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Has There Ever Been a Year Setup Any Better for Us?
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:01 pm
by Rollo83
We have a veteran team on both sides of the ball with playmakers at a lot of positions D & O. We catch the East Division in a down year where nobody's worth a damn. We avoid the three toughest teams in the West...(Ball State, Central & Western)...on the schedule. We get our nemesis...Miami...at home when their having a terrible year. They start a freshman QB in his first start and a back-up RB.
How do you screw that up?
Re: Has There Ever Been a Year Setup Any Better for Us?
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:03 pm
by Warthog
Rollo83 wrote:How do you screw that up?
I'll take a stab at it and say coaching.
Re: Has There Ever Been a Year Setup Any Better for Us?
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:04 pm
by Falconboy
Rollo83 wrote:
How do you screw that up?
I don't know, you have to ask GB.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:08 pm
by Rightupinthere
How do you screw that up.
Hmmmmmm.
I'm trying to think. Give me a second.
Losing games to teams they should have beaten.
Still thinking.
Nope. I give up. Nothing is coming to mind.
Re: Has There Ever Been a Year Setup Any Better for Us?
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:13 pm
by BGSU33
Rollo83 wrote:We have a veteran team on both sides of the ball with playmakers at a lot of positions D & O. We catch the East Division in a down year where nobody's worth a damn. We avoid the three toughest teams in the West...(Ball State, Central & Western)...on the schedule. We get our nemesis...Miami...at home when their having a terrible year. They start a freshman QB in his first start and a back-up RB.
How do you screw that up?
With the team we had returning, coupled with the schedule we had to face, I felt in the preseason that we couldn't have asked for a better setup. I don't think our own coaching staff could gave put together a better schedule if they could have hand picked it themselves. Our crossover games avoided CMU, WMU & BSU, we hosted teams like Miami who always gives us trouble and EMU who we always beat. What more could we have asked for? Well, seven games into the season, I still feel that way, except we have just wasted away opportunity after opportunity and we have all but thrown this season away. I don't know what is more painful, having a good season come unglued at the end, or shooting yourself in the foot out of the gates? Either way, we always seem to finding ways of doing one or the other annually.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:22 pm
by Schadenfreude
This should have been the year. This season was set up perfectly. And we are blowing it.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:31 pm
by Warthog
Schadenfreude wrote:This should have been the year. This season was set up perfectly. And we are blowing it.
Schade, I think you can change that to past tense, that is, have blown it.
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:20 pm
by BGSU33
To sum up what we've done with this great opportunity this year.....we've pissed right down our leg!!!
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:05 am
by RedHawk65
Trade you Greg Brandon for Shane Montgomery. Heck, in the spirit of the season I'll even throw in a pumpkin-carving kit.
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:03 am
by factman
How about you take'em BOTH!!
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:16 pm
by RedHawk65
factman wrote:How about you take'em BOTH!!
No thanks. I don't see us going anywhere with SM at the helm.
Re: Has There Ever Been a Year Setup Any Better for Us?
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:20 pm
by poorlycoachedbgsu
BGSU33 wrote:Rollo83 wrote:We have a veteran team on both sides of the ball with playmakers at a lot of positions D & O. We catch the East Division in a down year where nobody's worth a damn. We avoid the three toughest teams in the West...(Ball State, Central & Western)...on the schedule. We get our nemesis...Miami...at home when their having a terrible year. They start a freshman QB in his first start and a back-up RB.
How do you screw that up?
why aren't you being attacked by the regulars here for this harsh post? just wondering. i agree 100 percent with you by the way.
With the team we had returning, coupled with the schedule we had to face, I felt in the preseason that we couldn't have asked for a better setup. I don't think our own coaching staff could gave put together a better schedule if they could have hand picked it themselves. Our crossover games avoided CMU, WMU & BSU, we hosted teams like Miami who always gives us trouble and EMU who we always beat. What more could we have asked for? Well, seven games into the season, I still feel that way, except we have just wasted away opportunity after opportunity and we have all but thrown this season away. I don't know what is more painful, having a good season come unglued at the end, or shooting yourself in the foot out of the gates? Either way, we always seem to finding ways of doing one or the other annually.
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:22 pm
by poorlycoachedbgsu
Schadenfreude wrote:This should have been the year. This season was set up perfectly. And we are blowing it.
be careful because a post like this will set some people on this board off even though you are right though.
Re: Has There Ever Been a Year Setup Any Better for Us?
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:25 pm
by MarkL
poorlycoachedbgsu wrote:BGSU33 wrote:Rollo83 wrote:We have a veteran team on both sides of the ball with playmakers at a lot of positions D & O. We catch the East Division in a down year where nobody's worth a damn. We avoid the three toughest teams in the West...(Ball State, Central & Western)...on the schedule. We get our nemesis...Miami...at home when their having a terrible year. They start a freshman QB in his first start and a back-up RB.
How do you screw that up?
why aren't you being attacked by the regulars here for this harsh post? just wondering. i agree 100 percent with you by the way.
With the team we had returning, coupled with the schedule we had to face, I felt in the preseason that we couldn't have asked for a better setup. I don't think our own coaching staff could gave put together a better schedule if they could have hand picked it themselves. Our crossover games avoided CMU, WMU & BSU, we hosted teams like Miami who always gives us trouble and EMU who we always beat. What more could we have asked for? Well, seven games into the season, I still feel that way, except we have just wasted away opportunity after opportunity and we have all but thrown this season away. I don't know what is more painful, having a good season come unglued at the end, or shooting yourself in the foot out of the gates? Either way, we always seem to finding ways of doing one or the other annually.
Because he's not being obnoxious about it.
Re: Has There Ever Been a Year Setup Any Better for Us?
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:46 am
by NWLB
Warthog wrote:I'll take a stab at it and say coaching.
Whoa now, who the heck said BGSU has had any coaching......