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Bcatbob said...
IMO UC had a great year in football and basketball. Frankly I am conflicted in that the Liberty Bowl win left me and I believe others with a warm glow from the year. Alternately I think many do not have that glow from basketball due to the loss to OSU. If we simply focus on the wins over Syracuse, Texas and Florida State at the end of the year one could say the quality of basketball wins was stunning.
We had a great year. Neither team was going to win a national championship - but ending with a win seems to be a plus.
On to the spring game.
Bob
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BJUnklFkr said...
Top 25 football team, four of the past five years.
Sweet 16 basketball team.
And - the best part - we've done it as members of the Big East! Not the Big Ten... Not the Big 12... Not the (insert another conference name here)...
Time for people to start being happy with what we've done, and stop being negative, particularly about situations well beyond our control.
This post was edited by CliftonAve on 3/24/2012 at 1:14 PM
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JerryKliner said...
I am VERY happy with this season....
The difference between the FB and BB worlds right now is, of course, that in FB you can win your bowl game and go exit the season on a winning note while in BB, unless you win the whole enchilada, you're going to finish with a loss...
Overall, I feel more like after the Sugar Bowl (Florida) game. We were really outmatched in that game. Yeah, I wish we had beaten OSU, but they were just a better team than us. The Sugar Bowl was kind of the same thing, where Florida was just a better team in almost every facet of the game. We played hard, but that game was just beyond us.
The Orange against Virginia Tech on the other hand, we could've won. That one still really stings for me because it wasn't that we were incapable of winning the game but that we really didn't play (outside the first drive) up to our potential. We could've... hell, we should've... been right there with VT at the end.
But back to the original point... Yep. Pretty good year all around. Here's to the future!
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CliftonAve said...
Yep.
And running into a team that is better than you is not necessarily a sign of weakness. Even teams in "Big Boy Conferences" run into a buzz-saw from time to time. People like to make wise-cracks about the Surgar Bowl and how ridiculous it was for UC to get pummeled by Florida. What they forget is that Florida team had most of their team back in 2008 who had just won the national championship. They were 12-1 and quite frankly would have embarrassed just about anyone not named Alabama that year.
I agree with you about the VT game too. Tony Pike threw four picks that night, and UC was still in the game until he got stopped short on the 1 yard line (twice) with five minutes to go. You can't turn the ball over like that and expect to win but UC almost pulled it off.
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Bcatbob said...
My memory from the Orange Bowl was that the VT DBs were quicker than anything we had seen that year. Additionally the inability to score from short yardage IMO has plauged the spread offense as long as we have played it. I would like to see us use some under center plays for short yardage.
Bob
Sometimes you just need to clear your head!
Two Good Seasons