I have twice started threads calling for a coordinator's head this season. Being fired is a terrible thing and I don't want to see that happen to anyone. However, I'd like to make a few points...

Let me also say, I'm not calling out anyone for not working hard... i've never felt that way. I know everyone involved in the program busts their ass. Not sure how a total lack of focus was the result of whatever preparations took place before Kent.

 - We knew what this Kent match up would bring... Did we not learn anything from last season? Did we not learn anything from film of Kent? Did we not have any plan to counter their strengths? We had 10 days to prepare to leave that steaming dump in an empty stadium on national TV, while, amazingly Kent seemed every bit the media darling this week as Temple was the week before. Let's bring Lou Holtz on so he can say that Kent is the premier football job in the MAC. (Really? Really, Lou? You just went to a whole new level of crazy!)

 - Again, I ask, what is our offensive identity? I realize we put up a nice string of 30 point games, but I can't remember a time when so many MAC teams had such horrible defenses. From Akron to Buffalo to BG to Eastern... and we "held on" to make some of those games much more interesting that they had to be with bad turnover after bad turnover.

 - Even our MAC title seasons have left sour tastes in my mouth. In two MAC title games, we have 20 total points. In two bowl games, we have 24 total points (17 offensive). Read 'em and weep. I think in both MAC title games, we were facing a superior overall opponent in CMU, but they did not, in either of those seasons, have a defense that warranted such piss-poor offensive numbers on our end. Our offensive performance against Marshall last year was nothing short of pathetic.

 - I'd like to see us get a bowl for several reasons... yes we won 8 games and that is more than several other teams who are practically guaranteed a game with a much better payout that we'll ever see. in eh grand scheme of things, there are so many bowls that it's more sad if you DON'T make ANY bowl, than it is worthy of celebration for making one. We are not a sad program. However, I stand by my description of our schedule... Eight wins was the absolute minimum we should have achieved with that lineup.

I'd like to post more, but I'm freaking exhausted.

Interesting apology. Don't hurt yourself.

Really Monroe, quit thinking.  The game was the day after Thanksgiving and clearly the only thinking that was going on was whether to have whipped cream on the pumpkin pie.

On a less serious note, the play-by-play reads after the opening kick-off that Phil Bates ran for: +2,+8,+15,+4 and zero--all in the first series only. Throw out the +15 and the zero and on three carries he is averaging over 4 yards per pop.  He did not run the ball again until the score was 21-6 and in the fourth quarter and then ONLY once for +2 (6 rushes total for a most dangerous player in the MAC).  Watching other teams over the weekend these running teams didn't give up even though they were at first being stopped.  Ohio wasn't stopped so why was the Phip Bates attack scratched to instead challenge Kent's strength as a conference SACK Machine?  I guess there were leftover slices of pie and that the earlier debate hadn't been resolved?  

I can't stand Lou Holtz, every time he shows up on my TV and starts talking I feel like i need to get up and wipe his spittle off it. With that being said, I thought his uninterrupted sales pitch about Kent State was the most awesome thing I've ever seen someone say on ESPN about any team in the MAC. Who cares if he exaggerated Kent's importance or relevance in the MAC or in the state of Ohio, that was one hell of a rant.

They've done at least a game at Peden Stadium 5 of the last 6 years.

That was the first national game from Dix Stadium.  EVER.