Quote from: RFBredux on October 10, 2025, 04:46:52 PMI like you Olddog but you're a little out of pocket here with Pat.

Pat has traveled all over the country watching and supporting D3 football and other sports for well over 25 years.

His vast knowledge on the sport nationally FAR exceeds yours and I don't say this to throw shade at you.

This is not life or death just fun no worries, the Pioneer Conf is better than D3 (not a lot but just more depth)...I have seen both in the last 6 years.

A win is always good, but was is what UR did better or are the Athena's just not that good. I think more of the later.

UR offense, yes they tried to change some plays up and clearly played the better thrower this week. He was efficient. OC used the passing game to keep CMS off balance.
The run game did struggle, UR O line made the rotating NGs all world by not staying on their block. I think one of the DT had 8 or 9 tackles, in order to run the ball UR had to attempt to get to an edge somehow, RB did a good job of getting what was there. 

On defense our D line was just better than CMS, Its clear our DC felt they could not run the ball on him, so when they passed UR brought more pressure than normal. It worked except one play when one of our inverts got locked up on their best WR ...a good ball by the QB...we give up 6. Come on son, get those hips around.

I watched the Hens against the Panthers, PP has improved and the second quickest team in the league, Our offense will need to stretch the field a bit with a passing game, o/w it will be a long night trying to run side to side on a quicker team much like Chapman. If UR can ever run the ball between the tackles, I will change my stance on UR offensive line.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on October 10, 2025, 02:32:40 PM

Quote from: olddog on October 10, 2025, 12:26:56 PMPat will hate the because I have an opinion and better observation of the SCIAC.

Huh?

If you're going to throw shade at me, I have to ask: Is this like your observation of the Pioneer Conference?

Since I have seen many games in both conferences your short answer is always yes, Cracks me up you think you know more about the level of football played and you have never seem multiple games like myself. I love your D3 product but you can not be everywhere, ...I am lucky to have large athletic family. Takes forever to get to many games, which sucks.

I stand by the fact the Pioneer Conference is better than the SCIAC or NWC...easily, the have kids on scholies, pros in the multiple leagues etc..

My reference to you was I get spanked when I discuss "liberal colleges" .....but the liberalization of schools has an affect on enrollment at all colleges, ask anyone trying to collect money. Heck Whittier bringing back football is plenty of proof in the SCIAC...They lost millions from donors, the president turned her back on the donors and she got pushed out. Now the school has a buzz again in the San Gabriel Valley.

Side note: so you can get a kick out of this one, just updated the trust and one of the adds was..... my estate will not pay for any liberal colleges, its one of many directional items I added. Pretty short list of schools the great grand children can go to at this point, my executor will have fun with that directive.

Have a great weekend, keep up the great work.   

10,

Pat will hate the because I have an opinion and better observation of the SCIAC.

I flat out respectfully disagree with you on the school (I don't know if you have collegekids), I think you are missing my point, playing good defense is much easier than finding good offensive linemen in CA. We have 75 JC's playing football so recruiting is tougher than any region in D3.....a long time ago when my kids played socialism was growing since its all people like me fault...was the theme. We visited a couple couple schools that were so socialist (I am a libertarian) ...the coach told me don't worry about it, the football team is different\normal, Oxy being one my no Fing way in the SCIAC...and their O line was a sieve the last 10 years of existence. There was no way in hell I was going to give that college a dime of my money, hence they lost an all conference kid. Chapman can still get some of those parent/son board since it is still somewhat down the middle. Its a huge advantage for Chapman. If you are a parent and have to pay for your kid to go to a school you look at all the issues.

This is what is happening at many SCIAC schools now...The Regals included...for a classic example.

I was going to post calling out the O line, specific players, plays and effort, but what does that gain. Until the Puppies on the O line improve, I wont have much to say about UR football the rest of the season. It will be the same thing, D is good, offense is horrible, over weight, slow footed linemen that cant stay on a block for more than a half second.

I will repeat the changes in culture pushed by the board has a direct reflection on the football field, so why get frustrated at this point. Only thing I control is my $$$. 

Huh? its not new, plus you never were allowed to lower the crown/top of your helmet...it was called spearing back in the day...I know I got called for it a few times. The launching portion of the rule is new.

I sure hope HC Good sent cut up on the game to their supervisor. In regards to the lady side judge...its still new to me. My personal opinion, referees (any gender)  that played the sport before make better referees, such as understanding intent of the play, how hard it is to stop and not flagrant. I am not the first to say or complain rules makers are being done by people that have not played the game.

UR and CLU game, I have posted before but the crew referring had doing our game had to be the worse I have seen in a long while. UR got beat it has nothing to do with out loss, the league deserves better.

The worse call was targeting by one of our safeties. I hate that call in general because the plays happen so fast and sometimes the flag is thrown because it looked violent. In the third QTR, a Regal caught the ball, oops a Kingsmen in the hook to curl area. Our db turn his back and hit him with the back of his shoulder pad/cup to avoid using the 6" crown on his helmet. This four idiots got together and booted him, why the lady side judge running with the play did not join in I do not know. I hate how hard players work to have this kind of crappy job done by the official. I wont even discuss how much they allowed Jax/DE to be held every play, the only call he got was when the RB tackled him in pass protection.

Dr D....I deleted my Monday post, way to harsh on the Puppies...The D are dogs, the Offense are puppies...
I sure hope the puppies man up this week and reach deep,  young people do not like accountability anymore so who knows. I know I would be MFing them all week. Its not coaching, its heart and desire at this point.

As far a Regals goes, I went thru a period with Coach Mac where UR was dominated or CLU got lucky, its all good fun. Would love to know the real reason Coach Mac left, but I am sure woke thoughts were involved.



 

Ok, lets get this over with. UR's loss to the Regals....The O line, ...you owe an apology to the team...That was brutal, I did not see very many linebackers get picked up blitzing, and even one on one, you all got your butts whipped. Cal Lu's game plan was simple, linebackers read the RB on running downs (flowing, qb wont beat us running)  and we are bring 5 most of the the time on pass plays..Net result no first downs in the first half..embarrassing. The masters of the "look out" block...I can not sugar coat it, made me sick to my stomach.

Defense, no shame in your game...Defense is really good, just can not play all night with a short field. A couple turnovers per game is all a HC can ask for..

Chapman will boat race us if we can not block ...

So Cal

I see things in a similar way, except CMS ...could be the ya butt...and take it...after this weekend we will know alot, PP might be down more than I thought. UR improvement week to week is key, the new system is weeks old... three weeks of spring and 5 plus of camps.

Going to be a fun weekend, playing the Regals is always a big game for UR. 

Are you guys worried L and C could dilute some of LF recruiting ?

Wildcat,

I agree, my post was more about UR ...not calling for a Top 25 status, we were picked 4th in league, maybe that was off a bit. Plus what we saw is what we have been asking for offensively.

Some of the NW guys posted what I was thinking about this week. Flo Sports and each team's broadcast...

SCIAC

1) Chapman, does the best broadcast quality, cameras, HD...it just pops on my Sony. The announcers are students so it varies but its cool that is how they grow.
2) CLU, more professional broadcast, good announcer , replay...not super biased
3) UR, If we have Chapman's camera quality, we would run away with the best broadcast, Mitch does a super job with Radio and Video feed. Most professional
4) CMS, cameras, angles and student broadcast..mid...
5) LV, they shoot it from the roof top, student announcers are better than Chapman.
6) Pomona, Quality has gotten better but horrible angle (too low), students do a good job announcing

NWC....Limited

GF, best camera quality I have seen in the NW
Linfield, good announcers, shot in 480, just could be more crisp
WW, announcers are bit of homers, but know football, they use their Huddle AI camera...not surprised they are cheap..
Others...have not watched much, PLU and PS are ok...

UR last Saturday in the Pine Bowl.

Fun Fact, UR has beaten WW six times in a row now dating back to 2009..forgot about the Selway days...

UR wins by 17, despite spotting WW a touchdown with a fumble.

Week 1 to Week 2, what did I see....Improvement, which is really nice to see, props to coaches and players

Special teams, we cleaned it up....Our punts were clean, good snaps, blocked well etc, our FG group got on the same page, holder has learned how to ask for the ball, blocked it better and the kicker calmed down. Good job

Offense, SCIAC DC's have to be bummed, instead of breaking out the same play cards for the last five years with four sets on them, three patterns, and four running plays...They have to update their UR play list...A lot more work for DCs. I saw nine different base formations, could have been more..Let alone variations off these sets the SCIAC has not seen. I really liked the play calling, the fact is it did not force the qb to do more than he is capable of doing. He did a good job of playing within himself. We have some nice RBs and the OL blocked fairly well. I saw some backers getting blocked and some pulling linemen get to someone. Let hope UR players have bought in and at this point refine what they do. It was nice to see the defense get off the field, we all saw what happens when its not backed up all game.

The defense was solid, this d line we have is big and about as good as I have see in the last 5 years. UR runs a 3-5-3, our inverts are brand new and learning, clearly WW game plan was to attack them. They held up and will get better as the season goes on. Prop to the DC and players giving up 10 points, and a 200 yards game net, we win 95% of the time. WW had no running game with just 6 in the box at times. Tough to win if you are WW and six man box is controlling the run. Young QB struggle with UR d line on his tail all day.

It was one game, lets see if they can duplicate it, if so we all might have under estimated them.