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Cats2014
11/21/2017 8:52 PM
Just sickening to watch Akron go to MACC. Sickening.
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Bobcat1998
11/21/2017 8:53 PM
Cats2014 wrote:expand_more
Just sickening to watch Akron go to MACC. Sickening.
You described how I feel perfectly but add another "sickening"
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Mark Lembright '85
11/21/2017 8:56 PM
Totally agree! But Ohio only has itself to blame. The East Division was theirs for the taking and they didn’t take it.
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allen
11/21/2017 10:17 PM
Kati Nelson does not look like a pro bowler this week
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Deciduous Forest Cat
11/21/2017 10:28 PM
Yep. Just feel like puking in my own pajamas and then sleeping in them.
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Buckeye to Bobcat
11/21/2017 10:31 PM
Welp, back to drinking
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TrueFan
11/21/2017 10:33 PM
We sure needed this Nelson quarterback last week, and KSU needed this freshman quarterback the whole game. We beat ourselves, and KSU beat themselves at the end of the 1st half. Oh well.. Come on BOBCATS, let's play for this 10-3 record
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Valley Cat
11/22/2017 6:45 AM
It's even more disgusting based on the fact that it's Akron. I give them total credit because they are a program that appears to barely exist on their campus and based on attendance and interest level in their community. Yet thanks to failure to execute they will travel to Detroit with their 2,000 faithful.
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AlumDadDad
11/22/2017 8:14 AM
Valley Cat wrote:expand_more
It's even more disgusting based on the fact that it's Akron. I give them total credit because they are a program that appears to barely exist on their campus and based on attendance and interest level in their community. Yet thanks to failure to execute they will travel to Detroit with their 2,000 faithful.
Go to Detroit, be crushed by Toledo, and further cement the Eastern Division's inferiority. You're welcome Toledo, our gift to you after your unpleasant night in Athens.
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UpSan Bobcat
11/22/2017 8:20 AM
It sucks because it's obvious Ohio was the best team in the East and one bad game ruined it. Certainly Ohio's defense had some to do with it, but Nelson simply performed better in the Ohio game than either of his other two games. Against Ohio, his throws were on the mark and his reads were good (at least in the first half, which was enough).
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mf279801
11/22/2017 9:22 AM
UpSan Bobcat wrote:expand_more
...one bad game ruined it....
Either of two bad games ruined it: if we'd beaten CMU, then a win over buffalo would put us in the title game (at 7-1), rather than losing on tiebreakers to Akron (at 6-2, based on the head-to-head result)
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Mike Johnson
11/22/2017 9:23 AM
UpSan Bobcat wrote:expand_more
It sucks because it's obvious Ohio was the best team in the East and one bad game ruined it. Certainly Ohio's defense had some to do with it, but Nelson simply performed better in the Ohio game than either of his other two games. Against Ohio, his throws were on the mark and his reads were good (at least in the first half, which was enough).
Nelson's accuracy during the first half against Ohio was downright uncanny. In the second half it looked much like it did against Kent.

Nelson's first half accuracy and Ohio's first half defensive lapses notwithstanding, to me is very conceivable that Ohio would have prevailed had it not been for Coach Solich's ultra-conservative decision to go for a FG at 4th and two feet from the Akron goal line AND the unfathomably abysmal 4 play calls during Ohio's late 4th-qtr possession.
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Ted Thompson
11/22/2017 9:27 AM
allen wrote:expand_more
Kati Nelson does not look like a pro bowler this week
Very surprised that Nelson wasn't put into concussion protocol after the body slam. He had already taken a big hit to the head earlier. Wasn't nearly the same player afterwards.
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Deciduous Forest Cat
11/22/2017 10:25 AM
AlumDadDad wrote:expand_more
It's even more disgusting based on the fact that it's Akron. I give them total credit because they are a program that appears to barely exist on their campus and based on attendance and interest level in their community. Yet thanks to failure to execute they will travel to Detroit with their 2,000 faithful.
Go to Detroit, be crushed by Toledo, and further cement the Eastern Division's inferiority. You're welcome Toledo, our gift to you after your unpleasant night in Athens.
yeah, but it's the MAC. you never know. last time they went, they were huge underdogs to NIU and somehow managed to win. Miami and Buffalo have also managed to make it to Detroit and win as huge underdogs. it's one game - anything can happen.

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Except when Ohio is there, and it's a foregone conclusion.
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Deciduous Forest Cat
11/22/2017 10:34 AM
Also, in regards to the thread title and for any fans of the Netflix show "Master of None"

"The Sickening!! It's Happeniiiiiiing!"
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Urban Bobcat
11/22/2017 10:51 AM
Chill everybody.

The losses to CMU and Akron are part of a conspiracy to win the MACC on the 50th Anniversary!!!
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WishIWasAtLuckys
11/22/2017 12:31 PM
The CMU loss was worse to me than Akron loss.

The sad part is that if a few things happen, this team is 10-1 right now and looking great for the remainder.

Here is to hoping next year is the year for Frank.
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LuckySparrow
11/22/2017 5:25 PM
Sickening is right. Leaves me with little to no hope. This one is going to sting for a while. Winning out and going 10-3 with two convincing wins would really help.
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UpSan Bobcat
11/22/2017 7:51 PM
mf279801 wrote:expand_more
...one bad game ruined it....
Either of two bad games ruined it: if we'd beaten CMU, then a win over buffalo would put us in the title game (at 7-1), rather than losing on tiebreakers to Akron (at 6-2, based on the head-to-head result)
That too. And again, it wasn't a great performance by Ohio, but a fluky play (a blocked field goal returned for a touchdown) resulted in a 10-point swing.
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Sean Gallagher
11/22/2017 9:57 PM
I'm sorry. Whatever you think of Solich and that call, (kicking instead of going for it) that didn't lose the game. We had countless plays in the second half that easily could have overcome that supposed lapse. (even for those of you that believe it was a lapse) Marty Shotenheimer once said "Play calling is overrated" He was run out of Cleveland over that statement, but truer words were never spoken. Good teams don't rely on play calls to win or blame them when they lose. They execute for the whole game and guess what? They emerge victorious.
Last Edited: 11/22/2017 9:58:58 PM by Sean Gallagher
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ou79
11/23/2017 12:34 AM
Well stated Sean! That can apply to not only this season but our program in general.
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Mike Johnson
11/23/2017 9:59 AM
Sean Gallagher wrote:expand_more
I'm sorry. Whatever you think of Solich and that call, (kicking instead of going for it) that didn't lose the game. We had countless plays in the second half that easily could have overcome that supposed lapse. (even for those of you that believe it was a lapse) Marty Shotenheimer once said "Play calling is overrated" He was run out of Cleveland over that statement, but truer words were never spoken. Good teams don't rely on play calls to win or blame them when they lose. They execute for the whole game and guess what? They emerge victorious.
A different take...My coach - deceased, won more than 75% of his games and was inducted into the National Football Foundation's Hall of Fame - believed that a single play could decide not only a game but influence ensuing games. In reflecting on certain games over the years, I tend to think he was right.
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BillyTheCat
11/23/2017 10:23 AM
Sean Gallagher wrote:expand_more
I'm sorry. Whatever you think of Solich and that call, (kicking instead of going for it) that didn't lose the game. We had countless plays in the second half that easily could have overcome that supposed lapse. (even for those of you that believe it was a lapse) Marty Shotenheimer once said "Play calling is overrated" He was run out of Cleveland over that statement, but truer words were never spoken. Good teams don't rely on play calls to win or blame them when they lose. They execute for the whole game and guess what? They emerge victorious.
+1

So very true

I’m also not sure what we are basing that Akron was not the better team, on that night they were the better team, and their body of work in the MAC showed them being the better team by virtue of winning the MAC East.
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BillyTheCat
11/23/2017 10:25 AM
Mike Johnson wrote:expand_more
I'm sorry. Whatever you think of Solich and that call, (kicking instead of going for it) that didn't lose the game. We had countless plays in the second half that easily could have overcome that supposed lapse. (even for those of you that believe it was a lapse) Marty Shotenheimer once said "Play calling is overrated" He was run out of Cleveland over that statement, but truer words were never spoken. Good teams don't rely on play calls to win or blame them when they lose. They execute for the whole game and guess what? They emerge victorious.
A different take...My coach - deceased, won more than 75% of his games and was inducted into the National Football Foundation's Hall of Fame - believed that a single play could decide not only a game but influence ensuing games. In reflecting on certain games over the years, I tend to think he was right.
I️ bet your coach also advocated making those plays happen. What Sean is saying is that OHIO had chances to make the play that would have changed the game and the season, but failed to do so.
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