Definitely. When they were making the transition to D1, he didn’t even have the full complement of scholarships. In that transition period we had some solid teams, but had some horrific travel schedules. He was a great QB too.

Judging by the box score we started off with a 3-3-5 defense, without any of the big guys we commonly played last year, like Chubba Maea. Chubba did make it into participant list, but he sometimes was used on special teams, but Suani, Toki, Ambagtsheer did not make the listing.

I think that was a Tim Plough feature. He did no huddle as his signature thing at Northern Arizona,. Why it left with him is a open question but maybe inexperienced QB is a factor.

I think it was an encouraging game for the defense.

That comment by Hawkins doesn’t make any sense, except that he thinks this team can be as good as last, and he thinks last years team was the best. Actually it’s not a high bar, because we’ve not had many great teams in div 1.

Just drawing the inference the roster change implies,

He’s gone. It seems the clocks ticking on him since he’s been on rosters for three years. If he goes elsewhere might not have two years eligibility,
Of lesser immediate import is recruit Lyrik Fata. He’s not on the roster but re-tweets team tweets. Maybe he’s just doing something else this year.

I get the disappointment but we aren’t getting very far unless our offensive line and running attack are up to the best in the Big Sky and our defense is at the level of our competitors. in the spring season last year we tried to do exactly what Zander was suggesting to be run heavy, and to not make the QB carry the offense.
I don’t think the plan was to have Hastings win the job, but something happened and he did, at least for now..
I don’t think Cal gives a plug nickel who our QB is, so the likelihood that this is a disinformation campaign is low.

From. BigSky Conference:
There is no travel squad limit for non-Conference contests (including FBS) when air travel and/or overnight lodging are not involved.

Agreed, why not just say it’s the most talented group. As a team they haven’t shown it yet.

A surprising entry in the depth chart is Porter Connors at middle linebacker. Calvin Mouisset is pretty good and not listed. I’m not reading anything into this other than they must think highly of Porter. Are the two Connors brothers identical twins? Same height, within a pound of each other and really look alike.

The base play certainly hasn’t worked consistently for us. Maybe that’s due to later in the season or that we play better teams later, like last year.

His not being listed in the game roster or depth chart raises that question,

It will be interesting to see how committed we will be to the jet or fly sweep with Speckman moving on. If you look at his video on the subject it was his base play. A lot of successful plays Davis had had some fly motion, even if the ball wasn’t given to the fly guy when he passed by, so it’s looking at it kind of narrowly to say it wasn’t effective, The motion made the defense respond in some predictable way. We’ll have some new philosophies with the new assistants, and maybe that will influence the playbook.

Very fluid delivery by Cody. Tompkins is still mentioned as being in the QB room.
Cody did list Newman was part of the group but don’t know when exactly they filmed the interview.
We have no transfer on the depth chart, except for the NG Uilsone Amone from JC.
Edit: And Tattersall from Cal.

Receiver Keenan Allen.

That strategy is not as sure to work in this situation. First, because of the short distance the whole team can go. 2nd, the COVID extra year results in more experienced players. This helps the FCS team more than the FBS team due to the law of diminishing returns, you can only play so many guys. Finally, one thing proved last year is that our players are fit, and usually owned the fourth quarter.
In 2010 we got beat in a lot of ways, but one was by a five star freshman who we couldn’t run with, in 2019 it was a big back playing power football.

I think so too, hence my wondering if we’ve changed the offense some for Dixon to maximize whatever his strengths are.

Cal’s got to plan that it Hastings because they don’t have film on anyone else.
I wonder to what extent we’ve changed our offense to fit what Dixon does well. Dr. Mike indicated a few months back that he heard Dixon was a front runner. Hastings did some things well, like two minute offense, but he made some bad interceptions. It’s tough that when he got to play we were playing a tougher set of opponents. None of our QBs would have won one of our last three games, too many other shortcomings.

Cody has three offensive assistant coaches who have been passing game coordinators in previous stops.

They no doubt have talent, but they’re going to be a little unsettled because of the change of personnel.
Davis is a lot more settled in that we have a lot of guys who’ve played together. The only big uncertainty with Davis is quarterback.
In the 2010 game a Cal freshman wide receiver playing in his first game dominated the game. So experience isn’t everything,