by huskerpony » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:08 am
Ha!
No.
What this guy obviously didn't research is that the year before we lost FIVE games by less than a touchdown--and three by less than a field goal. So, essentially, the only area we have improved is in making our losses less heartbreaking.
What kind of stat is that to consider anyway? I don't want to be associated with a program that counts losses as moral victories or something "to build on." Anyone on the team that has that attitude ought to be shown the door immediately.
I do agree that you can't just throw a true freshman in and expect him to know how to run the run-and-shoot after three weeks of practice, but the problem is not with our offense. It is with our defense. The number of games that we gave up more than 30 points actually increased from 9 to 11! And we have given up less than 28 in only 1 game in 2 years! (We gave up 21 in that game, and that definitely wasn't this year.)
The number of games that we gave up more than 40 points decreased, so if that is something to look at as improvement, I suppose you can take some solace in that......but in my opinion, that is something to be embarrassed and angry about, not looked at as a sign of improvement. You still aren't going to win many games that you give up more than 30 points--no matter how good your offense is--and our goal should be to possibly have maybe just one game that we held an opponent to under 20!
Just one, that is all I need to see, it can even be a 1-AA team. I don't care. I want to see our defense show some spine for just one day. It doesn't even have to be the whole day. Just the 30 minutes of the football game that the defense is on the field that day.
We play one of the weakest schedules in college football, and I think we ought to be able to find 11 guys somewhere out of the 300 million people in this country who can give us 30 minutes of their time out of a two year period and not totally implode and keep one of the other worst teams in football that are on our schedule from scoring three touchdowns on us.
The last time we did that was Oct. 31, 2007.
Until it happens again, I have no expectations for these players, June Jones, or SMU football.
