(12-16-2014 04:18 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote: (12-16-2014 03:49 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote: When TXST can give us a good game then I might be disappointed, but we didn't look to disappointing when we whipped TXST the past 2 years. Think a little before you make a crazy statement as that!
First of all...
Second, most of your fanbase had much larger expectations than 8-4. Many (including myself) were predicting you guys to break the top 25 this season. When that didn't happen, it's called a disappointment.
Doesn't mean it's a bad season, it's just less than what you were expecting.
Your win against Texas State had nothing to do with it. You won, and won soundly. Great. Kudos. You beat a team that had at that time yet to beat an FBS team with a winning record.
If that's the watermark you set for your school, then rock on... Me? I have higher aspirations than that, which is why our season was disappointing as well, just in a different way.
And noone was expecting Boise St to be 11-2, or Ole Miss to be 9-3 and before their collapse, in the runnig for a playoff spot. I don't think any team in the SBC had a tougher OOC schedule than UL did
I think if we didn't lose Jamal Robinson, we could have maybe won another game. You can't predict injuries. Just like last year when Broadway broke his arm at the beginning of our 2nd to last game which we ended up losing and it definitely affected his throwing this year. Last year he would have some zip on the ball and could throw it with touch on the long ball. This year it looked like he was shot putting the ball.
So it's a good thing our running game was good this year since we lost our go to receiver who could catch a ball not thrown accurate since Broadway had that problem.
That's the problem, nobody expected the teams we lost to, to be so improved. So I think with the schedule we had, 8-4 isn't disappointing.
That's why all these pre-season predictions are so hard to predicf. You could lose your big time players in week 1 and your scheduled opponents could be better than expected. I live in Boise and none of their fans expected to be 11-2 especially with a new coach.
Our average attedance would have actually been higher if the last home game wasn't during Thanksgiving week when the students have Thanksgiving break and the attedance was only 20 thousand, when we would usually have nearly 30 thousand, especially for senior night and in the hunt for a conference championship.
I think the attedance ended up ok considering Thanksgiving and 2 Tueday night games. Even when we have a terrible team, the attedance doesn't drop off much because people like the tailgating and gameday atmosphere.
I mentioned TXST because he was the one saying that our season was disappointing. Believe me, I don't determine how our season is going by how bad we beat TXST each year.