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Official Buffs vs. UCLA Score Prediction Thread
- Thread starter Duff Man
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You're a ****ing twat. Trust me.
OSU isn't as good as their reputation, however, they still beat the Nubs.
8Jah
Well-Known Member
Can we take this game as another bye-week data point. You could pretty much see it coming. Hopefully next year we can change our approach to the week off.
Well Mac has been here for 4 years and this is only his 2nd bye week so...
Yep. As Usual.
Now your crap team gets to get railroaded by a pissed off OSU team. Enjoy.
8Jah
Well-Known Member
one is an anecdote, two is a story, three is a trend...
...but you can see it with your eyeballs. Sloppy play, loss of concentration...just out of character team.
So the only other data point is from week 4 of the 2013 season. Our bye week was week 3 and we went on the road to OSU that was 3-1 at the time we played. I get that it is something that needs to be examined, however I don't buy the narrative yet that Mac can't coach through a bye week.
8Jah
Well-Known Member
We've had three bye weeks since HCMM to my reckoning. OSU in 2013 and USC in 2014 and last night. In each of them we have come out rusty and less disciplined than normal. If you look at the USC game in '14 we completely blew the first quarter. If you take away the first quarter of that game we would have gone into OT with them.
Not how it works. Come on.
8Jah
Well-Known Member
point was we came out of the bye very rusty that year and it took us a quarter to get our edge back. It wasn't like Under Stanford Control starting subbing.
I kind of remember USC's staff taking a lot of heat that year because they had a trend of struggling in the final three quarters in games against an opponent coming off a bye week, for what it's worth.
I got your point, you just are not articulating it well. Bringing up 2013 is essentially worthless and not sure a road game at USC in 2014 is very useful either.
8Jah
Well-Known Member
I guess you can accept or not accept the thesis of a bye causing poor performances in the past. Regardless, do you think that we looked a little rusty and undisciplined coming out of the bye last night? Was it just happenstance this stuff occurred after our bye?
Both offenses looked out of sync after the bye week while both defenses looked refreshed.
I do agree that MacIntyre, Lindgren and Chiaverini need to look into his bye week offensive prep strategy. Find some coaches to talk to who had a great track record on that.
CU defense played at an elite level last night and CU's offense struggled with UCLA.
Still the 10pt loss represents their largest margin of defeat on the season. The game wouldn't have been close if it wasn't for all the damn penalties.
and blocked and missed FG
I think the bye week definitely had an effect on the team. But again, it may just be a one-time thing or it may be something to watch, especially considering we will be playing in a bowl game after a long layoff.
Your examples from 2013 and 2014 just do not take into account any context surrounding those performances. Oregon State in 2013 was an exceptional circumstance where the team did not play for three weeks due to the Fresno game being cancelled due to the flood. Considering MM had coached a total of two games at CU prior to that game, is that really a reliable data point to use? As far as the USC game in 2014, that was not the only game we started slowly in during that season. There were three other conference games where we were both down double digits and held scoreless in the first quarter. So it seems like that is the trend to look at from that season, not necessarily that the USC performance came after a bye week.
Is this your longest post to date?
Heh. I used to have much longer posts when we were especially ****ty.
