Sadness Accrues: Overview

Well, there's really nowhere to hide now.

You could say that Oregon and Maryland were full of first round draft picks.  You could say that Eastern Kentucky was better than thought and full of FBS transfers and that the Falcons did eventually win.

After today, there's nowhere left to go.  What BG has right now is a really bad football team.

This was a team in our conference.   A team we are supposed to compete with.  A team we beat last year.  A winless team who couldn't run the ball in its opening games.  A team without its best player.

This was a true test, if not a favorable test.  And, when you look at the schedule, a game you had to have.

So, it was all set up for the team to show what they had--that they are "close" to turning the corner, in Coach's word.

What we saw was the opposite.  What we saw was what we feared.

Miami owned the Falcons at the Doyt.  There's no other word for it.  They ran for more yards than they had in their three previous games.  They dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.  It was 31-3 with 9 minutes left to play.

Even Coach was saying in the post-game that you shouldn't be deceived by the last scoring flurry that got the score to 38-23 at the end.  BG's #1 offense was going against Miami's #2 defense.  The last score was a hail mary underthrown by 10 yards and literally tipped it backwards for a BG TD.  Anyway, don't be fooled.  BG was destroyed in this one.

Coach was asked if we were going to practice tackling.  He said that it is a "want to" problem.  And that we have to "get out of our own way."

Those are not great things to be saying in the third year of your program when you are 7-21. 

A lot of people wanted Coach gone in year 1.  A generous contract ensured he was kept around.  So you hope to see improvement, and that is something you are not getting.  In fact, the program continues to slide.

I don't know what is going to happen with that.  I expect Jinks to finish the season, but nothing would shock me right now.

When we have "want to" issues and continue to make mistakes, you have to look at the program leadership.

Anyway, the results now speak for themselves without ambiguity.  BG is a really bad football team right now.