Do you want me to delete it lol. Rocky Long has been around for a long time. I guarantee that they have prepared for aspects of the spread and pro style (only some of the most common sets in the game). Long also mentioned in one of his interviews that they watched film on our coaches at previous times in their career. They know Speckman is all about the fly.

Video would be awesome, but it's a great first step that we even have the weekly show now. In the last few weeks it seems like we have taken several steps in appear more like a legitimate D1 football program

I do think it's funny that a lot of the SDSU media is talking about the QB battle between Dale and Spencer and how that Spencer is the dual thread guy and Dale is the pro style guy and up here most people seem to believe that it will be Maier who gets the job. I mean, he's been running the 1st team offense at all of the scrimmages.

It appears that the article I was reading got edited and no longer includes that information. Looks like Plough let the cat outta the bag before he was supposed to.

Ehhh it's Thursday. SDSU isn't going to dramatically their game plan at this point and Long already mentioned that they studied up on our coaches past schemes which includes Plough's offense from NAU and Speckman being the god father of the fly offense so they to a degree probably already knew what to expect. Yeah on their fan boards they've been talking more about ASU than Davis. Their fans are overlooking us for sure, don't know about the team though.

I dislike the term "commit" in college athletics recruiting simply because it doesn't have any meaning. Commit means commitment. "I am making a commitment to play for your program" is what it's supposed to mean, but players drop commitments all the time so it's a pointless phrase.

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Looks like we're going with the shiny, dark gold, script Davis helmets on Saturday.

https://twitter.com/UCD_Equipment/status/903121490664595456

I haven't been able to find it, but apparently Hawkins released a depth chart where he lists like 3 or 4 players as potential starters for basically every position. He's really going with the element of surprise for SDSU. Article does mention that Maier has the QB position locked up and that Williams will be getting starts at RB, but several other RBs are pushing hard to get the starts. Names Layton, Gilliam, and Modise.

http://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/its-showtime-for-new-feel-uc-davis/

I'm sure their coaches are a little bit more informed than their reporters, but that is pretty shockingly bad reporting for a major newspaper. Not listing players who are probably going to be key, calling guys in the wrong position, referencing stats from last season despite that it's irrelevant due to new players (quite a few JC transfers), coaches, and schemes. Just bad journalism.

I hope they do key in on Doss. Have Doss run go routes all day long to pull a corner and safety and then abuse the middle where we can have receivers matched up against slower linebackers.

I'm sure both sides are being homers in their expectations of this game. I don't think they will blow us out and we probably won't put up as many points as I would like.

Here's a UC Davis Scouting Report from the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Link

From the article:
- Whatever depth chart they received doesn't have specific starters for 9 of 11 positions on offense.
- Mentions Doss clearly being our best offensive weapon.
- Says Carriger listed as starting LT and Baljeu FB (which is interesting since in our position preview articles Baljeu has switched to TE).
- Mentions Dale and Spencer at QB (Makes no mention of Maier who is most likely going to be the starter at this point).
- Says Blair is listed as the starting kicker and punter (I highly doubt Whelan isn't the starting punter).
- Coach Long stated that they are developing a game plan based on what our coaches have done in past programs, don't actually know what Hawkins will be throwing at them.
- Mentions our poor run defense from last season (We're going to have a new defense though. Whether it will be any good is another question, but it seems kind of weird to base it on last season when they specifically mention that they don't know what they will see on either side of the ball).
- Mentions Baumgart as our most successful edge rusher (he has switched positions to LB).
- Mentions that we have a veteran secondary but they are small and could struggle against the size of their receivers.

Overall this report got some things right, but there were definitely inaccuracies that seem like they just based things off of last years depth chart. I mean position changes are clearly listed in our roster and have been being posted in the position roundup articles on the athletics site. Also not mentioning Maier at all seems weird. Just not a lot of research before writing I suppose.

How many times did we refuse to run the 2 minute drill at the end of the half and instead just ran it up the gut for a yard to run the clock... even when we had timeouts. There was no killer instinct at all with Gould at the helm. Hawk is fiery as hell, I doubt this team is going to be apathetic.

Some predictions from one of the SDSU fan forums:

31-0 SDSU
38-6 SDSU
46-17 SDSU
34-10 SDSU

Now, I expect to lose but I hope our new offense will perform better than that.

Plough himself in interviews (I'm not going to go back and find them) has said that what's being implemented here at Davis is new. Whether that just means new for us or something unique altogether is another story. I'm positive that with Speckman on the staff we are going to have some aspects of the fly in our offense. It won't be the focus of our offense as most indicators are that we're going to be a pass first team, but on running downs the fly definitely adds another dimension if interspersed with other running plays.

I love the classic UC Davis jerseys, they're historic and sometimes less is more, but I gotta admit that the one displayed in the twitter picture I posted are clean. Put those bad boys on with one of the new chrome gold helmets and we have a killer new look. With how many new variations on uniforms we have, I wouldn't be surprised if we busted out some new away jerseys. I mean, at the very least even if they are the normal whites they should have the updated 1 font UC Davis.

I also hope that it will take SDSU a little bit of time to adjust to what we throw at them both offensively and defensively. They should have very little to no information on what's coming. Hopefully we can catch em off guard.

I would like to see us hang with the Aztecs in this one. If our new air raid offense is as potent as some of the players indicate it will be then I think we could see us put up some points. We will see if the defense can hang with the big boys and I think that will be a huge contributing factor in the outcome of this game. How is SDSU doing health-wise?

By the way, did anyone catch the new uniforms? I already knew about the helmets but I just saw new uniforms on twitter. 2 tone blue jerseys with the new 1 font "UC Davis" and CA patches on the shoulders. Look at Jaylin White's twitter profile pic.

https://twitter.com/JaayChristopher

It's no secret that CP is a talented squad, but yeah you guys need to open up the book to make the triple option work which you guys have done in the past. Workloading Protheroe that heavily is gonna get him hurt.

Well Protheroe is a FB and got 39 carries which is a crazy workload for 1 player. They can't continue that trend or he's gonna end up injured. Their RB, Lewis, only got 7 carries for 19 yards. You're not fooling the defense when you make the triple option 1 dimensional.

Really a quite unimpressive start to the season for Poly. They didn't seem to spread the ball around as much as I remember. Protheroe had just under 40 carries but only managed 140 yards off of that. They only gave Kyle Lewis 7 carries and their QB, Jenkins, didn't do much on the ground. Jenkins also only completed 6 passes on 17 attempts. When you rush as much as Poly does you gotta make those pass attempts count. Got to give some credit to Colgate's defense for shutting them down for 3 quarters, but it makes it a little bit easier when the triple option is actually just handing the ball to the fullback 40 times.