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- mfhog
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Posted: 11/22/2012 12:25 PM
Stanford fan's facebook post...
After watching this post-Oregon game video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxTW-lttQXU
When Jordan Williamson gets the game ball and hug from Dave? I teared up. It was some "Remember The Titans" level **** for a Stanford fan. This is why Dave is such a great coach--and person. He could care less about wins and losses. He does want to win--in his bones--but not at the expense of crushing a kid's spirit. After the Fiesta Bowl and a series of missed kicks, including one earlier in the game, what coach in their right mind would put a career defining game on the foot of a kid trying to rebuild his confidence--David Lorenzo Shaw, that's who. Even if Jordan Williamson never makes another kick, he'll have that moment to carry with him--good and bad--for the rest of his life. it's bigger than football.
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Posted: 11/22/2012 12:29 PM
Re: Stanford fan's facebook post...
If the guy was at Jonestown he would have had the Koolaid cocktail. Thank God Bobbbbbbbbbbbbbbb wasn't there.
"I ambushed you with a cup of coffee."
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Posted: 11/23/2012 12:03 PM
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Stuff like this placates the admin and other football haters.... it is good for all of us.
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Posted: 11/23/2012 1:46 PM
Re: Stanford fan's facebook post.FANS LIKE THAT DESERVE TEEVENS
WHAT A DAMNED FOOL.
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Posted: 11/23/2012 2:04 PM
Vomit bag please
Did ButtStein post that? Or GeraldNo-No?
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Posted: 11/23/2012 2:49 PM
My take on the game ball
I think more about the football reason for that game ball and not the warm fuzzy feeling. Williamson's problems are mainly in his head at this point. There is the mechanical problem of keeping his head down, but after a while I think that becomes mental as well. Shaw needed to give him a public attaboy to get Williamson into the right frame of mind. A confident kicker is a good kicker. A kicker who doubts himself is not. We need a good kicker, not one who is second guessing himself. Let's hope we see that tomorrow, because I think this game, and the one after that if we get that far, are going to be very close. And I don't think we really have an option right now behind Williamson.
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Posted: 11/23/2012 4:48 PM
Re: My take on the game ballIT COULD BE HIS PLANT FOOT POSITION
OR ANYONE OF A BUNCH OF OTHER TECHNICAL THINGS, BUT IT'S NOT. IT'S HIS KICKER HEAD, AFTER ALL ACCORDING TO SHAW HE MAKES 60 YARDERS IN PRACTICE ALL THE TIME. SHAW BETTER FIX HIM, BECAUSE HES THE ONE WHO OVERELIES ON HIM.
"...I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on."
Jack Handy
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Posted: 11/23/2012 5:37 PM
Re: My take on the game ballIT COULD BE HIS PLANT FOOT POSITION
The Fiasco Bowl will forever live in infamy. Oregon victory a signature win. If Shaw and team win out, I'll stop bitching about the kicker. Nunes never fixed his mechanical problems. johnnyo53 wrote: OR ANYONE OF A BUNCH OF OTHER TECHNICAL THINGS, BUT IT'S NOT. IT'S HIS KICKER HEAD, AFTER ALL ACCORDING TO SHAW HE MAKES 60 YARDERS IN PRACTICE ALL THE TIME. SHAW BETTER FIX HIM, BECAUSE HES THE ONE WHO OVERELIES ON HIM. |
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Posted: 11/23/2012 5:51 PM
Re: My take on the game ball I WILL NOT STOP BITCHING
WILLIAMSON IS NOT A GOOD KICKER - PERIOD. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO IN PRACTICE IF YOU CAN ONLY MAKE 70% FROM INSIDE 40 YOU BELONG ON THE BENCH.
I'M SURE HE'S A GREAT KID AND I HAVE NOTHING PERSONAL AGAINST HIM. BUT HE COST US THE FIESTA BOWL, THE ND GAME, AND ALMOST THE OREGON GAME. IT'S TOO LATE TO PUT SOMEONE ELSE IN BUT EVERY TIME HE COMES ON THE FIELD I WINCE.
I HOPE I ONLY SEE HIM ON THE FIELD TOMORROW FOR KICKOFFS AND EXTRA POINTS
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Posted: 11/23/2012 10:11 PM
Re: My take on the game ball I WILL NOT STOP BITCHING THATS WHAT
WE LOVE ABOUT YOU, YOU MAGNIFICENT B*STARD!
"...I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on."
Jack Handy
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Posted: 11/24/2012 3:28 AM
Bring me the Ted Cup, I need to barf!
NT
"I believe virtually everything I read. And I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone that doesn't believe anything." - David St. Hubbins |
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Posted: 11/24/2012 5:02 AM
Re: My take on the game ball I WILL NOT STOP BITCHING
Williamson's fine technically, it's basically mental with him. Hopefully, the monkey is now at least partially off the back after last week's game, but you never know. I've also had my "ups and downs" with respect to him, but he's the kicker right now, so I want him to succeed and make kicks.
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Posted: 11/24/2012 6:35 AM
Re: My take on the game ball I WILL NOT STOP BITCHING
That's the way I look at it.
He may be a head case, but he's our head case.
So I'll still cheer for him and hope he succeeds, although I do hope we don't get in too many situations where the game depends on him coming through.
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Posted: 11/25/2012 4:16 AM
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That's the mentality that will ensure we go 6-6 (or worse) every year.
But it will be OK, because after all "We're Stanford".
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Posted: 11/25/2012 4:23 AM
Re: LIKE HELL IT'S ALL MENTAL
IT'S NO DIFFERENT THAN PLAYING GOLF - KEEP YOUR FRICKIN HEAD DOWN. HE DID IT AGAIN LAST NIGHT. PICKED HIS HEAD UP, MISHIT, AND SHANKOPOTAMUS.
HE NEEDS TO KEEP HIS HEAD DOWN UNTIL HIS RIGHT KNEE HITS HIM IN THE FACE OR HIS ARSE NEEDS TO FIND THE BENCH.
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Posted: 11/26/2012 10:12 AM
Re: My take on the game ball I WILL NOT STOP BITCHING
As long as he's the one kicking we all hope he succeeds. But he has also repeatedly failed in big situations. When you're the kicker those big situations are part of the job. Sure it's great and all that Shaw is trying not to crush the guy's psyche. But empirical evidence indicates that the guy really, really, REALLY struggles. Part of a coach's job at this level is to help build his team into players and men. But the other players don't deserve to have repeated misses determine the outcome of games. All that said, I don't see anywhere that Williamson himself has blamed anyone else for his failures. On this end of the point I believe Thunderdome is a bit harsh on the guy. It's not like he's Armando Benitez coming in a fresh 9th inning with a 2-run lead, blowing it, then saying after the game that, "A loss isn't on just one guy." Whatever Williamson's mother does shouldn't have any bearing on him. Talk about her all you want but I guarantee you that he's more embarrassed about that letter than we are mad about it. If anyone has evidence that Williamson himself is shirking any of the blame then I will certainly recant the claim. Sure, he's proven to be a terrible kicker in clutch situations. That's bad enough without piling on claims that he's not taking responsibility. We have no reason to believe that he's not taking responsibility in the locker room. And that's the only place it matters. JPRI wrote: That's the way I look at it.
He may be a head case, but he's our head case.
So I'll still cheer for him and hope he succeeds, although I do hope we don't get in too many situations where the game depends on him coming through. |
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Posted: 11/26/2012 10:13 AM
Re: My take on the game ball I WILL NOT STOP BITCHING
And it is ironic that he's a psychology major.
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Posted: 11/26/2012 10:43 AM
Re: My take on the game ball I WILL NOT STOP BITCHING
when I played basketball, my coaching always said to me, "You'll never be any good shooting free throws; you think too much."
kids smart enough to get into Stanford are smart in part because they think too much. so, psychology may end up being a good choice for JW, *if* he can figure out how to use psychology to, not make him think more, but think less.
more likely, he needs to pay Phil Jackson for a few sessions: it might not be that JW thinks too much in general, but it might be about what he thinks about specifically; don't stop thinking, but think about *something else*. (I know nothing about Zen or anything like it.)
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Posted: 11/26/2012 1:12 PM
Re: My take on the game ball I PSYCH.=PSEUDO SCI.
SCREW PSYCHOLOGY JUST MAN THE FICK UP
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Posted: 11/26/2012 1:13 PM
Re: My take on the game ball I PSYCH.=PSEUDO SCI.
like my coach said, I think too much.
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Posted: 11/26/2012 1:17 PM
Re: My take on the game ball IT'S NOT BLAME IT'S REALITY
I'M NOT BLAMING SHANKOPOTAMUS FOR BEING A SHANKOPOTAMUS. I'M BLAMING SHAW FOR NOT HAVING A PLAN B AND GOING TO IT. HOW MANY MORE TIMES DOES HE HAVE TO PULL HIS HEAD UP AND DUCK HOOK LEFT?
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Posted: 11/26/2012 1:27 PM
SOLUTION
DON'T EVER GO TO THIRD DOWN. JUST POUND THE SCHIT OUT OF THE OPPONENT.
WHY? BECAUSE I SAID SO.
"I ambushed you with a cup of coffee."
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Posted: 11/26/2012 1:38 PM
Re: My take on the game ball I WILL NOT STOP BITCHING
Mendi, you are on the right track. I had the same results when shooting free throws. I could score from the court at any angle and played the game to get hacked. But then I started to think about the free throws. In one pre league game I was knocked up against the boards on an attempted shot. Got two free throws and as I walked up to the line I said to myself, "what the hell, just put it high enough to get over the front rim. Results, sank both FT's. By the way, my school team won the championship not by free throws but by making 2 point shots all over the place.
Then I have been watching Williamson and see that he has a bad habit of hooking the ball to the left. Every now and then he does the same thing on kickoff's and the ball goes out of bounds short of the end zone. That costs us 35 yards. Looking at the Oregon game and the winning FG, he just made it and the ball was going to the left as it crossed the bar. I think that his problem can be corrected. It is all in his mechanics. Get Gordon Saultau to teach him. Then is there a kicking coach on the staff or do the kickers just do the best they can?
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Posted: 11/27/2012 1:15 PM
Re: My take on the game ball IT'S NOT BLAME IT'S REALITY
Exactly. CardSince84 wrote: I'M NOT BLAMING SHANKOPOTAMUS FOR BEING A SHANKOPOTAMUS. I'M BLAMING SHAW FOR NOT HAVING A PLAN B AND GOING TO IT. HOW MANY MORE TIMES DOES HE HAVE TO PULL HIS HEAD UP AND DUCK HOOK LEFT? |
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