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One for the Road: Final pre-Holiday Bowl thought

by on Dec. 29, 2009, under Sports

We are just hours away from kicking this thing off. Can you stand it?

I don’t know how much success Arizona’s offense will have against Nebraska’s defense. But I do know this: the Husker offense is bad. Fewer-yards-per-game-than-UCLA-and-ASU bad.

So does a team that is solid but not great on both sides of the ball beat a team that is half great and half awful?

Good-Good might not beat Great-Bad but Great-Good would. In other words, the Wildcat defense needs to dominate.

No long passing plays like against ASU. No extended run-dominated drives like against USC. It is the Cat D’s mission to shut down the guys in red from kick to gun.

It’s Defense 101. Stop the run, force 3rd-and-long, pressure the quarterback, make plays on the ball.

Nobody is talking about anybody on the Arizona defense. As of 5 p.m. Pacific on Wed. Dec. 30 that needs to change.

Bear Down.

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  • JK

    Enjoy the trip, CHEER loud, and GO CATS!!!

  • Ferraribubba

    Being from the L.A. area, and having my uncle Jesse Hill as head football coach at USC back in the 1950′s, you can’t blame me for being a Trojan honk.
    And after attending so many USC-UCLA and USC-Notre Dame games that I’ve lost count, I thought that I knew what a college rivalary really was.
    But when I moved to the Old Pueblo in 1985 and attended my 1st UofA-ASU game and saw Chuck Cecil run back that interception 107 yards for a touchdown, I was hooked and found a new meaning for the word rivalary.
    The guy sitting next to me was dressed in a complete Scumdevil uniform and he was ‘talking to God’ on his cell phone.
    After Chuck’s TD, he slammed the phone down, breaking it,  and said to all, “It looks like God isn’t accepting my calls anymore.”
    Now that is a rivalary! GO ‘CATS!
    Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba

  • Dan

    Lights dim, crowd cheering, heart pounding….. here comes Suh to the left and Crick to the right…. Asante in the distance eyes fixed on the QB. The red sea’s wall rise on all sides leaving only the feeling of hopelessness in anticipation. The walls come crushing down battering the poor QBs body. The sea subsides for a moment as it pulls back to the ocean…. Moments latter the red sea rushes in again ……. How long can one take the oceans pounding until they begin to fear it and run? Many have tried to face the sea foolishly, only to be swept away and battered. This is the way of sea, the way of the storm, the way of Nebraska Defense! The tide has pulled out…… the calm before the storm!
     

  • wildcatfight83

    Well Bad-Worse certainly didn’t get the job done… UGH!  What a terrible game.

    • http://uasports.net Scott Terrell

      Ain’t that the truth.  Congrats to any Husker fans out there.  Your D backed up all the hype and your O came out with something to prove, and more than proved it.

      On to next year…

  • Ferraribubba

    After moving back here to East Jesus, Arkansas in 2005 from the Old Pueblo, I was afraid of getting my ass kicked if it be known that deep down, I was a USC Trojan and Uof A ‘Cat fan.
    They take their Razorback football pretty seriously back here.
    So I asked one of the oldtimers how to deflect the question when asked, “Which college footall team do you root for?’
    All you got to say, son, is “I HATE TEXAS!”
    With that, I think that with Colt McCoy’s very early injury, the Longhorns were about as flat as a cowpie dropped from the U of Texas mascot.
    The game might have been a U-Pick-Um if not for that.

    Fight On, yer pal, Ferrari Bubba

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