Guys played hard and I’m encouraged by how good a lot of our 1st and 2nd years look. If we can retain them in the offseason there’s something to really build off of.
Coaching is still a major work in progress. Gotta find a way to close out the 1st half better and come out of halftime with momentum, because those two factors not being in our favor lost us this game. You simply cannot afford to stall drives and leave potential points on the table against a quality defense like we did today, it’s playing scared and to not lose.
I see Tony’s vision of what a winning team looks like, and while I think it’s still possible it comes to full fruition he’s got a TON of kinks to work out in order to establish any sort of consistency on a week to week basis within this program.
I don’t know, I don’t bet, I just know that the fix was in. Refs gave them that game at the end. Usually Vegas makes those calls.
They objectively were a half-yard short of the the marker at the end of the 4th and they just gave them the first down. That’s when I knew we were fucked. Even the announcers knew it was up when they just picked up the flag and didn’t say shit…
We’ve been getting screwed on spots (and almost everything else ACC-related) since Casteen and Warner forced the dogshit Gobblers on our conference. Can’t say we don’t deserve it.
I’m optimistic too. They have looked ALOT better the last two weeks. My silver lining is that I doubt Miami looked past us after we upset UNC last week (also Miami still has a lot to prove). We weren’t sneaking up on them and still took it to overtime. These are baby steps but it is still progress.
Yeah after giving it some time to stew and think, not too mad about this loss. Definitely a winnable game, probably a game we should’ve won and I still disagree with some coaching decisions made in the middle but overall we looked well prepared and fundamentally sound. No penalties on the day and really only one major mental mistake with Muskett throwing the pick 6, thought the playcalling was good for the most part outside of a couple 3rd and short shotgun runs and our OL despite giving up some sacks is improving at an encouraging rate.
I’m at the point now where I’m still up in the air about Tony and his overall future as the HC here, but I’m officially off the bandwagon of canning him after this season barring some obscene heavy regression in the final four games or a massive blowout loss to VT. It’s been a tough year but there’s been enough promise shown to let him get one more season and see if we can turn all of these close losses into W’s with our young talent hopefully getting more experience and turning a corner in the process.