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Any attendance discussion has officially become more worthless than it already was. If that is possible. Loss to a weak OU team killed whatever buzz would have been generated by entering the BG game with only 2 losses. The MAC AD's made their deal with the devil by scheduling Tuesday night games in November. Time to dig up Red Cochrane and have him hand out $1 tickets...that's the only way to get anyone to attend a game. There will be more Akron Fans @ K.e.n.t. than there will be at either the BGSU or UMass home games.

Pretty much a must-win if we want to maintain a winning record, since beating BG is going to be a 50-50 proposition at best. And if we lose this one the regrets over the OU game plan are going to be that much worse.

High praise for Wil from Thierry Henry after the Crew defeated the NY Red Bulls yesterday. “Wil Trapp was outstanding today,” Henry said. “I know (Federico) Higuain usually gets all the (credit), their striker will get (some too) I’m sure because he scored two goals, and (Ethan) Finlay wasn’t bad either, but Wil Trapp is the key of that team. “Today, he was giving the tempo of the team, bringing the ball out from the back, Higuain doesn’t have to drop and get the ball, he will get it in a good position because Wil Trapp does his job. Difficult to stop. He has, hopefully for him, a good future. As Americans, you should be happy. “Today I thought he was the difference.”

http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d1/ncaa-mens-soccer-rpi all the way up to #19

I guess on the surface it seems stupid to put a new QB in that situation, throwing 40+ passes with a capable stable of running backs, but the game situation dictates everything. On most plays, OU brought enough people to get into our backfield. It wasn't the Bears 1985 defense, but they attacked like it. If that stops running plays, and simultaneously puts pressure on the QB if it turns into a passing situation, then you normally have no choice but to get the ball to people who are beyond those defenders. That's your opportunity to make plays...when they are gambling like that on so many plays. And we couldn't make those plays.

1. The jinx lives on.... 2. Why the hell didn't Pohl play? He was CLEARED to play on Saturday. He should have been in the game at the start of the second quarter. Practice or no practice, he gave us the best chance to win. 3. Gotta disagree with GP1 and running the ball. Early in the game with bad field position, we needed to attempt to get in short 3rd down situations by running on first and second down. Trying to convert 3rd and five would have been a hell of a lot easier than the 3rd and longs Woodson was in. Then when the field position turned around later in game and we had second or third and short yardage situations, we needed to run again...Even if it meant running Grice over and over. 4. As mentioned by all, to have Woodson throw this much was Ianello like. Stupid. That said, he threw three pick 6's that were dropped by OU and LT Smith had his defender burnt on three deep balls and all were overthrown. Not good quarterbacking. 5. Where the hell was the D-line Saturday? Giving up 17 on draw plays was inexcusable. 6. OU blows and we lost. Their fans are worse. Half the stadium emptied out at half with a tie game. 7. Hold off on making those bowl plans. At 5-2 heading down the stretch would have been a hell of a lot easier than where we are now.