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Just sitting here thinking and came up with the following questions:

Can anyone honestly say that we have lost a game that we should have definitely won in his coaching stint?

Has he ever lost a game we were favored in?

How many other MAC coaches can you say that about? Can't say it about Amstutz, Montgomery or Novak over that same time frame.

His losses:
@ OSU
@ Miami
Miami - MACC
@ Oklahoma
@ NIU
@ Toledo
@ Wisconsin
@ Boise State

The only games we may have been favored in was the MACC and at NIU and that certainly would not have been by much!
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The Phil Steele magazine includes the lines from each game over the last 5 years, so I can check for sure when I get home, but I think we were favored in the UT game last year and possibly at NIU. We were 7 or 10 point dogs in the MACC to Miami, mainly due to the fact that we got waxed in Oxford 4 weeks prior.
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@Toledo last year we definitely were favored. I'd also say we had a better offense than Wisconsin.
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Lost a game we should have won. Yes, 2004 Toledo. It may have been a slight favorite or a pick 'em....but after halftime, we took our boot off their neck and allowed them to breath.
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Doesnt matter if we were favored or not but UT last year was rediculous
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A good coach gets his team to win games they are supposed to lose. That is what makes them good coaches.
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My point is that we have not lost to a CMU at home, or a BSU or a Akron on the road under his tenure.

A good coach should NEVER lose to inferior competition either then, right?

And what would all you arm-chair coaches have done to keep Scooter and Brian Calhoun from running all-over us in the two of those losses we possibly could have won?

Sometimes you just need tip your cap to the other team for being better on that day.
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Redwingtom wrote:
And what would all you arm-chair coaches have done to keep Scooter and Brian Calhoun from running all-over us in the two of those losses we possibly could have won?

Sometimes you just need tip your cap to the other team for being better on that day.
I agree.

However, the Boise game ticks me off. It's not that we lost it was how we lost.
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We didn't even lose at BALL STATE like one of the MAC "powers" does consistently!!! :wink:
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Flipper wrote:Man, I REALLY wanted a pony for Christmas when I was six...
Quit being a smartass and start another Coach Brandon thread.
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Only one win on the road against a team with a winning record. Sometimes, YOU"RE supposed to be the better team that gets the hat tip!
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What should have we done at Wisconsin.. how about putting 8 in the box and keying on Calhoun since he got the ball about 90-percent of the time in the second half.
Prove we can stop him on a couple of drives.. and they are forced to pass again.. instead of just running it into the ground..
Not really that hard to figure out..
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windycityfalcon wrote:What should have we done at Wisconsin.. how about putting 8 in the box and keying on Calhoun since he got the ball about 90-percent of the time in the second half.
Prove we can stop him on a couple of drives.. and they are forced to pass again.. instead of just running it into the ground..
Not really that hard to figure out..
I don't know why I am replying to this but we did that.
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