HookedonGriz said:
I find myself thinking and feelings like Jim Mora here after we’ve missed them for 3 straight seasons:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p3-eavMSBnk
But the good news is with securing an 8th win and sitting at 8-2, the Griz are set up to do just that...a trip back to the FCS playoffs!
Pretty damn incredible really. Hauck and staff got things here straightened out pretty quickly and have really made impact in their return. When looking at our schedule before the season started, many of us (including me) felt a 7-5 record would be exceeding expectations. Many others felt the Griz would get to 8,9, or even 10 wins since they were in so many games late the year prior.
Hauck and company brought in key pieces (Knight, Mallory, Humphrey the year prior, Babaros, Pillans, and others. They developed some very young talent who are already contributing and making impact as well. Up against a pretty touch schedule, the Griz are already at 8 wins with 2 left....both being winnable games.
I think Weber will be a challenge but I also wouldn’t want to be playing the Griz if I was another team. They are gonna give their 110% and they are going to give any team a hard, physical battle. This team doesn’t fear anyone and I’m seeing some swagger and some DOLA back. Can’t wait to see what happens in these last 2 games. I’ve watched the Cats play a lot and I’m not too worried about them.
Saw some Facebook conversations where fans thought we still need to win at least 1 of next 2 to be in the playoff field. I disagree, we are in 100% already. The Griz have two highly ranked opponents left. Weber at 3 and Cats will be flirting with Top 10. A loss to Weber would only knock the Griz back a few spots at the most. A loss to Cats (which simply isn’t happening this year) would put Griz around 15th. A Griz team who is around 15th and at 8-4 is not on the outside looking in. They are in. And they are hosting a game with the bidding process.
Show up Saturday and let’s get the stadium rocking. The Griz still have all their goals in front of them....a Big Sky Conf Championship, a State Championship, and a chance to win a National Championship. Go Griz!
Good post but I thing you may be a little ahead of your self but I like where your going.
What we all thought was going to be a juggernaut of a schedule turned out to be a fairly pedestrian schedule with UC davis and EWU being way off the mark this year.
Going in I thought by the time we got through the Davis and EW games we would know exactly what this team was. Its simply not the case.
For me I dont count the outcome of the MSU game as a determining factor. As playerrep likes to say"If you ever played the game" you would know that in big rivalry games you can throw everything out the window, records,stats etc.
They should make the playoffs regardless of the next 2 games because of the extra game and UC Davis and EWU shitting the bed this year. After the way we loss this year to the only "real" team we have faced it all comes down to the Weber game to define how good this team might really be. A win against weber and I am sold. Finish the year 8-4 and 4th place in the conference and this team is no different then the last 4 or 5 years.They have 1 win this year against a current top 25 team and thats Monmouth which doesnt tell us much.