Post by dubber on Sept 17, 2010 22:13:35 GMT -6
Lost tonight........27-0 to the 5th ranked team in the class above ours.......
Threw 4 picks, didn't protect well, kind of backed down from the contact (offensively)......
This is the team we wanted to beat the most. Bottom dwellers for a decade, then a new coach, new system (flexbone), commitment to full time advance PE, and now they are darn good...........and they want everyone to know it.
Instantly they became the most hated team in conference.
And when you are an average team (like we've been)....when it is expected that you'll lose to these guys (like the last couple years).......then the loss stings, but you get over it and move on quickly.
We were 4-0, picked as game of the week, ton of hype, whole nine yards.........and we lost.
All you wanted was to shut them up...........now you have to wait 364 days for your next opportunity.
Honestly, they were better than us, and 9 out of 10 times, they'd win........we just thought we were THERE as a program.......finding out you're not is very hard to shallow.
And yet, as I type this, 8:00 AM can't come fast enough, because that is when I will trade tapes with our next opponent, and we get ready to cleanse this awful taste out of our mouth.
We will face over the next three weeks three opponents whom, barring anomalies, should be extremely winnable games for us (how is that for coach speak?).......
7-1 going into the last game versus a team that is probably as good as the one we played tonight, and then the playoffs (where the prize of a sectional crown and whatever we could garner after that would make us forget tonight)..........
I feel much better after writing this post........I guess we all need to vent from time to time.........damn I wanted this one, but.........damn...........it's over...........moving on now.........
Thanks.
Threw 4 picks, didn't protect well, kind of backed down from the contact (offensively)......
This is the team we wanted to beat the most. Bottom dwellers for a decade, then a new coach, new system (flexbone), commitment to full time advance PE, and now they are darn good...........and they want everyone to know it.
Instantly they became the most hated team in conference.
And when you are an average team (like we've been)....when it is expected that you'll lose to these guys (like the last couple years).......then the loss stings, but you get over it and move on quickly.
We were 4-0, picked as game of the week, ton of hype, whole nine yards.........and we lost.
All you wanted was to shut them up...........now you have to wait 364 days for your next opportunity.
Honestly, they were better than us, and 9 out of 10 times, they'd win........we just thought we were THERE as a program.......finding out you're not is very hard to shallow.
And yet, as I type this, 8:00 AM can't come fast enough, because that is when I will trade tapes with our next opponent, and we get ready to cleanse this awful taste out of our mouth.
We will face over the next three weeks three opponents whom, barring anomalies, should be extremely winnable games for us (how is that for coach speak?).......
7-1 going into the last game versus a team that is probably as good as the one we played tonight, and then the playoffs (where the prize of a sectional crown and whatever we could garner after that would make us forget tonight)..........
I feel much better after writing this post........I guess we all need to vent from time to time.........damn I wanted this one, but.........damn...........it's over...........moving on now.........
Thanks.
