@Escambia94,
@Leakfan12,
Just back long enough to say that you both were spared exactly the kind of loss we just DIDN'T need OR deserve...
We come out strong, drove the field, gave up a quick long drive in response but tightened up in the red done, held them to 3, were immediately back to driving down the fieid on our next possession when we hit a patch of bad calls (officials took it upon THEMSELVES to shut down our drive, in my view)--but then proceeded to make one dumb mistake after another--on BOTH side of the ball! Next thing you know, it was 17-7 UGA early 2nd quarter: Writing was on the wall, and that's where I cut OUT of here.
Things were plenty bad already and I could SEE where it was headed. We had had a CHANCE here, but we let it get away from us WAY too quickly, way too EASILY: It will be a real struggle just finding ourselves ONE MORE WIN the rest of the way, let alone a second to give us a "winning record".
Personally, I plan to step back and at least TRY to take a mainly "objectively unemotional approach". That's my intention, regardless--one that presumably will help to keep me sane.
They had the right idea for this one--some throws of the dice, trick plays, flamboyant strategy...just a certain air of desperation: more "panic" than "fun" as it turned out.
I hope they don't eschew such choices in the future merely because they didn't work here; the time WILL come when we well may NEED that kind of "crazy fun and flexibility" in order to break through in a tight one where things are otherwise "neck and neck"...There was a point in the mid-first quarter when that seemed to be potentially where this one was headed--but then things turned and where THEY responded WELL, we responded POORLY.
And that was THAT. Shortly after that the 1st was over, we were behind and floundering, and I was saying my "fair-thee-wells"!
I haven't tuned back into the game since (I imagine it's over--or close), and am here now only to further highlight "the gist of all you missed".
Yikes! Another example of "not the RESULT so much as the MANNER IN WHICH IT DEVELOPED AND OCCURRED!"
Back to all the "Fire this Coach!" Bs for many, while the rest of us just hunker down and hope that he and his staff can just stay hot and hungry on the recruiting trail, bring in these next couple of top classes and GOD HELP US: WIN some GAMES somehow--a couple more THIS season, and in general BEGIN to show some consistent dominance the NEXT.
