On Friday night in CIS football action...
The No. 2 University of Calgary Dinos had their worst performance of the season and fell 12-9 to the No. 8 Regina Rams Friday night...it clearly wasn't the way the Dinos wanted to clinch their second straight first-place finish. It was an ugly night all around – the offence sputtered and gave up three turnovers that each had an impact on the game, special teams struggled to battle the Regina wind, and for the seventh consecutive game penalties were a major concern for the Dinos with 15 flags for 112 yards – and most of those at inopportune times.
It was a game in which the Dinos had every chance to succeed – and head coach Blake Nill pointed to an across-the-board lack of execution talking to QR77 radio after the game.
“It really came down to our inability to generate any kind of offence in the first half and the turnovers, one that resulted directly in seven points,” said Nill. “...and we just weren’t able to get it done. There were just too many mistakes tonight for us to be successful.”
I guess we have to forgive the Dinos; they were playing in a different time zone, and if there's one thing that team can't do, is win in a different time zone. With some exceptions, of course.
This is a fine capper to a week of positive failures. Last weekend we saw these delightful results:
Guelph 33 Queen's 28
Montreal 23 Laval 20
Laval losing once or twice makes the league seem so much less pointless. Queen's losing anytime is always good, especially since so many Queen's alums were mocking Western after their loss to Guelph. Seems to me I was taken to task for my praise of Guelph's offense. So, fuck Queen's. And to heck with the Dinos.
Interesting post but it is incomplete in its reporting and strange in its interpretation.
ReplyDeleteFirst, Nill's full quote was something like "We played so bad tonight that I doubt we would even beat Western... actually that's not fair to the boys. We could have a collective aneurism and still beat Western."
As for Guelph's ascendancy to the status of a good team... (crickets chirping)...
I was surprised to hear that Queen's lost to Guelph but hell, even Waterloo wins the odd game in the OUA. How many people were savvy enough to pick Waterloo over Windsor? It would take true football knowledge to have the guts to make that call. Unless of course the OUA is a shitty conference full of "parity" (a.k.a. equally shitty teams).
What you have to remember is that the Dinos play in the true scrub league, which is why their points against are so low. Calgary acts as target for good players, regardless of their academic abilities, and the rest of the west suffers. The OUA offers many, many good places to go to school and play football, so the talent is dispersed.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone picked Waterloo over Windsor. Only someone playing "always pick the home team" would even get close to making that choice. See, what you have to remember, is that there isn't true parity. Unless Waterloo is equal in ability to Queen's. If that's your argument, then yes, I agree with you.
What happened to this blog? It's a big white box now. Is this your new image? Clean borders, sharp grey/white contrasts?
ReplyDeleteJust making things cleaner. And a little harder for that fucking asshole Ponce to find stuff. Mainly I was bored.
ReplyDeleteLet's get back on point... Canada West is no scrub league like the OUA. Queen's is really more part of the Quebec conference as it was formerly in the OQIFC before getting rolled into the OUA. Queen's has dominated the OUA since moving to that conference but has been sporting enough to let Western win the odd year just to keep Cabbie and his cable sports channel covering Western and its douche bag fans.
ReplyDeleteOther than Laval and Montreal, there may not be a team the same calibre as the Dinos.
And, I just noticed that Calgary Dinos scored 78 points in a rout of Manitoba on Saturday. So much for your pissy little comment that they can't score.
ReplyDeletejust as I thought, the western d'bags have no response. The Dinos have scoreboard on their side.
ReplyDeleteJust a small point on the time zone thing and your link to Laval beating the dinos. Laval did not win the vanier cup and had to travel further than McMaster to participate. Both Laval and Mac played like shit reflecting that both struggled with the time zone change.
ReplyDeleteLaval crossed time zones and beat the Dinos, who can only win in Mountain time, except when they don't. And...Laval and Mac played like shit in the Vanier Cup last year? You mean the one that was called "the most spectacular and dramatic in history." Hmm.
ReplyDeleteSpectacular like Western versus Saskatchewan in the early mid 1990s where neither team could play more than one half of football. Queen's and Guelph was spectacular in the same way. Two teams taking turns playing shitty defence.
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