The Bobcat Nation

In all fairness to the team we love to hate (and besides, several of the Fizzlie Fair Weather Fans love to come in here and attempt to talk smack--notice I said attempt ) and if ya'll recall, they've put polls in here predicting what our team's record will be--so...here's the conference schedules.
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnf ... =Big%20Sky

I notice Fullerton must have hired a Fizzlie secretary because that has to be the explanation as to how Edward Water's schedule is in the Big Sky

But seriously folks, PSU, Weber, NAU and EWU are going to take some real beatings physically before they play the Fizzlies and will be among the walking wounded. Even then, I see at least four losses from among these seven teams: Iowa, PSU, NAU, Weber, ISU, Cal Poly and the Cats. If they lose to SDSU which they ought not in all fairness, it's going to be a very long season for the Fizzlie Faithful (and some of the fairweather fans, but they'll be the one's jumping on our bandwagon.) Best I see for them is 7-4 but let's face it, PSU, ISU, Weber and even NAU are going to be real tough this year. Factor in Iowa and Cal Poly? I'm being generous and stating 6-5. I would include EWU but they're going to take home some real big checks and they simply don't have the depth to get to the Fizzlies.

We even need some more linemen and skill position players to make a real deep run, but I know how well Coach recruits during the summer.

Montana Grizzlies
Sep 2 - at Iowa, 12:05 PM Loss
Sep 9 - vs. South Dakota St, 3:05 PM Win
Sep 16 - Open
Sep 23 - vs. Sacramento St, 3:05 PM Win
Sep 30 - at Portland State, 9:05 PM Win
Oct 7 - at Eastern Wash, 5:05 PM Win
Oct 14 - vs. Northern Ariz, 3:05 PM Win
Oct 21 - at Weber State, 3:00 PM Loss
Oct 28 - vs. Idaho State, 5:05 PM Win
Nov 4 - vs. Cal Poly, 4:05 PM Loss
Nov 11 - at Northern Colorado, 2:05 PM Win
Nov 18 - vs. Montana State, 4:05 PM Loss

Tough games at Portland and Eastern Washington, to win both may be long shot. Title game on November 18th for outright title. Griz could come into that game with 4 losses already. Cats offense will be much better by then... defense is easily best in Big Sky and should be the difference. Will be sensational title game in Missoula... but Cats win close one.

As much as I would like to see them lose every game I don't see them losing more than 3 games this year. They look better on paper than last years team. Last year they had NO QB and this year they do. They will be tough.

gtapp wrote:As much as I would like to see them lose every game I don't see them losing more than 3 games this year. They look better on paper than last years team. Last year they had NO QB and this year they do. They will be tough.

10 - 1 baring major injuries. The Griz will walk through conference play. Griz are better at almost every position on both sides of the ball. Night and day difference on offense compared to last year and it's not just because of the QB.

(And I don't smoke and I haven't had anything to drink since mid April!)

fire away!!!

VictorG wrote:

gtapp wrote:As much as I would like to see them lose every game I don't see them losing more than 3 games this year. They look better on paper than last years team. Last year they had NO QB and this year they do. They will be tough.

10 - 1 baring major injuries. The Griz will walk through conference play. Griz are better at almost every position on both sides of the ball. Night and day difference on offense compared to last year and it's not just because of the QB.

(And I don't smoke and I haven't had anything to drink since mid April!)

fire away!!!

Just naturally delusional I guess.

Wow. Obsess much?

9-2, losses to Iowa and Weber St.

2 playoff home games, at least

8-3. Losses to Iowa, Weber St., and MSU.

longhorn_22 wrote:9-2. Losses to Iowa and Weber St

Fixed it for ya.

CatFamily wrote:Montana Grizzlies
Sep 2 - at Iowa, 12:05 PM Loss
Sep 9 - vs. South Dakota St, 3:05 PM Win
Sep 16 - Open
Sep 23 - vs. Sacramento St, 3:05 PM Win
Sep 30 - at Portland State, 9:05 PM Win
Oct 7 - at Eastern Wash, 5:05 PM Win
Oct 14 - vs. Northern Ariz, 3:05 PM Win
Oct 21 - at Weber State, 3:00 PM Loss
Oct 28 - vs. Idaho State, 5:05 PM Win
Nov 4 - vs. Cal Poly, 4:05 PM Loss
Nov 11 - at Northern Colorado, 2:05 PM Win
Nov 18 - vs. Montana State, 4:05 PM Loss

Tough games at Portland and Eastern Washington, to win both may be long shot. Title game on November 18th for outright title. Griz could come into that game with 4 losses already. Cats offense will be much better by then... defense is easily best in Big Sky and should be the difference. Will be sensational title game in Missoula... but Cats win close one.

To open the season and probably lose Swogger at Iowa if they don't get him out of the game early, play SDSU and just barely beat them (if they do again) have an open date for Hauck to ill-prepare and then win four in a row before going to Ogden is impossible this year. I suspect they'll lose more than four this year but I agree with you that they'll lose at least four.

VictorG wrote:

gtapp wrote:As much as I would like to see them lose every game I don't see them losing more than 3 games this year. They look better on paper than last years team. Last year they had NO QB and this year they do. They will be tough.

10 - 1 baring major injuries. The Griz will walk through conference play. Griz are better at almost every position on both sides of the ball.

Except O-Line and D-Line. Just those two minor areas!

gtapp wrote:
Except O-Line and D-Line. Just those two minor areas!

Actually, I think our OL will be better this year than last. Could turn out to be one of the best OL's we've had in a while! It didn't start out that way in Spring, but the unit made real progress the last half of Spring training. Fall practice and a couple of games under their belts and they could be a very good group.

DL debth does concern me. However, will have an extremely good LB core behind them.

I am definitely with Cat Grad on this one. 4 losses minimum, probably more. My Griz fan buddies think that's just wishful thinking on my part, but seriously... look at that schedule. They will lose HUGE to Iowa and it won't be pretty. From there, they SHOULD beat SDSU, but last year SDSU was 1 play away from beating them at home, with only 40 schollies or so. They've got more this year and will be motivated. Then I see Cal Poly and MSU as probable losses, and then you look at the road games, they have to play at Weber, and Eastern and PSU back to back. No way they win all 3 of those. Then the other tough home games will be ISU (I think they lose this one) and NAU. Then throw Sac and NCU as the "Any given Saturday" games, and they don't have 1 "gimmie" game like they did last year. You can't tell me that the team I saw play at the end of 05 will be that drastically improved in an 8 month time-frame. I think they SHOULD be quite a bit better offensively by mid-season (Will not be clicking immediately... too many new players trying to learn the O), IF there are no injury problems and IF the OC demonstrates he can adapt the O scheme to use the talent that's there (He has not demonstrated this yet IMO). Defensively I think they take a small step back from where they were last year, but will still be good. Mark my words... they lose to Iowa, Cal Poly, EWU, and then either ISU, or MSU, or both. 4 losses at best.

I look at their schedule and tend to agree--minimum of 4 losses and if the Cats pull through like I hope they do--minimum of 5 losses.

However, they are the Grizzlies. Most of these posts count them out of the Cal Poly game. All the polls so far have them ahead of Cal Poly and they are playing in Missoula. I have never been more frustrated as last year watching them week in and week out find some miraculous way to sqeak out games they did not deserve to win (SDSU & WSU), but isn't that a mark of a good team--finding a way?

I want to say at least 4 losses, but my gut is telling me they lose to Iowa in their OOC schedule and have only 1, maybe 2 losses in conference play going into the Cat/Griz game.

9-2.

LTown Cat wrote:However, they are the Grizzlies. Most of these posts count them out of the Cal Poly game. All the polls so far have them ahead of Cal Poly and they are playing in Missoula. I have never been more frustrated as last year watching them week in and week out find some miraculous way to sqeak out games they did not deserve to win (SDSU & WSU), but isn't that a mark of a good team--finding a way?

Exactly. For the past 15 years they have found ways to win games, sometimes in dominating fashion (49-3 ), others on freak things (blocked FG's, muffed kicks, INT's, dropped TD passes, and one STUPID SHANKED KICKOFF IN 1997 ).

grizzh8r wrote:

LTown Cat wrote:However, they are the Grizzlies. Most of these posts count them out of the Cal Poly game. All the polls so far have them ahead of Cal Poly and they are playing in Missoula. I have never been more frustrated as last year watching them week in and week out find some miraculous way to sqeak out games they did not deserve to win (SDSU & WSU), but isn't that a mark of a good team--finding a way?

Exactly. For the past 15 years they have found ways to win games, sometimes in dominating fashion (49-3 ), others on freak things (blocked FG's, muffed kicks, INT's, dropped TD passes, and one STUPID SHANKED KICKOFF IN 1997 ).

Puleeze don't bring that up again. I'm just finishing my therapy sessions from that one.

GOKATS wrote:

grizzh8r wrote:

LTown Cat wrote:However, they are the Grizzlies. Most of these posts count them out of the Cal Poly game. All the polls so far have them ahead of Cal Poly and they are playing in Missoula. I have never been more frustrated as last year watching them week in and week out find some miraculous way to sqeak out games they did not deserve to win (SDSU & WSU), but isn't that a mark of a good team--finding a way?

Exactly. For the past 15 years they have found ways to win games, sometimes in dominating fashion (49-3 ), others on freak things (blocked FG's, muffed kicks, INT's, dropped TD passes, and one STUPID SHANKED KICKOFF IN 1997 ).

Puleeze don't bring that up again. I'm just finishing my therapy sessions from that one.

As Vince Vaughn said "Call my therapist and tell 'em we have a whole new bag of things to talk about".

Calling for an injury to Swogger cg ..real classy... BTW, With this thread title and cg's ravings...shouldn't this entire rant be on the smack page?

Who gives a rat's ass? To be honest with you, I used to get really wound up about the Griz record and season; comparing it to ours and hoping we could one-up them. But nowadays, I just focus on the Cats. If the Griz have a good season, well then, good on them. If they have a bad season, then it's even better