Close on your worst case scenario. 42-17. Could have been 49.
That was scary close of a prediction there. If DJ doesn't drop the pass and Acker doesn't muff the punt, it's a closer game but I think we still lose pretty badly. UCF just manhandled us up and down the field on both sides of the ball. We didn't seem to come out very inspired.
Close on your worst case scenario. 42-17. Could have been 49.
That was scary close of a prediction there. If DJ doesn't drop the pass and Acker doesn't muff the punt, it's a closer game but I think we still lose pretty badly. UCF just manhandled us up and down the field on both sides of the ball. We didn't seem to come out very inspired.
Lwjr, this team does bot come out inspired on the road. At home it does, Houston. Houston may not be good, but we put the wood to them at home. In the road is a different matter.
An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Treadway21, I understand what you are saying, but I don't think they play that much more inspired at home. They have beaten some bad teams this year at home and yes they hung 72 on the Coogs, but they just don't seem that, "Fired up" if you will when they come out to play home or on the road. Many of my fellow season ticket holders that sit around me have stated the same. JJ is not inspiring at all, coming out onto the field and seeing a stadium barely half full does not help either. They did come out pumped for the A&M game but I think that had to do with the atmosphere of the game not JJ. I believe at the college level emotion does figure in part of the game and that has to start with the coaches. As you know the old saying, the team takes on the personality of its coach.
Well, I can't completely disagree. I certainly agree that the team has taken on the personality of the coach to some extent.
When things start going south, June has no way to right the ship. He does everything the same way at the same pace no matter the score or time remaining or the situation. Down by 18 and it's fourth and 2. Punt. Up by three and its Fourth and goal at the two. Kick a field goal.
An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Treadway21 wrote:Well, I can't completely disagree. I certainly agree that the team has taken on the personality of the coach to some extent.
When things start going south, June has no way to right the ship. He does everything the same way at the same pace no matter the score or time remaining or the situation. Down by 18 and it's fourth and 2. Punt. Up by three and its Fourth and goal at the two. Kick a field goal.
And that might be one of the most frustrating things about him, whether down by 18 or up by 18, he does the same damn thing. Stubborn and egotistical
coming into this one, I hoped we would at least cover the spread and make this a game; coming out to start the 2nd half, my prediction was that if we didn't stop UCF on their 1st possession and then get some points out of our 1st possession, this game would become a blowout. We couldn't have disappointed more. I honestly considered leaving at the beginning of the 4th quarter, but being a Mustang fan is being a glutton for punishment.
my streak is still in tact, though. I'm 0 for the post death penalty era at SMU road games
