A lot of doom and gloom in this thread. There’s not a poster out there that thought Ohio would have a better record than what they have right now; no one predicted a 3-1 or 4-0 record, no one.
Marshall and Appalachian State, two media darlings just a short 2 weeks go after having beaten Notre Dame and Texas A&M, have just lost 3 out of 4 games; APSU just lost to James Madison at home and Marshall’s lost 2 games in a row.
The point is, the way this season’s playing out so far in college football, who knows who’s going to win one week from the next. Take the win and move on to Kent State and let’s see what happens.
I'm choosing to subscribe to this philosophy for now. We almost lost that game yesterday due to mental and execution errors on defense. The Fordham quarterback is very good (could start for a G5 team of his choosing, and maybe a P5 or two). On most of their touchdowns yesterday, all he had to be was relatively accurate because receivers were running free due to defensive errors. That can be potentially corrected. For the rest of the season's sake, those need to be corrected very quickly.
This is generally my philosophy, too. However, in this case I'm now coming around to the point of view that Monroe has been emailing me about and which Casper71 has been preaching on here for about a decade, we just don't seem to have the talent top to bottom of the elite MAC teams. When Frank was coach he was able to coach up players and assign players to the position that best made use of their talents, plus he made generally good in-game adjustments. Little of that seems to be happening now. While I hope we can beat Kent and that we make the appropriate adjustment to our pass defense, I'm not very optimistic that that will happen. Monroe said that his gut said that we'd go 2-10. My gut is now telling me maybe 3 or 4 four wins, at most. One must worry when our two guts are in that close agreement. While it doesn't signal the end of the world, it might mean that the end of the Albin Era is near.