(10-01-2017 05:40 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  

(10-01-2017 04:26 PM)bearcat72 Wrote:  

(10-01-2017 04:24 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  I was out in the woods...literally without cell service...so I'm just coming back to this discussion having no clue what happened, but it seems fitting to point out that:
1) Marsha had a "bye" week to prepare for this game, while...
2) UC played their 5th game in 5 weeks including a trip to Ann Arbor and Anapolis and a rivalry game at Oxford.

I think this team may well just be out-of-gas after a tough run. We have next week off, right?

No....UCF, then the bye.

Actually due to Hurricane Irma, the USF game got bumped into to our original bye week I believe. We now play UCF, @USF and SMU and then the bye on 10/28. With the improved off-season S&C program they shouldn't be out gas physically speaking.

Navy, especially was a physical game.

"Being out of gas" is a physical thing but it is also a mental and emotional thing.

This is a brutal run the team has to work through now. I don't see a win before the "Bye" week...

Forgot to mention this. Sat down in my seat and there was a woman next to me recording the players running onto the field. Really nice older woman. Got to talking to her...

Me: So, are you here with one of the high school teams? (Got the vibe she was supporting someone)
Her: No, my great nephew is a Bearcat
Me: Oh really? Which one is he?
Her: Jarrel White. He's #8
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Me: Well, tell him how grateful we are as fans that he chose to stay home and go to UC.
Her: That's really nice. I'll tell him that.

His entire family was there. I got to meet his uncle, also.

You know, I had no idea that he had been playing. Felt like an idiot when I said something about him getting a chance on D soon and she said he had already been rotating in.

She is a big time football fan and was fun to watch the game with.