Is that where you learn what’s happening?

My frustration is we dumbed down the schedule this year and still lost a couple stupid ones playing a style that is best described as fingernails on a chalkboard. Steven Gottfried called our win over Iowa State unwatchable. That’s a rando flipping over to our showcase win. We all had to watch that sludge through a sewer pipe style for 11 games. What’s going to happen when we actually play a Power 5 school that isn’t running an offense from 1997, like Iowa State and San Diego State?

This was the set-up year. The training wheels were on. It will never be this easy again.

If 2025 somehow comes to fruition without a buyout, Ohio State, West Virginia and Rutgers will be that Louisville game all over again. Just fold up the tents, run the playclock down to a quarter of a second, and punt 10 times and take the check. Is that fun? Is that entertaining to everybody? Add one stupid loss to an NIU or Central and a loss to Toledo or Miami and we’re 7-5 every single year. Maybe that’s what we are. Okay. Let’s at least be entertaining if we’re going to lose five games.

Ohio has a quarterback with skills it may never have again, and it decided to milk the playclock against two-win teams. The vision is so small, so narrow. It’s not the 8-3 season, it’s that it never had the aspirations or daring that would allow for an 11-win season.

Hope I’m wrong.

You hit the nail on the head. I never felt during the Solich years that the team blew an opportunity to make a statement. There were some frustrating losses, but I don't think that the overall game plan ever held them back during an entire season. This team was an offensive beast last year with the same QB, similar receivers and line, and walk-ons filling the running back position. Unless there is a hidden problem with Rourke, I don't see why they needed to run the clock on every play to slow the game down. The strategy seemed to hurt the Bobcats more than the opponents and won't excite recruits watching games.

You don't remember multiple seasons trying to run up the middle?

Last time I checked, that half-time score only means something if you are betting cash. Has nothing to do with the final score, it's just a weigh point on the final journey.

"Dumbed down the schedule." Played and defeated a power five Iowa State team that finished tied for 4th in the Big 12 with seven wins. Played an American Athletic Conference team on the road and beat them and lost to a MWC team on the road that was not good this season. This team just won nine games and you are complaining. Have you looked at the mens basketball schedule this season? Not one power five school on the slate. They scheduled two total non conference road games and one is at Austin Peay and the other is CSU. They also have two more Horizon conference schools on the schedule along with Defiance and Troy. They just completed three neutral site games in the Bahamas. So talking about dumbing down the schedule. The basketball team frequently plays more home games than away in the non conference portion of the schedule and is playing UC Clermont dumbing down the schedule? And looking ahead to the schedule you mentioned above in 2025, do you think the basketball team will ever play 75% of the non-league games vs power five teams.

The fact that Miami won today doesn't make me feel a bit different about the season. They handed us our most decisive loss of the season, in our house. Would we have beaten Toledo this year? Probably not. This year, we weren't among the two best teams in the conference. That's the cold truth.

Am I disappointed, @#$% yes I'm disappointed. Am I going to declare this season a utter failure, @#$% no. Does that make me less of a fan? Absolutely not.

You need to take your nine wins and be satisfied. It took Cleve Bryant five years to win 9 games. Why can't you be happy with the appearance in a shit bowl at 2:30 PM on December 22nd? Tom and Bubba never got you that far!

Forgot to add they also came into Peden and smoked us with their BACKUP QB.

One measure of disappointment is to compare preseason expectations to actual results. Here are the preseason expectations:
https://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromP...
El Gato: 12-0
Andrew Ruck: 10-2
OCF: 10-2
M.D.W.S.T.: 9-3
ou1982: 9-3
Oubobcat9092: 9-3
Victory: 9-3
Brian Hall: 8-4
L.C.: 8-4
Ryan Carey: 6-6

It seems that the most likely to be disappointed are El Gato, Andrew Ruck, and OCF. For some others, 9-3 was better than expected.

The Strength of Schedule thing's a bit of a canard, no?

We play in a bad conference, and play mostly teams from our conference. Our SOS is low, but it's not an outlier relative to our conference, right? Basically the entire MAC's strength of schedule ranks below 100, and until they got the extra game against each other both Miami and Toledo were in the 120s, too.

We needed to beat Miami and we didn't. They had a bad SOS, too.

Are you off your meds or something? I can't even imagine the thought process it takes to keep rambling about "offering" me to donate? And basketball? In the same nonsensical posts?

I do in-fact donate to the 1804 collective, and have for quite some time, though I've never felt it necessary to talk about... and still don't. Now before they take your internet privileges, next time you escape, run over to the Sook Center, you can go find my name on the donor wall..

And since you bring it up, I'm not at all happy with how far the most talented offensive roster OU has ever had regressed this season.

Do I need to start making my checks out to you? CrazyPerson C/O BobcatAttack

Does that mean I'm allowed to complain now? No else is allowed to complain unless you make your monthly donation to the old man yelling at clouds?