Tip of the hat to UK

[mount lefroy]

Intended or not, they got us all hot and bothered about a running back that didn’t get 20 yards on us last year.

In essence we ditched all the things we are supposed to focus upon and tried to out emotion them.

They had a OL try to flop all night to get Simmons flagged. Ref’s bought it and our players did.

We furthered the problem by dropping balls that were perfectly thrown.

We weren’t ready to play an SEC team on the road.

We were ready to play one of the 3 earlier opponents. And yes, that’s on the coaches.

But Stoops coaches a great game and has brought UK out of a tough spot because they gave him time.

 

[jack daniels dog]

This all day and you beat me to the punch.

Told my friends last night that was the most frustrating **** I’ve ever watched because they accomplished what they wanted to, they got in our heads.
It started with the chirping all week and then continued with that midfield display.
They yapped the whole game and it got to us, recruited a Manchester United player to line up against Simmons because he damn sure would flop all night, and just all in all got in our heads.

I specifically remember a play the lineman had Simmons head going backwards with his hands all in his face mask, then Simmons shoves back a bit and the boy acts like he was hit by a Mack truck and flails back three feet with his hands in the air.

Hats off to them, they took the game to us and I will be scarred for a while over this one, but damn that was a frustrating game to watch.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I agree with you. No one else agrees though, or at least it looks that way on this board. They are giving away tickets, giving up the entire season, and even calling for the heads of our coach and AD since we had one terrible game.

Me? I expect a different team next time out and expect to see something different from an experienced and probably embarrassed team with talent and a coach who knows more about coaching football than any of the rest of us, who is probably embarrassed and pissed at himself as well.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

I noticed that Kansas State tried the same stuff with us two weeks back

However, K-State is way down this (kinda reminds me of 2001-3 Sherrill), and we just out-talented them.

This looks like the modus operandi to beating State- say **** to their players all week, get into their heads, then watch them make stupid penalties.

Wouldn't be surprised if Dan has his players try the same ****.

 

[dawgstudent]

Will be interesting to see what adjustments are made for next week.

 

[johnson86-1]

I agree with you. No one else agrees though, or at least it looks that way on this board. They are giving away tickets, giving up the entire season, and even calling for the heads of our coach and AD since we had one terrible game.

Me? I expect a different team next time out and expect to see something different from an experienced and probably embarrassed team with talent and a coach who knows more about coaching football than any of the rest of us, who is probably embarrassed and pissed at himself as well.

A lot of the stuff from this week is easily fixable. The problem is it's a terrible sign that we refused to adjust to the fact that our OTs couldnt block Allen one on one. This was basically like masons first game at Vanderbilt. He looked so awful that people were talking about whether they could fire him after one season. Not sure masons been great, but he wasn't the train wreck that he showed that first game. He just got in his own head and looked like a basket case. Hopefully that's what happened with Moorhead. Just psyched himself out and froze up and couldn't think. Otherwise we are fuct.

 

[MSUDC11]

I hope we’ll be much better next week. Going to be difficult to be any worse. I could see this being like the 2016 South Carolina game the week after we lost to South Alabama. Different coaching staff, sure, but I’m willing to give them a chance to prove themselves.

My hope is that last night was a reality check and now this week is more about getting our crap together than the emotional side of things with Mullen. We sure as heck weren’t prepared for the emotions of the game last night. Just flush all that and play football.

We were getting Preseason hype for a reason. Moorhead was universally praised as a hire for a reason. Last night sucked, but it didn’t remove our potential to play like a good football team. That’s still there. Now we have to see if this group can respond like they should. We are a veteran team that has a coaching staff filled with former head coaches. There is zero excuse for us to not look exponentially better next week.