Man, I have been as frustrated as the next person today. In the end, a family member of mine said it best....they didn't quit. I argued that we really stunk up the place. He said that past teams have quit when we faced adversity. He said we could have been blown out, but instead chose to stand and fight. Crap. He is right.
So, time to suck it up buttercups(to quote Pat Summitt). We can be better, and we should have been better today. I like Heupel. I hope we get better. After the past few years, the bar is low for me. In the end, these guys put on the uniform each Saturday and go to battle. We are 1-1. We have ten games to go. Anything can happen. They can choose to get better after today or to get worse. This is college football. Anything can happen. I think 5 wins seems about right, but nobody knows for sure. We could get to 6 with hard work by everyone involved. Teams that don't quit tend to make their own luck. We managed to stay in a game today after we had lost our ENTIRE offensive backfield by halftime. So, just going to have to take this one day at a time. I can't say I have full confidence in CJH, but I can say that I am not giving up on him or the team either. I just want to see them get better and to develop into better players. And I want to see them keep fighting. Every team we play needs to know they have been in a football game.
And no, I am not into moral victories. But Summitt used to say we can learn more from defeat than winning....and that lady hated losing. But we are going to have find some positives. And the one positive is that our guys kept playing. Our backups made plays. We kept fighting. In the end, that quality will win some games for Josh Heupel.
So, time to suck it up buttercups(to quote Pat Summitt). We can be better, and we should have been better today. I like Heupel. I hope we get better. After the past few years, the bar is low for me. In the end, these guys put on the uniform each Saturday and go to battle. We are 1-1. We have ten games to go. Anything can happen. They can choose to get better after today or to get worse. This is college football. Anything can happen. I think 5 wins seems about right, but nobody knows for sure. We could get to 6 with hard work by everyone involved. Teams that don't quit tend to make their own luck. We managed to stay in a game today after we had lost our ENTIRE offensive backfield by halftime. So, just going to have to take this one day at a time. I can't say I have full confidence in CJH, but I can say that I am not giving up on him or the team either. I just want to see them get better and to develop into better players. And I want to see them keep fighting. Every team we play needs to know they have been in a football game.
And no, I am not into moral victories. But Summitt used to say we can learn more from defeat than winning....and that lady hated losing. But we are going to have find some positives. And the one positive is that our guys kept playing. Our backups made plays. We kept fighting. In the end, that quality will win some games for Josh Heupel.
