Quote Originally Posted by alopez14325:
I'm not trying to be a critic, because I think there's a good chance that you're right, but I think Houston backers are the one's letting one game affect their psyche. That dismantling of Louisville only happened about a month ago, and every was watching. Louisville and Michigan were the public's most bet teams, so it;s safe to say that most gamblers last image of Houston is their dominant performance against Louisville. People tend to ignore that they lost to Memphis the next week. I agree that it's a terrible match up for San Diego State, but just as you did with SDST, it's very easy to discredit Houston. They lost to NAVY, and Memphis, but they got KILLED by SMU. Those are three sub-par losses. They were about 1 foot from losing to Tulsa, they struggled with Cincy until the 4th quarter, and they didnt score the last 2- 1/2 quarters against Tulane...
"SMU could have passed or run for 500 yards on them. It shouldn't matter. This is the third best run defense in the nation. Stop letting on game override your psyche when capping these games.
That game was in the middle of October. It's the middle of December. More than enough has changed with SMU SDSU and Houston to care about SMU's run totals in that game affecting this one."
Also you keep saying that Wyoming shut their run down, which isint true. Pumphrey may have only had 110 yards, but Penney also had 117 yards. They had 250 yards and 3 td's.
Lopez, I specifically went into detail about the SMU game in the OP for this post, in the hopes that this line of thinking would change.
That SMU loss is not as extreme as people make it out to be. Chad Morris had SMU make that game his Super Bowl. And it got him a shot at the Baylor job so it worked.
SMU went into that game at 2-3 after a grueling OT loss to Tulsa the previous game, had a bye week and was coming in against a Houston team on 8 straight weeks of play with the HC rumors just starting to fly.
Herman was a very important part of that team, particularly to Ward. Even with at that, they crushed Louisville and still went 9-3 on the year. And it is perfectly reasonable to assume they've sufficiently disassociated themselves from Herman and have the enormous benefit of having their future HC in place NOW.
This is Ward's last game as a Cougar as well. He is going in the draft. And when he does, he'll have to reinvent himself as a Terrelle Pryor type who plays WR/Special teams (too small to be a long-term NFL QB).
You think one of the best players in CFB will just lay down here in his last game?
And to those saying Wyoming stopped Pumphrey but didn't completely stop SDSU's run game:
That is correct. SDSU will get yards. That is ALL THEY DO. But if if you are a team like Houston who can score at will at times and you stop Pumphrey you will win, as Wyoming demonstrated once in a win and then fell just short (immensely tough to win a revenge game in a conference championship a couple weeks after the initial win).
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. Give this passive aggressive mockery stance another 2 seconds before it ends.
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