The past 1.5 year shows me a few trends/

1) on offensive we are 99% qb dependent and that?s becoming a tend in college football. First Costello was light out, then a pick 6 machine. Will shows the ability to keep us in games and move the ball at times but film shows his ultra conservative nature is missing a lot of bigger throws. Then the last 2 we?ve had some key misfires with open guys. Put simply we are solid at qb, but to be a good team these days you need above average play there and we aren?t there yet.

2) Penalties and special team mistakes. Teams with average talent can?t withstand these in bunches. Against La tech and NC State the ST unitd made huge plays that boosted us. The last two weeks they have made huge mistakes that had significant game impacts.

3) Giving up explosive plays in bunches. Our secondary is better this year and every defense is going to give up some big plays but we tend to have games where we give up 4+ Long passes and today was one of those.

Seems any game we have problems in 2 of these areas it?s really hard for us to win and most games at least 2 of these are showing up.

Simply put right now we are doing more little
things wrong than right most games and we don?t have a big enough talent advantage to overcome it.

It?s frustrating as all get out to watch but we are close to being a pretty decent team. I know close doesn?t count so we?ve got to determine if this is mostly a youth problem or a coaching problem. I don?t think we get the answer until next year.