Are Jarrett Finau and Taniela Tupou worth anything?

Passion

They both seem useless.

(Man I like this website. This post would've gotten me a warning and a deletion.)

PostGameOrangeSlices

I hear theyll make great ice cream truck drivers

Swaye

I have no idea. Did they even play last week (man I need to stop drinking so I can look for this shit)?

If they aren't playing when we are subbing guys like crazy, then I suppose that is the answer.

They suck.

Better question, who all on the DL played? What about Turpin, etc?

TTJ

Finau, Tupou, and Turpin all played.

Swaye

Well then, let's review the game tape and see if they were on skates or not.

RoadDawg55

I focused on Potoae when he came in(and have often since 2010) and like always, he was on skates getting no push.

HeretoBeatmyChest

I think Potoae was in on the 4th down stuff and did fine there.

To answer Passion's original question: No. Both will be suddenly seniored.

Anyone have any thoughts on Cree? Him & Hudson had the most tackles for DL.

RoadDawg55

HeretoBeatmyChest said:

I think Potoae was in on the 4th down stuff and did fine there.

To answer Passion's original question: No. Both will be suddenly seniored.

Anyone have any thoughts on Cree? Him & Hudson had the most tackles for DL.

He was in, but he had nothing to do with it except getting stoned by the guard.

bananasnblondes

Does anyone know which of the backup OL saw time?

Did Tufunga get any snaps? Did Eldrenkamp, Fuvai, Hindy (lol), or Brostek play any meaningful minutes or were they just in on garbage time?

RoadDawg55

Pretty much all of those guys played during the Cyler Miles series.

jmc84

RoadDawg55 said:

Pretty much all of those guys played during the Cyler Miles series.

Which is fucking stupid. I think it's idiotic to burn a chance to redshirt Brostek when there was absolutely no necessity to play him. I also read/heard that Sark said there is a good chance Coleman Shelton will play this year, which is also ridiculous. I don't give a shit how good that kid is, there's no reason for him to be higher than 6th in line to play tackle behind Hatchie, Riva, Charles, Atoe, and Eldrenkamp. Seeing Brostek come into the game Saturday took a little bit of the luster off of that win for me, and I'll lose my shit if Shelton plays for any reason other than there being no other healthy options to play tackle. We started to see a little bit of the benefits of playing older, redshirted OL on Saturday. Not that the OL was outstanding, but they were pretty decent.

RoadDawg55

jmc84 said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Pretty much all of those guys played during the Cyler Miles series.

Which is fucking stupid. I think it's idiotic to burn a chance to redshirt Brostek when there was absolutely no necessity to play him. I also read/heard that Sark said there is a good chance Coleman Shelton will play this year, which is also ridiculous. I don't give a shit how good that kid is, there's no reason for him to be higher than 6th in line to play tackle behind Hatchie, Riva, Charles, Atoe, and Eldrenkamp. Seeing Brostek come into the game Saturday took a little bit of the luster off of that win for me, and I'll lose my shit if Shelton plays for any reason other than there being no other healthy options to play tackle. We started to see a little bit of the benefits of playing older, redshirted OL on Saturday. Not that the OL was outstanding, but they were pretty decent.

I wouldn't say it took the luster off the win, but when I saw Brostek in there, I did think, ugh, why? We could have put in someone else, and I don't really see the point of playing him.

I totally agree on Shelton and it shocked me to hear Sark might play him this year. All the guys you named are playing before him at tackle. It is interesting to note, that the coaches were going to greyshirt Coleman before a spot opened up. Makes me wonder about the evaluation when a few weeks later, he is the freshman that is furthest along.

I have always been somewhat critical of Sark's willingness to throw freshmen to the fire. For Shaq, ASJ, Kasen, even Sankey, it made sense, but we have wasted some guys. I would love to have Kevin Smith as a 5th year senior next year, and we already miss Tokalahi this year. Ducre is another guy that we will probably miss next year, and he wasn't ready in 2010 to play. I don't get why Darrell Daniels is playing when he is about our 8th or 9th best WR. Why waste a guy when he isn't actually ready when they will be much better players when they are 5th year seniors?

jmc84

That's why I said it took a little bit of the luster off. I was feeling pretty awesome, and then when I saw Brostek in, my reaction was pretty much the same as yours. I'm with you though, I don't get Sark's rationale for playing certain frosh. Some guys are so good that there's no debate, but if playing a kid isn't going to be the difference between winning and losing, why the hell do it? I can kind of understand playing Daniels on ST, because physically he's ready, which can keep some of our starters on D from playing ST. It's the kids who aren't physically there yet that make no sense. Ducre is a perfect example of that. He looks like he's really improved, and if he was coming back next year, we might have the best corner tandem in the country. Hope those few plays in 2010 were worth it.

bananasnblondes

RoadDawg55 said:

RoadDawg55 said:

Pretty much all of those guys played during the Cyler Miles series.

Which is fucking stupid. I think it's idiotic to burn a chance to redshirt Brostek when there was absolutely no necessity to play him. I also read/heard that Sark said there is a good chance Coleman Shelton will play this year, which is also ridiculous. I don't give a shit how good that kid is, there's no reason for him to be higher than 6th in line to play tackle behind Hatchie, Riva, Charles, Atoe, and Eldrenkamp. Seeing Brostek come into the game Saturday took a little bit of the luster off of that win for me, and I'll lose my shit if Shelton plays for any reason other than there being no other healthy options to play tackle. We started to see a little bit of the benefits of playing older, redshirted OL on Saturday. Not that the OL was outstanding, but they were pretty decent.

I wouldn't say it took the luster off the win, but when I saw Brostek in there, I did think, ugh, why? We could have put in someone else, and I don't really see the point of playing him.

I totally agree on Shelton and it shocked me to hear Sark might play him this year. All the guys you named are playing before him at tackle. It is interesting to note, that the coaches were going to greyshirt Coleman before a spot opened up. Makes me wonder about the evaluation when a few weeks later, he is the freshman that is furthest along.

I have always been somewhat critical of Sark's willingness to throw freshmen to the fire. For Shaq, ASJ, Kasen, even Sankey, it made sense, but we have wasted some guys. I would love to have Kevin Smith as a 5th year senior next year, and we already miss Tokalahi this year. Ducre is another guy that we will probably miss next year, and he wasn't ready in 2010 to play. I don't get why Darrell Daniels is playing when he is about our 8th or 9th best WR. Why waste a guy when he isn't actually ready when they will be much better players when they are 5th year seniors?



On the other hand, they could be playing him because he sucks and they don't want to waste a year of eligibility on him. I know he was the "would have been a 5 star if he was from California" in the minds of many purple shaded fans but he played in a high school league in high school that was comparable to a middle school league here, he looked absolutely terrible last year, and the coaches had nothing good to say about him during camp.