mexitucky

I make fun of the type of person who pretends that drinking an IPA makes them brotastic with their perfectly manicured beard and fade into a millenial pompadour. I will never make fun of the actual beer.

The beginnings of wussification of America coincides with the rise in the popularity of light beers. Beer flavored water....bleh

Running on the electric eye is an "eye opening" experience. You realize how important your start is b/c of the impact of shifting your weight has on starting the clock.

Really?

Give it a whole week and your anaerobic conditioning will go through the roof

Day 1 w the shoulder press is extremely tough. Day 8 with the shoulder press is much easier. The body adapts very quickly. My first day was at 39 minutes. Now I can do 20 to 23 minutes depending on the workout.

Except the format and #of participants mirrors the state tourney format from Regionals to Rupp. IMO it is more of a state championship than winning it in football is due to the participation level.

6000 and a good day getting back to live rolling in BJJ. No more tendinitis and inflammation in my bicep by the shoulder

Former Bulldog, James Bolden is having a big year for WVU. He went for 19 today against Texas and is hitting over double figures this year. Weird how little chatter there has been for him on here.

5500 swings. Tried to swing after long work day and Jiu Jitsu yesterday and my grip wasn’t having it. Hooked on kettlebells for the rest of my life. I will always do the Big 4 in barbell, but this has opened up a whole new world. Work out at home, minimum space, and everything feels better, not like after benching or squatting heavy. Moving on to strength compounds and sprints to compliment BJJ in February.

That will place at the SR Games.

Towles Sr. year they started using their TE towards the middle of the season. Great athlete. He had quite a few TDs if I remember correctly. They would have used the kid from Houliston's year if he hadn't injured his knee again. He had something like 4 catches in the 1st half of the Trinity scrimmage and looked like one of the better players on the field.

He screams TE to me in the modern game. Flex him out for the mismatch.

W/ that cross fire action in the backfield and a boot action as well. Remember it well.

That's the gray area. It isn't the losing, per se. Many of them expected losses. It is HOW they are losing, whether giving away leads or not being competitive in running clock games. IMO, if you asked most fans, that is where the problem lies.

How fast is Coldiron? He's got the body to play a lot of different places and can flat out get up, but I was wondering where he stood in the speed department.

How many games did you actually watch the past two years compared to the previous years? You are defending in a very, almost, black/white way. There is a huge gray area here and that was the issue the past few years. I'm not a coach, or have any kids involved w/ the program. I am a Highlands parent and have a long love/hate with school growing up while NewCath was still a huge rival. Here's my observations from the outside looking in. 1. Their offense from '10-'15 hid a TON of fundamental flaws in the defensive scheme. Like the Payton Manning Colts, the Birds used their offense that averaged 50+/game to take teams away from their offensive identities and play catch-up, i.e. do a lot of things that they weren't comfortable with resulting in turnovers or 3 and outs. Highlands would then score again and the avalanche was on. The past 2 years, they haven't been able to do that. So, they have had to rely on their defense a little more, which leads me to my point of #1. I spoke about it here a lot. The 3-4 is a dumb defense if you don't have space eaters or someone like Devin Bruns and Seth Hope who win every 1-on-1 match-up at the line. 3-4 traditionally requires space eaters to take on double teams and create piles allowing ILBers to flow. Watch film. Guards were able to get onto ILBers before they could diagnose plays. Either NTs were head up, or they didn't do their jobs causing double teams well enough, b/c when both ILBs have to be your fill ILB, you are missing tackles in the middle of the field. 2. This correlates w/ #1. There was a TON of freelancing. Again, I don't know Highlands scheme, but I can't imagine that kids are taught to go under so many blocks. That goes towards what Sweep mentioned in another thread. 3. Lack of talent??? Meh. You can hide a lot of lesser talent playing both ways when you are going to put up 40+ on every single opponent. It is a very smart way to run your program. Get more kids bought in and involved. Those type of players are still there. There is a lack of top end talent. The team hasn't had not just Guiguglis or Hamblens or Scarlottos (sp?), but the All State caliber kids that weren't maybe high DI but were great high school players. Which leads me to... #4. When lacking high end talent, the whole team has to buy in. I could never know whether buy in happened or not, but I do know that they didn't get 10 or 11 guys to a tackle like every year that I've ever watched Highlands. They didn't seem to change their approach to offense or defense for far too long. #5 Identity. IMO, from a very macro view of it, this is where they miss Mueller the most. He could identify who his team was going to be in season B as SOON as season A was over and he would use the whole off season to build for that. Case in point is the jet sweep years. As an outsider, it wasn't the wins/losses that surprised me about Highlands. Everyone knew that they were going be in that 3 to 4 losses/year cycle. What is surprising is the systematic look of Highlands isn't there. They don't look like the machine that works in harmony. It looks, really, kind of unprepared and undisciplined compared to where they've been. That's just an observation from Hudl viewing. A lot of the same coaches from the previous regime are there, so they were big parts of the good times. Someone closer to the program will have to say what is going on in the day to day.

If we are discussing TEs, why wouldn't Sisson be one? He grew up playing running back, has a great frame and is an athlete.

Took off 3 days in a row. Started back yesterday. Half way there. 5000 swings. Finishing every set with ease now. Going to make up for lost time and go 6 straight days. Wish me luck. 4 more to go.

Georgetown would be tough to turn down depending on the package offered academically. Of course, I am speaking as a lawyer.

Add in a DI TE/DE with Coldiron and I think they will figure out how to score. Losing Butler and Dyer is the biggest blow. They were 2 of CovCath’s all timers at LB.

Good. Not many guys can foot that bill

For sure.

4000 down. Day 13 tomorrow.

As in 3 1/2 hours easy?