An awesome retirement compared to most of us wage slaves but it kind of becomes trivial compared to major college football head coach salaries.

Here at Davis, Hawkins can make his pitch promoting the Aggie family and the great education with a lot of authenticity, I don’t think that will be as effective elsewhere. It makes him perfect for Davis. I think it will enable him to build something here that he can’t do elsewhere. So I think he stays a while. Plough will move on, but I don’t think he’s proved enough yet to be in real demand. Who’ve we beat so far? For some reason our opponents this year were a little down. Our signature win? UNI ? Plough hasn’t really proved his offense is all that. I mean where people feel they’ve got to hire that coach.

2016 Khris Vaughn WR Pretty good when healthy but not doing much statistically lately

He’s too short

I think Hawk takes them one at a time; we certainly couldn’t take UNI lightly. I hope we have everyone healthy but might not. It’s an enigma.

So those new freshmen players, who are probably redshirting, must have been replacing someone out due to injury.
Babb came in I think briefly when Kraft went off with some injury.
Any idea what the status of Khris Vaughn was/is ?

Are the home and away roster size the same in playoffs? We had new guys making appearances, like Lance Babb and Chris Venable

But we probably have had three stars who don’t contribute much.

There have been so many successful 6’ QBs that it’s hard to believe it’s much of a disability.

Eastern Washington’s QB is 6’ for example, as is Jake Maier

We’re well stocked with smallish QBs who have put up great numbers in high school. Our other QB commit put up over 3000 yards in his first year after transferring schools as a junior, but missed three games after injury this year. Two approx 6ft mobile QBs added in last year’s recruiting class, So that’s four mobile slingers.
So let those guys compete and see who rises to the top

oh, meant Gunnor Faulk, corrected post

Coaches always focus on their teams failures in postgame interviews and the other teams strength pregame, coaches are smart guys they know the press conference playbook

They have had Carson Crawford throw some passes including that key one against Montana. Tompkins video shows he can make some passes on the run so he might be good on those half back pass type of plays.
At QB he’ll have to compete with similar size Gunnor Faulk and Hunter Rodriquez among others

So it seems he’s been a high profile prospect that just didn’t get any taller in high school. Here is a profile from four years ago when he was already 5’11” He was training with nationally known QB coaches that long ago.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/youth1.com/football/112455920-tompkins-quarterback-watch-california%3famp

Agree about TT but also see why the coaches love Gilliam. We would have scored at end of first half if we had enough time on the clock to run. It’s hard to pass into the end zone from the 2.

Great job keeping track of all this activity. I noticed last year that we almost never lose a player on your list to an FCS school, and that seems to be the case so far.

It seems Farley needs to find a version of Plough. If the complaint is that their play calling is too predictable and seemed to get better when McCann called the plays either make McCann the OC or find some young guy with a more contemporary offensive approach.

We could use some improvement on the defensive line. But even there its not so much a size issue as just being better.

we need the kind of physical play (size?) on the line that UNI has[/quote]
UN's most imposing unit is their offensive line.
However the size difference between their OL and ours is not that much. Using the list for offensive linemen in the game notes we find that their average offensive linemen is
6' 5.5" 296lb and our is 6'4.3" 294lb.

I think that since Amoah, Lamson, Pettek, Parks and Richardson are all lower classmen they'll all gain some weight and strength almost without trying
But it is interesting that UNI seems to have a minimum height for offensive linemen of 6'4', even their other roster OL linemen are tall


LT 73 Nick AMOAH 6-3 290 RFr.
or 70 Colton LAMSON 6-6 285
LG 75 Charles HAYS 6-4 305 Jr.
or 77 Ramsey HUFFORD 6-3 296 Sr.
C 74 Connor PETTEK 6-3 300 RFr.
or 56 Will MARTIN 6-3 290 Sr.
RG 56 Will MARTIN 6-3 290 Sr.
or 60 Jake PARKS 6-3 290 Fr.
RT 72 Riley GALLANT 6-6 300 Jr.
or 79 Kooper RICHARDSON 6-6 298

LT 75 Cal Twait Sr. 6-5 305
78 Tyler Putney Sr. 6-6 302
LG 74 Jackson Scott-Brown Jr. 6-4 312
72 Justin Peine R-Fr. 6-5 293
or 67 Erik Sorensen R-Fr. 6-6 320
C 55 Colton Lueck Jr. 6-4 286
79 Ezrah Szczyrbak Sr. 6-4 299
RG 71 Nick Ellis R-So. 6-4 308
70 Trevor Penning R-Fr. 6-6 289
RT 76 Spencer Brown R-So. 6-8 290
77 Matt Vanderslice So. 6-7 257

A lot of teams are doing two tight end stuff and not just for power running, I read an interview from last year that UNI sometimes goes from two tight ends to 4 wide receiver sets with the same personnel, and U Washington uses a lot of two tight end.