Yesterday was a tough one, no doubt. But this team continues to prove they can play with anyone in the MAC and I was impressed with the effort and the fight once again. This team is still battling, and you can't find fault in that. If they were coming out and getting rolled and were throwing in the towel, that would be one thing. But they're not. In fact, far from it. They left it all hang out again and came up a little short. No MAC team has been able to beat Ohio by more than 7 points in 6 years, which is proof of how they compete to the end no matter what. That's everything you want to see from a team. The road to Detroit just got more difficult because they'll need some wins and some help. But this team will 100% not pack it in and is going to win a few more games in the next month. Great effort yesterday, it was impressive even in a loss.
You and I have different definitions of "compete." Mine is to win at least five MAC games in order to compete for the division title. Losing "one possession" games can be misleading. We lost Saturday by one possession, but we weren't closer than ten points for a good chunk of the first half and all but about eight minutes of the second. The gap widened to 17 pts twice in the second half. As the saying goes, the game wasn't as close as the final score indicates.