Sun Devils Romp UC Davis, Provide Hope For 2011 Season
by Fear The Fork on Sep 1, 2011 11:48 PM MST
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PrintAs I sit here drinking a Devil's Ale in honor of the Sun Devils, I can't help but be very happy with the way ASU played tonight. Yes, we always play a cupcake. Sure, we always kick some ass. Regardless, I'm going to be very optimistic right now: should this team remain healthy, they are definitely legitimate.
Look at all that speed that Dennis Erickson has recruited. The playcalling was vanilla tonight, but why show off too much and give unnecessary game tape to the Missouri Tigers? They will have a hard enough time stopping Vontaze Burfict, who ripped up Randy Wright on three sacks.
We waited a very long time to see this team on the field, and they left me satisfied. From the start, the offense clicked and Cameron Marshall looks like an NFL-caliber running back. Brock Osweiler found his guys and didn't appear fazed by the duties of being the starting quarterback. Aaron Pflugrad shook off a bad drop early in the game to score two touchdowns.
The defense was stout against the run. Did you see Junior Onyeali? That kid is ready for prime time. Shelly Lyons nearly had an interception, and he will have to convert that opportunity moving forward, but we'll give him a pass tonight.
The only thing left to say is, I hope Brock Osweiler is good to go for Mizzou. He looked like he was in a lot of pain due to that charley horse. Get better B-rock!
Sun Devils' Record: 1-0
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I missed
most of the game due to work, so I can wait to go back to the tape and see how the Devils did it. I’m liking what I’ve heard about most of the performances. Burfict sounded like a boss, but under control. Only 4 penalties? Scoring in the air and on the ground with multiple guys? Yes to all of this, please.
Tomorrow is another day.
A Thrashing...
But I gotta say, how can you think that you learned ANYTHING about your team when you’re in a BCS conference and you just played a Division II team? MIami of Ohio — Missouri’s first opponent — would flatten them, and they’ll get stomped by Missouri. We’ll find out a LOT more about each team next Friday….
Learned by watching… Play execution… composure… etc. We will definitely have a much tougher time Friday against the Tigers.
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by Cory Williams on Sep 2, 2011 12:48 PM MST up reply actions
Not Division II. Ags are FCS.
They beat Stanford a few years ago. Biggs is a good coach and UCD is a solid program.
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by Red Reign on Sep 2, 2011 5:26 PM MST via mobile up reply actions
Come on...
They beat Stanford in 2005 and Stanford wasn’t .500 that year I don’t think…and they are not a solid program…they’ve finished no better than 6-5 in at least 8 years in FBS…they were probably paid a fortune to play ASU and did so to fund their program…
As far as learning anything about ASU’s capacity to execute…back when Marshall was the best FBS school in the country Missouri would beat them by five touchdowns and then get throttled the rest of the year in the Big 12. The chasm between BCS conference teams — even those that are awful — and FBS teams — even those that are truly marvelous — is absolutely enormous.
Not FBS. They are FCS.
And this is their fourth year at the full FCS level. They are historically a solid program that had 30 something straight winning seasons. They got paid $300k and that will help fund their program, yes.
Oh and they hung with a #5 Boise St in 2009 34-16.
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by Red Reign on Sep 2, 2011 6:33 PM MST via mobile up reply actions
No one is denying they are our "cupcake"
We looked confident, fast and ran some interesting schemes. Why can’t we be happy with it? They’ve been practicing for a month and they finally got to show off a little in real action.
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by Cory Williams on Sep 2, 2011 7:07 PM MST up reply actions
UCD is not a solid program...
…and Stanford was horrible under Walt Harris.
Still, speed is speed and it was in full display with the exception of the secondary. I was surprised to see UCD get breakaways twice.
Damn, my eyeball tastes good.
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That was a nice little asskicking
Didn’t like seeing Oz cramp up so many times though,
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Yes, UC Davis is not U$C… But the speed differential alone in this game has given me high hopes that DE has got some guys who can flat out run away from everyone else. Mizzou will be the real first game, this was a scrimmage. GO DEVILS!
Agreed
The speed was new for even the Sun Devils. We looked FAST
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by Cory Williams on Sep 2, 2011 7:06 PM MST up reply actions
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