Yeah the guys that beat our foursome had higher handicaps. We were leading w a couple holes to go (scramble format), and after I lipped out an eagle putt we finished w a par and a birdie, but it wasn’t enough. (the winners had shots the last three holes) Oh well, it was a good day and I had fun playing w my buddies.
Good cause and I am friends w a number of retired service members that live in my community. A couple were Sub Captains, and others Generals (one was a 3 star). All the retired military officers I know are modest and exemplary gentlemen I am proud to call my friends.
It will be interesting to see what we hear, if anything, from what I will call the Chuck apologists, given what they said after the Wisky loss. We now have a direct comparison to another MAC team against the same B10 opponent, both games played at Rutgers. With what can only fairly be called drastically different results. All I will say is one team and coach seemed to have come out with a mindset to prioritize the OOC game and win it, while the other coach and team seemed to have different priorities. As I, and others said, the two priorities don’t have to be mutually exclusive. My guess is one university after yesterday has a more energized student fan base than the other, and for good reason.
I had a lot of problems with the UW game plan and how Chuck has treated OOC games, but I’m not sure what you are getting at as far as Chuck and the team not prioritizing a win yesterday? Unlike the games against UW and Northwestern last year, I saw a team trying to actually win. Obviously Chuck has a dismal history OOC, but I saw effort yesterday, we just got punched in the mouth by a better team. We were much more aggressive than against UW. We aired the ball out several times (to pretty good success with multiples catches over 60 yards downfield). Finn making an atrocious pass that a 7th year senior can’t make is what broke the game open. Chuck was still fired up enough to get an unsportsmanlike penalty late in the game.
I think it may be as simple as we turned over 11 starters on offense, almost as many on defense, and are just not nearly as good as Ohio is this year, at least right now. We might not be good period, but not ready to declare that yet.
It didn’t cost us the game, but I will say having to burn 4 timeouts and taking a delay of game on offense when we didn’t have our shit together is fully on the staff and has been a pattern for a decade. Chuck needs to address his system of getting plays in.
I agree with everything except for this. There were a couple massive swing plays that went against us (sometimes due to bad officiating) and they tacked on points at the end after the game was decided. The actual game flow was fairly even. They only outgained us by 53 yards and 48 of those came on the last drive when we had the backups in. Take away the OPI calls and the interception and we absolutely could have won that game despite what the final score looked like.
That interception should be looked at as a10 Point mistake by Finn. It was first and goal from the 30 so we should have been thinking kill the clock and get a field goal. Instead we got no FG and gave them plenty of time to get a TD. That was Finns3rd interception already and all were on him forcing g a throw into a well double covered guy.
Again: I know we have 11 new starters including him and both games were against Big Ten teams, at least in name. But Finn’s throwing has not impressed me yet. He obviously hit a couple big ones down field, but even one of those was a poorly thrown ball where the WR would have walked into the endzone if it was well thrown and was instead tackled.
As DICK said, he’s thrown a few bonehead INTs and has thrown high and inaccurate on several throws a 7th year QB should be making. I assume Finn is probably the highest paid NIL QB in the conference (unless Ohio really took care of Navarro but I kind of assume Finn got more since he was on the market). He needs to be better and hopefully he is in conference.
The guy that intercepted that ball was covering the outside receiver who ran a deep route. I don’t recall us throwing many deep balls in the first two games, so I doubt Rutgers was respecting the deep route. Maybe Chuck needs to throw the ball down the field a few times to keep the outside cornerbacks honest?
The defense is getting dominated in the fourth quarter because they’re on the field 2/3 of the game. The offense has to stay on the field to give the defense a rest.
Yes. The only long pass downfield vs Wisconsin was our last play which they were looking for. We threw several long balls downfield today and that did lead to opening things up.
I’m not picking on you, because what you say is correct if you’re just taking this game in and of itself. I get frustrated because it’s Year 12 of Chuck Martin and we’re still talking like this. That’s just not very good, or captivating for a fan base.
Certainly agree with other posts that CM and his staff were all out to win the game including making adjustments on D and O during the game- this was a very positive sign. Penalties a major problem- including the offensive pass interference calls in this game and and the one OPI call in the Wisc game-while the second call yesterday is debatable it was a similar call to the Wisc game and needs to be addressed . The first offensive pass interference call also very costly as it set up in part the next interception play ( I know there we also had another penalty on that play ).Even more important is our soft pass defense- our corners are backing up as the ball is snapped . and we give up easy 10-15 yard completions. Not only does this concept lead to easy scores but it keeps our D on the field too long- TOP a major problem and our D in the 4th Q as noted by others is exhausted. We need to mix up our corner coverage- again this has been a problem for some time. Additionally do we have the talent to play man D? Is this a talent or coaching problem- we often play a “frozen zone “ for the most part and in man coverage we are too late to play the thrown ball- a problem for years like our soft corner coverage. Good QB’s and receivers like yesterday and just average teams will continue to hurt us unless we clean this up. Finally our O line still needs a lot of work esp on run blocking. Lets hope for more improvements during the two weeks we have to prepare for UNLV.
That interception should never be thrown by a 6th year college QB. There were also a few plays were he needed to audible out of the play, as many criticized Gabbert for failing to do last year.
I agree Phil. And effort is different from the staff trying to win. I’m sorry-unless we are going to concede OU is significantly better than us, and maybe they are, then there was a vast difference between how OU and Miami approached this Rutgers game. During the broadcast the crew said Chuck told them he is just trying to get the team ready for MAC play. Again the two are not mutually exclusive.