One big win in Clawson career at BG

[BGSU33]

Geez...I know this was a disappointing loss, but it was a great game to watch in person and I had a heck of a good time tonight. Clawson has put us in a position to have a multi-year run at the top of the conference. He left us in far better shape than he found us....I think that's about all you can ask for.

It was a very good season, but a win would sure would have made it a great one IMO. When you win a game like this, it's awesome. But a loss in one of these is tough. This one will sting for awhile but I do feel the team that won deserved it. If sure would be nice to find a way to finally start winning all of these close games.

I sat through Tulsa 63, BG 7. THAT one was a tough one. The LCPB was basically a coin flip. Change a few what-ifs around, most notably another non call on a hit to the head of our QB, and the result might change too. 2014 can't get here soon enough.

IMO, I would rather lose handily than lose close. Tulsa kicked the hell out of us and there was no doubt about it. Losing to Pitt by three or Idaho by one, those are games you can go back and find a numbers of plays that if just one goes a different direction, you might come out on top. Yes, a loss is a loss, but the woulda/coulda/shouldas eat at me big time after a close one. I would rather have lost tonight by 21 than in the final minute and change by 3. But that's just me.

I'm with you. I was in the band at the time of the GMAC whomping and the Idaho game. The GMAC one definitely hurt the least. Can't really gauge Idaho since the refs truly screwed us. This one definitely hurt though.

Interesting. I always feel better when the team I want to win isn't 56 points behind at the end of the game. Not that the LCPB was a feeling of elation, just kind of somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose.

I find it so much easier to say "the better team won" when there was no doubt. Did the better team win when we lost to Tulsa? Hell yes. But did the better team win when we lost to Idaho (we lost of the final play), San Jose State (we lost the lead in the final minutes) and Pittsburgh (we fell behind in the final minute and change)? I would say those last three played the better game, but I wouldn't say all three teams were better than us. We could have won all three of those games, or even one or two of them, and that's why they are much tougher pills to swallow for me than when a team kicks your ass and leaves no doubt about it. All loses suck, but ones you could have won just hurt worse to me.

[The Niz]

Not even ten years ago a coach leaving before the season was fully finished made him the biggest azzhole in football. Now days were forced to just brush it off. I hope we play Wake Forest soon and completely dismantle them. I doubt it will happen but the Honor and Commitment side of me wants revenge for the lack of loyalty.

Obviously I'm speaking emotionally not rationally here. I'm well aware that it is unrealistic to expect another Doyt Perry to ever find his way to BG again. But I don't really care because that's what I want and anyone who says they don't is trying to hide behind being realistic instead of being honest.

[zete]

Right On! Roll along out of here D Clawson and take your staff with you. Good riddance.

[Falconfreak90]

I can't wait to see what Coach Babers has in store for our Falcon Football program. My loyalty will always be with the program. Coaches come and go...but the program does not. I believe DC took us as far as he could. He fulfilled his 5 year contract and we won the title, played in 3 bowl games as well. But we need that guy to put us over the top consistently and hopefully Coach Babers is the man to do it.

[mscarn]

I can't wait to see what Coach Babers has in store for our Falcon Football program. My loyalty will always be with the program. Coaches come and go...but the program does not. I believe DC took us as far as he could. He fulfilled his 5 year contract and we won the title, played in 3 bowl games as well. But we need that guy to put us over the top consistently and hopefully Coach Babers is the man to do it.

Bingo. Babers and the philosophy he will bring are exactly what the program needs at this moment in time. His strengths are our weaknesses. There is another level to reach and his approach is the roadmap to get us there.

The conference championship outweights the bowl game in importance by twentyfold, especially given the events of the past three weeks that threw the entire program into a state of flux. We were outmatched physically and still were in a position to win. 30+ FBS programs will win a bowl but only 10 earned the right through the course of the season to be called conference champions.