Tanner Holmes Transferring

[Cajunfanatico]

I know nothing about how this functions with the average football team, but when a player is hurt, seriously hurt, doesn't the team physician have the final say as to whether he plays or not?

[ManAboutTown]

I know nothing about how this functions with the average football team, but when a player is hurt, seriously hurt, doesn't the team physician have the final say as to whether he plays or not?

Theoretically. In the real world, no.

Having said that, Travis Soileau can come out and put a lid on this whole ordeal. Just has to say Tanner wasn't hurt.

[GATOR GRUNT]

So now all of a sudden Buckley is a credible source? And we're supposed to treat Huds word as gospel? Buckley gets crapped on repeatedly & Hud said he gave up the reigns to the defense in the offseason, yet everyone blames him for imposing on Lucas' decisions.

Why wouldn't one blame Hud? He sure has imposed on past defenses and especially offenses. And I can assure you, he has never taken blame for anything bad that has happened to his teams.

[Just1More]

Thank you for your honesty.

For the record, I jump your ___ almost never as compared to CR and CajunProctocologist because you are much more genuine in your rebuttals.

He leans toward some canned liberal tripe at times... but he's a reasonable and an intelligent poster. If he continues down a path of conversing with tried and proven thinkers, he's got a serious chance of becoming deep enough to "arrive". He's not the pseudo-intellectual variety. As you've observed, he's honest. You can almost always count on a debate. He loses. But he's got skills. He actually thinks. It's very refreshing.

[KajunKrazy]

No it's not. You're trying to paint me into a corner.

How about this, do you know for sure that when your wife leaves the house for errands, she's really running errands? Do you know for certain the Mary was really a virgin? FOR 10000% CERTAIN? Do you know that Tropicana OJ is REALLY made with real juice? Did we really kill Osama?

Unless you're the kid, no one can know for 100% certainty. We take the evidence that we've been provided with and we make logical decisions based on that. I have overwhelming evidence for the claims I'm making. I don't just sit around and make ____ up.

About Mary yes we absolutely do know for sure.

[Ragin4U]

He leans toward some canned liberal tripe at times... but he's a reasonable and an intelligent poster. If he continues down a path of conversing with tried and proven thinkers, he's got a serious chance of becoming deep enough to "arrive". He's not the pseudo-intellectual variety. As you've observed, he's honest. You can almost always count on a debate. He loses. But he's got skills. He actually thinks. It's very refreshing.

Oh God

[zephyr]

What I'm trying to understand, based on all information available to date, is why A&M should destroy us. Is it your assertion that Nichols has a more talented squad overall than the Cajuns or is there something else in the mix?

There a few factors that go into why they "will" destroy. First off, the word destroy is subjective. Are you going my prediction that we will get beat by 30? If so, I can lay out a few reasons why I feel they will.

First, our defense is giving up an average of 57 points per game. While the aggies are a bit of a dumpster fire themselves, they will still have a talent edge everywhere and are playing at home. Second, the LOS. They operate well when they are running the football. We are certainly one of the worst rush defenses in the entire country. Add to that statistic our scheme which has for what ever reason continued to run 3 man fronts as well as some 4-2-5 schemes in recent games, these formations are not going to stop anybody's run game consistently, especially a team that is pretty darned good at it.

I would assume that Nicholls realized that the Aggies are struggling at QB and pressured the line a bit. Maybe they have the personnel to play single coverage and really stuffed the box. I hope so because this is the strategy I think you need to limit them offensively. Their freshman QB could NOT make the throws needed when he came in for the injured starter in the UCLA game. We should attack the line and make him beat us. I don't have enough faith that we will do this and thus, I think we are going to give up lots of yards and points once again.

Lastly, I think the offense will move the ball from time to time but not sure how consistent enough needed to really pose a threat to win. They will have to score a lot to beat the Aggies and while they lost to UCLA and gave up 35 points in the last quarter +, they also controlled the UCLA game for 3+ quarters and beat the hell out of Rosen who is now all of a sudden a Heisman candidate. That was a tale of two games really. Their DL was absolutely mauling the UCLA OL all game and they were quite impressive to be honest until they changed their entire defensive philosophy later in the game to shorten it.

[Ragin4U]

There a few factors that go into why they "will" destroy. First off, the word destroy is subjective. Are you going my prediction that we will get beat by 30? If so, I can lay out a few reasons why I feel they will.

First, our defense is giving up an average of 57 points per game. While the aggies are a bit of a dumpster fire themselves, they will still have a talent edge everywhere and are playing at home. Second, the LOS. They operate well when they are running the football. We are certainly one of the worst rush defenses in the entire country. Add to that statistic our scheme which has for what ever reason continued to run 3 man fronts as well as some 4-2-5 schemes in recent games, these formations are not going to stop anybody's run game consistently, especially a team that is pretty darned good at it.

I would assume that Nicholls realized that the Aggies are struggling at QB and pressured the line a bit. Maybe they have the personnel to play single coverage and really stuffed the box. I hope so because this is the strategy I think you need to limit them offensively. Their freshman QB could NOT make the throws needed when he came in for the injured starter in the UCLA game. We should attack the line and make him beat us. I don't have enough faith that we will do this and thus, I think we are going to give up lots of yards and points once again.

Lastly, I think the offense will move the ball from time to time but not sure how consistent enough needed to really pose a threat to win. They will have to score a lot to beat the Aggies and while they lost to UCLA and gave up 35 points in the last quarter +, they also controlled the UCLA game for 3+ quarters and beat the hell out of Rosen who is now all of a sudden a Heisman candidate. That was a tale of two games really. Their DL was absolutely mauling the UCLA OL all game and they were quite impressive to be honest until they changed their entire defensive philosophy later in the game to shorten it.

Great analysis. Their offensive strength is our biggest weakness. They have run the ball well, our play against the run, well ...
They looked like contenders for 3 quarters against UCLA and then poof. I don't think that team ceased to exist. I'm jsut hoping the Cajuns can take advantage of them tomorrow.

[Cajunfanatico]

There a few factors that go into why they "will" destroy. First off, the word destroy is subjective. Are you going my prediction that we will get beat by 30? If so, I can lay out a few reasons why I feel they will.

First, our defense is giving up an average of 57 points per game. While the aggies are a bit of a dumpster fire themselves, they will still have a talent edge everywhere and are playing at home. Second, the LOS. They operate well when they are running the football. We are certainly one of the worst rush defenses in the entire country. Add to that statistic our scheme which has for what ever reason continued to run 3 man fronts as well as some 4-2-5 schemes in recent games, these formations are not going to stop anybody's run game consistently, especially a team that is pretty darned good at it.

I would assume that Nicholls realized that the Aggies are struggling at QB and pressured the line a bit. Maybe they have the personnel to play single coverage and really stuffed the box. I hope so because this is the strategy I think you need to limit them offensively. Their freshman QB could NOT make the throws needed when he came in for the injured starter in the UCLA game. We should attack the line and make him beat us. I don't have enough faith that we will do this and thus, I think we are going to give up lots of yards and points once again.

Lastly, I think the offense will move the ball from time to time but not sure how consistent enough needed to really pose a threat to win. They will have to score a lot to beat the Aggies and while they lost to UCLA and gave up 35 points in the last quarter +, they also controlled the UCLA game for 3+ quarters and beat the hell out of Rosen who is now all of a sudden a Heisman candidate. That was a tale of two games really. Their DL was absolutely mauling the UCLA OL all game and they were quite impressive to be honest until they changed their entire defensive philosophy later in the game to shorten it.

Thanks for the lengthy response. I was hoping someone would lay out how they'd beat us by 30 or so when they struggled with Nichols for virtually the entire game. I'm still expecting us to go in there and steal a win.

[Just1More]

Thanks for the lengthy response. I was hoping someone would lay out how they'd beat us by 30 or so when they struggled with Nichols for virtually the entire game. I'm still expecting us to go in there and steal a win.

The Aggies will have to implode for us to win. They're vulnerable... but Hud is not the kind of coach that seeks out the jugular and cuts it. He taps you. You tap him. He taps you. You tap him. Once he taps you with his guy's taps... and you tap him with your guy's taps... he looks at the scoreboard to see who won. Aggies will tap us harder... even though they're as vulnerable as ever we could hope.