UCats to be offensive again?…
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Well, last year they were suppose to struggle!…Instead, they blew away the league competition and earned their beloved (and somewhat Fat-Guy) Coach a FATASS gig with the Gold Domers in South Bend! (Yeah!,..BOOO!) In short, they were fantastic on the offensive side of the ball. Defensively?…well, they were Big(L)East good, but against that often hated and disputed SEC speed?…Not so good!
BUT HEY!…The offense is entertaining, right?….and it should be once again; at least potentially! Led by (you’d think at this point anyway) Zach Collaros who was brilliant in support of Tony Pike at QB, and what could be just a SICK stable of wr’s. This team SHOULD explode for points! Collaros brings the TEBOW-element to the ‘Cats offense, an “option” not found there last year. He will mix that in with a HEAVILY talented “wr” corp led by (you’d hope) Vidal Hazelton(5*) and Kenbrell Thompkins(4*). Two wr’s who flirted with the idea of becoming Gators (among others) during their recruiting process. Hazelton was Scout’s #3 rated (overall) player, and rivals’ #7 back in 2006. Yes, that magical year produced some incredible talent; Tim Tebow (#21/#22) and “Oh Mercy”!…”it’s Percy!” (#13/#1) who went on to become the NFL Rookie of the Year and a Pro Bowler!..The 2006 class also included; Andre Smith, Bean’er Wells, Gerald McCoy, Sergio Kindle, Matt Stafford, CJ Spiller, Myron Rolle, Brandon Spikes, Taylor Mays, Micah Johnson (UK), and Knowshon Moreno, among others! What a great freakin’ class! Vidal was right there in the middle of it, in fact he was the center-piece of the USC class that year! HE was THEIR Percy Harvin!….only,..well…you know.
Mr Hazelton was a gifted athlete who did it all. He BLOCKED (so he’s not a Chud DUD), he ran great routes and he had great hands. His only concern was a slight dip in top end speed…..Enter Kenbrell Thompkins! This kid will cover the speed part of the equation pretty well. 4.4 speed, great size (6’3″) and he too was coveted by ALL the big boys a couple years ago. Before UC recently landed him, LoSerU was all over his jock! Grades derailed his initial attempt at DIV I, but he’s done his JUCO time and is IN CLASS now at UC (and participating in Spring Work). Now, toss in the returning WR’s who were running along side Mardy Gilyard last year, (DJ Woods and Armon Binns) and WOW!, you see MANY-MANY TD’s in their future! –RB Isaiah Pead, and TE’s Travis Kelce and Ben-Ben Guidugli will round out the “skill” postion pretty nicely! The O-Line (as it is with most teams) will need to hold up their end, but they were mostly no-names last year too!
Sure, it was a beat down in the Sugar Bowl, but every team has taken at least one of those on the way to the top. Hey, those same Gators got “FRAZIER’ED” in the 1995 Natty Title game before they rebounded and won it all the following year! (Tommie Frazier, Lawrence Phillips AND Ahman Green in the same backfield?…) Maybe that’s a little ambitious considering the ‘Cats blow on defense, but hey,…we’ve seen good things happen here before, right?!!??! -AND!,…AND, UC doesn’t have Mikey Brown in charge!…heh?…heh??….yes, 2010 will be a FINE year (again) for the UCats!
Take away from it?…A great season!
12-1 sucks, dont it?…Yeah, it sucked for the Gator fans too! They/we were pizzed off, after the ‘Bammer game. They thought they’d be playing next week, on Thursday! That didn’t happen, though, because they screwed the pooch in the SEC Championship game. Alabama had things working, and outplayed Florida. Now BAMMER gets the big date with the “Steers”, and a shot at the big brass ring.
Florida got to play one more game before it would be “over”…and ANY BCS Bowl game is an honor and a big deal; Win or lose. UC had a great year, no shame in going 12-1,….No shame in winning a (BCS) Div One Crown!….No shame in igniting a city’s passion for Football;- in a town void of “good” Sport for so long. No shame in putting the city on the Football map, and placing two great players (and super individuals) into the NFL Draft board! (at least)
In 1995, Florida went 12-0 through te regular season, and earned a game with the Corndogs from Nebraska!….They led after the first quarter, but ended up getting pummeled by perhaps the greatest College Football team of all time….at least some can argue they were! Florida responded by winning the National Title the following year. Steve Spurrier wasn’t the Coach bringing in 5-star recruits with much regularity. He took his “kind” of players, and made they play his brand of Football. Kinda like what Brian Kelly was doing here. UCincinnati can use this season as a springboard, to continue this success. The loss last night might have looked bad, or felt bad, but its part of the growth. The city showed they will support this, and the love is everywhere. I went to 8 different places today, and was cursed out in everyone!….That’s some good Bearcat support there, folks!
Team STATISTICS:
First downs — Florida 28, Cincinnati — 19
Rushes-yards — Florida 34-177, Cincinnati — 23-76
Passing — Florida 482, Cincinnati — 170
Comp-Att-Int — Florida 31-36-0, Cincinnati — 27-45-0
Return Yards — Florida 10, Cincinnati — 0
Punts-Avg. — Florida 1-44.0, Cincinnati — 6-42.2
Fumbles-Lost — Florida 0-0, Cincinnati — 1-0
Penalties-Yards — Florida 12-90, Cincinnati — 3-40
Time of Possession — Florida 32:20, Cincinnati — 27:40
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
Florida:Gillislee 5-78, Tebow 14-51, Rainey 4-27, Moody 8-14, Demps 3-7.
Cincinnati:Pead 7-48, T.Kelce 1-19, Ramsey 6-18, Goebel 1-8, D.Williams 1-(minus 5), T.Pike 7-(minus 12).
PASSING
Florida:Tebow 31-35-0-482, Team 0-1-0-0.
Cincinnati: T.Pike 27-45-0-170.
RECEIVING
Florida:Hernandez 9-111, Cooper 7-181, Thompson 5-63, Rainey 4-71, Moody 4-19, Nelson 2-37.
Cincinnati:Gilyard 7-41, Binns 5-29, Guidugli 5-22, Woods 4-46, Ramsey 2-16, Pead 1-7, Alli 1-6, Waugh 1-2, Goebel 1-1.
Its the Butch Jones Show now….boooo!
UC lays an egg! They failed to sway Jeff Quinn into staying…meaning, he must either KNOW something, or he REALLY likes Notre Dame green too!
THIS is not the best hire! Jeff Quinn must have said in no un-mixed words, that he was going to So Bend with Kelly. No other reason you take this Butch dude. Nope!..Not one bit happy about this and I cant think recruiting will improve as a result, either. It just looks like some one is trying to make Cent Michy out to be some kind of Modern Day Coaching factory. Brian Kelly had it, but hittin’ up the well again?..Same team, by the same team?
GOOD LUCK BUTCH!…I hold out hope you do good things here, but I cant think this is a better bet than Quinn would have been. Even had Quinn declined, look at some other big name programs a little and get a name recruits can relate to!
Better enjoy this Sugar Bowl, UC’ers, its gonna get a WHOLE lot tUFfer here forward!….dang Notre Dame and their sack of gold coins!
Turner Gill will NOT be the next UC Head Coach….
No, he sure wont be, here at UC. WHY?…well, probably the biggest reason is he can return to the BIG12. Turner Gill was a fablulous player at Nebraska, of course, and tooled under some impressive Coaches during his post-playing days. He would have been a nice fit here too. His offense is a little different, but I think he’d have been a better fit than Skippy will/would. (Skip Holtz). Anyone who’s father does a spot on ESPN as DUMB as Lispin’ Lou Holtz, will never get an endorsement here!…..He can become the next Urban Meyer, and he’ll still be the dude who’s lispin’ Dad did that dumbass skit on ESPN! To be fair, I should cut ESPN in on 1/2 the blame,…so, I do.
…..What they tell you you’ll get, and what you ACTUALLY get. See any difference?….
So, Turner Gill is off the list, and Skippy is still available!…(yuh-wah, What a surprise, huh?) Will Kansas be better off at this time next year, than UC will? Probably not!…but my guess suggests that by 2011, Gill has made strides, while Skippy will lead UC back to the middle of the pack in the Big Least. I sure hope UC Skips, on Holtz!…
Think the mighty (Jeff) QUINN, instead!
UC will be fine, but ND will still suck
Gilyard handled the news just fine, and why shouldn’t he?…He’s been a great leader for this team, and they will be fine going forward. There are a number of solid coaching prospects, and they’d be lucky to inherit a 12-0 team!
Skip Holtz: The East Carolina coach since 2005, Holtz just won his second-straight Conference USA championship. After being linked last year with the Syracuse head coaching job, Holtz was quoted as saying “it would have to be a really special situation to get me out of here.” East Carolina plays Arkansas in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl on Jan. 2.
Pitt cant stop final WVU drive…
…thus taking a bit of the shine off next weeks game between UCincy and those disappointing Panthers. Pitt QB Bill Stull was a mediocre flop today, and the result is a loss for the Bearcats.
The WVU Mountaineers defeated the Pitt Panthers 19-16 in a game that will send Pitt OUT of the top 10, and tarnish what will be a Bodacious Bearcat Beatdown next weekend. Tony Pike and the boys sunk Zookers Illini as Pike fired 6 TD passes, and probably earned Brian Kelly another bonus tier with the Notre Dame Athletic Director.
All that needs to happen, is either F$U to trip up Tebow and the Gators in Tim’s final home game tomorrow, and/or for Nebraska to play out their asses and dump the 2009 Heisman winner Colt McCoy and his Longsteers on their asses. Sure, long shots, but how jacked up will F$U be to pull of their 1/2 of the formula? Beat Teeb’s in his last home game, last regular season game, and thump his chance of playing out his career in yet another BCS Title game!??!?! The motivation will NOT be in short supply tomorrow in G’ville! (CBS 3:30pm, for those who don’t know)
TCU gets New Mexico, or New Mexico A&M Tech State?; The only chance of an upset there is if The Texans show up in the Lobo’s place…..Everyone who blew Utah’s horn last year is in LOVE with the Horned ones this year, naturally! Anything to deflect! After all, they beat Clemson and Virginia this year!
There is hope, but its fading unless a few things happen. I for one, was very impressed (again!) with the UCats today, and Mr Pike’s great home finale! If they don’t get to play for the Nat Title, then I hope they get Jawja Tech or those (now) beloved Horned Frogs/Boise State Broncos. I also hope Kelly has the decency to divert attention away from his job status to NOT let it interfere with the prep work going into Bowl season. Can you imagine if Urban and Kelly both decline the job? Then its a race for J Hairball and Gary Patterson. THEN!,..man, if THEY turn it down as well?….Big Butt might just get to keep his job, to help ND save face!…..but, naaahhh, one of those guys will up and take it…..just hope its Hairy or G-Pat.
UCats fans,..is the party over?
Brian Kelly has done a very admirable job in Cincinnati since he arrived, and started talking about playing for the National Title!…Few outside Cincy noted what he was saying, and, even IN town few figured he was sane or even sober! (noticed how I skipped any reference to Chokin’ Huggins…). THEN!…he delivered! An Orange Bowl birth last year, and now this incredible run with a team the was suppose to be rebuilding! “Rebuilding” is an odd word to use when talking about UCincinnati Football, but that’s permitted after the Big East crown in 2008.
Kelly’s terrific job in town here, spells big trouble for all the “new” UC fans though, thanks to that big hunk of sh.t Charlie Weis and his uncanny inability to produce wins in South Bend! Even with a comically weak schedule, the “Round mound of Crap” can’t win enUFf games (or, ANY BIG GAMES) to keep his job despite an 18 million dollar buyout clause!….Really, how bad do you need to be if the idiots who over-paid you are also gonna over-pay to just F*CKIN’ LEAVE!!! To LEAVE!!,…he’ll get 18 million, after splooging some 4 million+ a year for SUCKING ASS!?!?!…..Sure, from a “Hey but he’s getting 18 million on top of what he’s already robbed from the University” stand-point, its a great thing! Sure, he duped the living sh.t out of that idiot who writes checks for school employees,..but then so did THIS kinda dumb bitch. Charlie has obvioulsy smoked her in this category, but I already mentioned that.
So, Notre Dame is going to pony up and send Fat Ass packing, with an 18 million dollar golden parachute…still hard to believe, but, they are! Now, here’s the UC interesting part; THE man they are going to go after REALLY REALLY hard is your good pal, Brian Kelly. Says WHO?…Says THESE GUYS! So, does he take the cash and replace the (fat) ASH?…probably! Will UC Football perish?….yeah, probably (again!)…..so, you have TWO choices, UCat fans,….Become Irish fans for at least the last 3 games if the regular season, or pony up 2.5 mil a year and keep Kelly in Ucat riches! Well, I guess you could also hope to hell that John Gruden wants the job in South Bend…hhmmm, this here says NO
Hey, don’t get mad at the messenger, as a Gator fan I’ve been going thru this every year Tubby-ass has BEEN in South Bend! That load of shit has just kept on Failing! Heck, they might still go after Urbs, but they’re gonna like Kelly’s offense (not a spread) much “more gooder” than Meyer’s. ME?..I’m gonna hope he loses AND they keep him, figuring 18 MILLION DOLLARS is just too much damn money to hand a failure as he leaves!…..I’d hope they’d be more interested in losing and making him pace the sidelines, then follow that up with pressers where he makes a complete ass of himself, than they are in making a change…you know, get your money’s worth!
UC falls to #8 in BCS Poll????
This’ll tick off some locals!….and maybe it should. I can’t get over USC being allowed to lose to HORRIBLE teams year after year, and still getting the highest ranking a one loss team can get! Washington?….Losing to Washington should discount them down to a 2 loss team. SURE,..the National Championship game in IN the Rose Bowl this year, and ooooh how nice that would be???….but WASHINGTON?….whew! The also (only) beat Oregon State by 6 points!?!?….UC thumped ‘em!
BCS Standings
Then there’s the IOWA love…which to a degree is valid, but a 4th and goal TD pass with no time left to beat Michy State?..If Florida or Alabama had done that, they’d have been blasted…..yet for Iowa?…They’re treated like Royalty for a BUNCH of really ugly wins, and one strong win at PSU. LOOK . They beat Northern Iowa by one?,..and beat Arky State by 3?……Florida beat REGULAR Arky by three and were beat down for it! I understand the love, to a point, but the hate for some teams and the global love for “anyone else” is a bit over the top. Particularly when you use a double standard like that.
Alabama Tennessee….THAT was a finish there!….UCLA beat those Kiffin’s? Hhhmm, maybe they were a little too pre-occupied with their next game to give UCLA the respect they should have given them???? Does that mean Meyer is responsible for 2 of Kif’s losses this year?
Kryin’ Kelly?..where’s your loathing haze of Brian Kelly?
Where’s the OUTRAGE?!?!?!…Where are the violins?…Where’s the rage that a Head Coach of a team is “politicking” for his team to the College Football World? Short memories? If THIS isn’t the “full monty” in/of his plea, its certainly the first chapter. It may not (yet) have taken on the grand scope of some of the others before him, but its there to read! Its also clearly the begining of MORE to come!
Seems the World was all afire in 2006 when Urban Meyer was asked (in December, mind you) if he thought his team deserved to be in the BCS Championship Game, against tOSU….the fan reaction in much of the country, including THIS AREA, was that Mr Meyer was guilty of politicking, so to speak. Some fans even termed him Urban “Cryer” (Meyer), for his “sins”. By the time his team packed up and left Arizona, following his 41-14 win, the name was his forever. HE was right!…and those who gave him his nickname, were dead-ass wrong! Didn’t matter! Since then, other fans who probably don’t even follow the game all that much, picked up on the cool nickname, just out of spite/hate!
Fast forward to October 18th, 2009 and we now have another in the LONG and distinguished line of front men talking positive about their team; this time it strikes in Cincinnati, OHIO. Yes, Mr Brian Kryer Kelly has thrown his whistle into the ring. So, where is the public outcry here, or negative chatter??…oooooohhhh, right, hypocrites -almost forgot!! Sure, what else can it be?….Kelly is just talking about his team!, right?….and Meyer wasn’t?…..Well, that is,..Meyer, and the 45 other that have answered that question in the same manner, over the last 20+ years…??
I’m here to say, I AM A FAN of Mr Kelly (and Mardy Gilyard, for that matter), and I’m NOT calling for his head over this opinion (just as I didn’t with Urbs). Its valid, in my opinon. Perhaps in just the same manner Urbs was back in ’06. Not ALL of the Cocaches who “blindly promote” have had merit though;..Marshall, Tulane, ECU, TCU, K-State, to name just a few. I do have to say, in Meyers’ case, when HE was asked (and responded), it was AFTER he’d finished his season. Not thru 1/2 of it, as some of the others have done. I hope Texas ends up losing and the Gators can muster enUFf offense up to get past the rest of the teams on their schedule!…Thus opening up the VERY good possibility of a UF/UC BCS Title Game! Of course Machine will cry about poor ol’Boise State not getting the nod, but I’ll get over that pretty easy. (11 games vs teams ranked higher than 67?…and 3 ranked OVER 100?..yeah, not really too much to get moved about there….hell, Idado is 6-0 right now….you know where they’re ranked right now?…exactly!) Oh, and get ready for other fans who couldn’t SPELL Brian Kelly 3 weeks ago, to alla sudden have a great problem with him (politicking, runnning up the score, and my fav -”Lying to recruits”…how some nuts KNOW this, is odd, but they do it!). Its part of it, apparently…why?…pppfffttt, who knows? Hate seems to flow heavy towards those who win!
UC NEWS:
PIKE MIGHT PLAY vs LOUISVILLE
The RUNNING of the BULLS!
Cats roll USF in PRIME TIME!..LOOK ready to take it up a notch! Brian Kelly, YOU DA MAN!!! 34-17
