Hawaiiguy
Big Kahuna
Notes:
- If you bet on this and are not out partying/with friends on a Saturday Night, you truly are a degenerate and have no life.
- Hawaii started out disastrously at Alabama, dropping numerous wide open passes that would have resulted in drive sustaining first downs, and fumbling several balls, including one that bounced off our punter's head into the endzone resulting in a Safety and following FG. They also elected not to kick a FG at the end of the first half that would have made it a very manageable 15-6....
- How well did Hawaii bounce back in the second half? Hawaii poured in 275 yards and scored twice, and had a pass intercepted in the end zone on the final play of the game for a potentially tieing score. Total yards, first downs, thir down efficiency were all even with Alabama.....Hawaii was penalized 11 times to 5 for Alabama....
- Hawaii is reknown for TERRIBLE rush defense....however, Hawaii's front 7 is solid. Alabama was held to 125 yards on 36 carries, and Kenneth Darby was held to 25 yards on 16 carries, totals i think any SEC team playing Alabama would love to have. Hawaii has platoons of big Hawaiians and Samoans manning the line, and stud mainland linebackers corp backing them up (Elmimian (although out this week), Leonard)...on the flip side, and this could be painful in pass happy WAC play.......UH has no experience in the secondary and they looked horrible against John Parker Wilson and his lame duck passes.....not only did they look smaller and slower, but they were terribly out of position on nearly every pass play.....
- Colt Brennan vs Colt McCoy in the Big 12 Title Game?? ah, what could have been.... Just how good is Colorado transfer and UH All-American Candidate QB Colt Brennan? In Brennan's first year last year (4,300 yards/35/13), his QB rating of 155.5 was 20 points higher than Timmy Chang's Best and Sixth Year
....Seriously though, if you have a chance, check this guy out, he is a stud......Dan Hawkins and Colorado are wishing they had this kid back right about now (so what if he is a convicted felon
).....
My Pick and Reason Why:
Small play, 90% of my plays are based on actually watching the opposing team play and not just numbers, and in this case, I have not seen UNLV play.....
Over 58
- The nervousness exhibited by Hawaii at Tuscaloosa in the first half will be gone here.....our All-American receivers (Bess, Mullins, Rivers) will not drop as many passes, our two running backs won't commit the same terrible fumbles......The offensive roll Hawaii exhibited in the second half at Alabama will continue here in my opinion......I know how good UNLV's revamped, loaded with big college transfers defense is.......but Hawaii moves and scores on anybody......think 275 yards on Alabama in a half is a lot? Hawaii could post 40 points and 500 yards here off of full TWO weeks of rest......especially against a tired UNLV defense having just played Iowa State and on a horrendous travel schedule......
- If UNLV's Matt Leinhart backup, Norm Chow disciple, USC transfer, all-world QB Rocky Hinds was not out, I would call this an easy over (got a lot of friends in Vegas, and they said Hinds will be on everyone's radar soon)......however, his backup is very serviceable.....I saw prior year starter UNLV QB Shane Steichen play, he can put up points......
- UNLV has an excellent receiving corp (Wolfe 9catches/190 yards/ 2TD) (Flair 13 catches, 126yards), and heralded Straiten. Like I noted above, Hawaii secondary is inexperienced and looked pretty bad......UNLV will exploit this and get some points against it......UNLV also has an EXCELLENT pass catching RB in Jackson.....
- I really like this: From UNLV HC Samford (USC assistant before) on why they always went for it on do many 4th downs against Iowa State, "We, philosophically, are going to be different than most normal football teams," Sanford said. "We're going to go for it on fourth down more than most people do, and we're going to be a very aggressive team. "It's a very non-NFL, very nonclose-to-the-vest mentality ¦ but I want to be on the cutting edge as far as being aggressive. We're not going to be the No Fun League." UNLV will play desperate imo against Hawaii and get their points.......
- Also, as a kicker, here are the point totals of Hawaii's home games last year (THANK YOU ABCS-THE LEGEND FOR THIS STAT) : 80, 85, 77, 40, 73, 65, 84
Hawaii 42 UNLV 30
Over 58 440 to win 400
Good luck in whatever you play.....:spank:
- If you bet on this and are not out partying/with friends on a Saturday Night, you truly are a degenerate and have no life.
- Hawaii started out disastrously at Alabama, dropping numerous wide open passes that would have resulted in drive sustaining first downs, and fumbling several balls, including one that bounced off our punter's head into the endzone resulting in a Safety and following FG. They also elected not to kick a FG at the end of the first half that would have made it a very manageable 15-6....
- How well did Hawaii bounce back in the second half? Hawaii poured in 275 yards and scored twice, and had a pass intercepted in the end zone on the final play of the game for a potentially tieing score. Total yards, first downs, thir down efficiency were all even with Alabama.....Hawaii was penalized 11 times to 5 for Alabama....
- Hawaii is reknown for TERRIBLE rush defense....however, Hawaii's front 7 is solid. Alabama was held to 125 yards on 36 carries, and Kenneth Darby was held to 25 yards on 16 carries, totals i think any SEC team playing Alabama would love to have. Hawaii has platoons of big Hawaiians and Samoans manning the line, and stud mainland linebackers corp backing them up (Elmimian (although out this week), Leonard)...on the flip side, and this could be painful in pass happy WAC play.......UH has no experience in the secondary and they looked horrible against John Parker Wilson and his lame duck passes.....not only did they look smaller and slower, but they were terribly out of position on nearly every pass play.....
- Colt Brennan vs Colt McCoy in the Big 12 Title Game?? ah, what could have been.... Just how good is Colorado transfer and UH All-American Candidate QB Colt Brennan? In Brennan's first year last year (4,300 yards/35/13), his QB rating of 155.5 was 20 points higher than Timmy Chang's Best and Sixth Year
My Pick and Reason Why:
Small play, 90% of my plays are based on actually watching the opposing team play and not just numbers, and in this case, I have not seen UNLV play.....
Over 58
- The nervousness exhibited by Hawaii at Tuscaloosa in the first half will be gone here.....our All-American receivers (Bess, Mullins, Rivers) will not drop as many passes, our two running backs won't commit the same terrible fumbles......The offensive roll Hawaii exhibited in the second half at Alabama will continue here in my opinion......I know how good UNLV's revamped, loaded with big college transfers defense is.......but Hawaii moves and scores on anybody......think 275 yards on Alabama in a half is a lot? Hawaii could post 40 points and 500 yards here off of full TWO weeks of rest......especially against a tired UNLV defense having just played Iowa State and on a horrendous travel schedule......
- If UNLV's Matt Leinhart backup, Norm Chow disciple, USC transfer, all-world QB Rocky Hinds was not out, I would call this an easy over (got a lot of friends in Vegas, and they said Hinds will be on everyone's radar soon)......however, his backup is very serviceable.....I saw prior year starter UNLV QB Shane Steichen play, he can put up points......
- UNLV has an excellent receiving corp (Wolfe 9catches/190 yards/ 2TD) (Flair 13 catches, 126yards), and heralded Straiten. Like I noted above, Hawaii secondary is inexperienced and looked pretty bad......UNLV will exploit this and get some points against it......UNLV also has an EXCELLENT pass catching RB in Jackson.....
- I really like this: From UNLV HC Samford (USC assistant before) on why they always went for it on do many 4th downs against Iowa State, "We, philosophically, are going to be different than most normal football teams," Sanford said. "We're going to go for it on fourth down more than most people do, and we're going to be a very aggressive team. "It's a very non-NFL, very nonclose-to-the-vest mentality ¦ but I want to be on the cutting edge as far as being aggressive. We're not going to be the No Fun League." UNLV will play desperate imo against Hawaii and get their points.......
- Also, as a kicker, here are the point totals of Hawaii's home games last year (THANK YOU ABCS-THE LEGEND FOR THIS STAT) : 80, 85, 77, 40, 73, 65, 84
Hawaii 42 UNLV 30
Over 58 440 to win 400
Good luck in whatever you play.....:spank:
