jimotis4heisman
Banned
first and foremost-usc and usc fans, congrats. youve got some great players and a great ball club. enjoy the ride folks, its a great time to be a usc trojan.
expectations-their was a time when all i wanted was a win over michigan, i swore i could deal with 9-3 as long as we beat the winged helmet. their was also a time that the goal was a big ten title and a rose bowl berth and resulting victory. i just checked we havent been to the rose bowl since 1997, kids these days dont want to go to the rose bowl, well not every year. i still find that odd.
i guess you have to lay out what your expectations are. the bar is the big game, the week after the first of the year. i am reminded of a john wooden story in which in 1974 the ucla bruins steam rolled their way in to the final four only to be knocked off. not a big deal? well theyd won the previous 7 national titles, the following year the bruins rolled to the title again, making it 8 of 9 and 10 of 12. as wooden was on the court with his team a fan ran up to coach wooden and said, "coach you disappointed us last year but we won it this year." think about that. or maybe it could be put simpler, i went to the grand canyon with a co worker and they talked the whole time how they wanted to see it and how excited they were, we got their, gout out of the car. they looked around and were ready to go, i didnt understand. "i thought itd be bigger" sometimes expectations are hard to meet, needless to say harder to exceed.
the game-usc won, they scored more points. congrats to them.
the postgame-no idea i quit on the game with 2 minutes to go, the last time i did that was when i left the shut out in michigan, i left the 94 psu game during the 3rd quarter. thats 3 times in what 14 years?
where do you go from here-
choices
1-quit
2-mail it in
3-go to your senoirs, give them pt
4-stats quo
5- youth movement.
i think id do something different. the team is graded on every play and recieve a grade for the game. winning perfromances are awarded to those who meet a certian thresh hold. personally id say if you dont make your winning performance, you dont start. not that you cant play only that you lose your spot to the next guy and have to earn it.
missing- im not the football expert many of you are. i do know a couple of players have gone missing. ones that no one here as mentioned. i feel comfortable someone has gone terry glenn on his teammates. unwilling to make the play for fear of injury... he wasnt the only one, but one of the ones i havent heard much about.
qb- see my theory above. why i dont feel that bad about it, i still say you go week to week, dont get a winning performance, your out.
3rd down- i believe we started the game 5-8 and from that point on, remember i didnt see the final drive, their was not another 3rd down conversion.
coaching staff- im sure theirs a rumor, reality is maybe we have a younger staff than weve had before. the last few years weve lost a lot of coaches to other teams, nfl or who have moved on to be coridinators and cordinators who have moved on to head coaching spots. reality is the staff changes nearly every year, so thats not the odd thing that will happen. maybe its time to shake up the sturcture/make up of the coaches and their responsibilities.
injuries- hopefully rehring is ok. i held my breath when sanchez went down, got up slow and limped around. i hate to see kids get hurt. hate it, more than my team losing...
"it"- this team doesnt have "it" nor have the teams the past two years.
competitive composure- walking the fine line between out of control and in control, playing on the edge. playing up to your best, causing havoc, playing a game of escalating collisions. ken hitchcock loves that saying, ive come to admire it. i dont see it. i dont see guys flying around making plays, under control. examples that stick in my mind, chris spielman-[censored]ing himself so he wouldnt miss a snap, aj hawk flying to the football, orlando pace/k stringer, whilhelm scarpinig across the field and burying a guy-driving the man into the ground and attacking the football, maurice clarrett busting his ass to take the football away from the miami defender on the int return, do you get that point? i dont see it out of this team...
the tyson walter/rob murphy effect- i was never a fan of a guy getting beat, getting his qb hit, and then when the qb gets blasted he goes over and drills the guy, buries him. you hit my qb and ill kill you approach. tyson and rob didint always save it for the next play. those two played with a passion and fire, they didnt play with competitive composure, they played over the line. but for some reason i miss that. do you think those guys whod let their qb get hit late, sacked, knocked down, buried as he tried to make the tackle on his int as others stood and watched, then get buried by a second man, watching as a guy leaps in to celebrated the td? nope, they wouldnt have stood for that. yet how many players quit on that play...
when the tough gets going- im not really sure, 2 drives with a first down in the second half probably isnt what the tough do though and one of those was for negative yardage... 25 yards of offense in the second half. thats 75 feet folks...
changes- things are always changing, no doubt in my mind had the game been won you would have seen change. the question is what will change?
kick off classic meadowlands, miami fl - ill admit it, i said it. the same thing i said as i sat in the upper deck in the game against the hurricanes. i said, ill admit it...
why usc won- they scored more points...
where now?- this is an interesting point, something that has been a long time since a team was taken out back and spanked early in the year, the way the team rebounds or doesnt will be interesting. i think we will find out a lot about these kids, adversity brings out great things in kids, or reveals what they are really made of...
power- upon further review i could never be amish.
maybe more to come later- today/this week and in weeks to come...
hurricanes/flooding- my weekend was thousands of times better than many, who lost love ones, homes, families and communities...
expectations-their was a time when all i wanted was a win over michigan, i swore i could deal with 9-3 as long as we beat the winged helmet. their was also a time that the goal was a big ten title and a rose bowl berth and resulting victory. i just checked we havent been to the rose bowl since 1997, kids these days dont want to go to the rose bowl, well not every year. i still find that odd.
i guess you have to lay out what your expectations are. the bar is the big game, the week after the first of the year. i am reminded of a john wooden story in which in 1974 the ucla bruins steam rolled their way in to the final four only to be knocked off. not a big deal? well theyd won the previous 7 national titles, the following year the bruins rolled to the title again, making it 8 of 9 and 10 of 12. as wooden was on the court with his team a fan ran up to coach wooden and said, "coach you disappointed us last year but we won it this year." think about that. or maybe it could be put simpler, i went to the grand canyon with a co worker and they talked the whole time how they wanted to see it and how excited they were, we got their, gout out of the car. they looked around and were ready to go, i didnt understand. "i thought itd be bigger" sometimes expectations are hard to meet, needless to say harder to exceed.
the game-usc won, they scored more points. congrats to them.
the postgame-no idea i quit on the game with 2 minutes to go, the last time i did that was when i left the shut out in michigan, i left the 94 psu game during the 3rd quarter. thats 3 times in what 14 years?
where do you go from here-
choices
1-quit
2-mail it in
3-go to your senoirs, give them pt
4-stats quo
5- youth movement.
i think id do something different. the team is graded on every play and recieve a grade for the game. winning perfromances are awarded to those who meet a certian thresh hold. personally id say if you dont make your winning performance, you dont start. not that you cant play only that you lose your spot to the next guy and have to earn it.
missing- im not the football expert many of you are. i do know a couple of players have gone missing. ones that no one here as mentioned. i feel comfortable someone has gone terry glenn on his teammates. unwilling to make the play for fear of injury... he wasnt the only one, but one of the ones i havent heard much about.
qb- see my theory above. why i dont feel that bad about it, i still say you go week to week, dont get a winning performance, your out.
3rd down- i believe we started the game 5-8 and from that point on, remember i didnt see the final drive, their was not another 3rd down conversion.
coaching staff- im sure theirs a rumor, reality is maybe we have a younger staff than weve had before. the last few years weve lost a lot of coaches to other teams, nfl or who have moved on to be coridinators and cordinators who have moved on to head coaching spots. reality is the staff changes nearly every year, so thats not the odd thing that will happen. maybe its time to shake up the sturcture/make up of the coaches and their responsibilities.
injuries- hopefully rehring is ok. i held my breath when sanchez went down, got up slow and limped around. i hate to see kids get hurt. hate it, more than my team losing...
"it"- this team doesnt have "it" nor have the teams the past two years.
competitive composure- walking the fine line between out of control and in control, playing on the edge. playing up to your best, causing havoc, playing a game of escalating collisions. ken hitchcock loves that saying, ive come to admire it. i dont see it. i dont see guys flying around making plays, under control. examples that stick in my mind, chris spielman-[censored]ing himself so he wouldnt miss a snap, aj hawk flying to the football, orlando pace/k stringer, whilhelm scarpinig across the field and burying a guy-driving the man into the ground and attacking the football, maurice clarrett busting his ass to take the football away from the miami defender on the int return, do you get that point? i dont see it out of this team...
the tyson walter/rob murphy effect- i was never a fan of a guy getting beat, getting his qb hit, and then when the qb gets blasted he goes over and drills the guy, buries him. you hit my qb and ill kill you approach. tyson and rob didint always save it for the next play. those two played with a passion and fire, they didnt play with competitive composure, they played over the line. but for some reason i miss that. do you think those guys whod let their qb get hit late, sacked, knocked down, buried as he tried to make the tackle on his int as others stood and watched, then get buried by a second man, watching as a guy leaps in to celebrated the td? nope, they wouldnt have stood for that. yet how many players quit on that play...
when the tough gets going- im not really sure, 2 drives with a first down in the second half probably isnt what the tough do though and one of those was for negative yardage... 25 yards of offense in the second half. thats 75 feet folks...
changes- things are always changing, no doubt in my mind had the game been won you would have seen change. the question is what will change?
kick off classic meadowlands, miami fl - ill admit it, i said it. the same thing i said as i sat in the upper deck in the game against the hurricanes. i said, ill admit it...
why usc won- they scored more points...
where now?- this is an interesting point, something that has been a long time since a team was taken out back and spanked early in the year, the way the team rebounds or doesnt will be interesting. i think we will find out a lot about these kids, adversity brings out great things in kids, or reveals what they are really made of...
power- upon further review i could never be amish.
maybe more to come later- today/this week and in weeks to come...
hurricanes/flooding- my weekend was thousands of times better than many, who lost love ones, homes, families and communities...
