Umass Preview

Woof.  All those times I watched as Akron and Kent finished the season, each with one win or less, and thought "how awful," now it is us.  UMass is 0-7 and 0-11, and BG is 1-6 and 3-8.  We're playing at 4:30 in Amherst, MA, on a workday...strictly to get onto ESPNU.  

#maction.

Despite Coach saying UMass had been in some close games, their aggregate score in 7 MAC games is -190.  Kent's winless season last year was -198.  BG is -68 this year.

To take it a little further, BG is starting the guy who at the beginning of the year was #4.  Now, that's a little bit different, because the #2 guy is actually available.  Anyway.  UMass is starting their 3rd QB...Grant Jordan. He's played in 6 games this year and 11 games in 4 years at Yale.

I'm not going to break the whole thing out as I normally do.  The two teams have the stats you'd expect from teams that are collectively 1-13 in conference play.

Primarily, this win would give someone a boost into the off-season.  Of course, there's no way of knowing how many of the guys on the field for the two teams will be around to take advantage of those sweet vibes over the winter.

BG is -14.5.  I want us to win because they are my team.  We'll see what happens.

But it's ending with a whimper.

Unlike that poem, though, the world isn't ending.  It's just one season, which is now essentially a lost season, for reasons I will cover when this is all over.  For now, it's reboot time for Coach George.  The good thing is that you can rebuild faster, but this team will have urgent needs.  Without O-line help, we might be as bad or worse next year.  This season can be an anomaly, and reasonably explainable.  But only if things improve.

I'm not bailing on this staff.  It won't be easy. Nowhere to go but up.