Hate to make yet another post for today but phew I need to put this somewhere
I'll start with the good!
1) there were times where our offense looked unstoppable against a competent opponent
2) I thought our oline blocked the best they had all season (I swear every bowl game I repeat this sentiment...maybe french is right and practicing all offseason against a gimmicky defense starts us off slow?)
3) our running backs had a terrific game, tons of effort
4) everyone there go ahead and pat yourselves on the back.... we were loud in the 2nd half and it was fun (#humblebrag)
5) the wide receiver blocking seemed pretty good today, someone with a more trained eye please correct me if I'm wrong.
6) special teams. Shout out to the kicking game and punt returners. They took some licks a few time and held onto the ball...kudos
The bad...
1) drops...how did we have 6 drops (possibly more?) In a fucking bowl game. At this point its unacceptable, haze needs to make several of those catches, a bit more forgivable for king but my god, that shocked me today I thought we left a ton of yards on the field and ended some drives sooner than we should have
2) dax holifield seemed to have a rough game. I counted at least twice where he seemed to have a breakdown and at least twice where he was outrun to the edge where we shouldve had a loss of 2 or 3 and instead they got a gain of 4. Huge against the triple option
3) the officiating....I dont usually blame officials but my god that was horrendous. A bullshit PI on an interception, a ridiculous "he called him mean words" penalty on the first drive, a missed OBVIOUS AS FRICK hold, a terrible early whistle on what became a fumble, 2 absurd targeting calls (one for and against) etc....this was some sugar bowl level piss poor officiating. I dont understand how there is zero review policy on officials and zero repercussions for just being general shit at their jobs in all sports. What would be wrong with a review process?
4) hooker had a decent game but man he missed on a few gimmie plays hopefully an offseason as the obvious #1 (Fuente please dont do this competition crap) with #1 reps is enough to build some chemistry out wide.
The ugly:
1) Cornelson.....how do you have literally an entire month to plan and have that first drive? I thought he had high moments and low moments. It wasnt a disaster (I think many of you forget ocainspring and were miles ahead of that) but there are points when he loses the pulse of the game. I think he needs a co-OC to help him. There are times when hes brilliant and maddeningly shitty points too
2) the conservative calls....I dont know why coaches are still conservative when statistics consistently say: stop being bitches. Like seriously, how do teams not play more aggressively with the amount of money and advanced analytics poured into it. Fuente absolutely deserves some blame for this
3) time and time again we seem to shoot ourselves in the foot at crucial times. We seem nervous and I dont know the cure. Outside of miami I cant think of a clutch drive under fuente where our boys nutted up and got shit done when it needed to be done. I honestly dont know the answer but we had a chance to put this game away probably 8 times today and failed every chance... its frustrating and I dont know who to blame. Be it a kick out of bounds, blown assignments, drops....we dont seem clutch at all
Conclusion:
I think what's so frustrating about this game was it was absolutely winnable. And we just didnt. As mentioned before we blew probably close to 10 chances and I'd ANY of those go our way the conclusion to the season is "we gutted out a bowl win over a gimmicky team. Good for us" before coming into next year as the obvious coastal favorite. I see signs of a phenomenal team. Were REALLLLLY close to being a really good offense, and our defense pulled its shit together late this year. I have no idea how to feel next year. Fuente absolutely has earned another year but I think next year will be super telling about the future of this program
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