Does anyone know whether Whelan kicks soccer style on kickoffs and field goals? I know he practices place kicking and has a lot of distance.

While I did some graduate study at SF State,, I’m not talking about their academics. They had a good football program before the 1968 student strike. They were the class of the league prior to that and had two quarterbacks go on to football head coaching careers in Sochor and Bob Toledo.

I don’t know who hired him but it wasn’t much of a reach to hire Sochor, who won three league titles in the Aggies league while playing for SFState, and then spent most of a decade as an assistant at SF State and then UCD. SF State was the more successful of the programs in the 50s and 60s. So SF State was not a nowhere school from UCDs perspective; they were looking up at them.

I don’t get too interested when little guys are fast but it’s pretty significant if a guy has some size and is also fast .Example: Herschel Walker 10.23 seconds 100 meters. The guy hitting him often got the worst of it.

muscle contractions do that without mechanical assistance. I suppose this replaces walking to cool down.

Worth noting that Nick Amoah and McCallan Castles were unanimous first team selections. Since the honor is voted by the coaches, that’s meaningful.

What a poorly written press release. They don’t say Ford made second team.

I suppose he might have recruited Harrell and Vaughn just to block but I doubt it.

My attention fell off during the Gould years, but I followed Randy’s career as he’s from my hometown. I speculate without having watched much of the later years that part of Gould’s problem winning after Randy's era ended was due to his inability to recruit a productive quarterback or to coach them to be productive. Maybe it was the system, but I don’t think that’s all of it.

Randy played 2010-2013, after redshirting in 2009. So all but the last Sac victory was under Biggs.

In 2014 their only victory was Cal Poly.

We still had five or so Gould signees on the roster; this year is maybe the end of them. Two of the most prominent are ironically wide receivers, Vaughn and Harrell, who are better suited to Hawkins’ offense.
I wonder what Randy Wright thinks of the three coaches since he’s had an inside view of all three.

your winning record in league for Biggs includes just the four years and is for both the Great West and Big Sky?

My main memory of Gould was prior to his first game where he said that from now on, things were going to be organized, implying they weren’t before.
And amusingly, when an opposing coach was trying to say nice things about an upcoming opponent, pretty much all he could come up with was something like “they line up in the right place”

I don’t think you can make good decisions without considering both teams. You could have a simulation which has all the performance perameters of each team and then match them up. So if your plays that gain a lot of yardage correspond to their plays that they can’t defend well you run those plays. The problem with those simulations is they a built from season statistics so once you get enough data, it’s outdated.

It depends what the stats are. If they are like Eastern Washington gives up 4 yards on average run plays on third down and less than 3. Maybe that’s useful. but if so the coach has probably sensed that from watching film.

I think the type of stats you’re looking for are taken from the set of all college teams, and as such would be unlikely to apply to one team. Whether to kick an extra point would depend on a lot of variables specific to the two teams. How the average teams do in that situation would be of little relevance. Those generic stats would be productive reading for future decisions but using them for game time decisions would be giving them more weight than they deserve.

We had severe depth issues during 2019 at running back and wide receiver. Remember Niko Harris having to play running back and then he got injured? We lost Kraft and Crawford to season ending injuries by mid season.
On the other side of the ball we had a freshman all American become academically ineligible, lost most the veteran linebackers to graduation or injury, and filled in with JC transfers. Lots of reasons besides losing Doss for 2019’s falloff.

That’s not a movie about a guy saying we're happy to miss the medal round.

if we were competitive with everyone we would have beat some of them when the playoffs were on the line. We’re 0-8 against Eastern and what is it, maybe losing the last five to Weber? Weber’s coach says their freshmen class this year is the best they’ve ever had. We will have a struggle to make the playoffs this fall.