Ball State - Bowling Green

I'd say we'll get woodshedded pretty well after we blew the last two games. Especially after last night and lost any chance at 6 wins. (not that 6 wins is great) This team is thisclose to being undefeated in the MAC and we're all sitting here in amazement, but, that's just not how things fell. We are just as close to being winless in the MAC. Our margin for error is zero and the coaching and fundamental mistakes have been the difference, going all the way back to that CMU game where we won it under with a minute left, and then somehow lost it by letting CMU go all the way for a TD when the only thing that could beat us was.... a TD. It's been one thing after another like that in our losses. Totally preventable losses. A play or two here or there that we did NOT make. A coaching decision or two that we did or didn't make. (like clock management, or passing passing passing when all we needed to do was pound the running game, or going for it on 4th and ridiculous when we didn't need to, or not having the right guys on the field, or.....) I can hear Mike's post game presser already-- "Obviously....blah blah blah. "Just a couple plays away from winning so many games, blah blah blah. "obviously...." "it all starts with me..." lather, rinse repeat for 9 years. I truly thought Mike would be hugely successful. I wanted it. I've said many times he's one of my all time favorite Cards. I know this hurts him. But it's time to put it to bed now and start over. Obviously....

Ahhhhhhhhhh

Makes me wish for the good old days when Scott Miley walked the halls of the Daily News offices.  Now he and his sidekick, Nosmo King, would have asked the questions that the inquiring minds of this board would want to know!

Koziol vs. Fannin is going to be talked about a million times on the broadcast.

I keep going back to Pemberton, as did the broadcasters, whose is literally built to get you the yards you need to kick a game winning field goal, and was getting you those tough yards throughout the game. The stubbornness, arrogance, incompetence or some combination of all three is incredibly transparent. I'd love to be in the same room to hear the stories these coaches spin to themselves. But we know this for sure...they will be spinning those same stories to themselves wherever they land next year.

Cardfan, that is best synopsis of what is unfolding with our offense I've seen. Explains a lot, at least to me.

And I would add when you go back and look at the RPO with Kelly and Pemberton on the 10-yard line, you'll see that Kelly ONCE AGAIN pulled the ball when his running back had a clear lane. Look at Pemberton's body language and you could tell he didn't know what Kelly had done with the ball almost like he thought the reason Kelly didn't leave the ball with him was because he fumbled it. That to me is clearly a guy out there playing for himself and not the team. Now if I can see that, the coaches can damn sure see that, too...I can't tell you the number of times I told a kid 'I saw that selfish BS you just pulled there...do it again and you won't see the field again.' I NEVER had to have the conversation a second time...granted it was at the high school level but it was still the same message.

But I recognize this is all yelling at the moon, at this point. I see some of the chatter about who the next coach will be...whoever we get will certainly manage games better than what we've seen, if for no other reason than it is not possible to be worse.

BG will mop the field with us. The OU game is a toss-up - probably depends whether or not OU already has its spot in the MACC secured.

I gotcha Coastal...but to paraphrase the scorpion's message to the frog...you knew what I was when you met me. Or more accurately, you've been with us for three years and you had to have known we were highly likely to mislead you or make promises we had no intention of keeping.