After the last two games maybe the pitch for the game should be.

MAC EAST CHAMPS, "join the slaughter in Detroit."

I am afraid we are going to face a WMU team that is looking to make a statement to the country or a pissed off Toledo team.

I am sincerely happy we are finally back in the MACC and hope and pray we find our A game.

Hey buuuuuuuddddd.

Your football cred is dead on. Albin dialed up a gem against the 120th best defense in the country.

9 points! Man they should've taken their foot off the gas and saved some for Detroit.

I'm sure Texas picked up the phone to call Albin immediately. Emergency Longhorn booster meeting to get the funds in order for him.

The only thing worse than that game are your message board posts.

Sorry, Monroe, Injuries don't matter. Akron has to adjust. Same team that scored 60 on Marshall. Exactly the same.

There's been a lot of criticism on this thread about the play calling last night.

I was only able to watch the first half,so my comments are based on that.

What I saw was an offensive line not opening up holes and a QB missing open receivers.

At the start of the game it looked like the plan was to use the pass to open up the running game.But when you can't complete passes you have to rely on the run.

That limits your play calling options.

Keep on it.

Congratulations to the Athletics Dept for coming up with an 11-minute recap video of a game where the only scoring was four FGs.

That truly is the biggest accomplishment of the night. Wow!

"Just win baby" -- Al Davis

No it wasn't pretty, but it counts. As far as posters complaining, "we faced a WR turned QB and we played like that!!" - the Defense held the WR/QB to 3 points - they did what they were supposed to do - so job well done. As far as the offense - it was not horrible - except inside the red zone and 4th down (yea, pretty important exceptions). I liked the decision to go for it on 4th down - both times - the play call and execution - not so much. The team will need to finish in our next two games in order to compete/win.

Beginning of the season five goals: go undefeated (no one expected that), beat Miami, win the East, Win the MACC, win the bowl game. Numbers 2 and 3 accomplished, 4 and 5 in reach, but we will need to play our best in ten days. Even that may not be enough. Western is a cut above everyone in the MAC (including Toledo). Fortunately, our offensive strength (run...up the middle) appears to be their weakness. One of the primary elements of our defensive game plan will be to run the ball on offense and keep them off the field. Our Defensive backfield may be our downfall. We'll see.

Good to see our running backs back on the field last night. There is a misconception that you just put the offense out there and let it run. But an offense is more like an engine - needs to cycle through a few times (and no, I do not mean a couple of quarters...it can take games) to get in sync. The injuries have retarded the growth, hopefully a week plus of practice gets them in gear.

As far as Windham, damn what a difference a few weeks makes. Last month, posters are calling him out for his play, and talking about as only a freshman he has such room to grow.

http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPa...

Now he sounds like a dumpster fire who isn't really a freshman anymore. No wonder Tregg Setty took an off-handed shot at BA posters when he joined the basketball board.

So congrats to the team (or at least, we can ALL agree congrats to the players). Goals 2 and 3 down - now go get 4 and 5.

Most here have no idea the work and sacrifice you put in year round. Many of you will not be home for Thanksgiving. Some are already scheduling off-season surgeries - so thank you.

Good luck n Detroit.

Look at the bright side, Monroe. If Ohio had won by 20 you'd have had to be quiet, but this way you get ten more days of unimpeded complaining.

I love defense, myself, so you'll not see me complaining about last night. The defense has continued to improve,and has come a long way since their dismal performance against Texas State. Sure, Ohio will be a huge underdog against WMU, but when you have a solid defense, you never know.

Go Bobcats!

+1

Our defense is going to keep it interesting and give us a shot no matter who we play.

CC--Gotta think that whoever we play in the MAC will know that 1) we run our qb a lot and 2) that we like to run the ball up the middle...and be prepared for that. (Contrast OHIO coaches who probably wouldn't figure it out or react.)

LC--If you think that we've shown over the last two games, the two most important games of the year, that we're a particularly good team, well, no. Same for this whole year.


Robert Fox--I'm allowing for one game to more-or-less redeem about 4.5 years of really impressively mediocre. The way you phrase it seems to make it seem as if the last 4.5 years are rather even and one game will redeem. They are not 'even'; they've been quite bad.

Can't you see the irony here? You're putting it all on the outcome of one game! Just the fact they made it to this game should provide some hesitation on your part, should it not?