Cal-Poly GWFC member news

Originally Posted by SloStang

The biggest question for Cal Poly is how they will do replacing their two defensive ends Chris Gocong and Matt Chacere . *They have two juniors that have seen playing time the last two years and they have two Rfr who they are hoping will jump ahead of the juniors. *Gocong and Chacere's production on defense will be missed, but overall the defense returns eight starters, six of which are seniors. *If they are able to do a good job replacing the DE position, the defense should be even stronger than last year.

Poly was great all over on Defense last year. I don't think you will be replacing the DE's with another Gocong, but I doubt your defense will be any less impressive overall.

[SloStang]

Originally Posted by Gil Dobie

[quote author=SloStang link=1148611346/0#5 date=1148738466]The biggest question for Cal Poly is how they will do replacing their two defensive ends Chris Gocong and Matt Chacere . *They have two juniors that have seen playing time the last two years and they have two Rfr who they are hoping will jump ahead of the juniors. *Gocong and Chacere's production on defense will be missed, but overall the defense returns eight starters, six of which are seniors. *If they are able to do a good job replacing the DE position, the defense should be even stronger than last year.

Poly was great all over on Defense last year. *I don't think you will be replacing the DE's with another Gocong, but I doubt your defense will be any less impressive overall.[/quote]
I agree that it is almost impossibe to replace a player like Chris Gocong. *I also agree that although Cal Poly will not be as strong at the DE position, the rest of the positions will be upgraded with all the returning players with talented young players backing them up.

NDSU defense was impressive and the top GWFC defense in total yards and points allowed last season and I expect they will be tough again this year. *The GWFC has three of the top I-AA defenses with NDSU, Davis and Cal Poly. *SDSU is also a very physical defense that will get better as they bring in more speed.

[SloStang]

Matt Dougherty's rankings of RB is out at the Sports Network. He ranks James Noble as the 5th best RB and Kyle Steffes as the 14th. Once again the GWFC is well represented.

[MplsBison]

Originally Posted by SloStang

Cal Poly's spring practice should really be called winter practice seeing that it ran form Feb. 15th through March 6th. Ellerson does this is because it then gives the team over five months of unenterupted conditioning and gives any players with spring injuries time to heal before summer camp. The draw back is that JC transfers do not get to go through spring (winter) practice. This is not usualy a big problem with Cal Poly seeing they do not bring in very many JC players and if they do they often red shirt them. This year the brought in two, an offensive lineman and a defensive back.

Cal Poly has a new strength and conditioning coach this year that came from San Diego State. From what I have heard he is pushing the team hard. Spring quarter end June 9th and the team will get a one week break before summer conditioning starts. Last year they had over 90% of the returning players in the summer program.

I have talked to a few players and they feel that they should have made a deeper run in the playoffs. They put so much into getting their first win in Montana they did not have the same intensity against Texas State. They feel that they have a team that can go all the way this year, but they also realize that they have a tough schedule with two IA games and trips to Weber State, Montana and NDSU and home games against Davis and SDSU.

Should be a great season for the GWFC. What is the news with the NDSU football program?

I believe that once the stadium is completly done (20k seats?) and if Poly spends some money for more football practice facilities (indoor, weight room, meeting rooms, locker room, coaches offices) they can easily win some titles in I-AA and start looking at I-A.

[SloStang]

Cal Poly listed Matt Kirschner on their spring roster. Kirschner is a transfer from Hawaii and is listed as a 5'10" 175, So WR. Kirschner was a Rivals.com two star recruit in 2004 coming out of Campbell Hall HS in Pasadena. Also Drew Robinson, a transfer from Nevada in spring of 2005 that left the team for personal reasons, returned this spring and will get time at both FB and TB and give the team some good depth. He was also a two star recruit who ran for over 2,000 yards and scored 45 TDs his senior year in HS. He is listed at 5'11" 195 and he will be a Jr in 2006.

[MplsBison]

With their recent success and revamped stadium, I think Poly is going to be the team in the GWFC for the next couple of years.

Then when NDSU can start getting DI-A transfers on a regular basis, we'll take over.

Originally Posted by MplsBison

With their recent success and revamped stadium, I think Poly is going to be the team in the GWFC for the next couple of years.

Then when NDSU can start getting DI-A transfers on a regular basis, we'll take over.

Do you have any information to backup that I-A transfers have made Cal Poly a power in the GWFC?

[MplsBison]

Originally Posted by Gil Dobie

Do you have any information to backup that I-A transfers have made Cal Poly a power in the GWFC?

They haven't, yet.

[SloStang]

Originally Posted by MplsBison

With their recent success and revamped stadium, I think Poly is going to be the team in the GWFC for the next couple of years.

Then when NDSU can start getting DI-A transfers on a regular basis, we'll take over.

I think that both NDSU and Davis both will challenge Cal Poly this year for the GWFC championship and SDSU is not far behind. *Even after the first phase of the stadium renovation is completed, the FargoDome will still be king of the hill when it comes to GWFC stadiums. *

[MplsBison]

No doubt that NDSU will challenge Poly for the title every season.

But after last season when Poly basically ran away from us with blazing speed, NDSU has some recruiting work to do. That will take a couple years as we come out of transition.


It will take Davis longer as they're not up to full scholarships yet and their stadium seems to be taking longer to build for some reason. But they'll be there in a few years.