The PAC12 THREAD v.2

[mrwallace2ku]

^ have not, how's it taste after a 160 years?

 

[mrwallace2ku]

^ lolz...

 

[RegentDenali]

Here's a better pic of the tweaked 2014 UW uniforms. There will be the traditional purple and golds which will be worn at home most of the time. The shade of Purple and Gold is much more of the of what we had through the Don James era. I love it.
Black alt homes will be worn once or twice a year.
Road whites.
That's it. Nice. Simple. Absolutely UW.

One thing you can't see on the unis when worn, but there is this graphic sewn into the inside neck collar. It represents the fastest sled dog formation.

Go Dawgs!!!

 

[WizardHawk]

Ricky sweater-vest was on the radio and an online chat in Seattle today and said his early pick is UCLA. We all know his ties to that school and his kid still does play there, but his reason was Hundley.

His dark horse is Arizona. He feels they have a crazy deep and talented group at WR and depending on who's at the helm it could end up being a long year for anyone facing them.

 

[Boise4Life]

I think they look sick. That sand paper texture looks like it could hurt while getting tackled. Not sure about that part of it.

 

[Destroydacre]

I hope you had your sarcasm font on and I just couldn't tell

Nope, just the idiot font.

 

[RegentDenali]

I think they look sick. That sand paper texture looks like it could hurt while getting tackled. Not sure about that part of it.

I don't think it will be coarse in anyway. Probably very smooth to the touch.

 

[RegentDenali]

Mora has been recruiting lights out since he's arrived, plus Hundley is back. Their roster is really starting to look scary.

USC will be dealing with an entirely new coaching crew and still razor thin at depth for most positions. The Zona schools have been recruiting well and Zona pulled Nike U.'s pants down last year. They are moving in the right direction.

I do think right now, UCLA is the fav from the south for 2014. Hundley and that deep corps of receivers he's got is going to do a lot of damage.

 

[WizardHawk]

He wasn't just saying the south, he was saying the whole conference. I think he believes the conference champs will be in the south this year.

 

[RegentDenali]

He wasn't just saying the south, he was saying the whole conference. I think he believes the conference champs will be in the south this year.

We'll they will be one of the favorites for sure. Their schedule is pretty doable. Ducks, Furd, Zona and USC all at the Rose Bowl this year. Texas, Washington, and ASU on the road. Two bye weeks. I'd say their odds are pretty good at getting to the PAC champ game. Winning it vs. the PAC north champ will be another story. But UCLA could really take it to the next level this year.

 

[seahawksfan234]

Shaddup Duck. We got 3 base uniforms. You sport a new one every week. Your uniform
trophy case is bigger than your bowl trophy case. Sad.

 

[seahawksfan234]

In Hawaii, ( Maui to be specific) your driving on a highway down there and its posted 35 or 45 in certain spots. Now it's not like there is a scenic spot or anything but that is there speed limit...

My next trip will probably be to Hawaii. I'm the only person I know who has never gone. Couldn't afford it growing up, but I can afford it now.

As far as the unis go, I think they look fine. I mean they are uniforms, I'm not going to get upset or be ecstatic over them lol. This is football, not a fashion show.

I would contribute more if I had more to add, but much of my material requires people to link to articles, and I have noticed a lack of interest in that on this board.

I find them pretty interesting. I still have the one article you posted regarding paying college football players opened in my tabs, haven't got to it yet.

Here's the deal.........

Do your cardio after you work out or first thing in the morning before you eat because blood sugar levels are fundamental in metabolizing fat or catabolizing muscle. You need those sugar levels high to lift and low to fat burn. If you try to lift after doing cardio you will catabolize muscle. If you try cardio with high glycogen levels you will spend most of your 'cardio' time just expending your blood sugar levels and get very limited results burning fat stores.

Now, here is where I find most of the confusion coming from. Most often when people go to work out they confuse their warm-up with their cardio time and end up doing their cardio time first and then hit the weights.

This is ass backwards because you expel all your glycogen levels on cardio and really get no metabolic fat burning results and now have no blood sugar levels required to lift. (This will cause you to lose muscle). You really need your glycogen stores to lift. Once you expel them by lifting, then you can do your cardio and your body has no choice but to use your fat stores. (You will also spend less cardio time and get much better fat loss results)

Also, if you are doing the exercise bike or some other cardio machine, stay away from the 'hills' or 'climbing levels'. (Those are for all the people who don't lift) Find a level that gives you some resistance because all you really need is a high intensity effort to get your heart rate up. (Kind of like running as fast as you can for as long as you can) With no blood sugar levles, believe me, if wont be far however the intensity will maximized. This will tax your 'endurance levels' quickly, which plays a fundamental role in reducing fat stores yet limits muscle catabolism.

Again, make sure to warm up before lifting and I always recommend stretching too (This will prevent those lifting injuries). I hope this helped out because health wise, cardio is far better for you then lifting would ever be in most cases.

Great post. Saved that to my documents for future discussions regarding cardio and lifting since I tend to post on bodybuilding.com occasionally and also have discussions about it IRL with friends. Thanks for the info, Vitamike.

That sounds pretty damn cool Buddha, though if we bring SF234 and Mikey they might make us work out the next day after a good night of drinking, personally I wouldn't want to sleep it off or or check out eye candy poolside...

I'm laying off the booze for a while (i.e. a week or two), got really fucked up last Thursday and did something massively retarded.

 

[seahawksfan234]

I root for UCLA whenever it does not conflict with UW's goals. Mora got a raw deal up here in Seattle with the Seahawks and I really respect the loyalty he showed to UCLA by not ditching them and heading up to UW. Wish him nothing but success down there.

 

[theSabanator20]

Gross. Gimmicky. Tacky.

It's football not a fashion show.


Those should all sound familiar to UDud's hypocritical fans

You do realize the level of hypocrisy you just went over is about 9,000...

 

[socaljim242]

ya, they aren't game experienced. But that really has never been a problem for the Ducks. They turn over players all the time and have the next guy up ready to go so you never even knew they were gone.

Happens with RBs and WRs. And even QBs. But we all can recognize the Ducks have never had anything like Mariota.

No team in the country gets close to the Ducks in number of reps in practice. So the guys are ready.

Brown, C Allen, D Allen, Stanford, Lowe, Kelly all will be in the mix @ WR.

For all their offensive success in the past 6 years or so Oregon really hasn't produced an equal amount of NFL talent on that side of the ball save for the RB position. I don;t know how it was on the CBC board but on the sEcPN boards we got yearly reports about can't miss new WRs who run 4.3 (pretty must every Oregon player including the punter ran 4.4 or better according to them) and were gonna be nightmares to cover. But to be honest they have all seemed like the same guy . All interchangeable 5'9-6'0 quick guys with good hands who produced but none who were so dangerous you had to focus on him. No Sammy Watkins , Marquise Lee types. You can't argue with the numbers the Oregon offense put up but now teams are more than ever focused on the HUNH and are beginning use smaller LBs and or bringing saftey types to defend that offense.
I'm wondering if Oregon will be able to continue being the offensive monster they have been with their type of WRs and their system if teams like USC-UCLA -Stanford start putting 4-5 star NFL type safties at LB to stop the run and cover WRs. Should be interesting.

 

[trojanfan12]

We'll they will be one of the favorites for sure. Their schedule is pretty doable. Ducks, Furd, Zona and USC all at the Rose Bowl this year. Texas, Washington, and ASU on the road. Two bye weeks. I'd say their odds are pretty good at getting to the PAC champ game. Winning it vs. the PAC north champ will be another story. But UCLA could really take it to the next level this year.

UCLA will be fine on offense, but they have a question mark on defense. They lost some guys there, including Barr and Zumwalt who were the heart and soul of their defense.

If they can effectively replace those 2, they have a great chance of winning the PAC and making the playoff. If not, they could fall to 3rd or 4th in the South depending on how USC, and the Arizona schools do.

 

[socaljim242]

UCLA will be fine on offense, but they have a question mark on defense. They lost some guys there, including Barr and Zumwalt who were the heart and soul of their defense.

If they can effectively replace those 2, they have a great chance of winning the PAC and making the playoff. If not, they could fall to 3rd or 4th in the South depending on how USC, and the Arizona schools do.

UCLA returns a ton on offense and defense ( the most of any pac 12 team I think I read ) they will be tough this year.

 

[trojanfan12]

UCLA returns a ton on offense and defense ( the most of any pac 12 team I think I read ) they will be tough this year.

No doubt they'll be tough. Barr and Zumwalt were huge losses though. A lot will be determined by whether or not guys step up and take those roles. The South is going to be no joke this year.

I'd have to pick UCLA as the favorite, but I wouldn't be surprised if USC or either Arizona school ended up winning the South.

 

[WizardHawk]

USC is not going to win the south. They won't come in second either. Really not a chance in hell that happens. Brand new coachs, brand new offense, no experienced top QB, serious lack of depth.

It will be UCLA or Zona with an outside chance ASU can put it all together this year.

Might be the clearest the south has looked before a season since we went to this format.

 

[mrwallace2ku]

Mora has been recruiting lights out since he's arrived, plus Hundley is back. Their roster is really starting to look scary.

USC will be dealing with an entirely new coaching crew and still razor thin at depth for most positions. The Zona schools have been recruiting well and Zona pulled Nike U.'s pants down last year. They are moving in the right direction.

I do think right now, UCLA is the fav from the south for 2014. Hundley and that deep corps of receivers he's got is going to do a lot of damage.

This will be the 2nd straight year in a row the Beavers do not play UCLA, last time we played them we beat them down in Cali.

When they coming to Corvallis again? Perhaps for the Pac12 Champ game this year...