come season's end, it didn't matter if it was miami, bama or nd. all would have come into kyle and beaten our pedestrian offense.
and had we been seeded even one spot higher we'd still be playing as we could have also crushed either tulane or jmu. that's why the choke job against the sips sucked especially bad.
I will concede we were better than I thought we would be but just barely above average and couldn't take advantage of the schedule unexpectedly unfolding to give us a break with a down l$u and a lucky win on the road against nd in the opener. coin flip wins against arkie, auburn and even unexpectedly down s-car, tell you more about the true nature of this team. lose even one of those coin flips and the committee might have had their excuse to keep us out of the playoffs altogether.
would have all come to an end next week any way (unless we'd gotten the 5 seed. I'd rate the game against tech a toss-up). But georgia, indy, ohio-st (maybe ole miss / oregon) are all clearly better than us. we were just pretenders who got to hang around a little longer than the host of other pretenders. (but not quite as long as co-pretender Miami due to our pretender qb being exposed for the 2nd straight game (not to mention the 1st half against s-car.))
the offseason motto was "finish" and the sad truth is despite that beautiful and fortunate 11-0 start, this years team… like the year's before… didn't FINISH!
doubt the new oc is any better and the OL probably takes a step back even from this bunch. kc was special and he'll be gone. think reed is probably at his ceiling and we won't have the stones to upgrade. so no improvement from the current level of "just above average" that likely won't see a repeat of the golden opportunity this season presented that gave this season's rendition of "same old, same old" a shot of steroids.
final prognostication (and the safest you can always offer when it comes to Aggie football)… "wait 'til next year"… when we see a lot more "same old, same old".
and had we been seeded even one spot higher we'd still be playing as we could have also crushed either tulane or jmu. that's why the choke job against the sips sucked especially bad.
I will concede we were better than I thought we would be but just barely above average and couldn't take advantage of the schedule unexpectedly unfolding to give us a break with a down l$u and a lucky win on the road against nd in the opener. coin flip wins against arkie, auburn and even unexpectedly down s-car, tell you more about the true nature of this team. lose even one of those coin flips and the committee might have had their excuse to keep us out of the playoffs altogether.
would have all come to an end next week any way (unless we'd gotten the 5 seed. I'd rate the game against tech a toss-up). But georgia, indy, ohio-st (maybe ole miss / oregon) are all clearly better than us. we were just pretenders who got to hang around a little longer than the host of other pretenders. (but not quite as long as co-pretender Miami due to our pretender qb being exposed for the 2nd straight game (not to mention the 1st half against s-car.))
the offseason motto was "finish" and the sad truth is despite that beautiful and fortunate 11-0 start, this years team… like the year's before… didn't FINISH!
doubt the new oc is any better and the OL probably takes a step back even from this bunch. kc was special and he'll be gone. think reed is probably at his ceiling and we won't have the stones to upgrade. so no improvement from the current level of "just above average" that likely won't see a repeat of the golden opportunity this season presented that gave this season's rendition of "same old, same old" a shot of steroids.
final prognostication (and the safest you can always offer when it comes to Aggie football)… "wait 'til next year"… when we see a lot more "same old, same old".
