FB: Northwest Conference

[Gig Harbor Cat]

   Just rolled in from my GHC exec offices here in the harbor--  another high stress day in Corporate America fellas.  The commute home to the single wide was horrible.  Time for a cold one with my pal Mojo, Wed night is Springer rerun night at the ole single wide so get ready to rock !! 8)
   Oh well I guess its just good to have work these days.

   Oh and BearcatFan no worries I will take care of your karma

   Phone it in

    GHC

[Gig Harbor Cat]

bearkittie fans,
   in your record setting season, how many times did your O score on a play inside the 5 ?

[BearcatFan]

bearkittie fans,
   in your record setting season, how many times did your O score on a play inside the 5 ?

Inside the Willamette 5? I don't think the object is to score a 95+ yard TD for ANY team.

The only score that comes close to meeting that criteria is Schoettgen's 93 yd reception vs UPS. 

GHC - Thanks for the +K for Press! 

[Gig Harbor Cat]

No inside their 5

[OxyBob]

No inside their 5

Concordia 4
Cal Lutheran 1
Southern Oregon 1
La Verne 2
Whitworth 2
Lew is & Clark 1
Pacific Lutheran 1
Puget Sound 1
Oxy 2
Whitewater 1

Total 16

OxyBob

[BearcatFan]

Let's see...
4 scores inside the 5yd line vs Concordia
1 vs Cal Lu
1 vs SOU
2 vs Laverne
2 vs Whitworth

1 vs  L&C (but there were rushing TD's from the 6 and three scores from the 7 yard line. Not inside the 5, but worth mentioning).

1 vs PacLu
0 vs Linfield
1 vs UPS
0 vs Menlo (1 score from the 7yd line)

Regular Season 13 td's inside the 5.

In the playoffs:
2 vs Oxy
1 vs UWW

So 16 TD's  inside the 5, in 12 games.

OxyBob is faster at compiling stats due to his College Education 

[Gig Harbor Cat]

16 out of how many OB--ya big stud you

[BearcatFan]

16 out of how many OB--ya big stud you

Make your point GHC...

[Gig Harbor Cat]

The point has to do with your coaches strategy inside the 5 as it relates to not taking the FG's last Sat. And understand that I am not second guessing, just looking at % of success which play's into a game decision.  I met your coach at a coaching conference in San Francisco several years ago, he does a great job, in fact we ran the fly for a couple of years at our school.  He does a nice job, I just found it odd that he wouldn't take the chip shots.  Of course it was his call all the way, just an interesting call

[BearcatFan]

I was at the game, and in looking at the Play-by-play, I don't see it ... enlighten me. When did WU not attempt a FG when inside the 5???

They tried to convert a 4th & 3 at the UWW 26 in the 1st quarter
They tried to convert 4th & 3 at the UWW 9 in the 2nd quarter

Both well within Rowan's range and may have been game-changers had they kicked FG's, but that's all speculation as you can't say how the Warhawks would've called plays differently in light of the scores.

[bbaddict]

bearkittie fans,
   in your record setting season, how many times did your O score on a play inside the 5 ?

Inside the Willamette 5? I don't think the object is to score a 95+ yard TD for ANY team.

The only score that comes close to meeting that criteria is Schoettgen's 93 yd reception vs UPS. 

GHC - Thanks for the +K for Press! 

What about Jeff Kahler's interception & 100 yd. return for TD in the Concordia-MH game?  Or aren't you counting defensive TD's?  BTW-how cool is it that Kahler is a sophomore & a transfer from Whitworth?

[speedybigboy]

   Just rolled in from my GHC exec offices here in the harbor--  another high stress day in Corporate America fellas.  The commute home to the single wide was horrible.  Time for a cold one with my pal Mojo, Wed night is Springer rerun night at the ole single wide so get ready to rock !! 8)
   Oh well I guess its just good to have work these days.

   Oh and BearcatFan no worries I will take care of your karma

   Phone it in

    GHC

GHC, I think the FEDS repossed your single wide, it's for sale here

http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucbystate/

[Tuxguy]

Great job BCPress, you were a nice addition to the NWC board this year. I/we look forward to a few more years of your in site of the Bearcat program.
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"If someone had told me that we'd make a great comeback, I'd have kicked [field goals]," Speckman admitted.  "At the time though, I felt we needed touchdowns . . . It was a debatable decision."

I was saying kick it, JUST ask bluenote! ( I'm quite the sit in the stadium Coach)

"We have a strategy for when we're inside the five," said Speckman.  "As we were watching film, I was really hoping we'd never get inside the five.  I honestly don't know what play would have worked."

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Not to many plays to run, just one that you don't get a safety on!

Peace out!

GO PURPLE!

[speedybigboy]

The point has to do with your coaches strategy inside the 5 as it relates to not taking the FG's last Sat. And understand that I am not second guessing, just looking at % of success which play's into a game decision.  I met your coach at a coaching conference in San Francisco several years ago, he does a great job, in fact we ran the fly for a couple of years at our school.  He does a nice job, I just found it odd that he wouldn't take the chip shots.  Of course it was his call all the way, just an interesting call

I thought coach Speckman meant inside his own 5, as in backed up against the endzone.  I may be wrong but I thought it was in reference to the safety and BPress referring to it as game changing (paraphrase).  I gather that the FLY is susceptible to safeties against a fast-strong d-line.  Just as the old sprint/draw series, the plays just start out to far behind the line of scrimmage.  Perhaps he should have pulled the old AD trick and quick kicked on 3rd (or 2nd) instead of risking and ultimately giving up the safety.

[Bearcat Press]

Okay, time to clear up a couple of things.

1.) With regards to wildcat11's first point, I too thought we should have kicked field goals.  But we've had incredible success on fourth down inside the 30 this year - something like four touchdowns that I recall.  Our defense was being physically manhandled by the Warhawks, and I don't think Speckman had confidence that they could make stops.  Also, Rowan hasn't made a FG from over 40 yards this year.  While I disagreed with the call to go for it, I can definitely see the thought process.  If we convert even one of those, it's 21-7 instead of 21-3 or 21-6.

2.) Personally, I saw interference.  But we can disagree without being disagreeable, right?  I'll be interested to see what BearcatFan's perspective is after watching the CCTV replay.

3.) I'll take responsibility for confusion about the "inside the five" quote, which I had to shorten for word count reasons.  GHC, he was talking about being inside our own five yard line, like when UWW downed a punt at the four, then Leslie got sacked back to the one.  The essence of what Speck was saying is that WU has a set of plays that we use to get out from under our own goalposts.  Given UWW's defensive line, he wasn't confident that we'd be able to move the ball out in that kind of situation.  We called a blocking scheme that didn't work, and Deon Horne got tackled in the end zone.