My one complaint about Solich's tenure is that his teams don't always look like they are fundamentally sound. There's no doubt that we are recruiting great talent for a MAC school and we have built depth. Each year, we have too many miscues and plays where we just don't follow through on getting it right. Dropped passes, blocked kicks, penalties at the worst times. Someone closer to the program, please answer: do we have a very disciplinarian coaching staff?

I'm not going to rip on the blown coverage on the BG long pass.  I was standing right there and was certain their RB had the ball and was tackled for a loss.  Everyone in the stadium was fooled by the fake.  That was quite possibly the best execution of a play that I have seen in college football this year.  Sometimes you just have to tip your hat to the other team.  That was a beautiful play.

I disagree that the players aren't fundamentally sound.  I think a lot of the problem on offense last night is the absence of a receiver that T2 is comfortable with as a second "go to" guy.  With Thompson and Smith out for the year, Donte was double or triple teamed most of the night.  No one stepped forward in being able to get open, so T2 had no place to go.  And because the secondary was covering our receivers so well, most of the linebackers could stay home to cover the run and blitz T2.  Five or six guys blocking seven or eight doesn't work. 

I was also surprised that T2 made a few really bad decisions.  Running out of bounds for a five yd loss instead of pitching it out of bounds.  Throwing into triple coverage.  Hope he's not dating Kim Basinger (think "The Natural").

I thought the defense did well, given the short fields they had to defend thanks to the punting game.  They didn't give up a big play, although the 3rd down issue came back last night.  They were able to use the power running game vs. our nickle defense on 3rd and long.  We're also fortunate that Shilz isn't a better QB.  He missed four or five open receivers last night.

Venham also has to realize that this ain't whatever league his high school is in.  You don't have all day to get the punt off.  The blocking scheme also sucks.  Let's get back to having seven at the line because the opposition is getting too much penetration.

Fortunately, this may have been the best D we'll see all year.  Unfortunately, they really exposed our weaknesses.

And I take it that TT told you how stupid the play calling was? LOL

sargentfan. Your statement from above. " When your QB knows what is being called is stupid you need to go or give him the ability to playcall himself. I swear it seems like most of our completed long passes seem to be coming from TT checks like in the Penn State game."

Not sure what your problem is. The OC/QB would work together on how to attack the D in each situation. The QB would then have a very good idea of what is going to be called. Next, yes most passes deep come from TT  seeing something better.  The whole idea is to take what the D gives.  The beuty of Albin/Gdowski's offense is there is more ability to do this. Credit to the best defense in the MAC.  Great game BG, congratulations to them.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa........Let's not reference the K word just yet. Fumble was not statistically our third favorite play last night. We lost by 12 to a MAC team that could still win the conference, not by 31 to a horrid I-AA team. And, ironically, the K word evokes competent--even outstanding--special teams play.  We were not K word bad.

Bcat2 and BillyTheCat you two must be missing the times TT has yelled at the sideline after a bad play happened due to the play call the last few games.  This would leave me to believe that he has some leeway to change plays put not enough.  Between the craziest we have had with our two-back system lately not letting Beau get in a groove when he had been doing so well.  To the lack of immediate adjustments to what the defense is giving us, I mean he is in the booth for a reason, so he can see from above how the defense is positioning.  Another poster even commented on our abadonment of the hurry up offense at times even though we have proven that it is a great tool for us when we need to score and put pressure on a D.  I can't see how I am out of line here.