Anxious to see how this team matches up this year with some stiff competition. There are two players in particular, aside from the “stars,” that I’m looking forward to watching. Matteo Perez is going into his senior year. He’s been in Lan’s shadow. I’ve always liked his running. I hope he has a break out year. Mitchell Dixon, moving from QB to TE, 6’4”, supposed to have good hands, 40 yard dash 4.9 (old data). I’m hoping he can be a deep threat.

I really enjoyed the interview with Lan. Great example of Aggie Pride!

“ - we don't go deep
- we sometimes even struggle w midrange game
- our QBs typically aren't mobile
- our gadget plays are even predictable
- we run a LOT on 1st down”

Exactly. Last year i mentioned the lack of a long game to Mike Cody. His comment was that you open up your qb to punishment vs the ball control short passes. Obviously to get it down field, you need an accurate slinger and a receiver with good speed and hands. I’m hoping Plough puts those pieces together.

Regarding the Miles discussion on the podcast. I still think he’s going to be the starter, or at least it’s his position to lose. The big question in my mind though with the high tempo shredville offense, is quick ball release. Maier had a really fast release when he played the high tempo game. Miles doesn’t seem to have that quick release. Can this be learned? The qb also needs to be able to quickly find the open secondary go to guy if the play gets busted up. Anxious to see all this play out on the field.

Plough has said he won’t be playing the musical QB game. He’s going to have one guy based on his own comments. I’m hoping to get to a practice next week. I’d like to sit in on the QB room and the receiver room. It will be interesting to see if there’s a room full of QBs.

Looking forward, it would be cool to expand the podcast during basketball season to incorporate a hoops discussion.

The QB room. Who do we have ready to go, what’s their skill set (scramble, long ball, etc), whose going to get the nod?

Wow. He must be off our payroll now.

I’m still thinking Miles is going to get the call.

First play in the game from the Ags under Plough. Will it be something safe like a handoff to LL, or a Shredville sort of play to spread things out? No huddle offense?

I thought the stats were documented by the offensive quality control guy. That position is now not listed on our website, but they have two quality control persons listed for D.

Everybody will be gunning for him. Maybe that opens up the pass game.

Yeah, last year was a good example of leaving the starter(s) in when we had a comfortable lead. One thing that is clear to me, Plough is a competitor. Winning is important to him. I’m anxious to see how this all correlates to play on the field, especially against Big Sky elite.

I think Miles is going to be the man. And Plough told me we won’t see a 2 qb system. His words were, “if you have 2 qbs and don’t have a qb.”
I’m hoping he opens up the position rooms again to visitors this summer. I would encourage folks to attend. The mechanics that go into the daily practices are totally impressive.

That’s very cool. I remember watching Bo play in the tomb.

I think the starting QB position is going to be Miles unless one of the other guys really shines during the competition. In addition to skill, the Aggie QB needs to have a great football IQ. Miles has that. I’m hoping Plough can fine tune his deficit areas.

Strange that Coach Plough kept this hire secret for so many months. I was anticipating a high profile recruit for that reason.

The shredville offense (which i like) is going to put a lot of pressure on our D. If the wide open, fast paced offense works, the D will be on the field longer.

So TY is going into his senior year. Maybe its different now, but it used to be that you needed a minimum number of units from the school you would be graduating from to get a degree. For example, you couldn’t transfer to Stanford from SLAC your last term and get a Stanford degree. So I assume TY would not be getting a degree from his new school?

Les is a quality guy. As disappointed as we all are, like coach said, you’ve got to tip your hat to beach.