Southern Miss was ranked higher than half the SEC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It doesn't matter. When you are ahead by 25 points at half time...you should win. Period. I would have felt much better losing this game if it had been a back and forth affair. But like so many other times. We came out dead in the second half...made some stupid mistakes...never made adequate adjustments, and simply looked like we were totally dumbfounded. Yes, the dropped interception was a terrible let-down. But if that caused the whole team to quit, then we will not win another game. IMO we will never succeed with the 3-4 defense, because we are not able to recruit enough talent to be successful with it. You just HAVE to have some big time athletes as DEs and LBs to make it work. We don't have those horses right now, and we are not likely to get them as long as we look so helpless out there.
Dude we were up 35-10. We allowed them to score 34 unanswered points. Wrap your head around that for a minute and understand why we are furious.
Look at their roster. Full of 2 stars.
UK had no business losing that game
UK had no business losing that game
But you would have thought that adding Shannon Dawson would have been a two-touchdown handicap since he wasn't good enough for UK.
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USM has 10 players currently in the NFL. They have two players in the NFL HOF - Favre and Ray Guy. They seem to do well with those 2 star player. Folks need to get over the star system and being in a conference made football great by other schools. Putting down and disrespecting a school like Southern Miss shows not only one's ignorance of the college football landscape but puts KY in a position of overlooking schools that will beat them in their own home. KY probably looks down at WKU football program as well. But they were in the top 25 last year and where was Kentucky? If any school doesn't need to disrespect others in football it's Kentucky.
No dispute here, you guys had better athletes no doubt and beat our ass
Could be.
Not sure that is as important as So Miss Coach & Staff > UK Coach & Staff
.....and ......we were favored to win......and.......we squandered a 25 pt lead. No positives left in the spin box on this one.
Get real. When USM plays UT, UGA and UF every year while rotating Barn, Bama and LSU every 2, and still comes out smelling like anything less than a Mississippi Delta whore, you can come back and break your neck kissing your own ass. Until then, don't let this one win fool you into believing you live anywhere other but in a crap conference, and regardless of that fact, you have sucked for the majority of your existence there. Don't get cocky now that you've finally had your first winning season in a decade or better. You won a game against a team that hasn't had a winning season in 6 years. Bravo. Have a cookie.
We need to make sure to buy them out of the opener next year. I don't care if it's a chickens__t move or not. No need starting next season off 0-1, especially since it's going to be a make or break year for the regime, and a year in which we are going to make our move, if it's ever going to happen.
didn't we almost have the same outcome with ULL last year?
Yes, and what is sad about it, is that ULL was terrible. They were supposed to be a good Sun Belt team at the time we played, so I wasn't too upset about our near-disaster. Turns out the other Sun Belt teams were capable of doing what we couldn't do- soundly beat ULL.
While I don't believe the premise, UK was not up 25 at half. UK was up 18 at the half.
There are so many things wrong with this post, I don't even know where to start. Put down the beer, brother. You've had enough
Don't understand the OP. Are you trying to say that the SEC sucks? Because that includes UK and everyone not named Alabama right now. Not sure what you're trying to accomplish with this post. And it's idiotic to take anything away from SMU for its win. It came into SEC territory on the road with a new HC and beat the favorite (pretty soundly after the half).
Hard to tell how good SMU is at this point but you may be correct that the SEC is way, way down as a conference.
Hard to tell how good SMU is at this point but you may be correct that the SEC is way, way down as a conference.
There really is no excuse for the collapse. The pass play that led to the score before halftime was a botched assignment that left their receiver wide open. That shouldn't have happened. We should have gone into halftime up 35-10. Even if they scored in the first drive of the 2nd half, it should have still only been 35-17 and we would've had an 18-point cushion. It was that late score before halftime that took the wind out of our sails and killed the game for us. This team has got to quit letting things like that derail an entire game. They need to lean to accept the score and move on and play tough every down instead of wilting at the sight of another team who isn't willing to just give up after a few aggressive scoring drives by UK.
Our team is still kind of begging, and not exactly, or even, sort of remotely resembling something kind of terrific. Woe ..............
Grow up seriously. You've lost how many consecutive to SEC teams before Saturday. Please don't insult our intelligence by suggesting you are a legit team. As bad as our 4 star players were against your awesome 2 stars we were up by more than 3 TD going into the half. That is before the Stoops choke job took over.
Trust me it's not because you guys are just that awesome. The second half collapse is a regular occurrence under our staff. Check the ULL, Eastern games last year. Look at the UL games two years in a row. Hell we damn near gave up South Carolina in a game we dominated and ran all over them. Still nearly lost the game. This is a problem with our coaching staff not how little we know about football.
Congrats on Ray Guy and Brett Farve but I'm not sure they put up big numbers on Saturday. Please mosey back to you play pin now.
Completely disagree with that. There is a reason those freshmen are taking over for the seniors. Who would you rather have in the game last year Westry or Fred Tiller? The reason I'm using last year is because that's when the freshmen started hitting the line up. Truth is there aren't that many freshmen contributing heavy minutes this year. But back to your point talent will beat seniority 100% of the time. Even if the two are close in talent the more talented player will win out. Not just at UK even at Alabama.
We were ahead 35-10 on our home field over a C-USA team full of far lower-rated talent than our roster possesses. We then got completely and utterly curb-stomped the rest of the game.
There's no way to sugar-coat or whitewash how bad that loss was.
There's no way to sugar-coat or whitewash how bad that loss was.
Southern Miss is exactly the type of game we needed for game 1.
The the team, staff, and fan base do not need any false hope going into Florida or the season in general.
I think it served as the final notice on how the defensive side of things are currently constructed. The development of players, philosophy, system, play calling, and staff all have to be quickly and greatly improved or changed.
Better realize some hard truths now, than be left angry and confused at the end of the season.
Your ignorance is so evident as you know little about Southern Miss. First winning record in a decade?...we had 17 straight seasons of winning records, lost a coach and hired a SEC coach by the name of Ellis Johnson who lost 12 straight games with a team that had won 12 games the previous season. Lost players and recruits due to that hire. Fired him (cost us 2 million which is costly on our budget) and hired Monken who in his 3d year had us back to 9 wins last year. So to help you count the numbers we've had18 winning seasons in the last 21 years. KY has the advantages of MONEY while Southern Miss works on a 30 million dollar budget which is less than just your SEC payout. There is a reason that we have earned respect for putting a winning program on the field, being ranked at times nationally in the polls and known for recruiting kids that have strong work ethics. You can gloss over your woes all you want and belittle the competition, but show respect for those that come into your house, beat you straight up, and do it with recruits that you demean. By the way we're used to hearing the SEC mantra.....seems it is somewhat in question after this past weekend. Louisiana Tech (CUSA) gave Arkansas all they wanted. Tennessee didn't look all that great. Mississippi State beat by a team in it's third year of football. Yes Alabama looks like a champion....but you can't live on other's reputation on the field of play. Take the road that OM and State did back in the 80's after we were beating them regularly...don't play us. Isn't that what folks do when they can't handle the competition. If this weekend proved anything it is that you can't buy happiness nor a winning program.
I think you have some very salient points in there. Your team executed effectively in the second half and beat our butts. However, the only argument I will rail against is that you DO NOT play in the SEC every single week. One reason: injuries. Your depth would be exposed and you would not enjoy the same sustained success as you have in CUSA.
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