Welp I took a long hard walk because frankly I got really depressed about the game.
My analysis is that I’m very happy with the state of the program, simply because we never had a good to great football team in my almost 50 years of existence.
In our two biggest games we lost not from being overwhelmed from the opposition’s talent but because we were just nervous and chocked at the big moment .
The coaches, the players, they all looked nervous and were not themselves. The lack of good tackling even though we were in good position to stop them, the lack of running plays mixed in the offense to provide balance, it was just nerves.
From the player front that will change if we can recruit a few four star athletes who can handle that pressure (I’m generalizing) a bit better.
It’s also a test for Coach Allen to see if he can take the next big step in his coaching career. If he doesn’t then we’ll probably be a top 25-16 team consistently ( which is still awesome and I think we all agree we can live with that). But if he does.... phew that will be a sight to see.
Anyway I’m going to mope a bit more and call it a day. It’s very encouraging to see that we’re in the 29th page of a topic for football game. It means that we care, and that we are miles ahead then we ever were.