The team is too inconsistent and that is a reflection on the staff. We started off the season getting blown out and book ended it with an even bigger blow out. Then our coach wants to try and convince people afterwards how thin the line is between a win and a blowout. I guess he thinks all Bama fans are as dumb as the Finebaum callers.
This had me thinking last night. So among the fan bases of the teams that lost in the quarter finals, which one is probably the LEAST disappointed?
Texas Tech? Probably. New to being in the mix. And I think most of their fans understand that the Big 12 is still a step below the Big10 and SEC in terms of competition .
tOSU? A number two overall seed losing to a tenth seed. Given that they sat in the #1 spot most of the season and it was questionable by many whether the Hurricanes deserve to be there, this really must sting. Even the title last year by Day may not buy much grace from them.
UGA? Let’s face it. This UGA wasn’t the juggernaut of the past. The loss to Alabama at home, then games with Tennessee and Ole Miss that were in doubt at the end. This is two years in a row as one of the four top seeds to be “one and done”. Not they are alone in that, in this format, top seeds are 1-7 in then past two years. A loss as a three seed to a number six seed by a last minute field goal? Okay the loss is hard to swallow but Ole Miss simply made a “play or two” more than you. I’m not about moral victories, but at least your team competed to the last whistle.
Alabama? So we get drubbed by 35 points to the #1 overall seed. Let’s take nothing away from Indiana. They are a talent, very well coached and highly disciplined team. The play a physical brand of football that many of us came to know under CNS. The season started with a team looking like a FCS team against FSU, put together a very good run against ranked opponents including beating UGA for the second year in row, lose a game we dominated statistically versus Oklahoma, then get dog walked in two of our last three games by a total of 56 points. We can give them somewhat of pass in the SECCG due to injuries. But yesterday? We were about as healthy as we had been in the past 6 weeks.
This fanbase has every right to peeved today. This team simply didn’t show up. Period. Kalen DeBoer gets paid $10 million a year to do just that. I, like many, aren’t upset as much by loses to UGA and Indiana. We are peeved in the WAY this team lost.
Texas Tech can walk away knowing this year “they knocked on the door”. UGA fans can at least walk away knowing they “fought to the end”. And while I’m sure there are a fair share of tOSU fans with pitchforks and torches in hand, at least they know Ryan Day IS capable of getting them to the promised land. He did it last year.
So at the end of the second year of the Kalen DeBoer era, waking up this morning, do you feel good about the trajectory of this program? One thing I know, I have a bunch more questions than answers right now.
