And you call me Debbie Downer?  This team 1-3, lost to what is looking like a pretty good Toledo ball club (note our historical success with Toledo nothing was a given in that game), OSU (like it or not that ball club is pretty damn good) and a Marshall team (CUSA is better across the board than the MAC.  This is hardly a Knorr team, nor will this be a 4 win Knorr style campaign.  This team will be fine, and I do want to note that in the summer and spring when I brought these "issues" up I was cast as Mr. Negative, sorry I just called it as I saw it then, if the Cats would have gone 13-0 I would gladly have eaten that crow.  If they lose them all from hear on out I will sadly eat that crow.  This team will be fine in MAC play, we are a rising MAC program, nothing more and nothing less.

I thought there would be improvement. Injuries happen, you need depth to counter it. It still puzzles me how are in year 6 and haven't seen the depth that seemed to be a given.

I never had confidence in the RB depth. Losing Harden was going to make the first 5 games (I'm not counting Wofford) battles. Way too many question marks surrounded Ashley that it didn't surprise me that he didn't pan out. Still waiting for a Kalvin McCrae (intentional misspelling for the sharks) to step onto campus.

Bates was always a question mark with me too. You can never put too much into spring games. There are always guys who look like Heismans during those scrimmages and never make it happen during the regular season. Bates position needs to RB or WR. It will be interesting to see if the staff can sell him on making that move because I don't see him being our guy at QB.

It is true that Jackson holds records. Didn't Brad Bower set some records too? Or come close to? Jackson also set those marks during a 4-8 season. He's now coming back from an injury that has a direct impact on his ability to throw. Brazil is a talented player. Key terminology with that All American designation is PRE-SEASON. Those accolades are pretty much along the lines of Spring Game awards. McRae (still messing with the sharks) is solid, he also had Theo throwing to him last year who I would argue was and is a better fit than Jackson.

In terms of expectations, I just think posters as a majority overlooked  too many unknowns when predicting the season. I thought I was pretty fair with my 7-5 prediction. The Eastern game is going to be the true indicator of what happens the rest of the year. If we can win that game, then 7 or 8 wins might still happen. If we lose, we can only hope that we can right the ship enough for 6 wins.

The poor play-calling, the poor execution and the hint of being able to win games but not really being close --you've got to be blind to see that this team has been significantly knorr-like at too many points this year.

I get no pleasure from this, but a loss at EMU will be pretty much like the loss that ended Beefaloe's world-record losing streak.  We do not want to be in that category.

I said Toledo was going to be a hallmark/bellwhether (sp?) game.  I stand by that until this team shows better.

The key to a victory.

Bumping this and asking what everyone predicts for the rest of our season given how we've performed over the first six:

'kron (home):
redhawk (away):
Univ Lou-La (home):
Beefs (home):
Temple (away):
kents (away):

MAC Title game (if):

Bowl game (if):

Couldn't be happier about my first miss!