Okay, I’ve been way overdue to post. In fact its been so long it took me a while to figure out how. But in case you are wondering I am writing this in the lounge at Hill’s Resort on beautiful Priest Lake Idaho. There is a red beer right next to me and it is going to be responsible all the stupidly obvious stuff I’m about to say.
As far as Cougar football goes this year, like everyone else, kicking is my worst fear. Until recently I didn’t realize that long snapping was an issue too. Scarey! Last year there was 5 games that the Cougs were in it within 4 points. My first thoughts for this year were that we will have improved enough, returned enough key players and found an ample replacement for Harrison to take at least 4 of those 5 close games this year. With the kicking game the way it is right now, I’m holding off on claiming the Cougs go 8-4.
My other major concern for the season is Greg Trent. Sure the guy was an animal against the run last year picking up a big number of tackles on a minimal number of starts. However, hopefully someone has taught him to read the pass a little better, particulary picking up the tight end across the middle. His name escapes me now, and albiet he is a stud, UCLA’s tight end single handedly won the game for them last year by catching an ungodly number of balls right behind Trent. Nothing against him, he was a freshman and filling some BIG shoes, so hopefully that has been worked on in the palouse last spring and these last few weeks.
If the Cougs take care of these 2 problems, I think 8-4 is very attainable. Regardless, the offense is going to be fun to watch this year and has enough depth to spend time on the field if the defense starts getting beat up. What the heck, I’ll say it, Cougs are going 8-4. They will lose to Auburn (close game similar to the Ohio State game), ASU, USC and UCLA. It’s hard for me to say they will lose to UCLA but its away and they might be beat up by then. I went to the Cal game last year and I thought they were over-rated and I don’t see why they aren’t even more over-rated this year.
No matter what, it is going to be a wild ride this season and we are going to get to see there potential on game one because I don’t imagine there will be any Cougs not up for that game.
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