Eastern Kentucky

[hiway44]

First I would like to say good win! A win is a win and I will take it. However, I am totally not pleased at going 1-3 again and no improvement. It's time to cut our ties with this head coach. With an up coming lost the team has lost focus and does not look like a D-1 football team. If we cut the ties now we can start the rebuild and have a new coach bring in his players a year early.

Jinks went the way of Junior College players this year and still failed to bring in talent. Lets payout after next week, deal with the mass exit of non talented players that he brought in and start the rebuild.

How about someone starting a Go Fund Me Account?

I love BGSU and will always support the University, but its' time to cut the cord. It may cost us revenue now but we should always be looking at a five year forecast.

Make the change before we loose even our colors!

[Falconfreak90]

I'm glad we won. It's good to win a football game. The Falcons played with a lot of heart, despite some injury problems. We saw some highlight reel catches. The Falcon sports radio network made Quintin Morris the player of the game, but it just as easily could have been Deric Phouthavong, who seems to be coming into his own in his senior year.

The Falcons also played with some discipline. Penalties have not been an issue for us this season, and we saw that again yesterday.

And Andrew Clair? My goodness. He's a beast.

Also, Eastern Kentucky may do well in the Ohio Valley. They gave Marshall some trouble, too. They battled. That team is not a pushover, clearly.

With all that said -- and with no disrespect to any of our players -- what we saw out there yesterday just wasn't good enough.

In Year 3 of a rebuild, we should not be holding our breath in the last minute, wondering if Bowling Green can hang on to beat an Ohio Valley school.

In Year 3 of a rebuild, an FCS school should not be able to gash us the way the Colonels did on the ground yesterday. They were getting 6.5 yards per run. That's unacceptable. Why, at this point, do we not have players in our program who can stop an Ohio Valley team from doing that to us?

In Year 3 of a rebuild, we should not need two quarterback sneaks in a row to gain one yard and punch the ball into the end zone against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels. Our line should have been blowing the Colonels off the ball. But our line was not blowing the Colonels off the ball. They also weren't giving Jarret Doege enough time to throw at times.

Looking around the country yesterday, here's what we saw: Temple kicking Maryland's ass, Syracuse kicking Florida State's ass, and the Falcons here at home, hanging on and squeaking out a win against a team that went 4-7 in the Ohio Valley last year.

I'm glad we won, but this isn't good enough.

SF, in 100% agreement with your post. I left the Doyt happy we won but pretty disappointed in the overall effort. It isn't good enough. This week is a MAJOR game. We need to start showing the improvement we were told has taken place.

[Schadenfreude]

Who would we get to replace Coach Jinks, in the event he was let go after the season?

My hope would be landing an interview with guys like Greg Studrawa (OL, Ohio State), Ed Warriner (OL, Michigan), Scott Littrell (HC, North Texas), and Bo Pelini (HC, Youngstown State).

Some seemed to dismiss Bo Pelini as unrealistic, but why? He’s FCS so he seems realistic to me.

(And savvy in a Frank Solich-type way.)

(Although I see Youngstown State lost to Butler in their opener. Not a great start for them.)

[Schadenfreude]

I'm glad we won. It's good to win a football game. The Falcons played with a lot of heart, despite some injury problems. We saw some highlight reel catches. The Falcon sports radio network made Quintin Morris the player of the game, but it just as easily could have been Deric Phouthavong, who seems to be coming into his own in his senior year.

The Falcons also played with some discipline. Penalties have not been an issue for us this season, and we saw that again yesterday.

And Andrew Clair? My goodness. He's a beast.

Also, Eastern Kentucky may do well in the Ohio Valley. They gave Marshall some trouble, too. They battled. That team is not a pushover, clearly.

With all that said -- and with no disrespect to any of our players -- what we saw out there yesterday just wasn't good enough.

In Year 3 of a rebuild, we should not be holding our breath in the last minute, wondering if Bowling Green can hang on to beat an Ohio Valley school.

In Year 3 of a rebuild, an FCS school should not be able to gash us the way the Colonels did on the ground yesterday. They were getting 6.5 yards per run. That's unacceptable. Why, at this point, do we not have players in our program who can stop an Ohio Valley team from doing that to us?

In Year 3 of a rebuild, we should not need two quarterback sneaks in a row to gain one yard and punch the ball into the end zone against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels. Our line should have been blowing the Colonels off the ball. But our line was not blowing the Colonels off the ball. They also weren't giving Jarret Doege enough time to throw at times.

Looking around the country yesterday, here's what we saw: Temple kicking Maryland's ass, Syracuse kicking Florida State's ass, and the Falcons here at home, hanging on and squeaking out a win against a team that went 4-7 in the Ohio Valley last year.

I'm glad we won, but this isn't good enough.

If all this was true in 2018, it's just as true now. Today was a real gut punch.

I imagine Eastern Kentucky is better this year than they were in 2018. They gave Eastern Michigan real trouble last week. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they make the FCS playoffs. They seem to have some talent.

And we caught a couple of bad breaks. I'm pretty sure that bad snap that gave the Colonels seven points was from a third-string center. I'm not sure what could have been done to avoid a flub like that. There are only so many reps to go around.

Even so, this was an Atlantic Sun team, and the game never should have been this close in the first place. Not in Year 4 of a rebuild.

This is a dark day for Falcon football.