Oh, the things I know

[kdog27]

My bad I missed that. Thanks.

[Falconwise]

I would hope everyone on this board wants them to win. I also expect them to play with passion.

What I notice at the OU game was the difference in attitude the Bobcats displayed. They thought they could win. They kept playing.

A few of our players displayed that attitude. Too many did not. The reason I haven't mentioned any players names is because coach's instill that in the team and through the captains.

Brandon does read this board. He's not looking for coaching advice. He just wants to see what fans think.

I want him to know how his team appears to the fans. I want him to get a sense of the reality of the way his team plays. I want him to get sick about it and change it.

BG is not Ohio State where the media would dwell on this for days. This is a great forum and it is the only one.

GO FALCONS!!!!!

[gspointer]

Drove by the Doyt tonight (Sunday) aboy 6:30 . The lights were on and it looked like the team was practicing in the rain. It was an embarrassing loss. Lets hope this is their wake-up call in the MAC. I echo the thoughts posted about the O-line on another thread. WM had pressure all night. The D- well enough has been said. This team needs work!

[Rightupinthere]

Drove by the Doyt tonight (Sunday) aboy 6:30 . The lights were on and it looked like the team was practicing in the rain.

I would laugh my butt off if the team was doing the chicken dance as a warm-up.

THAT'S the kind of coaching I appreciate!

[Warthog]

Most of you suck as fans. This is disgusting. I can name only a few on here that remain positive and know it sucks when we lose, but do not declare the world is over.

Well patrick, thanks for insulting the few people around that are passionate about BG football. You don't have to wear/shouldn't wear/ orange colored glasses and drink orange kool-aid to be a great fan. Some of us are great enough fans to recognize that loss as an embarassment, and that is being kind about it. We don't like our team being embarassed. So we are upset. WTF is wrong with that?

[Bleeding Orange]

Just a minor subpoint:

Why does everyone always talk about "the" orange kool aid and "the" orange glasses? Never once have I been offered orange kool aid and not since acid's hayday some decades ago have orange glasses been manufactured. I would like to know why I have been left out of this gift giving extravaganza? Why did I miss this memo? Was I drunk?

I would in fact like some orange kool aid and I think orange glasses would make the world look a bit more fun. At least they would keep the desert here from looking so damn dead. If anyone can actually find either of these items, please send them to me in a PM.

[BGSU99]

I thought it was an embarrassing performance just as many others did. I think the thing that bothered me is how we went into the tank when Omar went down, and on both sides of the ball. We needed the defense to get some stops along with Turner leading us to some scores on offense to get back in the game. Unfortunately we got neither. Having said that, the game is over now, and I'm ready to move on. I know some are tired of hearing it, but we do still control our own destiny, and last time I checked, the remaining teams on the schedule are not invincible. I don't want to hack anyone off, but folks, this is not the time to bail on this team. Support these kids and get ready to BEAT AKRON! We can still win the East Division and the MAC Title!

[Schadenfreude]

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Well hell, let's just call the season a bust. What's the damn point in showing up if we've already lost?

BGDrew, you rock!

I cannot believe all of the negativity about this team. They need support. Not a bunch of alumni, students, and fans telling them what they should be doing, or how Coach Brandon should be coaching.

Most of you suck as fans. This is disgusting. I can name only a few on here that remain positive and know it sucks when we lose, but do not declare the world is over.

I'm a Democrat. People in my party are often accused of hating America.

It's ridiculous, of course. The party of Franklin Roosevelt, of Max Cleland, of Al Gore, of John Kerry, of Paul Hackett -- this is a party that hates America?

But the idea that Democrats hate America resonates with some people -- and I think the reason why comes down to a basic difference of opinion about what it means to be patriotic.

Some believe Americans should love our country like children love their parents -- as a perfect and unquestionable figure of wisdom. My country, right or wrong.

Others, I think, love America the way grownups love their parents.

Most adults can look at their parents and see their flaws as well as their strengths.

It's a more complicated, deeper relationship. One of the toughest things to do is suggest to your parents that there may be a better way, that they aren't always right.

I love America the way an adult loves his parents.

And I have the same relationship with Bowling Green football. An adult relationship.

The only reason I'm not popping off more today is that I don't have the answers. I don't know what's wrong with this team.

But that there is something wrong -- I mean, hell, it's plain as day, and I'm not going to apologize for dwelling on it.

Saturday's game was the most humiliating loss for this program in five years, since Buffalo 2000.

An even better comparison might be the 1995 Louisiana Tech opener.

We were coming off a 9-2 season in which we just missed a Top 25 ranking, a MAC title, a bowl game. The table was set -- and six interceptions later, the train was off the tracks for the next six years.

Yesterday's game was just like that game ten years ago. Only difference is that it came a lot later this season.

I was at Louisiana Tech game. I was at the Buffalo game. I was at Saturday's game, until the gun went off, when it was just friends and family. I just pledged a bit of money toward the Sebo Center today. And I'll be in Akron next Saturday.

I don't need lectures from people on what it means to be a Falcon football fan. I really don't.

Point to the standings all you want. I hear the fat lady, and she's inhaling.

Anyone think a team that gets drilled at home by Western Michigan is going to figure it out in Oxford?

I have doubts.

I'm not happy. And I'm not going to apologize for that, either.

We deserved better Saturday. And, tith all the talent on this team, we deserved better this season.

[TG1996]

And I'll be in Akron next Saturday.

Tell the Rubber Bowl I said hello. I'll be in BG watching Akron play at the Doyt.

[Flipper]

Don't stop him, he's on a roll....

[Godsgirlerific]

And I'll be in Akron next Saturday.

Tell the Rubber Bowl I said hello. I'll be in BG watching Akron play at the Doyt.

:ZZZZing:

[Dayons_Den]

I echo Schad's sentiments.

I posted in another thread that this season feels like 1995. I was at each of the afore mentioned games- '95 vs. La Tech and this past weekend. Saturday I exited the Doyt via the field after the gun as I normally do, but the band's rendition of Beer Barrel Polka was not the comfort it normally was.

I also agonizingly sat through watching the Boise State game earlier this season and that experience reminded me of when I was a mystified 6 year old watching Fresno State stomp BG and my hero Brian McClure.

I can't say if we aren't prepared or if our coaches are reaping the benefits of their predecessors or if our defensive scheme doesn't fit our athletes or whatever. I like football and I love BG sports but I can't dissect a football game and give you X's and O's.

I can say that the names were on the back of the jerseys again and I can also say with certainty that the Orange on White pants don't work just like the White on Orange pants don't work. I can also say for the second week in a row I was told at the gates that I am not allowed to bring in bags of tooties rolls. I can also thank Schad for donating for the SEBO and hope that others follow that cue and reverse what many of us are seeing as our dissention as a program, overall.

[Schadenfreude]

I can also say for the second week in a row I was told at the gates that I am not allowed to bring in bags of tooties rolls.

Can green home jerseys be far behind?

[Warthog]

I can't say if we aren't prepared or if our coaches are reaping the benefits of their predecessors or if our defensive scheme doesn't fit our athletes or whatever. I like football and I love BG sports but I can't dissect a football game and give you X's and O's.

I am no football genius, but I can see this: Our linebackers are not making tackles. Plain and simple. Don't know if this is part of a bad scheme where the lineman are not occupying the blockers or if our LBs are just that bad. But when you watch a play, you will notice safeties and CBs making lots of tackles on running plays. It shouldn't be that way.

And our DBs never play up on the line and stuff a WR at the line. On the 89 yard pass, we started with two safeties deep, then one crept up to the line and Jordan ended up about 10-12 yards off the line when the ball was snapped. He was beat from the get go. Jennings had him doing peroits (sp?) backing up down the field. You can't let a great WR have 10 yards to make a move on you. Get in his face and smack him in the mouth off the line. That slows him down and disrupts the timing of the play. Same goes for the TE. He was running free all over the place because no one jammed him coming off the line.

and I can also say with certainty that the Orange on White pants don't work just like the White on Orange pants don't work.

Absolutely agree. These uniforms were designed to go orange-orange or white-white. Mixing this style of unis is just ugly. Who makes a decision like that and thinks it looks good? Might as well go out there in practice jerseys. Not that the uniforms had anyting to do with our increndibly bad play on the field, but it made the game even harder to watch.

[Rollo83]

Why does everyone always talk about "the" orange kool aid and "the" orange glasses? Never once have I been offered orange kool aid and not since acid's hayday some decades ago have orange glasses been manufactured. I would like to know why I have been left out of this gift giving extravaganza? Why did I miss this memo? Was I drunk?

That's the beauty of the "kool aid." You don't know you are drinking it until its too late. You are like a chick who goes to a Harry Buffalo party and then wakes up naked in a strange bed the next morning and can't remember how she got there.