointing season
http://media.www.dailyvanguard.com/media/storage/paper941/news/2008/11/21/Sports/One-Last.Shot-3557266.shtml
Vikings get the opportunity to earn fourth win in the final game of a disappointing season
http://media.www.dailyvanguard.com/media/storage/paper941/news/2008/11/21/Sports/One-Last.Shot-3557266.shtml
VIKING NOTES: Hubel starts vs. Northern Colorado; 12 seniors finish their careers; slotbacks continue to shine
PSU recruits 2A star coached by Mouse Davis' nephew
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=122729627240810900
THE GAME: Northern Colorado (1-9, 1-6 Big Sky) at Portland State (3-7, 2-5)
WHEN, WHERE: 1 p.m. Saturday, PGE Park
RADIO: KTRO (910 AM)
• Sophomore Drew Hubel from Corvallis will make his eighth start of the season and 12th of his Viking career on Saturday.
Offensive coordinator Mouse Davis says the Vikings have no specific plans to use or rotate other quarterbacks in the season finale.
“Put the ball in the end zone, that’s the plan,” Davis says.
• Hubel has played in nine games this year, completing 55.5 percent for 2,569 yards (285.4 per game) and 15 touchdowns, with 15 interceptions.
Last year, he played in six games, completing 56.7 percent for 1,470 yards (245.0) and 15 TDs, with 11 interceptions.
• Slotbacks Mario D’Ambrosio and Aaron Woods will cap excellent junior seasons by making their 11th straight starts of the year.
The 5-11 D’Ambrosio leads the Vikings with 68 catches for 839 yards and seven touchdowns.
The 5-6 Woods has 59 catches for 915 yards and six touchdowns.
Woods, from Sunset High, could post the 14th 1,000-yard receiving season in PSU history.
He ranks sixth in the nation in all-purpose yards, leading the Big Sky with 178 per game. Last week, he returned a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown at Montana State.
“Both have had really good years,” Davis says. “Both have been nicked up, too, Mario probably more than Aaron, but Mario’s been fighting through it real well.
“Mario was on his way to a huge year and then got hurt. His production has been greatly reduced.
“Aaron keeps coming on. He’s been pretty steady.
“Both are bright kids. They’ll be very, very good in another year. They’ll be leaders at the inside (receiver) spots.”
• Davis says he thinks the receivers around and behind D’Ambrosio and Woods will be better next year, too.
“It’ll be the first time we’ll have had returners at those positions, although Mario played a little last year,” Davis says.
• One of the players PSU is recruiting heavily is Culver High star Nevin Lewis, 6-2, who led the Bulldogs to the Class 2A championship last year and has them in Saturday’s semifinals.
Lewis, who has high jumped 6-8, plays quarterback and returns kicks for Culver and is getting major-college attention. He can do it all, though, and the Vikings like him most as a receiver.
He plays for Davis’ nephew, Culver coach Kurt Davis.
“I met the kid earlier this year,” Mouse Davis says. “He’s a good-looking athete.”
• Saturday’s game will be the swan song for a dozen PSU seniors.
On the offensive two-deep, only three players are graduating — guard Clayton Rios, receiver Ty Coleman and tackle Landan Laurusaitis (out with a knee injury). Rios has started every game, defying concerns that offseason back surgery might affect or even end his career.
On defense, the Vikings will lose stellar linebackers Andy Schantz and KJ McCrae, along with starting defensive backs Reggie Jones and Aaron Dickson and two backup defensive linemen, Lloyd Talakai and Jonathan Benjamin-Nichols. Also graduating is top reserve DB Stanley Jackson, who went down in the seventh game this season with a knee injury.
Special teams will lose a key player in senior kicker/punter Danny Urrego.
Backup receiver Steve Cooper, another senior, has been a fixture on special teams.
• When Portland State has won this season, the Vikings have converted 51 percent of their third-down plays, while in their losses, the Vikings have made 22 percent. End result: a 32-percent season conversion rate that ranks last in the conference.
• The Viks have forced a Big Sky-high 28 turnovers, but they have given up 30, also the most in the conference.
Off turnovers, opponents lead in points 99-79.
PSU recruits 2A star coached by Mouse Davis' nephew
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=122729627240810900
THE GAME: Northern Colorado (1-9, 1-6 Big Sky) at Portland State (3-7, 2-5)
WHEN, WHERE: 1 p.m. Saturday, PGE Park
RADIO: KTRO (910 AM)
• Sophomore Drew Hubel from Corvallis will make his eighth start of the season and 12th of his Viking career on Saturday.
Offensive coordinator Mouse Davis says the Vikings have no specific plans to use or rotate other quarterbacks in the season finale.
“Put the ball in the end zone, that’s the plan,” Davis says.
• Hubel has played in nine games this year, completing 55.5 percent for 2,569 yards (285.4 per game) and 15 touchdowns, with 15 interceptions.
Last year, he played in six games, completing 56.7 percent for 1,470 yards (245.0) and 15 TDs, with 11 interceptions.
• Slotbacks Mario D’Ambrosio and Aaron Woods will cap excellent junior seasons by making their 11th straight starts of the year.
The 5-11 D’Ambrosio leads the Vikings with 68 catches for 839 yards and seven touchdowns.
The 5-6 Woods has 59 catches for 915 yards and six touchdowns.
Woods, from Sunset High, could post the 14th 1,000-yard receiving season in PSU history.
He ranks sixth in the nation in all-purpose yards, leading the Big Sky with 178 per game. Last week, he returned a kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown at Montana State.
“Both have had really good years,” Davis says. “Both have been nicked up, too, Mario probably more than Aaron, but Mario’s been fighting through it real well.
“Mario was on his way to a huge year and then got hurt. His production has been greatly reduced.
“Aaron keeps coming on. He’s been pretty steady.
“Both are bright kids. They’ll be very, very good in another year. They’ll be leaders at the inside (receiver) spots.”
• Davis says he thinks the receivers around and behind D’Ambrosio and Woods will be better next year, too.
“It’ll be the first time we’ll have had returners at those positions, although Mario played a little last year,” Davis says.
• One of the players PSU is recruiting heavily is Culver High star Nevin Lewis, 6-2, who led the Bulldogs to the Class 2A championship last year and has them in Saturday’s semifinals.
Lewis, who has high jumped 6-8, plays quarterback and returns kicks for Culver and is getting major-college attention. He can do it all, though, and the Vikings like him most as a receiver.
He plays for Davis’ nephew, Culver coach Kurt Davis.
“I met the kid earlier this year,” Mouse Davis says. “He’s a good-looking athete.”
• Saturday’s game will be the swan song for a dozen PSU seniors.
On the offensive two-deep, only three players are graduating — guard Clayton Rios, receiver Ty Coleman and tackle Landan Laurusaitis (out with a knee injury). Rios has started every game, defying concerns that offseason back surgery might affect or even end his career.
On defense, the Vikings will lose stellar linebackers Andy Schantz and KJ McCrae, along with starting defensive backs Reggie Jones and Aaron Dickson and two backup defensive linemen, Lloyd Talakai and Jonathan Benjamin-Nichols. Also graduating is top reserve DB Stanley Jackson, who went down in the seventh game this season with a knee injury.
Special teams will lose a key player in senior kicker/punter Danny Urrego.
Backup receiver Steve Cooper, another senior, has been a fixture on special teams.
• When Portland State has won this season, the Vikings have converted 51 percent of their third-down plays, while in their losses, the Vikings have made 22 percent. End result: a 32-percent season conversion rate that ranks last in the conference.
• The Viks have forced a Big Sky-high 28 turnovers, but they have given up 30, also the most in the conference.
Off turnovers, opponents lead in points 99-79.
STEVE SAYS: Happy days return in Viking-land
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=122720300809558200
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=122720300809558200
Eh, 3-7 or 7-3, I'll still be there.
Just about to start mixing up the marinade for the kabobs at the tailgate tomorrow.
Go Viks!
Just about to start mixing up the marinade for the kabobs at the tailgate tomorrow.
Go Viks!
ManOfVision
Active member
That stat from the Tribune article says it all: Defense leads the Big Sky with 28 turnovers. Offense leads the Big Sky with 30.
PSU football A win for winning's sake
http://www.oregonlive.com/vikings/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/122732432913420.xml&coll=7
http://www.oregonlive.com/vikings/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/sports/122732432913420.xml&coll=7
VIKING NOTES: Northern Colorado counts the numbers before PSU game
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=122738124270994900
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=122738124270994900
PortlandStater
Active member
A win is a win... 
PortlandStater said:A win is a win...
That's says it all.
Vikings exit 2008 with a win
PSU beats Northern Colorado 24-21 at PGE Park
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=122739726045658200
I hope Mario is okay. That looked like a pretty bad knee injury.
martymoose said:
Agree, as soon as the play was over I knew it wasn't a good scene. Mario waved for sideline help immediately.
Hubel Lights Up PGE Park Once Again, Vikings Win 24-21
http://www.goviks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?temp_site=NO&DB_OEM_ID=19300&ATCLID=3621468
