midranger wrote:Chryst not going for two was pretty inexcusable. Glad Sanborn made a great play so that we didn’t have to sweat it out. But at that point in the game, a 12 point vs 13 point difference is essentially nothing.
Yeah, again, as somebody with moderate expectations, I was going to come out of that game with "meh. Not bad."
About all we know for sure 100% now is Mertz is not good this year and probably never will be. Fine. Beating Army by this margin actually wouldn't have been so bad - Army does this to really good teams, our defense was great, running game was decent, Allen looks like a stud/future star...
...And then Chryst does that. Either a booster had big $ on Army to cover or Chryst is just a gigantic idiot.
This team could honestly finish 9-3 or 3-9. Neither would surprise me. The defense is very good and I guess they could just pound the rock enough to beat all of these beatable teams. Or they could turn it over 2-3 times/game and lose to all of these teams that are not great but frisky. Iowa is probably the one exception but they are honestly "Wisconsin with an inverse turnover margin."