The Lions' Pride

Hired Brian Polian from TAMU. It was kind of a random retirement.

Well, this isn't the first time he retired. He was the AD for a good period of time in the 90s. Maybe, he wants to go back to admin now that the school has gotten the publicity from Kap?

The guy bleeds blue and gray. I guess he refused to call it a red zone offense - he uses blue zone because UNLV is red and they are arch rivals. Nothing in any of their facilities have red in it.

From what I gather on Polian, (I said the same thing at first), the guy is an elite recruiter. He was one of the guys that pulled a lot of guys to Notre Dame for Weiss (including flipping Te'O at zero hour). He also did a very good job at Stanford for the last two classes and TAMU this season. With his dad being Bill and the coaches he has worked under....its a great pedigree.

It also looks like he is keeping Nick Rolvich (former Hawaii QB) as OC. Rovlich was very highly regarded by Ault...almost to the point that his first season (last year; he wasn't retained after Chow got hired at Hawaii) he was going to be given play calling (something that has never occurred in Ault's career).

I think I know way too much about Nevada football (but I am an Air Raid/Pistol nerd).

JMO, Rolovich is going to be the next big name OC so one of those positions is locked down. He is only 33. At 31, he was the play caller for the 4th best offense in the country at Hawaii. The next year they fell to 31, but lost some major talent. He almost took the Temple job, I think he wanted play calling duties. However, another top 10 offensive finish and I bet he gets a BCS quality offer for the OC.

The thing I enjoy most about him, is that last year...the team went more vertical and started challenging people downfield. Their beat writers credit Rolovich with that twist to the pistol. JMO, I think the failure of looking vertically has hurt the pistol system transition to the BCS-conference level.

However, I agree with you completely. I think guys like Urban Meyer (WR coach before the BG) need a strong veteran aly. If I was Nevada, I would bring in a veteran DC with HC experience (similar to what Roof was for Ob).

The answer is Scottie Hazelton, he was the LB coach at USCw last year. Former DC at North Dakota State. The veteran guy is Mike Bradeson on the defensive staff. He is a long time coach at UNLV and for the wolfpack. The rest of the staff are kinda up and commers....one guy that will younger coach DL worked with the Colts under Gundy and Polian's dad and a DB coach that worked with Midget at Georgia State.

Yeah, I like Rolovich's tweak because so many of the runs are to the interior and they do it so well...if you have the speed outside, a guy with a good arm can get a little extra time in the pocket because the DEs are worried about run. Honestly, I think its the winkle needed to keep the pistol growing in polarity.

Plus, I love a package that Rolovich put in using their pistol twins package. The play series ended up with a 40 yard TD pass with noone in 10 yards of the WR. The progression went off of their read option series. After a couple successful up the gut runs, they started losening them up with some read option. After the read option started sucking the safeties in, they ran a bubble screen to their slot guy off a read option PA. After that burnt Zona a couple times, they faked the Read option and the outside WR was about 25 yards downfield and wide open. Kid walked into the endzone.

I'm in love with the read option. If run properly it opens up SO many facets of the offensive game. It slows down the DE, makes them have to decide (which can chip away at their confidence if they don't guess correctly) who's a higher priority to cover, and makes the LB slow down in his drop and/or his blitz because if he goes after the wrong guy its at least a 5 yard gain.

Like you said, once it sucks the safeties in to help in run support, HUGE gains become a more likely possibility.

I actually remember that play. Man that was a fun game to watch. Two offensive geniuses going back and forth.

Was the exact opposite for me. Once I got into grad school I had so much more time, especially on Saturdays.

Wait, did you play college football?

Really?

I've never heard of somebody having more time in grad school than undergrad. Everybody I've spoken to about grad school tells me horror stories and that its a nightmare. I'm not sure if they're trying to help me by doing that, but the overall impression I've gotten from speaking to those in grad school isn't at all favorable.

It depends, I did a professional masters degree in Public Affairs and it was more like MTayl described. The class would either be big projects or a series of small project. They also knew that they didn't need to slam you with work. However, I have heard horror stories about law school from my friends.

I also had a lot more commitments in college than Grad School (part-time job, a club sport, drinking, social activities). So during grad school, I even had enough time to handle multiple internships and watch football on Saturdays.

From what I've heard it goes like this.

1Ls: "Its the worst experience ever, there's no way I'm going to get a grade higher than a D. Its awful. "
2Ls: "Its pretty interesting, but I'm in the library from 8:30-9 or 10 pm. I'm still behind though- I'll have to pull an all nighter on Thursday or Friday."
3Ls: "Good God, just let it end. I'm so effing bored."

I've put my liver through the ringer so far this year. It will probably be good for me to cut down on my drinking in law school, if I get in somewhere.

I worked hard as an undergrad, but I've been working incredibly hard for grad school. I'm working on several publications on hydraulic fracturing right now, getting ready for a number of conference presentations around the country, and taking a full load of classes while helping teach a class and preparing for an internship to start in April. Next fall I'll have to start applying for PhD programs around the country which will eat up even more time. Crap never ends.

But I ALWAYS find time on Saturday afternoon and evening for PSU.

This is exactly how my current graduate school studies are. One large group project a semester that either spans the entire semester or encompasses the entire last month or so of the course. Also, small projects to work on due every two weeks and quizzes here and there to keep me honest. That's about it.

I actually do public policy at the MS level here at Oregon State. We have a lot of professionally geared students, but a few, like myself, who are far more academic focused. I won't be continuing down that that road for my PhD though.