(10-05-2019 08:36 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote: (10-04-2019 10:38 PM)tigerpride96 Wrote: Announcers never even mentioned Memphis during their discussion of best teams in the American during the second half. A holes. Great win by Cincy. UCF isn’t Memphis good. Should be a good game at the end of the season against Cincy.
Yep, I noticed that too.
If you had been there, you would have agreed. That win did not feel like domination. It felt like luck. I know Gainwell did "X", and White did "Y", and all that, but the FEELING at the game was ... well.... it was not confident. It was, "I'm sure glad we got that pic-6 and that onside kick out of nowhere, and that 2-point conversion, else, this could have been a nail-biter." Against a team that is now 2-3. And lost to Iowa St. 72-20. Seventy-two to TWENTY...
So many missed tackles... so many...
Hey, I'm super glad we won. Especially since we drove all the way down there to see it in person, but I gotta say, that performance by the defense was a BIT lackluster, and my theory is, it was because of the crowd. I read somewhere on their boards or something that we were the 3rd biggest opponent they've had in their stadium, like, as a home game, and there was NOBODY there. They MIGHT have had 2000-3000 fans their. We probably had 1000.
So could you imaging going from Ole Miss (44,000), Southern (35,000?), South Alabama (20,000?), Navy (40,000 minimum, I don't give a crap what the paper says), to playing in front of about 5,000 people? I'm mean, I'll grant you, the people who live there have the option of not going because it was sooooo hot, but damn, people? Show up for your TEAM. That was embarrassing.
Anyway, point being, there was NO ENERGY in that stadium. I thought we Memphis fans easily matched the ULM fans in overall energy, and we put their student section to shame.
One thing I didn't like to see was some of our fans yelling at the defense while they were on the sidelines in chairs in a meeting, shouting at them over a little 3 foot high wall about 15 feet away from them. Very inappropriate.