Cincinnati 30 - Syracuse 13: Orange Get Pead On

It is HOW we are winning and losing. All but one of our wins had a degree of good fortune to them. Of our 6 losses, only the Rutgers and UConn losses were close. And in those games we generated 9 turnovers and still lost.

Regression is the right word. I expected it on defense. I did not expect it on offense. But it’s there. I like HCDM and all the coaches. But you cannot have your experienced unit regress.

Even worse, I figured injuries would hurt this team. But we are healthier than we were in the first half. We played games without Chandler, Shmarko, and Fisher. Today we were missing Philip Thomas. A little less D-Line depth, but that’s it.

Regardless, Cincy, UConn, Rutgers, Louisville, and USF are not that far away from us in talent. And the one team that IS, we were able to beat handily with essentially the same lineup.

It’s not the results. It’s how we are getting these results.

Thats my opinion.

plain and simple. How many drives get extended if we have WR’s who can catch the ball when it hits them in the hands? Holy shit, give me a slow WR who can catch over a burner who drops every day.

I wasn’t before this weekend.

Glad I have a week to decide if I want to sell my Pitt tickets, or just go get drunk and talk $@#& about their basketball team.

It’s still depressing to read about though.

And we wasted it. I think this season is pretty much over. I honestly don’t see this squad going into Pitt and winning, especially with Pitt still angry about how they lost the Backyard Brawl. The offense no imagination or punch and the defense is paper thin, especially with Thomas gone. I hope the boys can surprise us next weekend, but I don’t expect it.

Shame to fall from 5-2 to being so underwhelming in conference play. I knew that loss to Rutgers would be a harbinger of bad things.

…on an earlier post that I was willing to give HCDM some slack in terms of wins and losses because he is accomplishing the more important task of preparing the players with life skills, as the majority of them will be experiencing the NFL the way we all do, on TV. I stand by that statement. However at some point, that has to translate onto the field and this is not a particularly disciplined team. I’ve never coached football at any level, so I don’t feel qualified to hold forth on what should be done differently. I can say that, for me at least, the comparing-things-to-GRob grace period is at an end. While I firmly believe that Marrone is a good man and has the best interests of the program as his guiding principle, something somewhere needs to change for that to occur and “progress” to translate into “results.”

I’d have to say the publication of that photo just completes what was an awful day for him. Wow.

Akron fired Ron Ianello. Can he do special teams?

NC State was trailing 41-14 to Maryland. At home. With 6 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter. And still won. Maryland and Edsall simply suck.

It’s gotta be more than just a lack of talent and execution. They’re just not competitive with teams right now. That’s the most troubling part of the post-WVU season.

Marrone needs a vacation. He projects no fire in the belly on the sidelines anymore.

while the loss blows, it is nice to see HCDM taking full responsibilty for… well everything. Its also nice to see that he gives a shit about this program and the community. Dont get me wrong, the loss still blows. But if there was a silver lining for me as a fan reading HCDM’s comments would be it.

Better? Guys, we lost a lot of senior leadership last year. This team was never going to meet the expectations that we out in them. They were always gooing to be ‘ok’, but we’re never going to play lights out all season. That just wasn’t going to happen this year. We have good talent on the way for the next few years and we have a program that has turned the corner from disaster to work in progress to something that we can all agree shows some serious promise. Let’s keep a level head here and not make retarded comparisons to national level programs.

Is his lack of trust in the offense. I understand what hes trying to do. Run the ball, control the clock, win a low scoring game about 20-17. But at the same time this is college football. That is hard to do now. College football is about scoring points. I dont care that we dont have a spread offense and just throw it every play. I like the way the offense is set up but they dont take the advantadges they have given themselves. LIke how we run run run pass to the TE for 3 yards run run run pass to Lemon for 7 yards.. They are setting up alot of deep ball chances with this kind of offense. Never seen them. And at the same time its not like im all pissed cuz they arent throwing 70 yards in one play. But if your game plan is based around the run you have to at least make the defense think theres some possibility that it could go deep. If not they crowed the box and good luck from there.. Nassb Chew and Lemon can get it done. Wish they would have given them a chance.