He has played before. Unsure how much. Road grader! Go Ags!

Aint it crazy how far one must walk at a Cal Poly home game? I'm getting total hip replacement in December and I can't tell you how nice it is to be able to park close this season with my temporary handicapped parking placard.

The exact sentiment of many Mustang fans and alumni right now. I'm not sure i've seen a more poorly coached/called game in my life. Constantly trying to run the fullback dive into the teeth of a 9 man front? Really??

I think Slostang said it best, congrats on the win with two teams going in opposite directions. This was the first UCD game I've seen this year and I suspect it was nowhere near their best football. I was surprised to see so many dropped passes and inaccurate throws by Maier. Very impressive play overall by the Aggies, I tip my hat. My son is a current player and when I asked him after the game who's better, EWU or Davis he replied EWU. However, he faced pretty much EWU's best football and I don't think he faced Davis' best. Good luck the rest of the way and the game in Cheney should be off the hook.

I think your son's observation is probably accurate at this point in the season. The toughest FCS opponent the Ags have faced is ISU and we were a chip shot FG away from losing to them. We'll find out just where we really stand when we travel to Montana and to EWU. Our biggest tests are yet to come.

I wonder what your son would have thought if only saw the last three quarters,
He may be right though. I think we are improving as our new players establish themselves. We have a lot of young players. So hopefully we’ll be a better team yet by the time we play EW

ISU is a very good football team. I see you guys moving the ball well on the Grizzlies, both rushing and passing. Despite losing by 21 points to Montana, the Grizzlies were unable to stop Cal Poly's running game and it took a couple of bonehead plays by the Mustangs to help Montana win that game.

He played every snap on offense in both games and we actually ran the ball fairly well most of the game against EWU, despite giving up 70 points. If you thought our defense tackled poorly last Saturday night, you should have seen us trying to tackle at Cheney. More bonehead offensive fumbles resulted in a couple of long returns for touchdowns in that game too, so it wasn't all bad defense.

I know this may sound weird after a 42 point Aggie thrashing, but I don't think the talent difference between UCD and CP is all that much. The biggest difference is coaching IMO. A+ for Aggies, F- for Mustangs.

Agree wholeheartedly.
All the energy, preparation and will in the world is for nothing without a good plan.

The sluggish (and boring) play calling by Poly didn't help the Mustangs but I felt like our defensive line dominated the Poly O line after the first quarter and that was a big factor in the Aggie win.

Walsh has been successful before.
Despite occasional blowouts this is usually a very competitive rivalry.
We are a lot better than we’ve been of late becase we have so many offensive weapons. Example was toward the end of first half where we would all be expecting pass plays we had a series of runs in a long drive. It’s all coming together for us, pass protection, a QB who has four or five guys to throw to or two quality backs, and a defense that is now respectable overall and tough against the run in particular.

I hear what you're saying but Cal Poly allowing Davis to stack the line of scrimmage without any real consequence certainly helped the Aggie cause. With that said, I saw some pretty talented defensive linemen on the Aggies squad, certainly thick at the DT position.

The biggest surprise for me was Davis ability to run the ball. I fully expected the Aggies to be able to pass all over the Mustangs. Our defense is very young, with three freshman starting on the defensive line. You're right, this usually is a very competitive rivalry. Even last years game wound up close after the Aggies jumped out to an early lead.

Tehran Thomas was a freshman last year who really came on in the final game against Sac, he’s got speed and will run right over people, The surprising thing is he’s not our primary back because Gilliam is so versatile. O line has theee first year starters and now opens some holes. True Frosh is a mentioned as being
All Big Sky.

Since the Mustangs are out of the running, I'm throwing my hat in the ring hoping the Aggies take the Big Sky and show that teams with true student athletes can win this conference. Best of luck Aggie fans.

Good luck to you and your son.

I watched the game on tv last night after watching it in person Saturday. Even the poly announcers were praying for them to mix up the play calls. But interestingly, the poly guys sitting in front of me were calling for them to continue to run it up the gut. Go figure. That was not working.

Those Poly guys were probably saying that because most teams can't stop our run as cold as UCD did. With that said CP rushed for 304, little good it did them.

Were those guys on the broadcast regular Poly broadcasters? Didn’t seem like they were that familiar. At one point the color commentator forgot the full backs name.
Poly this year is a one trick pony on offense and can’t stop the run on defense. Their coaching staff doesn’t think they can throw the ball. Since they have in prior years why don’t they this year? One suspects the coaches and the guys in front might know something the commentator doesn’t,about the Poly players.

I was at the game live, never heard the telecast. Was it these guys? These are the regular announcers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kou4Oay-c_U

Those are the guys. The color guy kept saying Davis was playing without a safety and that they had to throw. He said that repeatedly in the 1st half. Also wanted more runs outside the numbers

I felt like the Poly announcers were extremely frustrated with the offensive decisions that Poly was making and were doing everything in their power not to scream at the top of their lungs about it and end up getting fired... :yikes:

Every CP opponent crowds the line of scrimmage against us none as severely as Davis. The frustration for most of us was we didn't even attempt any passes to try and back the Aggie defense up a bit.

what gives? Why would they not? They’ve thrown effectively in the past even as an option team. This QB incapable? Or were they just trying not to lose by 60?

I have no idea, that's probably why so many of us are frustrated. Our quarterback is a decent passer and Koski catches most of the ones he touches.

Poly completed a few nice passes against us but continued to run the ball up the middle even when they were getting completely stopped most of the time...really mind-boggling. I did hear Walsh say that when you average nearly 5 yards per carry, it's hard to abandon that strategy. The problem is that with the kind of inflexible mindset that the Poly offense has, once you they get behind by a couple of scores or more, they're going to be hard pressed to be able to get back in the game by grinding it out on the ground. Simply too one-dimensional...

Exactly BlueGoldAg. When a team deploys the triple option they can't fall too far behind and must play good defense. We fell behind and continued to try and run into a stacked line. Our defense didn't play anywhere near well enough hence 52-10 and a record of 2-5. Made worse by the fact all five losses were to teams in the top 15 when we played them. NDSU #1, EWU #4, Weber #7, UCD #10 and Montana #15

Big Sky Statistics
CalPoly gives up 9 yards per rush attempt.

RUSHING DEFENSE G Att Yards Avg. TD Yards/G
1. Weber State 4 142 434 3.1 4 108.5
2. Portland State 4 151 608 4.0 8 152.0
3. Idaho State 4 153 711 4.6 6 177.8
4. UC Davis 4 203 731 3.6 6 182.8
5. Northern Arizona 4 165 737 4.5 9 184.2
6. Montana State 4 166 754 4.5 13 188.5
7. Eastern Washington 4 214 777 3.6 5 194.2
8. Northern Colorado 5 231 1087 4.7 16 217.4
9. Idaho 5 209 1247 6.0 7 249.4
10. Cal Poly 4 113 1027 9.1 10 256.8
11. Southern Utah 4 168 1031 6.1 9 257.8
12. Montana 4 233 1124 4.8 11 281.0
13. Sacramento State 4 206 1552 7.5 18 388.0

CP defense is a poor tackling unit, to say the least.