Recent content by Chad F

I think I saw him at Calhoun’s having lunch yesterday. Hope this is the first of many that Coach Heupel reels in!

Losing McCoy and then Gibson put our defensive secondary on life support. And then it became more and more apparent with each passing game that we had forgotten how to tackle. Just as bad, our offense did the usual disappearing act for key stretches of games all season long. Lots went poorly...

I’ll never buy a jersey or any other gear with a current player’s name on it with all the transfer portal garbage that goes on today. Maybe after a guy has graduated and proven his chops as a VFL, but a player with the outlook of Jalen McMurray would be different. Wish we had more like him.

Meh. Hard to blame guys sitting out with so much potential $ on the table going forward. Whether we like it or not, it’s become 100% a business now. Because of that (and the demonstrated tendencies exposed with society at large), we should stop the pretense that character development, loyalty...

This season was the sum of many different ineptitudes, not just bad kicking. I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if Gilbert comes out and actually IS clutch next year. I am more concerned with the fact that our defense was consistently unable to perform at even a mid-tier level all season . . ...

Oh well. The second it come down to our defense having to get a stop, we knew it we over. That offsides penalty was a killer. Just a really bad showing by our guys. The offense was bad too.

Nah. We’re just not very good in some key areas - specifically, on defense. Plus, until that last scoring drive, we looked like we had (yet again) forgotten how to play offense.

Meh. Nothing surprising so far - Maybe a little better than I expected in defense. But right on schedule, we look like we’ve forgotten how to play offense for some reason. We’re making Illinois look a lot better than they are.

Give it to him and get him gone. Waaaay gone.

Pavia played well this season. He’s still a clown. The fact that he got an invite as a Heisman finalist when Hendon Hooker didn’t a few years ago is a travesty. The biggest single embarrassment of this season is that our pathetic performance against that clown probably gave him the boost...

My bad! Got the names mixed up!

A fair point. I suppose maybe it’s just a “feels like” kind of thing. A bowl game felt like it could add momentum to the off season or maybe leave a bad sour taste until the next year’s kick-off. In reality, it probably didn’t matter much practically, as you say.

What a world we’ve ended up in nowadays! The expanded playoffs have largely rendered the rest of the post-season bowls irrelevant. Players were already starting to opt out before that, but now we have schools actually choosing to decline invitations. Conference championship games are on their...

Mentally soft.

If he isn’t all-in, let him hit the road. No interest in any drama.