Agreed. It feels good that a loss hurts so bad as this one does. I had become numb to losses. Not this year. It sucks.
You know this one felt an awful lot like some of those losses early in Tom's career....unfortunately I don't think MR is going to get 2 decades to win a MNC like Tom did. I'm afraid this loss though is just the first of several down the stretch now. Our O line is just a mess with the injuries.
Love the optimism and the faith in the team. Did you learn ANYTHING from the game tonight? Only a first class a$$ or somebody who wants the team to lose would watch this game and think we are going to fade down the stretch.
I would say it's a disappointing loss in that every loss is disappointing. But I really don't see how you couldn't be impressed with how the team played. I mean, we weren't supposed to be able to hardly run at all on their defense, especially with the struggles we had last week. We ran for 152 yards-not impressive by any means, but nearly 50 yards above the average of 102.9 ypg they were giving up on the ground coming into the game. Much of the country and at least some of our own fans really didn't expect this to be much of a game-maybe not a blowout, but not a game where we really had a legitimate chance to win. I think we proved that we are at least legitimate and not a complete fluke of an easy early schedule.
it was somewhere between solich getting drilled by penn state and us looking like a high school team in austin, that nebraska games stop effecting me as far as any guts being ripped out. it's pretty easy now, we either win or we don't. the 83 orange bowl is the only time I really felt like throwing the tv out the window. but that was a lil black and white tv, no way I'd trash my samsung SUHD over a game. plus it would take work getting it thru the window.:Cool:
I'm with you and while TO has been praised for going for two, I thought at the time -- and still do -- that the gamble threw away a cinch national championship.
