Perfectly valid.
I took a couple days off work when the last Final Fantasy XIV xpac came out earlier this year. It was awesome.
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any serious veteran of WoW knows not to take time off on the patch launch day, or even the day after that, while they try to stamp out the usual fires.
It’s years later than when this WoW machinima was produced, but the flavor still applies:
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I’m in this boat too. I thought he looked pretty ok for a freshman. We can see his talent. He’s really raw, but he can play. Let’s give him some time.
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Waco in late summer is sweltering. RES may have been hot to them, but no worse than Waco, IMO.
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Yeah, patch day and the following few are brutal if you’re into gaming.
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My #1 concern going into this game was OL, but I thought they looked better… when everything was clicking on offense. When Baylor’s D settled in, things got more difficult, then when Cam went out, far more difficult.
Baylor was a big step up in terms of physical ability. Their D spread out and took away the edges, and clamped down up the middle. People forget that Aranda was the DC when LSU won the Natty, and he’s calling the Baylor D this year, from the hot seat.
A fundamental of FB is to establish the run - or stop the run. After the couple of ill-advised throws, Wilson hopefully got up to the same level as Bottari in terms of understanding the base level of offense - running the ball. This is stuff Rising forgot he knew about, but it’s important.
When the offense needed to give the D a break late in the game, our run blocking with multiple TEs got the job done. Hopefully our OL takes another step up after a looong session of run blocking practice against live competition.
Gameball: Defense Junior Tafuna said their TD went to the area we vacated on a stunt up front - “the perfect play for that stunt” - but otherwise, the D was lights out.
Play of the Game: High-Five at the 10. Frame that one. That play reminded me of Lavon Edwards taking a blocked FG back for a TD at Minnesota early in Mac’s tenure.
Won’t See That Again - Becker missing 2 FGs, along with a botched PAT
Offensive Player of the Game - Micah Bernard. Good to see Mike Mitchell come back in, too. Stanley had a couple of carries and one exquisite decoy on the end around Money scored on. (Did I mention Baylor’s D is athletic? Not the game for Stanley)
We haven’t even played them in league play, but the 2 Baylor games have been miserable beatings by the thermonuclear furnace in the sky… but we won both games. I hope we get them at RES in late November, next time.
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Red star for the Lavon Edwards mention. Fewer and fewer Ute fans remember or know about that McBride-era gem.
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Such a great moment. Game tied, time for very last play (before they had overtime), and FG attempted by last year’s all conference kicker and we figure we will likely lose, hoping at best for an unlikely miss. Kick is blocked and run back for a stunning winning TD. Entire team runs down to the end zone to celebrate with coach Mac on the bottom of a dog pile.
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I actually coached a youth baseball game against Lavon about 20 years ago, on a windy day in South Jordan or West Jordan… one of the Jordans.
The conditions were just stupid - horizontal dirt storm - I don’t even think we played an inning before deciding to do the sane thing and call it off, but Lavon was happy I recognized him. Great guy, very funny, one of the many former Ute athletes who decided to stay in Utah, making our state a better place.
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That ending was amazing. It was only Mac’s second game (beat Utah St. 19-0 on the road the previous week). I love his exuberance after the game-winning play. Unfortunately, Utah went just 2-7 the rest of the way in 1990, suffering multiple blowouts. But Mac turned things around and laid the foundation for what the program has become.
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