Hopefully Rock Bottom

Not a good day at all today.  BG had one chance to win a game this year and it was in Akron.  Akron...21 straight losses...longest losing streak in FBS.

BG not only didn't get the win--as they did last year, easily, over the Zips--but they were blown off the field, 31-3.  It's hard to put into context.  BG lost 31-3 to Akron today.

We're almost for sure the worst FBS team.  And it's our worst season in the history of the program, so far as I can tell.  Before, we were dueling with 1935, but this is historically bad.  

Today, BG was a bad team playing badly.  There was some ball movement, but then turnovers and penalties and blocked punts and gaping defensive misalignment and poor tackling.  This team was undermanned to start with and they played a terrible game.

Coach Loeffler made the point during his presser.  Certainly, BG is a lot of things.  Ridiculously young.  Undermanned on top of that.  But also undisciplined and sloppy.  They aren't doing the things that don't require skill.

Loeffler took responsibility for that today, as he should.  This team needs to grow and it appears that means the Head Coach, too.

I believe he will, too.  And I believe he can get this back to a competitive level.

But the debacle today.  Just incredible.  These are teams in BG's conference, and it was fine when we were getting scorched by UT and UB and OU.  But this one puts the season in a different light.  The 11th ranked offense in the MAC scored 31 on us and we scored 3 on the 11th ranked defense.

Which left all of them standing in a snowy stadium watching the whole thing come down around them.

Five years ago--FIVE YEARS ago--BG was hoisting the MAC Championship trophy for the second time in 3 years.  And today this is where we are.  And there's no doubt about where we are.  The bottom.

My sympathy to the people doing the day-to-day in this program.  It has got to be hell.

I'm still behind him.  Our program NEEDS him to succeed.  We're where we are.

There's an old joke.  Man gets lost in a rough part of the big city.  He stops a policeman and asks for directions.  The policeman says, "well, first of all, I wouldn't start here."

We are here...which is way behind where we thought we were on Friday.  This can be just a story on the road to the Falcons getting back into the race.

You'd be forgiven if you found it a little hard to imagine.  But it can.