The 2012 College Football thread!!!

[HilbillyHomeboy]

Good ol' RichRod...to hell with everything about that guy. I hope he fails so hard at Arizona, which is a pretty safe bet considering he's already made the excuse for the next two seasons.

“I’ll know we’ve arrived when we can play poorly and win,” Rodriguez says. “Right now, we’re not good enough to play poorly and win any of our games. We’re not going to be there this year. We won’t be there next year, as well.”

[AdamVR4]

I can't wait for the first game of the season. But knowing its against Alabama(thanks Rich Rod ) I just pray we don't get totally blown out.

From what little I've read about 'Bama, this is a bit of a reloading year for them and they're likely to stumble a few times. I've also seen that they have 3, 1st or 2nd team pre-season all Americans on the offensive line... So I hope Michigan has some depth on the defensive line.

[Alan92RTTT]

Rich Rod left us paper for D. Brady has been doing what he can to fix that but he's got a way to go. IIRC most of our D is 1st and 2nd year players.

[HilbillyHomeboy]

That's the RR way...who cares about defense? Seems he may have started to figure that one out, since he grabbed our defensive staff(for the record, he wanted them to go to UofM also). Those guys were long time Mountaineers, but I gots no love for them now. Hell, they even took pay cuts to follow the fraud...idiots.

Jeremy

[stealthee]

J I haven't even been paying attention. What base Defense are the Eers going to run this year?

[AdamVR4]

The Longhorn Network is killing me. I mean, I love the damn thing... I watched an hour of HD practice coverage last night via a secret youtube channel and will do the same tonight... But man, the first 2 games are on the damn LHN and none of the major cable providers have agreed to ESPN's overly aggressive pricing. So I called my ticket guy (always has killer seats at relatively reasonable prices) and I'm looking at spending $100++ per ticket to at least the first game (vs Wyoming). I found shitty online streams to watch the 2 LHN games last season, but that was horrible.

[Mikes2nd]

im sure espn is charging an insane amount for just two texas games...

We were able to go the bars and watch the game for the beginning of the big 10... But the big 10 was 10 teams joke games... alot of people wanted to see those week after week so the cable guys caved in finally.

The bars were packed for the first 3 weeks, that was pretty out of hand and fun actually.

[IronmanTT]

BIG 12 should be very entertaining to watch this year as well as seeing TX AM get their asses handed to them in the SEC should be entertaining as well..

[HilbillyHomeboy]

J I haven't even been paying attention. What base Defense are the Eers going to run this year?

The base set is a 3-4, but we can switch to a 4-3 instantly. There's some hybrid LB positions as well. The secondary has much more freedom in this new D, and the players say they understand this defense better than the stack. There will be lots of disguised formations...and blitzing, FINALLY! From everything I've read (a lot), I'm confident our defense will be at least 'good'.

Can not wait to destroy Marshall. This will be the 1st game in 3 years that Doc doesn't know shit about our offense or defense. I anticipate an Orange Bowl type score.

Jeremy

[AdamVR4]

The base set is a 3-4, but we can switch to a 4-3 instantly. There's some hybrid LB positions as well. The secondary has much more freedom in this new D, and the players say they understand this defense better than the stack. There will be lots of disguised formations...and blitzing, FINALLY! From everything I've read (a lot), I'm confident our defense will be at least 'good'.

I haven't read this yet, but I'm sure it's good: 2012 West Virginia Football Preview: Mountaineer State of The Union - Barking Carnival