The Lions' Pride

No, I think the majority of true college football fans know this about Fresno. College football fans know alot outside their own team and actually watch other games. TV analysts have been hammering this home about Pat Hill's teams for years.

Agreed. Some bad throws, but it wasn't a debacle. Most of his bad throws are still uncatchable by the opponent. Not sure if people have noticed that. The one almost INT was Moye's fault for not catching it above his head. It was actually well thrown because there was a defender between them and he had to go over. You expect your 6'5 all big ten dude to catch that.

But even on the slants that went nowhere, he threw those into the ground or to a place the defender couldn't get it since the receiver was covered. That's not mentioned but I noticed that on the last drive. Two slants that had no chance of working, so he threw it away basically since it was a timing route and pockets were collapsing.

But anyway, I expect more bad throws and bad decisions. But even Blackledge said he looked much different with composure this year. He needs to feel that he can go out there, throw an INT, but still go out on the next drive. Otherwise he will play timid with the ball in his hands and he'll never take the next step.

You forgot 2011 - lost to #10 Nebraska 41-29.

With all that "success" losing to ranked teams I guess in your mind Pat Hill would be a great successor to Joe Paterno. At the end of the day, good teams find a way to win close games.

Did I say K.State finished 4-7 in 2004?

Cheers!

Kirk

Actually, he'd probably do better than Joe. At least his physically overmatched teams put up a fight. This is from Ron Cook:

"It's not just the 27-11 licking that No. 3 Alabama put on the Nittany Lions before a white-out crowd of 107,846 Saturday. It's that Penn State is 1-13 against Top 5 opponents since its 12-0 season in 1994. It was outscored, on average, in those 13 losses, 30-12. Only three times was it within a touchdown at the end."

Fresno State is certainly not afraid of playing anyone, and they usually perform pretty well. That being said, their performances reminds me of Toledo's most recent game against OSU. Did they do well? Yes. Does that command national respect? Not sure I'd agree with that, considering that was really Toledo's biggest game of the year and OSU seemingly overlooked them.

While looking decent, I just don't see Fresno State as being like Boise State. I think BSU could do well in most any conference, as they've proven themselves time and time again. Fresno State has provided some very entertaining games and done decently for themselves, but haven't shown themselves to be all that good, IMO.