Last Edited: 11/21/2013 3:07:11 PM by BobcatSports
What is frustrating for me, as a fan, is that the Penn St game showed us something: potential. Potential is a very dangerous thing. That showed all of us that we have the potential to hang with and beat a decent BCS conference team. The problem with potential is that it isn't consistent. If you ask me if I'd rather see our team lose every non conference game against BCS conference teams and dominate the MAC, or win a random non conference game against a good team and be mediocre in the MAC, I'd choose Option A without hesitation. What good is a win like Penn St when you can't beat average MAC teams in the same year? Sure, we can pound our chest for years and say "Hey remember when we beat Penn St!?" That's awesome (sarcasm alert). I remember the Penn St win...but seeing this group of core seniors a year later, with that same potential, getting outscored in the month of November 123-16 by three MAC teams takes a little wind out of the sails for me on this group of seniors. They had the potential to be really great, the potential to compete for MAC titles, and all that potential got them was one marquee win and a long list of disappointing and embarrassing losses. This group has won a lot of games, a lot more than OU traditionally has in football, but I'm still feeling like this group has massively underachieved in MAC play. That has been their consistency. Losing at home to Central Michigan and Kent St this year was inexcusable, in my humble opinion. If we are losing games to sub-.500 MAC teams at home, just how far have we really come?
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