Somebody wanted a take on Willamette and oxy.  I saw both games so here is an old lineman's view. 
Offense:

I have no idea how well Willamette will hold onto the ball in a monsoon so comparing offenses is a toss up.  If I remember right Willamette ground it out and took up a lot of time while CLU did the run and gun that game.

The Willamette o line is big.  They owned the line of scrimmage and wore down the 3-4 d line of CLU.  They will give the front seven of oxy a run for their money.  Maybe play more a 4-3 and rotate your front d line to give them some air.

Oxy o line is strong as a unit, but not as big as Willamette (got away with a few uncalled holding penalties in last weeks game with clu but the refs did a good job of letting them play, which is why there were no penalties called on clu for hitting the QB late, I think, but who knows the reasoning of a ref?)  They did not let mistakes  affect them they flat out owned the CLU front seven.  They had a nice line surge and drove the ball and took advantage of field position provided by the oxy punter.  I am in retrospect, impressed with oxy's resilience

CLU could drive the ball on Willamette.  If that's because it's easier to run and gun without a wet ball, so be it.

CLU could not drive the ball on oxy and gave up six sacks.  I have never seen such clean pants on offensive lineman in rainy day game (all freshman line?)  So, mmm lots of technique and desire to hit someone on the second level (anyone) to work on boys!  Too much standing around a pile or watching your man make a tackle. IMO

It's hard to make a call on the defenses as the weather played a factor.  I am going to say Willamette by a bit just because they beat CLU without weather hindering either team

Special teams is were Oxy shines over Willamette.  Punting is excellent, KO coverage excellent.

So in short, It's a toss up except for oxy's special teams.

I really enjoyed the Oxy CLU game.  I have never seen two safety's in one game.  I got to watch the game with my dad who is a tiger from the 64 team, Dave Milam if any of you older tigers know him; he played DE and half back for Jim Mora.  We sat in the rain and elbowed each other all game long as both teams chased a wet ball.  I thought the field goal kick was good, I really wanted it to be good cause after the game I had to pay up.

I got to buy pops a big fat victory steak at Bandits . . .  a tri tip, wine and a smile.
It's ok, he bought me a victory steak last year.

Congrats to Redlands on a well earned victory. 

Here is some humble pie, my take on today's game.

Relentless pressure from the front seven carried the day for the Redland's defense.
Causing turnovers creates scoring opportunities which after making second half adjustments, Redlands Defense did to great effect.   Constant pressure on the qb led to interceptions and points scored by the Redlands defense.

The Cal Lutheran QB was so harried and rushed in the second half that poor choices were made. Interceptions, fumbles.  Poor offensive line play by cal Lutheran, specifically crappy pass blocking led to even greater mistakes and miscues by the offense as a whole.  The qb lost his poise and got knocked around a lot.  You could see the team had lost momentum in the second half.

Cal lu's best plays were short passing plays, mismatches in coverage of wr's being covered by LB's and their kicking game.   


Cal Lutheran's defense did ok considering the short field they were often handed by offensive miscues.  The D created turnovers of their own after making 2nd half adjustments to the Redlands power running game.   However, CLU stayed with a pass defense while Redlands O ran the power I right down the middle more or less at will.

Special team's miscues by Redlands did give some opportunities to CLU that they were unable to capitalize on

Bottom line  Redlands deserved the victory as they took away the cal lu run game and harried the qb into making mistakes while limiting their miscues.   That and the Redlands run game was dominant.   

Pretty much the wheels came off the clu wagon in the second half.

it was a class act to take a knee and let the time run out. 
So hats off to Redlands!

I would take A.

Cal lu wins, Oxy wins and  Redlands sits.

and C   Oxy goes in pool C



and D  Cal lu faces Oxy later in the playoffs.       Maybe first round.

Either way what a great opportunity for all three teams. 


Go kingsmen!!!

"No, no, don't do that. Don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad."
-Blazing Saddles


Mongo like football, English wat is dat?

any Lu heads want to tailgate before the pomona game this week?

My apologies for the poorly placed apostrophes', me no English major.   

My point was that cal Lu has knocked Redlands off before.  Don't overlook the Kingsmen.

As for scholarship players on that team in 91, there were five or six.  Two offensive linemen, one LB, a wr and an Rb.  None of us had a full ride or even as much as a half scholarship.  (Scholarships had been frozen in 1990 and not increased after the decision to join the sciac.)

so did having scholarship players make a difference?  Maybe but we also lost to la Verne that year!

Those were dark years for the football program after Cal Lu decided to go to sciac and coach shoup and his blue, magic slippers exited stage right.  It was hard to recruit, players left.  I wish we had Tommy bonds or any quarterback at all.  During those transition years we got beat like a drum.  Coach Harper did great with what we had.

Beating Redlands the last game of season in 91 was a ray of sunshine though.

I look forward to seeing you all in Thousand Oaks in two weeks!!


GO KINGSMEN!!!

Hi,  I'm the new kid and CLU Fan.   


I would like to remind RFB that Cal lutheran has played spoiler for redlands in the past.  In 1991 the kingsmen beat the bulldogs at lovely mt. clef stadium, last game of the season, knocking them out of the play off's. 

right now it's time to focus on pomona.

Go Kingsmen!!!


PS.  Despite the dropped balls by the tiger wrs It was anybodys game on sat. until oxy fumbled that punt on the fifteen yard line.  To me that was the nail in the coffin.