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| Coach, fans have seen the team go down the drain many years after a solid start to the season, don't let it happen. |
As we try to turn the page on the disaster of a game last night, there are reasons USF fans are very worried about the loss. We can get by the numbers, bad defense, poor offense, but it is the history of the program that continues to show itself and haunt us all.
Over the past few seasons, USF has come out of the gates strong, starting 4-0 and getting everyone talking about a big year for the team. But as the Bulls role into conference play, it all comes crashing down. The defense has bad games and is inconsistent at times, frustrating fans because they know they are capable of so much more. The offense continues to flounder and not get anything on the board when they need it the most, we have seen it before.
USF is 0-7 all time now on Thursday nights, another aggravating stat to see. The team struggles on the road in conference play, dropping games they should win and winning games they are underdogs in (see some of the bigger upsets over the past few seasons).
The most frustrating part is the inconsistency with the team, something we saw time and time again under Leavitt. The team had the speed, talent, but couldn't get it together and dropped games that put the Bulls into more low-tier bowl games and kept the program in the middle of the pack when so many fans expect and know it can grow bigger.
Now it was just one game, it is not time to hit the panic button. USF is still talented and still has the ability to win conference games and possibly win the Big East (showdown with WVU is still at the end of the season), but for the fans, we can see writing on the wall and hero the echoes of the past with this lost and the fashion they lost the game in.
Coach Holtz is a good coach, we all know this, but he will have to show the team can respond after this kind of game, make the adjustments, and come back out of it even stronger.
It was sad last night. If the D coordinator says stopping their run game is the number one priority, yet they still completely destroy us on the ground... something is fundamentally wrong with this team. Very worried, as now we need to win out in the BE.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's the taste of defeat or the let down of expecations affecting my perception right now, but for those who say one loss is not a big deal, I disagree. The worst thing is that if they had just won the game they would've gone into the bye week with some confidence and a lot to work with going into UConn in two weeks, but
ReplyDeletenow they have their going to have that lingering and sulking feeling of disappointment. We all know that this does not bode well for USF historically (usually a string of losses). And of course the thought that pisses me off the most is that remember for every conference loss USF incurs means that we have to hope that the our Big East rivals have to incur one more loss than us. And let's say West Virginia runs the table and USF doesn't drop any more games even if USF beats them that is still a partial championship. I don't know about you, but I think partial championships are a bunch of garbage. I'm selfish I want the whole damn thing for ourselves.
Look at recruiting classes the past 5 years, Pitt has consistently gets better players, period.
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