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  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    No, what was the fall 2020 schedule that got canceled?Season ticket holders might know.
    But that’s interesting too, since it showed they were supposed to come here in the spring initially. Then other teams dropped out
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    I wish I had a copy of the canceled schedule to be sure,
    It makes sense that they couldn’t use home and away history for the spring schedule because they only had a subset of teams. That could lead to a team having an unbalanced schedule as far as home games were concerned.
    By the way their coach would like Davis to be one of his guaranteed games. It’s easy travel due to proximity to the airport. He didn’t add that they usually win, but that might have been an unstated factor.
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    Everyone took down the 2020 schedule but I think they were supposed to come here. The Spring season was a one off that didn’t reflect prior home or away, and they picked up 2021 as it was already scheduled.
  • Week 3: Dixie State at UC Davis
    Take this with a grain of salt, I’m not a football expert, but I’ve watched a game at the Holiday Inn.
    Fly sweeps have become commonplace, what’s rarer is for teams to commit to it, so that motion is part of virtually every play. Then the motion of the fly guy is the threat is always there, and other plays success is partially attributable to the defense having to defend against the threat of the fly guy getting the ball.
    An analogy is in the wishbone offense the base play is the dive of the fullback, which either occurs or is faked virtually every play.
    Our team is a multiple offense team, among other things we run fly offense plays.
    Wildcat means various things. Initially it was run with an unbalanced line, with a running back behind center, and the running back took the snap. There was often fly motion involved in the play. In that case it’s easy to identify by formation.
    Now you often see it run from a balanced line, and formation wise it’s not that distinctive. We used to substitute the quarterback, and now sometimes we do sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we have the QB just move from behind center prior to the snap, and use the same personnel, usually with two tight ends which we can run other plays with.
    With TT, it gets more confusing. He may run out of any of our formations, planned or unplanned. If it’s a planned run with run blocking of the line and no pass deception, it’s fair to call it a wildcat play.if anyone has noticed something in our wildcat formation that defines it as wildcat, please chime in.
  • Week 3: Dixie State at UC Davis
    A small complaint
    I wish Scott Marsh would stop calling fly sweep or jet sweep “end around” I know he has to call the play live and doesn’t have time to think about it, but the difference is on the fly sweep the hand off is to a guy in motion before the snap, and the snap takes place when the wide receiver or slot back gets in the vicinity of the QB. With our offense it’s just a basic play. An end around would be a rarer play.
    If I had been listening to radio I would have been thinking what’s with all these end arounds?
    Also he’s got this idea of the direct snap to a runner as being a “package” even when it’s run with regular personnel like on the first drive where Larison took a direct snap after Rodrigues moved out to a flanker position. There was no special “package” that was the beauty of it.
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    But will they still respect them Sunday morning?
    Johnson is the guy who threw the successful Hail Mary against NAU this spring. So he has an arm, height, seems mobile but makes poor decisions at least in the JMU game.
    Weisser seems cool. I think we will see more of him unless they start Johnson and stick with him because he’s hot.
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    Also it’s my possibly incorrect observation that we’re doing more two tight end. I know we’re doing a lot of it just not sure if it’s more than under the prior OC.
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    Game notes are up. https://ucdavisaggies.com/documents/2021/9/20/FB_Notes_4_Weber_State.pdf
    Devon King still listed on depth chart, but not on the travel roster so he is likely out. Toki is on the travel squad. He didn’t go to Tulsa or San Diego. Both true freshmen Connors brothers on travel squad
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    Past time.
    Remember the 2017 game where on our opening possession we had a 60 yard pass to Khris Vaughn which gave us first and goal at the 3, followed by a sack and a field goal, that was our only score of the game?
    Since the start of the Rodrigues era, which corresponds with the elevation of Cody Hawkins to OC, we don’t seem to be throwing to Khris Vaughn as much.
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    yeah but he was benched this spring, and all this year
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State

    Thanks for the link. Unfortunately they project all their offensive linemen to play against us. James Madison got lucky and caught them with a banged up offensive line.
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    James Madison moved the ball well against Weber.
    The third string Weber QB made some big plays at the end. I bet we see him if Barron is still out.
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    At least in the last game it was an injury to his shoulder. He was holding his fingers as if he had some arm pain.
  • New Covid Protocol - Vax or Neg Test required
    UCD seems to be taking the minority position on this. Haven’t seen Cal doing this, or the SF Giants. I think the arbitrariness and lack of uniformity of these policies is what people find irritating.
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    I think by their QB you’re referring to the Dixie game.
    In the last Weber game the game changed at half time. They were shut out in the first half but got the second half kickoff and drove for a touchdown, mostly with QB carries and passes. Then the short field TD. Their last score was a field goal following our turnover. They were able to make an adjustment at half time and we seem to have figured it out again and contained them in the fourth quarter. Game got away from us in the third quarter.
  • New Covid Protocol - Vax or Neg Test required
    I’m vaccinated and would get a booster if they offered one, but I have to point out that the vaccine does not prevent vaccinated people from spreading COVID.
    It is primarily of benefit to the vaccinated, in lessening severity of symptoms when they get a breakthrough infection.
  • Week 4: UC Davis @ Weber State
    Before the ESPN+ move, we could have watched a replay of the game this spring on BigSky tv. Too bad they took that down. Petty if ESPN requested that.

    The box score shows the game to have been very even statistically We lost a ten point lead in the third quarter, almost all the damage done by Barron running or passing.
    Their second TD drive of the quarter started at their 45 after we went for it on 4th and 2.
    Aside from that quarter we contained them pretty well. This is another of those games with Weber that I think we can win. I’ve always been wrong about that.
  • Diversity screening limiting applicants at UC
    I hope your child gets into the school of his choice.
    By the way I never said admits had bad grades. The point is everyone has good grades hence they mean little. Now no standardized test, which leaves nothing objective to base admission on. If it’s all up to the essay, that’s a bad method.
  • Diversity screening limiting applicants at UC
    You think the admissions office is capable of weighing how important this kid’s dinner prep contributions are vs the other kids milking the cow? If it’s all subjective it’s going to come down to a counselor writing their personal statement for some favored students and the rest on their own. There will be certain phrases that will indicate ethnicity, and an exaggeration of any personal hardship. It will all come down to telling a story.
    I’ve seen kids whose parent is a school counselor get her kid nominated for various rewards, over much more deserving students. That’s why fairness requires some objective metrics.
    The tests do test something predictive about how kids fare after admission. Your personal story about how well you fared taking a catch-up math course doesn’t indicate what your math score was on a test that didn’t presume precalculus. I didn’t do well in trig and analytic geometry as a senior but still scored in the 97th percentile in math on the ACT, so I was able to benefit a lot from taking a course in precalculus at the JC. You have to know quite a bit to do well in a precalculus prep class. With no standardized tests no baseline exists. If someone isn’t ready for UC it isn’t a value judgement about his worth as a human being or even a scholar. It means he’s not ready, and given your observation about limited number of seats, he’s occupying someone else’s.
  • ESPN plus replays
    Almost immediately in my limited experience

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