lilroodude, I apologize b/c I'm gonna shread you on this, but I'm just getting a little tired of this kind of an attitude from a lot of people around here. These are all just bad excuses. That's all this is is an excuse thread.1) UConn is undefeated. Whoopie. They beat a Duke team that at the time had the longest losing streak in the country. They barely beat a Temple team that now holds that distinction. They took down a Pitt team that is spiraling down hill so fast it is comical and they took down that 1-3 IAA powerhouse Maine. Stop me when I'm supposed to be impressed. So they are in the Big East. Despite the fact that the Conference is having their best overall season in decades they are still the weakest conference in the BCS.2) Next time I get chewed out for not doing a good job at work I'm using excuse #2. "But sir, I did an OK job. Isn't an OK job good enough?" It's time to stop looking for moral victories (stop me at the part of the game where you find any) against these BCS teams and start putting some check marks in the win column. Plain and simple. This team will never get anywhere if we continue to be content to try and get above .500 in Conference play.3) How promising is our future really? Next year we lose our top reciever with little to no talent behind him. There goes any resemblance of a passing game if we even have one to begin with. We lose a bunch of guys in the secondary and at linebacker. We still have no depth on the defensive line. We can't even get our top recruits onto campus let alone retain them if they do make it here. I fail to see the optimism.4) Whoopdie-doo. We've got a chance to take a Championship in one of the worst conferences in all of Division IA football. I'll be mildly impressed if we can do it by going undefeated in conference play. Backing into another Championship by going .500 or a tick over is nothing to get excited about.I'm sorry guys. I just can't get over this kind of a loss. Not right now. Maybe not for a while. I agree that they have beaten nobody or little talent teams. But they are still BCS and in the Big East. And yes we do need to win these games but that will come very soon. We almost beat Indiana and OSU. just give it a little more time.Jabari has Harvey behind him. And I hear this backup QB Matt Rogers is the real deal. I hope we can injury redshirt Mackey. And I think we are recruiting pretty well.I care about the championship because if we win that we get another trophy and a trip to a bowl game THAT'S ON ESPN!!!!!! THAT IS HUGE FOR THIS TEAM!!!!!I know how you feel about the loss. I'm ticked too but we gotta put that behind us and look at the future. OU lost to them so they suck Miami (OH) sucks Toledo blows the roof off of their ugly basketball stadium. Bowling Green is the only other contender and they are in the west. Western is a good challenge this week to see where we are at.