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This is embarrassing. How are we getting less competitive as the season progresses?

Chisolm looks great. Unfortunately, the only back I know of who was any good in the vacuum of blocking was Barry Sanders. What are the chances that we get a back like that at Akron?

I think we lost the pre-game too.

Outside of Northwestern, I didn't know the Big Ten schools were Ivy Leaguelike. I don't know how the schools rank, but WVU lives in the same neighborhood as the rest of the Big Ten with the exception of Northwestern. Pitt ranks right up there with Northwestern.I'm a Pitt graduate, and its not that great of a school. My experiences there were terrible. Pitt isn't even the best school in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.Wisconsin and Michigan are the only schools in the Big Ten that academically compare to Northwestern and even they aren't really comparable otherwise because the with the exception to Northwestern, the schools in the Big Ten are land-grant flagship state supported schools and Northwestern is private and urban. Pitt isn't that great of a fit, but WVU definitely is. Other D-IA schools that compare to Northwestern are Rice, Vanderbilt, and Baylor...not enough to make a conference, but if any other big, private urban universities become D-IA, it could happen. The University of Chicago used to be in the Big Ten...other schools that come to mind are Washington University in St. Louis, CWRU, and Rochester. Such a conference would be a midwestern version of the Ivy League. I don't know why the current D-IA schools that I mentioned wouldn't pursue such a thing. Don't they get tired of being punching bags for the other schools athletically. Sure, Rice baseball is good, but.... Stanford fits the profile, but not on a geographic basis...it might be the only school out west that does.

With EMU holding its own against Michigan, I'm starting to wonder whether we have more than one win on our schedule again for this year. The entire rest of the conference looks to be improved from last year.The Temple-PSU game is a good one...Two very evenly matched teams.

I would add that I'm sure that Porter is probably highly displeased with the small handful of balls that were played wide to the left with the entire wing open only to have mistouches out of bounds. I was very surprised to see that.A couple better touches in the final third could have lead to goals. The field condition can certainly never be an excuse.

Amen.And UT never had John Heisman as coach and still has not beaten Ohio State. And has UT had an alum become as successful in the NFL as Jason Taylor has?I still can't for the life of me understand we we don't have a statue of John Heisman in a prominent location near the stadium.The excuses about building (and rebuilding) are getting old. If schools like UT and Miami can reload in one year, we can too.And with great coaches like Brian Kelley and Urban Meyer, there is no such thing as a rebuilding year. The turn around is immediate.

Without that red card to Mattocks, I think we would have won. How spoiled are we that I think a tie against top 25 competition is hard to take? The growth potential in this team is tremendous though.

Mattocks really demonstrated a lack of discipline in getting that red card.

I agree about being lucky to be up 1-0 at half after Meves' mistake. Barson really saved us. I don't think we are nearly as sloppy as you suggest. You need to keep in mind that UNM is a top 20 program and we're a very young team that will only get better. I am satisfied thus far. We definitely do favor the right side of the field though.

I'll take one for the team and volunteer for this duty. :DSeriously though, I like the future opponents for the most part. I don't think we've ever played TN, ND, or UMich and we have a home-home from Pitt and their fans should travel well. And if they break the contract early, that's just easy money for the athletic department and we can schedule an easier team. UCF and Marshall are familiar opponents from their days in the MAC. The other opponents should be at our level and winnable.I'm a bit surprised we haven't scheduled WVU for a 2:1...I'd expect their fans to travel well too.

I've never thought about a cumulative number like this. WOW. It does make me want to also.And the worst part is, two-thirds of our schedule is made up of MAC opponents.

It's the MAC, so I'll go with three: VMI, EMU, and Buffalo. Though it would be an improvement in wins, I don't think this represents major progress for the program...only how bad some of our opponents are.

"Who cares, it's a rat with wings!"

And in two games we've been outscored 83-3. I had low expectations, but but this is ridiculous.There is no way even a respectable defense can hold strong for an entire game when the offense can't stay on the field for a few first downs.Cincy's offense and RB looked fairly strong against Tennessee. Next week is going to be another tough one to take.Let's just hope we can beat VMI. If not, I'm mailing it in for the season.

We're gonna need to play that well to beat New Mexico on Friday. UNM is undefeated thus far and easily put away Tulsa 2-0. UNM plays Northridge tomorrow, which is a common opponent and should be a good barometer of their strength.

3-0. Goal By Caldwell. This will be our first ever win in St. Louis and takes the all-time series to 3-7-0.

And this is why Fullerton and Northridge played so physically. Most teams don't have the talent to hang with us for 90 minutes. A very good St. Louis team has played relatively clean and they are getting strongly outplayed. Had Fullerton and Northridge done the same thing, we would have cruised to victories.Because of this, look for more physical play from our opponents in the future.

Temple has really hit the brakes and is just running clock and not making a concerted effort to score.

Goal by Mattocks at 59'. 2-0.

I love being able to follow online and am impressed that we seem to be playing well and are up at the half. This could easily be a game that was overlookind on the schedule. Let's hope the second half is more of the same.

28-3. This is depressing.At least the soccer team is up 1-0 at St. Louis. Goal by Dagilis.

This could get ugly quick. I hope it's still competitive at halftime.

Not nearly as good as Frank Stams, that's for sure.

+1.The quality of the discussions and commentary on the board have declined since the end of basketball season. Thanks for making an effort to maintain the normally excellent environment here.