I'm assuming this is the stadium expansion?Darth Yoda wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:57 pm?Cat Grad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:21 pmI've "heard" some great news about several aspects of this year's football team and program. Make certain you're listening to announcements during the Western Illinois game. Unbelievable to me and I thought I wouldn't live to see it all happen...no wonder we have the type of kids commiting to MSU football we have now...
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The stat line was pretty good when he was live haha.
But seriously, he was visibly a different kid when the penny went off. Even in the way he walked and carried himself the confidence was palpable. The early whistles were total garbage earlier in the scrimmage, but I understand why they are necessary. The refs don't want Choate in their grill if our best player gets hurt. It became painfully obvious how the D took advantage of the fact...knowing they could simply tag Andersen for a whistle. When the penny went off, the passing lanes opened up immediately because they had to actually respect the run.
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Pretty good guess.wbtfg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 2:02 pmI'm assuming this is the stadium expansion?Darth Yoda wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:57 pm?Cat Grad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:21 pmI've "heard" some great news about several aspects of this year's football team and program. Make certain you're listening to announcements during the Western Illinois game. Unbelievable to me and I thought I wouldn't live to see it all happen...no wonder we have the type of kids commiting to MSU football we have now...
All the recent recruit commitment articles have had the recruits say something about how excited they are for what we’re going to be doing with the stadium.
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It also opens up holes for the running backs. Linebackers have to make a decision if they are going to pursue the RB or the QB. If the QB is in a red jersey then that doesn't put that pressure on the D.Darth Yoda wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 2:08 pmThe stat line was pretty good when he was live haha.
But seriously, he was visibly a different kid when the penny went off. Even in the way he walked and carried himself the confidence was palpable. The early whistles were total garbage earlier in the scrimmage, but I understand why they are necessary. The refs don't want Choate in their grill if our best player gets hurt. It became painfully obvious how the D took advantage of the fact...knowing they could simply tag Andersen for a whistle. When the penny went off, the passing lanes opened up immediately because they had to actually respect the run.
Last year much of Lasane's success was due to linebackers being out of position because they were over perusing Chris.
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I heard it was possibly a new sideline reporter!?!?!?wbtfg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 2:02 pmI'm assuming this is the stadium expansion?Darth Yoda wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:57 pm?Cat Grad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:21 pmI've "heard" some great news about several aspects of this year's football team and program. Make certain you're listening to announcements during the Western Illinois game. Unbelievable to me and I thought I wouldn't live to see it all happen...no wonder we have the type of kids commiting to MSU football we have now...
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I'm guessing my monthly monetary donations have finally put them over he top for the stadium improvements.Cat Grad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:21 pmI've "heard" some great news about several aspects of this year's football team and program. Make certain you're listening to announcements during the Western Illinois game. Unbelievable to me and I thought I wouldn't live to see it all happen...no wonder we have the type of kids commiting to MSU football we have now...
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So I was in Bozeman this weekend (for a wedding, didn’t get to catch the scrimmage) and I picked up our gold rush shirts at UA. We got a whole goody bag of Cats stuff with the shirts, one of which is the Bobcat Football magazine for this year. The cover is an artist rendering of the completely renovated stadium. There is an article with a few more pictures of what the new weight room and meeting rooms/game day suites would look like. Chad Newell has a small article in there and he says “our facilities will soon reflect the world class program we have built”.wbtfg wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 2:02 pmI'm assuming this is the stadium expansion?Darth Yoda wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:57 pm?Cat Grad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:21 pmI've "heard" some great news about several aspects of this year's football team and program. Make certain you're listening to announcements during the Western Illinois game. Unbelievable to me and I thought I wouldn't live to see it all happen...no wonder we have the type of kids commiting to MSU football we have now...
Is this all a little hint that they’ll be getting the ball rolling on the first phase of the stadium renovation this next off season? I sure hope so...
I know it’s a process and it’ll take years to complete, but the sooner they can start phase 1, the sooner the final phase is completed.
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In this offense I think the most important stat for the QB is completion percentage. Most offenses it’s ypa and TD:Int ratio. I think a 6.0 ypa with a 65% completion rate would be good.
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I’ve also seen several players mentioning “new stadium” in stories about their commitments. Are we building a completely new stadium, renovating or adding on?
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New stadium is relative. We will NOT rebuild the 10 Million dollar end zone. We will be completely redesigning and building as per the design the North EZ and East stands. When it will ALL be done is likely not just this year, but I believe they will announce the beginning of the process of rebuilding according to the design plans.
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My guess is there will be ground breaking this off season. Much like when the endzone was redone.
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Don't leave us hangin' bro! whatcha got?Cat Grad wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:21 pmI've "heard" some great news about several aspects of this year's football team and program. Make certain you're listening to announcements during the Western Illinois game. Unbelievable to me and I thought I wouldn't live to see it all happen...no wonder we have the type of kids commiting to MSU football we have now...
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6 YPA is below average in any offense.
What I saw at the scrimmage was us running a lot of routes (hooks, buttons, outs) that are easy for the defense to get used to, and eventually time it and break it up/intercept the ball.
It’s why Filer got his INT, and Rovig should’ve had two by my count on simple outs that he was late on.
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They kept the offense pretty vanilla by design.
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Yes, 6.0 is low. Keep in mind that MSU held opponents to 6.8 and is better this year. I doubt anyone holds MSU to below that this year. Also, two of Andersen’s passes were to Jonsen and were blown dead on touch tackles. Jonsen would’ve ran 20 yards for a TD on one and probably gets another fivevon the other. So add another 25 to Andersen’s 96. That’s 121 on 16 attempts or 7.6 ypa. His rating would 134.2. I’ll take that all year long and twice on Saturdays. Thursday, too.
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Even if 6.0 ypa is legit, I think we can reasonably expect it climb after the starter settles in. I’m not making any kind of numerical prediction, I just think it climbs.iaafan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:56 amYes, 6.0 is low. Keep in mind that MSU held opponents to 6.8 and is better this year. I doubt anyone holds MSU to below that this year. Also, two of Andersen’s passes were to Jonsen and were blown dead on touch tackles. Jonsen would’ve ran 20 yards for a TD on one and probably gets another fivevon the other. So add another 25 to Andersen’s 96. That’s 121 on 16 attempts or 7.6 ypa. His rating would 134.2. I’ll take that all year long and twice on Saturdays. Thursday, too.
We’re all assuming TA will be our starter and if so, I don’t think we need 10.0 ypa to be successful (though I would be pleased) the same way EWU or NAU would need 10.0 ypa to be successful.
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For sure.Cledus wrote: ↑Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:42 pmEven if 6.0 ypa is legit, I think we can reasonably expect it climb after the starter settles in. I’m not making any kind of numerical prediction, I just think it climbs.iaafan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:56 amYes, 6.0 is low. Keep in mind that MSU held opponents to 6.8 and is better this year. I doubt anyone holds MSU to below that this year. Also, two of Andersen’s passes were to Jonsen and were blown dead on touch tackles. Jonsen would’ve ran 20 yards for a TD on one and probably gets another fivevon the other. So add another 25 to Andersen’s 96. That’s 121 on 16 attempts or 7.6 ypa. His rating would 134.2. I’ll take that all year long and twice on Saturdays. Thursday, too.
We’re all assuming TA will be our starter and if so, I don’t think we need 10.0 ypa to be successful (though I would be pleased) the same way EWU or NAU would need 10.0 ypa to be successful.
I think Andersen will be an improvement on Murray at QB. I’m not at all saying he’s bad.
I just don’t like when people use stats badly.