There is absolutely no reason to bet this game unless your bookie is an ASU student and only takes action on one game.
ASU die hards like myself and devilfan dont know about how Rudy is going to react to this Cal loss (His first loss with any sort of pressure) and/or IF RUDY IS ANY GOOD.
Rudy played soft defense towards the end of last season, no to mention playing under NO pressure as he was the "redshirt freshman coming in" to replace the Junior QB, not expected to be much. All of a sudden he blows up and leads the nation in pass efficiency last year, and ASU goes into this year with a HEAVY burden on a Sophomore QB that had a NFL receiver and 2 good, fast SENIRO WR's to throw to towards the end of last year playing soft defenses. Now he has 2 Sophomores, a rFR, a Senior that only cares about kickoff and punt returns and a senior that was injured (Burgess).
U of A was probably the best defense he played last year and he didn't play all that great. Maybe that should have been a sign.
All in all..stay away. I wouldn't even bet the over with each team looking to be running the ball a lot.
Marranuski, for once we agree. You still a dick but we can see eye to eye everyonce in awhile :142smilie .
Andrew Carnahan is out for the year. His MRI showed damage to his ACL but they can't tell how severe it is until the swelling and deep bone bruise in his knee subside. He was our starting LT and also our best OL. He will be drafted in this coming NFL draft, would have been a top-3 round pick but who knows now. This hurts bad. It won't be that bad if our other OL can stay healthy but it will disrupt the line this week. If anyone else remembers, we had some lineman get hurt last year before the Oregon game and it screwed us up big time. We lost to Oregon and a horrible Stanford team 2 weeks in a row. Continuity on a OL is key, guys get used to blocking next to each other and that will be disrupted for us this week.
Rudy Burgess has been going through drills this weeks at practice but hasn't done any hitting. He was out of last weeks game with a "neck strain" but I think he still had lingering effects of a concussion he got earlier this season. IMO, he will play this week. This will be a huge addition for us has he is our best WR. He is a Reggie Bush tyoe player- a very good RB, very good WR, good special teamer, and plays DB occasionally. I'm not saying he is Reggie Bush but he is very underrated.
Keagan Herring supposedly has looked great this week in practice. He is our starting RB who missed last weeks game with a strained hamstring. They said in the paper he has been running great. Herring and Torain are a great 1-2 combo that should be taken very seriously.
No idea what to think of Rudy Carpenter. No one will have confidence in him until he has confidence in himself. That will start with performance.
