Right now, the scoreboard is saying that the end of last season was the aberration.
I haven’t read the comments yet. 190 is what I’m seeing as I start this. They should be fun.
The worst thing about a loss and a noon games is that I come back the same day. No drinking afterwards to try and lessen the pain. Just hanging around in the parking lot for a little while as the traffic lessens, then 2.5 hours of driving home. Alone with thoughts about the game and replaying much of what was seen.
From a marketing standpoint, this was an abject disaster. Bordering on a worst case scenario. The one thing that could not happen was Pitt to come out and flop. To lose at home to start the season. A team that showed very little that could be considered a positive. The team’s performance completely lost the crowd and turned them. A crowd that was looking to support, felt let down.
I haven’t even looked at the stats yet. I’m just giving some impressions from sitting in the stands for (almost) the entire game.
The offensive line is a mess. Bowling Green’s D-line was supposed to be improved, but there’s no excuse for how badly the O-line looked. They were continually being blown backwards up front. Trying to run in the middle of the field was a joke.
Stull felt the pressure. With the O-line struggling, Stull had trouble finding room to set his feet to throw. As the game wore on, he got worse with his footwork. Shuffling his feet a lot and losing zip off the ball. Especially when he was finally allowed to try and go deep.
The lack of deep balls until it was too late was frustrating. There was no pass for 20 yards or more attempted in the entire 1st half. No attempts to stretch the field. What good are all the weapons Pitt is supposed to have on offense if they don’t use them?
The defense sure didn’t look fast. Maybe the defense looked fast against Pitt’s offense in practice, but practice is over. Everyone knew the offense BG runs. Everyone knew they were down a running back and forced to rely more on Turner and throws. The BG O-line had its own problems.
Pitt players and the defensive coaches did not adjust to the short tosses and having receivers all over the field. That’s why they call it a spread offense.
A big problem for the defense last year, showed up again in this game. The inability to get off the field on 3d downs. BG showed contempt for Pitt’s defense in the 3d quarter. 6:41 left and facing a 4th and less than 1 at midfield. Still only trailing 3, they went for it. And they got it. There was no heart.
Ever have the alternator on your car go? You lose power, and everything dies. I may be forcing this a bit, but since the wife called me before the game to tell me the car died on her while out with the kids — and yes it was the alternator — it seems something of an apt comparison. Pitt came out and scored, seemed solid on defense. Then sputtered, faded and just had no juice.
Pitt had never, ever lost a home game to a MAC team until today. Pitt has lost 3 times to MAC foes in its history — twice under Wannstedt.
It’s hard to pinpoint when Pitt let the game get away from them. It was a slow fade. Started well, missed an opportunity, but still up 14-0. Then the Falcons found what was working. The short, underneath passes. Getting the ball in Turner’s hands.
As soon as the game was tied at 14, I knew it was going to be a tough game. BGSU had confidence and knew they could hang with Pitt.
Still, Pitt had a chance before the half as they got down field quickly. Then Wannstedt went ultra-conservative. With 12+ seconds left 1st down, and Pitt inside the 20, Pitt could have called a time-out and taken at least one shot to the endzone. Instead, and to a chorus of boos, Pitt let the clock wind down and took a 33-yard Field Goal to end the half with a 17-14 lead.
The first deep ball was thrown with 3:02 left in the 3d quarter after Pitt had lost the lead. An underthrown ball to Oderick Turner.
The wide receivers as a unit was a complete disappointment. They were running poor routes, turning the wrong way. Showing poor hands.
Matt Cavanaugh, is not distinguishing himself thus far. The O-line was giving nothing up front, but both McCoy and Stephens-Howling were getting good chunks when going outside. Yet there was a stubborn streak of sticking with straight up the gut — and getting shoved back.
By the way, what happened in the second half to Stephens-Howling? BGSU was keying on McCoy, but LSH was tearing through them. Yet, he barely touched the ball in the second half.
You could sense the panic on the offense in the 4th quarter as they realized they were running out of time and chances.
This Pitt team came out and faded. They showed no heart, no pride and no clue. They seemed unprepared to actually battle for an entire game. They were a complete disappointment.
With 4:43 left in the game, and another blown offensive series, there were sporadic chants breaking out in the stands of “Fire Wannstedt!” That was unexpected and not a good thing
It goes back to and on Coach Wannstedt. These are his players. The Walt Harris recruiting excuses are done. The players came to play for him. It is his job to get this team ready to play an entire game.
When the game started going south, it was up to him to get them to slow down and just take one play at a time. Instead, much like in the stands, the sidelines seemed to be in a collective state of, “uh, what the hell do we do?”
Ugh.
Luckily, the sky hasn’t fallen.
Yet.
BTW, did Aaron Berry lose the punt in the sun when he let it drop and roll 35 yards? Or is he just that stupid?
The calls for his firing and whatnot are sad because if we get rid of Wannstedt then we are basically writing off another couple of years while a new coach gets in and gets his system and recruits together. Of course, keeping Wannstedt equally appears to be writing off the foreseeable future since it is apparent he can’t coach.
Wouldn’t it be great if somehow they could talk him into staying on staff for recruiting, but also get someone who could coach?
The only other game that was equally as embarrassing was Texas A&M losing to Arkansas State in their home opener today.
Then again, A&M has a new coach in his first year. Pitt has a coach in his 4th year, with a system firmly in place, and with recruits much more coveted than anyone A&M can field right now.
As far as the game is concerned: I listened to it on the radio for the most part, and then tuned in on TV when there was 8 minutes left and ESPN was kind enough to show just how uninspired Pitt was playing. In those 8 minutes, I saw poor O-Line play (The right tackle was badly beaten on the inside), half assed play by Derek Kinder (Fralic and Hillgrove were noticeably angered on the radio because of his effort late in the game). The only reason the drive stayed alive was because of a ridiculous excessive celebration penalty on BG. We get into FG range and Conor Lee badly shanks it wide left.
I was going to ordered tickets to the Iowa game tomorrow for my Dad and I, since they go on sale at 10 AM. But after seeing what I saw today…I don’t even want to waste my money.
It isn’t just about recruits but about system. Michigan has solid athletes on their team, but DickRod runs a completely different system than they were recruited for. How did that go to start the DickRod era in Michigan? Loss to a team they should have beat.
If Pitt fired Wannstedt and hired someone with the same philosophy with the addition of the ability to implement that philosophy then maybe they would come in and win right away. Then again, coaching turnover affects more than just the players on the field. Instability in coaching affects recruits wanting to come. So firing Wannstedt, even with the talent that is currently here, could have the impact of players for the next year or two being hesitant to sign on at Pitt if it looks to be a program in turmoil. One of the reasons Wannstedt has had recruiting success is because Pitt and Wannstedt both give the impression that he will be here for the long haul and apparently recruits really like him.
Meantime, I didnt miss Shane Murray one bit out there today. I thought Ransom played well in his absence.
But Cav is just an awful O Coordinator. I agree.
This team will be lucky to win 3 games this year…with a capital L.
McCoy didn’t seem to like the conservative play-calling, which came after Pitt punted from the Bowling Green 35 and 34 early in the game.
“It would have been nice to get a touchdown but, you know, we follow the leader (Wannstedt),†McCoy said.
What killed Pitt today seemed to be sloppy execution, turnovers (a product of sloppy execution) and a conservative approach that I lay squarely at the feet of the head coach and offensive coordinator.
That being the case, I’m willing to give Wannstedt the rest of this year.
However, the best thing that could happen to Pitt’s program is for Matt Cavanaugh to be completely removed of his coaching duties and divested of any and all involvement with this program as of like right now. When I played football in 5th and 6th grade, I encountered coaches with more imagination that the poor, pathetic mockery of a coach that is Matt Cavanaugh.
I’m done buying into the bullshit that this coaching staff spews every summer. All I read all summer was about the offensive diversity that was available. They had all this depth. They had all these options. They had all these playmakers. They were going to be able to throw multiple packages out there and prove that, by golly, the offense was really cued into the 21st century of college football.
What’s more…Wannstedt and Cavanaugh said during the offseason that they realized you can’t lay off the gas pedal in college football. You can’t build a two-TD lead and sit on the ball. You have to keep the pressure on when you’re on offense. Wannstedt SPECIFICALLY mentioned that when he was asked this summer about some of the mistakes he made in the past. He SPECIFICALLY mentioned that when he was very candid in accepting blame for the UConn loss a few years ago, saying he never should’ve taken the ball out of Palko’s hands.
And yet here we are. They got a two-touchdown lead and the game plan became something right out of the Baltimore Ravens playbook. It was the same old pro-style, outdated predictable offense.
Where the hell was Greg Cross? Where was the wildcat package? Where was the option-based package? Where was Jonathan Baldwin? Where were the adjustments when it became apparent in the second quarter that Bowling Green was keying solely on taking McCoy out of the offense?
Again, no imagination on the part of the coaching. Nothing to convince me that the coaches are capable of recognizing where adjustments must be made, let alone making the correct adjustments. Nothing but another shining piece of evidence that this coaching staff truly does not understand the modern college football game.
Again one man the offensive coordinator is resposible for these oversights. Cavanugh must GO!
Shady should keep his mouth shut, his fumble cost his team a TD.
The O-line is worse than reported. So far thin and trim isn’t working. Maybe they are over trained.
Stull had his opportunities, but he can’t hit anything deep. He missed Baldwin twice for scores. One in the end zone, was late and way high. Another was out of bounds down the side lines.
The receiving core as a whole sucked. How many passes did they drop? None of them went for any of the passes that Stull threw close enough to be receptions. If the receiving team would have done their job, Pitt wins.
How about that punt that Berry lost in the sun? BG never had a problem.
The defense didn’t tackle and blew assignments all game. The hardest hit in the game which was by McKillop was to Gunn. According to Larry Coker the defense was “in position†on the swinging gate and other weird formations. That means that the coaching was ok, the players just didn’t make plays. If the defense wouldn’t have overrun plays, messed up assignments and made some tackles, Pitt wins.
Wannstedt or any other coach on the staff for that matter doesn’t play a single down of football, the players do, and they made too many mistakes to win. They blew it not the coaching staff.
1)I have parked in the same garage for $12 for three years and you don’t have to wait in traffic. This year, the garage is presold so I am screwed.
2)I don’t know Northside well so I paid $25 to park at the Science Center Warehouse lot. I should have bought Stevie P’s parking permit but I thought I had my garage.
3)I get to my seats. They are great. Two BGSU fans are sitting in them refusing to move. I have to get an usher and it is a bit of an ugly situation as they complain.
4)Fans behind me are ripping on Penn State. My girlfriend is a PSU grad/fanatic and came with me today because she wanted to watch a “real game.” Boy, we all felt like jerks as PSU put up 66 and we choked. We played so bad, my girlfriend enthusiastically cheered for Pitt because she knew how upset I’d be if we lost.
5)It took 45 minutes to get from the Science Center to 279 North. I miss my garage spot.
6)While waiting at a red light in the Northside, a women attempted to cross 5 lanes of traffic and almost hit my car. The incident was 100% her fault and she pulled up to me and called me every foul word known to man. I was so stunned I did not reply.
7)I had to go to dinner with friends who went to ND and PSU and had to deal with a variety of insults and embarrassments.
8)Wonder how many people will be at the Buffalo game? I’ll be there.
It seems to me, that the offensive coaching criticism aside, there are some other issues with the offense. First, as several have observed here and on the other chat boards, the Pitt OL did not play well yesterday and Stull did not have adequate time. That right tackle position we worried about during camp appears to remains a problem. Second, Stull (and maybe all the rest of our QB’s except perhaps K. Smith) lack the arm to throw the ball deep with any accuracy. That concern had been in the back of my mind since I watched fanfest on Aug. 21. If we throw long to try and stretch the field we likely run a high risk of being intercepted as a result of floaters and underthrows.
Finally, I do agree with you that a winning season is still possible. Aside from the offensive play calling concerns, the OL is probably going to improve over the course of the season. Also, I have the impression (sure hope it is correct) that a large part of yesterday’s problems were the result of a team that was trying too hard to “Prove It” and, as a result, played too “tight.” If tired legs were also an issue as was suggested, perhaps they also trained too hard. Both of these things (and especially the latter) are on the coaching staff.
So, IMO, if they can put this over-trying stuff behind them and just let the game come to them hopefully the drops and turnovers will disappear, confidence will be regained and, along with it, a winning season with a bowl game.
And screw redshirting players, screw not showing too much for the BE schedule, the time is now to win. They have to put the 11 best players on the field and play with a SENSE OF URGENCY. If they win they will get recruits and continue to re-load but they have to win and win RIGHT NOW!
What used to piss me off to no end under the Walt era was how conservative he called games. The frigging quick punting and never going for it. I thought with Wanny that would not happen but it has and yesterday punting two times in the first half inside BG’s 40 are you kidding me? Are you f’ing kidding me? Did we need to pin them back and play a field position game with BG?? We could have scored both those times and put them on theirs heals. It could have been 17 or 21 nothing. Lose trying to win putting it all out there, playing with a SENSE OF URGENCY don’t lose on being conservative.
The second half they adjust their defense and we don’t score?? Where were our offense adjustments?? A team that allowed over 30 points per game last year we can’t find a weakness to exploit?
I just don’t get it.
That is a coaching loss. Because man for man we were bigger and more athletic. You replace our coaching staff with BG’s coaching staff and we win that game by 21 points.
All our coaches Wanny, Wise, Cav, Bennett, Greg G are all over 50 years old and i just think this new college game has passed them by.
Makes sense why they recruit well they are all older, mature understand how to relate to the kid’s parents, can talk football, can talk about all their experiences, etc… and Wanny is a likable guy.
But when it comes to creativity, game planning, adjusting in game situations, evaluating talent, making players play to their best that just isn’t our staff.
How can two of our line men get drafted last year and we had a very weak O line…coaching.
I did not see fields dressed for the game until the fourth quarter……have to make a few calls to see if I was ray charles or he was hanging with the dogs at Duquesne and missed the bus…lol
Dare i say this…..i guess we got to wait to next year…..I have been saying that for 20 yrs!
TD. The D ran them selves out of plays and missed tackles all game long that had nothing to do with the spead offense of BG
Err… that was 5 and 7 in 2007. And anybody predicting that this was a top 25 team is out of their freaking mind. They need to sharpen their pencils and come up with some realistic expectations for this team.
Go for the end zone?
Throw the ball?
Be aggressive?
No, no and no. Cavanaugh, the offensive coordinator, called for a draw play to LaRod Stephens-Howling. Wannstedt proceeded to let the clock run to three seconds before ordering a third-down field goal.
Unbelievable!
ESPN analyst and former Pitt star Mark May said, “You can’t coach scared. It sends a bad message to your team that you’re a passive coach”
Mark May made that remark after former PITT coach Walt Harris called timeout and instructed quarterback Tyler Palko to take two steps to his right and slide to the turf, thereby creating a better angle for a field goal.
I put this lose SOLELY on the coaching staff…Wanny and company has proven time and time again that they can’t coach the talent they have on the sideline…I waited ALL year for this football season to start, what a fuckin let down!…IT’s gonna be a long season BOYS!
Decicco is a bench player not a starter. Should be great help on the return team with his blocking etc.
E. Fields should be given the starting position. Decicco stunk it up all day long.
Howling-Stephens must be used more often. Great change from McCoy. MC and DW didnt recognize his value. He had 58 yrd in 4 carries in the 1st quarter then they sent him to exile. Poor decision.
Oderick Turner is a role player not a starter. Too poor of an effort and concentration. Not Big time. Get the Baldwin kid in there ASAP.
Mick Williams and Ranson are players!
McKillop cant pass defend. Plain and simple. Great against the run between the tackles but blows coverage in the pass protect.
Entire defense secondary and linebacker have hugh intelligence gap in covering the misdirection tight end cross. They killed us on this play over and over. Where was the coaching.
What I hate most is that neither the head coach or the cooordinators seemed to make any adjustment. No coahing. They seemed more lost than the players. ALmost as if the players turn to them for leadership and they had blank faces on saying I dont know. Someone needed to step up and take control. I like Wanny, mainly because he is a PITT guy, but the reality is that he has perpetrated a fraud on the head coaching profession. Times up. The emperior has no clothes!
wait till next year…wait till next year, sounds like the pirates, I am tired of waiting!
get some young fired up coaches(bo pellini anyone) ? and get some players who want to play.
The players screwed this game up. The coaches screwed this game up. 25,000-if that, for Buffalo.
I remember the changing coaches ever year philosophy till we get somebody that can win. If you look at this year’s coaching carrousel it is the popular thing to do. It was bad, very bad.
63 Rose bowl – Pitt up at the top.
Posvar emphasizes education by de-emphasizing football – followed by four consecutive one win seasons. We beat either William and Mary or Army or Navy depending on which service academy we were playing that year. You can blame that on the administration not the coaches. But it seems that they were replacing coaches on an annual basis.
Then Johnny Majors comes to Pitt and in 1976 a national championship. Tennessee hires Majors; administration refuses to pay to keep him here. Jackie Sherrill takes over, does good, then he is hired away, again Administration to cheep to keep him. Remember the rules aren’t the same as they were in the Majors era.
“We loss the game in the first half when Wanny decided to TWICE punt the ball when we were inside Bowling Green’s 35 yardline!†If I remember correctly we were ahead both times giving up 30 yards in field position is just stupid while you’re in the lead.
“At the end of the first half, Pitt had a second-and-10 on the Bowling Green 20 with about 30 seconds left in a 14-14 tie.†I can’t defend that. I would have liked to see them throw in to the end zone but that didn’t cost us the game.
PTR
overall, the seconday was pathetic and would’ve had a hard time covering good high school receivers.
how long till basketball season????
I remember what seems like countless Steeler AFC championship losses.
For whatever reason, I took this loss just as hard. I mean FUCK, 9 months of looking forward to this, and we shit the bed… NINE MONTHS! Braggint to everyone I know in FL that we’re going to break through this year, then having to field phone calls from each and every one of those people last night.
I found myself passed out drunk on a raft in my friend’s pool at 4 am last night. What a fucking mess.
TV and all the sports channels so I watch Pitt football all the time. I thought this was going to be the year. Heinz Field is great. A winning Pitt program will keep the place full. But Wannstedt hasn’t improved at all from the first game he coaches – ND vs. Pitt. They look as bad in person as they do on TV. It makes me wonder what Dave really had to do with the WVU win and how gullible we all have been. Don’t think Buffalo will be an easy game – they scored 40+ points yesterday and Turner Gil is a real coach – unlike the great pretender Wannstedt and his horrible, I mean horrible, offensive coordinator.
DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND EXPECTING A DIFFERENT RESULT.
Three years of no bowls, and the beat goes on and on and on.
First… we will have a great season…TRUST ME!!!
The halo that the program had above our heads dropped six inches and turned into a noose. The pressure got to everyone, players, and coaches. We were reading the press clipping and espn.
We got a very very good football team on both sides of the ball. We needed this loss bc the players and fans heads were getting way too big.
Mick Williams is the truth!!! I am very very very impressived with him. First team big east and possible 2nd team all american. Sheard and Romeus are studs. Actually the whole defensive line is NICE
McKillop cant cover but man does he flies around the field. Tough game for him but he never quit.
Austin Ransom is a great athlete. Sorry it took him five years to show the fans. Great game. I think he is better suited to play against a BG than a IOWA or south fla but i hope he proves me wrong.
Phil Bennett is a good DC. Phil waited too long to unlease the dogs. Than became predictable with the blitzs late.
Kudos to Nate Nix. Good job replacing Dunn ( i hope dunn is okay)
Our TEs are great. Get them the ball. Bynham is a 1st or 2nd round pick. Dorin could be a Shannon Sharpe type TE
Turner makes too many mentally mistakes (i.e running before he catches the ball). May be time to bench him
Our RT got wind burn from BG’s DE blowing by him
Stull arm is weak. His 20 added pounds did nothing for his arms strength. Give Baldwin a chance. Had him open 2x and missed him badly. Also, stull stares his receiver down when he has to go to a 5 or 7 step drop.
Dom is not ready to play. Could not make the big open field tackles that would have ended the two of the scoring drives. Also, had problems covering anyone. Scooter needs to get on the field but I do understand why Dom started. Dom did everything the program ask while scooter was effing around. Nerves played into this one
Our Running backs are NICE. Hey Cav just maybe it would be nice to run through 4 and 5 hole or call some flares and screens.
Berry is a legit corner and punt returner. Tried to make up for his fielding problem in the first quarter. No worries..
MC needs to apply pressure to the throat this predictable lou offense has too go. We got too many weapons on both sides of the ball for this.
DW needs to stop protecting Cav. Cav owes us answers for the play calling.
DW take over the rein of the offense. Lets be agggressive. We have deep threat to combat the 8 men in the box.
As we learned 13-9 means jack sh&^t along with a tee shirt slogan.
NOW IT IS TIME…. TO PROVE IT….. IN PRACTICE, IN THE CLASSROOM, IN THE COMMUNITY and ON THE FIELD.
I am not giving up on this team, players or coaches b/c this is going to be a very special year. Tough loss but not the end of the world.
The pressure and the clipping got too everyone. Back to reality.. teams arent going to give us wins becasue we beat WVU, had three staright years of god recruiting and were ranked.
LETS PROVE IT…
HAIL TO PITT and Buffalo be ready because the Panthers you see next saturday at 6pm is going to be ferocious.
My prediction…..if this team doesn’t throttle Buffalo in the first half and never let’s up….. it will be another long hard season..
We also had the largest student section since the Backyard Brawl was in town….everyone delivered but the team.
I was getting really excited because next week is a night game, and even more students would have shown up…but now I doubt it.
I’m done cheering for Wannstedt’s team until they give me something to cheer about.
When you’re the superior team, take some chances! Pitt has talent and if the coaching staff would take a few more risks, they would pay off.
I can see where they are trying to take this offense but it just felt that the plays were done in the wrong order. If the playbook developed Dyslexia then I apologize and ask for forgiveness. If, however, the coaches just made those pages sticky with conservatism then let my pimp hand striketh you down. “Awful” is a good word to describe what happened yesterday right?
I haven’t abandoned hope. That will happen if we lose to Syracuse. No offense Orange fans, at least you guys lost to a BCS team, bravo. I still think we can have a good season but the coaches need to stop clenching their ass cheeks and the players need to stop dropping passes and fumbling the game away. If we lose to Buffalo next week, I might _ _ _ _ myself. Add any four letter word you think fits the best.
MATT CAVANAUGH Sucks it! Really hard. He just sucks it.
I can’t get excited about the offense when it’s working. It’s like watching paint dry. WR screen!?!?! I have seen that POS not work for years and yet we run it 6 to 7 times a game. Run up the gut on 1st down? That is an automatic play call until we are down by 10 late in the game. I know it, all the fans know it and the D on every team we play knows it.
How about that two minute drill? Stull has no clue on how to run it. How is that his fault?
Anyone think this team had a chance of coming back when they got down by 10? The fans at the stadium didn’t they started rolling out as soon as we went down by ten.
Maybe if we had an offense that could move the ball more then 3 to 5 yards at a time things might have been different.
I am emailing Peterson Right now and telling him that I am done with this team until MATT CAVANAUGH is no longer employed by the university.
I have said it before and I will say it again. Bright back Walt as OC! He was able to get a ton more done with a lot less.
I too am EXTREMELY concerned with Stull’s arm strength….
Wanny seems to recruit better players…but other than the WVU game…..I don’t see superior talent being used like it should be
Our Offense is BORING BORING BORING & predicable.
I think our D is fine for now but we only put 17 on a team that Tulsa blew out?
Walt’s offense could move the ball. Walt for OC!
Hell I would take just about any OC from most other schools and that includes a few in High Schools.
I’m watching Colorado and Colorado State play right now and it’s fun. They both have more then one page in thier playbook. I haven’t yawned once. I fell asleep in my seat at last years U Conn game.
This is it for me should both Wanny and Matt C make it back next year I for one won’t be. (8 year season ticket holder)
I will watch the games from my living room. It’s just to boring a game plan to see in person. At least when I fall asleep here I will be in my easyboy instead of the hard plastic seats at Heinz.
This is the type of game that any good MAC team should never lose. Thankfully, BG did not lose it.
Any good MAC team lusts for the scheduling quirks that give it a game against an historically weak BCS team. Pitt fits the profile so well, as does Northwestern and Minnesota in the Big 10, Vanderbilt and Kentucky in the SEC, Oregon schools in Pac 10, UNC and Duke and NC St in the ACC, Missouri (it took a MAC coach to make it good) and Kansas and Iowa State and Baylor in the Big 12, Syracuse and Rutgers in the Big East
In 2002, after BG absolutely demolished Missouri and Kansas, there was considerable conjecture that it could win the Big12 North.
Buffalo is a better team than BG, and the team absolutely believes it should never lose to Pitt. If it loses at Pitt, it will always viewed as an opportunity lost.
The word out of BG prior to the game was that although it was a game it should never lose, it just might because so many of its good players were kicked off the team or suspended because of legal problems.
I watched as they started crowding the line an blitzing as soon as the putt rush was starting to wear on them. You would think this would be a perfect time to start sending the ball downfield, right? NOPE. 5 yard outs, screens, WR screens. BULLSHIT. Cavanaugh west coast offense BULLSHIT. These poor suckers are so Fing FIRED it isnt even funny. We have 10X the talent and cant even be COMPETETIVE with a MAC team. SICKENING.