(10-30-2022 11:18 AM)Sellers dweller Wrote:  

(10-30-2022 11:13 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  

(10-30-2022 10:52 AM)EMUGLORYDAYSthe90s Wrote:  

(10-29-2022 06:25 PM)Sellers dweller Wrote:  Still very frustrated, angry, and just can't believe that happened.

This came reminded me of the end of the bowl game with Pitt. Had the lead in the fourth, had two possession to run the clock, get some points, and put it away. Instead...run, run, pass, here is the ball. Then that 4th and 10...give up 36 yards. Twice after giving up the lead we have a chance to at least get the ball across the 50 to AT LEAST give us a chance to AT LEAST try a long FG to tie...nope. Can't move the ball. Both of our lines got dominated, and the play calling was...questionable. It seemed like the old get the lead and try to sit on the lead.

I said after the WMU win that we were entering a three game stretch that would show if the program was ready to take the next step or it was the same ole same ole. If we could win two (or God forbid all three) it would show something, and....nope. Lost to two teams without their starting QB.

Today shows how far away we are. Buffalo is the best team in the east and absolutely made us eat our lunch at home. Toledo is the best team in the west, has one of the best QBs in the conference but he is out. They come in and play sloppy as hell with their backup QB and we STILL can't beat them.

(10-30-2022 09:38 AM)Ken Barna Wrote:  Dear Friends,
I read the last two pages this thread, and everyone is on the same page of poor play, poor play calling, we need better depth, etc., but overall support for Coach Creighton. Are you crazy? We as a team under Creighton, are doomed to mediocrity. Nothing is going to change as long as he is coach, and don't give me that baloney that another coach will be a disaster, so we have to be happy with Creighton. It is obvious that he is not going to change anything. He is stuck in his belief system of what is going to work, even though it does not.

Preach and keep preaching! Creighton is as average as they come! Take away the first two years, and he's A .500 coach! Toledo couldn't play any worse then they did, backup QB first time starting, and threw 3 TD, and 0 INT! The good MAC coaches win the MAC within 4-5 years! Mcelwain, Leipoid, Fleck, Neu, NIU coach, Babers, and I can keep going! The problem is many people are happy with 7-5, and 4-4! Then if we lose the bowl game 7-6! We will beat Akron, C Mich, and have a great chance to beat Kent St! All 3 have losing records! This was the season to win it! I drove 8 hours to watch that game, and simply couldn't believe the play calling! It was embarrassing! If Finn would've played we would've lost by 14 points or more!

Toledo's back up QB had 3 SEC offers in high schoolsincluding Georgia, before committing to GeorgiaTech.
Not your usual MAC backup.

That is all well and good, but facts are facts. He is a backup quarterback in the MAC. One of our quarterbacks yesterday started at an SEC school (Missouri) and had offers from Wake Forest, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Purdue, Vanderbilt, and Washington State...we've seen how much that matters.