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[BrunswickDawg]

I?m afraid that for a lot of casual fans college football is dead. A lower middle income family is not going to travel to Memphis or Birmingham to see players that have to be paid to care about. The NIL is going to be a big haul for top money programs but no one else. This bowl season is bad to watch.

I'll disagree slightly - the bowl games I've watched other than ours have been entertaining. Lots of close games and a number of upsets (according the spread). I really enjoyed watching Auburn blow their lead and losing. Florida getting taken to the woodshed is always a delight.

[Cooterpoot]

We just weren't the same team... I know we only had a few pieces missing on both sides of the ball but it appeared we just were a different team without those guys ...... mix in the fact that we just got out of the groove of routine of weekly games and this shouldn't come as a surprise. TT was also better than we were expecting (at least me anyway)

We looked exactly like we looked on Thanksgiving.

[DeltaSwamp]

The guys out were mostly defense. Offense was missing tackles, but protection was good for the most part. Offense was bad, and really inexcusable

wut? If you think the tackles/lines picked up the twists and blitzes well then either you do not know football as well as you think or we were watching different games

[msstate7]

wut? If you think the tackles/lines picked up the twists and blitzes well then either you do not know football as well as you think or we were watching different games

Fine. Everyone's fault, but will and leach.

ETA... Bowl games and total offense...
2020: 60 plays 271 yds 4.52 per play
2021: 73 plays 344 yds 4.71 per play

[Dawgface]

Knew when they all started talking about paying players, College football would never be the same. The game is closer and closer to losing me. I love the game but I just don't know about the future for me as we keep going down this road.

I'm out. I only watched TT first series yesterday. My interest level in today's game has been flushed down the toilet.

[Extendedcab]

We played like shit. All of it like shit. Worst loss of Leaches time here. All of them were equally shitty. BUT


You are seeing the results of what the transfer portal, opting out and NIL deals. It is what it is and I dont think it will ever come back.

I pretty much agree with you Bucky, I think this new "Transfer Portal/Opt out//NIL" world is a big factor! We sucked in all phases of the game last night! We must have NO depth at all!

[bulldawg28]

We looked exactly like we looked on Thanksgiving.

Exactly.

[Pancho]

TT Secondary was a carbon copy of the egg bowl. We still have made no adjustments other than to run when the box isn't full. On several occasions last night we ran the ball with a full box and the pre snap read appeared to be useless. I would think the air raid works more efficiently when a TE is used like WKU does. Extra blocker and can rub and grab a quick over the top pass since we don't ever go deep to take the top off.

[MadDawg]

There's no team concept in college athletics anymore, and that's actually why people liked it. If we want to watch paid players, overpaid coaches, and selfish BS, we can flip it to the NFL. It's a far better product.
But this team is also poorly coached. There's no question about it. But if we go to a bowl game, our AD won't care. He puts the bare ass minimum into our football program or any program not baseball. Our money guys are fine with it, because they get the LT treatment.

So many of our fans don't get this at all. The "it's all about me" generation.

[CaptainObvious]

I pretty much agree with you Bucky, I think this new "Transfer Portal/Opt out//NIL" world is a big factor! We sucked in all phases of the game last night! We must have NO depth at all!

Would not depth be attributed to the previous staff?s recruiting plus the 2 opt outs plus the Covid restricted players? Sounds like a bad combination of ills to me. But effort should never ever ever be a problem and that is most definitely coaching and conditioning. Why conditioning? Because apparently they didn?t work their asses off in prep for this game.

Remember what you saw yesterday is what will be the core of next year?s team. I remember several years ago when Ole Miss was going through their bad coaches and teams, a sports writer wrote this (paraphrased) :

The good news for Ole Miss is that nearly everybody will be back next year. The bad news for Ole Miss is that nearly everybody will be back next year!!

Is our situation that bad for next year???

[ShotgunDawg]

Seemed to me the Ole Miss OL was pretty good, too. Either that or we are pretty weak on the defensive front. They don't seem to have much problem knocking our guys backward and scoring.

Our pass rush was terrible this year

[Pancho]

need an edge guy. Davis will help in that area