2016 Spring Football

[angrychicken]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

[HJS]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

Inept. Feckless. And the likely choice for most reading this board... impotent.

Sloppy goes more towards motivation (see coach's quote about "fun") and less to due with coaching incompetence or players bereft of talent. I'd say the author was sloppy in her choice of adjectives, but her repetitive use makes it likely that "sloppy" was her best effort.

All that said, 6-2 in a Spring Game means as much to me as the Gold team wearing white. You can try to spin it as the end of the season if you like, but it comes off contrived. Plenty of real shit to complain about. Bitching about Spring Game scores detracts from that.

[angrychicken]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

Inept. Feckless. And the likely choice for most reading this board... impotent.

Sloppy goes more towards motivation (see coach's quote about "fun") and less to due with coaching incompetence or players bereft of talent. I'd say the author was sloppy in her choice of adjectives, but her repetitive use makes it likely that "sloppy" was her best effort.

All that said, 6-2 in a Spring Game means as much to me as the Gold team wearing white. You can try to spin it as the end of the season if you like, but it comes off contrived. Plenty of real shit to complain about. Bitching about Spring Game scores detracts from that.

From your obsession with the female writer to your concern about "real shit", this was a sloppy post.

After suffering through a season watching the most inept offense in college football, I was hoping for at least one touchdown, just for "fun".

[claver2010]

Alabama's spring game score: 7-3

[HJS]

After suffering through a season watching the most inept offense in college football, I was hoping for at least one touchdown, just for "fun".

Fair. But, I gotta say I'm a bit surprised. I had no idea that you so enjoy spending your Saturdays watching bad football that you dedicated a gorgeous Spring weekend to the Spring Game. I guess a girl needs a way to unwind after a night wiener kissing and gorging on Chinese food.

[eagle9903]

I think HJS is right, about the chinese food at least.

[eagle9903]

by the way has anyone noticed that my delicious wang is bigger than Huangs?

[angrychicken]

After suffering through a season watching the most inept offense in college football, I was hoping for at least one touchdown, just for "fun".

Fair. But, I gotta say I'm a bit surprised. I had no idea that you so enjoy spending your Saturdays watching bad football that you dedicated a gorgeous Spring weekend to the Spring Game. I guess a girl needs a way to unwind after a night wiener kissing and gorging on Chinese food.

Don't get mad at me because I don't enjoy driving around the Dirty Jerz trying to lure teenage boys into my panel van with sweet talk about their length and fluid hips.

[HJS]

After suffering through a season watching the most inept offense in college football, I was hoping for at least one touchdown, just for "fun".

Fair. But, I gotta say I'm a bit surprised. I had no idea that you so enjoy spending your Saturdays watching bad football that you dedicated a gorgeous Spring weekend to the Spring Game. I guess a girl needs a way to unwind after a night wiener kissing and gorging on Chinese food.

Don't get mad at me because I don't enjoy driving around the Dirty Jerz trying to lure teenage boys into my panel van with sweet talk about their length and fluid hips.

Typical premature postulation. Schiano is still a good 9 months away from being hired as our coach.

[angrychicken]

After suffering through a season watching the most inept offense in college football, I was hoping for at least one touchdown, just for "fun".

Fair. But, I gotta say I'm a bit surprised. I had no idea that you so enjoy spending your Saturdays watching bad football that you dedicated a gorgeous Spring weekend to the Spring Game. I guess a girl needs a way to unwind after a night wiener kissing and gorging on Chinese food.

Don't get mad at me because I don't enjoy driving around the Dirty Jerz trying to lure teenage boys into my panel van with sweet talk about their length and fluid hips.

Typical premature postulation. Schiano is still a good 9 months away from being hired as our coach.

I figured that you were part of the advance team. That rape room doesn't fill itself. On second thought, maybe it does. It's Jersey.

[twballgame9]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

Your boy had like 200 yards passing in a half of football. The offense was a pleasant surprise. The red zone offense, like the punts they were forced to fair catch inside the 2 so that the offense would be in that situation, were a by product of not really giving a fuck about the score.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

...not really giving a fuck about the score.

so kinda like last year?

[DomingoOrtiz]

Globe:

By Tim Healey GLOBE CORRESPONDENT APRIL 17, 2016
Patrick Towles spent the first 18 years of his life in Fort Thomas, Ky., a small town near the northern tip of the state along the Ohio River, and the four after that in Lexington, playing quarterback for the University of Kentucky.

Then, this past January Towles picked up and moved a 14-hour drive away from his parents and the car he drove around campus, and many of his 35 first cousins, to try to win the starting QB job at Boston College.


No more family. No more car. A lot more walking.

“It’s a lot different,” Towles said Saturday between signing autographs and taking pictures with fans after BC’s spring game, a souped-up intrasquad scrimmage to cap the six-week spring practice season.

“I’ve downloaded Uber and I’ve used that a ton — probably way more than my mom is happy about. That’s probably been the biggest difference.

“For the first month and a half, it took me a little while to get adjusted. Everything moves a little faster up here.”

The adjustment — in life and in football — is progressing.


Towles, a 6-foot-5-inch, 238-pound fifth-year transfer, won’t know if he’s successful in his pursuit of the starting job until closer to the start of the season in September. But Saturday afternoon at Alumni Stadium, he started opposite redshirt sophomore Darius Wade in the exhibition.

The play wasn’t as pretty as the weather. Wind knocked the football off the tee before the opening kickoff, and there were no touchdowns. Wade’s Maroon team beat Towles’s White team, 6-2.

Towles completed two of his four official pass attempts, with several more called back, while showing some zip with his right arm. Wade threw for 181 yards on 13-for-19 passing, albeit on a day when statistics — with teams a mishmash of the depth chart after a player-run draft on Friday — weren’t necessarily all that meaningful.

Wade and Towles are in effect battling for the No. 1 spot, with two other quarterbacks — sophomore John Fadule and freshman Anthony Brown — also on the roster. (Two players who saw time under center for the Eagles last fall, sophomores Troy Flutie of Natick and Jeff Smith, are converting to receiver.)

Injury-marred quarterback depth contributed to a 3-9 season (0-8 in the ACC) for BC last season. Now, coach Steve Addazio has options, a development he is pleased with.

“That’s as good as I’ve seen guys chuck it around. They were throwing it well,” Addazio said. “Couple of drops out there on [Towles], but he chucked it.”

He didn’t wait long to chuck it, either. On his first play from scrimmage, Towles tossed the ball nearly 50 yards downfield, well over the heads of his receiver and the opposing cornerback. On the first play of the second quarter, Towles hit junior Thadd Smith with a rocket along the left sideline near midfield.

Towles credits part of that arm strength to genetics. His maternal grandfather is Hall of Fame pitcher and former US Senator Jim Bunning.

If you think that’s cool, well, Towles gets that reaction a lot.

“I always say, I’ve got a good right arm in my blood,” Towles said. “He’s an ultracompetitor — he still is, at 84 years old.”

So now the spring season is over, and Towles’s continued acclimation will come more on a social level than an on-field one. He’s only known his new teammates and been at his new school for three months, after all, after being at Kentucky for four years and serving as starter for two.

“When you’re part of a new team, you’re practicing with new guys, it takes you a while to get used to them,” Towles said, noting that BC’s offense is a lot different than Kentucky’s. “It’s more complex, but I like it. It’s going to prepare me well — hopefully — for the next level. It’s a lot of different packages, a lot of shifts and motions. I’m excited.”

[angrychicken]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

Your boy had like 200 yards passing in a half of football. The offense was a pleasant surprise. The red zone offense, like the punts they were forced to fair catch inside the 2 so that the offense would be in that situation, were a by product of not really giving a fuck about the score.

Trust the staff

[twballgame9]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

Your boy had like 200 yards passing in a half of football. The offense was a pleasant surprise. The red zone offense, like the punts they were forced to fair catch inside the 2 so that the offense would be in that situation, were a by product of not really giving a fuck about the score.

Trust the staff

They ran the ball like 8 times all day, and I can't recall them trying in the red zone. Is it your expectation that a Coach Sarge team will do this when Hilliman is suited up?

Has nothing to do with trusting the stupid staff. It was a pretty worthless scrimmage.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

... It was a pretty worthless scrimmage.

so kinda like last year

[twballgame9]

... It was a pretty worthless scrimmage.

so kinda like last year

I don't know. I only know that Wade looked really good, they threw a lot, the receivers caught a lot of balls, including tough catches, and they weren't really concerned about red zone offense. It was also a nice day, and the team appeared to have a lot of fun. Oh, and they are going to get to the QB a shit ton.

[DavidGordonsFoot]

BC's offense is more complex than Kentucky's? Really?

[Corporal Funishment]

BC's offense is more complex than Kentucky's? Really?

We must have dozens of different ways to shift our tight ends around before we hand the ball off straight up the middle!

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

the end of the wake game would suggest that it's so complex... we couldn't run a play

[angrychicken]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

Your boy had like 200 yards passing in a half of football. The offense was a pleasant surprise. The red zone offense, like the punts they were forced to fair catch inside the 2 so that the offense would be in that situation, were a by product of not really giving a fuck about the score.

I hope, at the very least, that Wade's play put to rest the notion that Towles should be the de facto starter.

At the end of the day, it's just a scrimmage and is not entirely indicative of what is going to be shown in the fall. However, after having trouble putting it into the endzone last season, I was hoping to see some evidence of being able to finish a drive. Maybe I was expecting too much. Addazio must know what he's doing. He gits it.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

Your boy had like 200 yards passing in a half of football. The offense was a pleasant surprise. The red zone offense, like the punts they were forced to fair catch inside the 2 so that the offense would be in that situation, were a by product of not really giving a fuck about the score.

I hope, at the very least, that Wade's play put to rest the notion that Towles should be the de facto starter.

At the end of the day, it's just a scrimmage and is not entirely indicative of what is going to be shown in the fall. However, after having trouble putting it into the endzone last season, I was hoping to see some evidence of being able to finish a drive. Maybe I was expecting too much. Addazio must know what he's doing. He gits it.

they were playing against the #1 defense in the country. of course they couldn't score.

c'mon huang, you and the staff are better than that

[twballgame9]

I hope, at the very least, that Wade's play put to rest the notion that Towles should be the de facto starter.

He looked good. Again, meaningless scrimmage. Doubt it mattered one bit in the decision.

[angrychicken]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

Your boy had like 200 yards passing in a half of football. The offense was a pleasant surprise. The red zone offense, like the punts they were forced to fair catch inside the 2 so that the offense would be in that situation, were a by product of not really giving a fuck about the score.

I hope, at the very least, that Wade's play put to rest the notion that Towles should be the de facto starter.

At the end of the day, it's just a scrimmage and is not entirely indicative of what is going to be shown in the fall. However, after having trouble putting it into the endzone last season, I was hoping to see some evidence of being able to finish a drive. Maybe I was expecting too much. Addazio must know what he's doing. He gits it.

they were playing against the #1 defense in the country. of course they couldn't score.

c'mon huang, you and the staff are better than that

No, we're not.

[eagle9903]

6-2. Use whatever adjective you want.

Your boy had like 200 yards passing in a half of football. The offense was a pleasant surprise. The red zone offense, like the punts they were forced to fair catch inside the 2 so that the offense would be in that situation, were a by product of not really giving a fuck about the score.

I hope, at the very least, that Wade's play put to rest the notion that Towles should be the de facto starter.

At the end of the day, it's just a scrimmage and is not entirely indicative of what is going to be shown in the fall. However, after having trouble putting it into the endzone last season, I was hoping to see some evidence of being able to finish a drive. Maybe I was expecting too much. Addazio must know what he's doing. He gits it.

Towles should obviously start, 1) he's from the SEC; and 2) he's older.

[twballgame9]

I just hope they don't make the same mistake and give the job to a 5th year senior from the SEC again.

[angrychicken]

I just hope they don't make the same mistake and give the job to a 5th year senior from the SEC again.

[TobaccoRoadEagle]

I just hope they don't make the same mistake and give the job to a 5th year senior from the SEC again.

this reads like something hansen would post.

there, i said it

[twballgame9]

I just hope they don't make the same mistake and give the job to a 5th year senior from the SEC again.

this reads like something hansen would post.

there, i said it

I was channeling huang for a moment. I actually hope Wade wins the job, I just feel like perpetuating this stupid agenda.

[CorporalFunishment]

... perpetuating this stupid agenda...

Maybe I can be of some assistance.