Portland State at Cal Poly

[SuperHornet]

The last time I tried that with someone, they immediately crapped out, and are nowhere in sight now, Jon. Do I really wanna take that chance?

[CPAlum]

Middle?

Cal Poly is a top 5-10 team.

There's a logjam in front of them. And THIS performance isn't going to help....

All Cal Poly does is find ways to win. Portland State brought their A game and Cal Poly still found a way to win. If that hurts them in the polls so be it. I look forward to seeing Cal Poly in the playoffs.

[JALMOND]

My take on this game is simple---

Walsh has not varied his coaching much since he left PSU. I thought I was watching a highlight reel of PSU back in the late 1990's and early 2000's with Dunn and Fuqua and Rubin running and running and running. The Mustangs run and run hard at you. The way to beat them is win the time of possession, otherwise you will be hurt and tired with another quarter of that to go. If you win the time of possession, you are fresher in the fourth than if you spent most of the first three getting pounded like that. The Mustangs are not overrated at all, they are that good.

[dbackjon]

The last time I tried that with someone, they immediately crapped out, and are nowhere in sight now, Jon. Do I really wanna take that chance?

So you are going to base your poll out of fear?

[oceanvue]

My take on this game is simple---

Walsh has not varied his coaching much since he left PSU. I thought I was watching a highlight reel of PSU back in the late 1990's and early 2000's with Dunn and Fuqua and Rubin running and running and running. The Mustangs run and run hard at you. The way to beat them is win the time of possession, otherwise you will be hurt and tired with another quarter of that to go. If you win the time of possession, you are fresher in the fourth than if you spent most of the first three getting pounded like that. The Mustangs are not overrated at all, they are that good.

yea, he runs the triple option that's why he was there. The service academies pretty much have to because of size restrictions on recruits do to service protocol.

[Mvemjsunpx]

My take on this game is simple---

Walsh has not varied his coaching much since he left PSU. I thought I was watching a highlight reel of PSU back in the late 1990's and early 2000's with Dunn and Fuqua and Rubin running and running and running. The Mustangs run and run hard at you. The way to beat them is win the time of possession, otherwise you will be hurt and tired with another quarter of that to go. If you win the time of possession, you are fresher in the fourth than if you spent most of the first three getting pounded like that. The Mustangs are not overrated at all, they are that good.

yea, he runs the triple option that's why he was there. The service academies pretty much have to because of size restrictions on recruits do to service protocol.

He didn't run the triple option at PSU, though. They ran more of a run-first west coast attack.

Walsh apparently still likes to pound the opposition into oblivion, though. Fortunately the Griz have had good run defenses the vast majority of the time, so they were able to prevent the Viks from doing that most of the time while Walsh was there.