[Farm93]

kal has major problems this year. No way they beat us. Oregon State lost james rodgers - I don\'t think they have the horses this year. Arizona is good, but it\'s at home and foles hasn\'t played a game in weeks.

The only teams that can challenge us are teams with tons of super-fast players, and we already played them: SC and Oregon.

I think we win the rest of our games.

Umm, you haven\'t been following Big Game for long, have you?

Oddly Red Army\'s view would fit right in on the be.ar.backer boards.  They are absolutely convinced that the C.a.l team is looking at a 1-3 or 0-4 type finish.  Over there they have some hope of beating Wazzu, but the fear is an 0-3 finish.  So either way 1-3 or 0-4 would mean no bowl game.  There are some dreaming of 2-2 type finishes by beating both Washingtons, but most are putting those dreamers in their place.

But few over there are predicting a C.a.l win against Stanford.  Only those, "Anything can happen" types are even clinging to the notion of a Big Game win.  And that is on their board, so as outlandish as RA seems, his comments would be taken with resignation over in b.ea.r land.

For me, I need to see Mansion play a game with a week of reps.  My guess is that his Wazzu road game level of play will be close to best case for him.  He was a great HS talent, so he might be OK in the end.

However after Wazzu C.a.l gets that physically demanding game against the Ducks.  That game seems to beat everyone up, so that alone would be a good thing for the team that plays C.a.l after Oregon.

Oh, hey, look that is Stanford!

So it is hard not to understand the be.ar.backer concerns.  Two weeks ago Mansion was not even ready to play at the end of that trainwreck USC game.  Now, all of the sudden, he will be leading C.a.l against the best Pac-10 teams in back-to-back weeks in November?

One can never be comfortable going into Big Game, but it is hard to imagine late October looking any better for Stanford\'s Big Game prospects.

[Farm93]

kal has major problems this year. No way they beat us. Oregon State lost james rodgers - I don\'t think they have the horses this year. Arizona is good, but it\'s at home and foles hasn\'t played a game in weeks.

The only teams that can challenge us are teams with tons of super-fast players, and we already played them: SC and Oregon.

I think we win the rest of our games.

Umm, you haven\'t been following Big Game for long, have you?

Oddly Red Army\'s view would fit right in on the be.ar.backer boards.  They are absolutely convinced that the C.a.l team is looking at a 1-3 or 0-4 type finish.  Over there they have some hope of beating Wazzu, but the fear is an 0-3 finish.  So either way 1-3 or 0-4 would mean no bowl game.  There are some dreaming of 2-2 type finishes by beating both Washingtons, but most are putting those dreamers in their place.

But few over there are predicting a C.a.l win against Stanford.  Only those, "Anything can happen" types are even clinging to the notion of a Big Game win.  And that is on their board, so as outlandish as RA seems, his comments would be taken with resignation over in b.ea.r land.

For me, I need to see Mansion play a game with a week of reps.  My guess is that his Wazzu road game level of play will be close to best case for him.  He was a great HS talent, so he might be OK in the end.

However after Wazzu C.a.l gets that physically demanding game against the Ducks.  That game seems to beat everyone up, so that alone would be a good thing for the team that plays C.a.l after Oregon.

Oh, hey, look that is Stanford!

So it is hard not to understand the be.ar.backer concerns.  Two weeks ago Mansion was not even ready to play at the end of that trainwreck USC game.  Now, all of the sudden, he will be leading C.a.l against the best Pac-10 teams in back-to-back weeks in November?

One can never be comfortable going into Big Game, but it is hard to imagine late October looking any better for Stanford\'s Big Game prospects.