Genghis Cane
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Warning: Long Post
Another year, another UM team inventing embarrassing ways to lose.
This will be my last post for a while, as I believe it’s time to unplug. It’s taken 20+ years of fandom, but the way we lost this game was the final nail in the coffin. Last night was a fricken nightmare — there is no other way to describe it. So, before I take a much needed break from UM football, I needed to vent quickly:
— When your favorite CFB team loses, it’s always a horrible feeling, especially when you lose in that fashion being favored by 20 points. Unlike the NFL, one loss can set your team back for YEARS. This was one of those losses. All the momentum Mario was building is completely gone. None of the recruits in the stands who witnessed that abomination are going to give us another chance. And to top it off, the entire CFB media apparatus is using us as a punching bag this morning, so why would anyone in their right mind show “The U” any love? We’re back to being a joke.
— There were so many coaching blunders last night that I’m not sure where to begin. I guess I’ll just stick with the fact that TVD hiking the ball with 6 seconds left on the play clock multiple times ended up coming back to bite us. But more importantly, I can’t understand why a dude making over 8 million a year — empowered by a staff of at least 20 others — were not smart enough to take a knee. That sequence infuriated me, but you want to know why it cuts even deeper for me than maybe even some of you? Please allow me to explain:
I coach JV football in New York. We had a game yesterday morning against a team who was supposed to beat us, but we battled hard and ended up winning the game. I coach running backs on offense and my backs were **** near giving me a heart attack due to the lack of ball security, especially because it was raining hard for most of the second half. The other team kept trying to strip the ball from my backs since the game was basically over. We needed one first down to exhaust their timeouts and we got it. With approximately 1 min left to go, our OC signaled in the play. I was talking to my back who just ran off the field so I didn’t have a chance to say anything until our guys were already breaking the huddle. I turned to both our HC and OC and said, “why are we running it?? Just call a timeout and go victory formation.” The HC listened to me and the rest was history. The point of this story was not to toot my own horn, but if a guy who makes a few grand coaching JV football in NY has the foresight to realize that’s the right call, then how does a staff that makes collectively close to 15 million not figure that out? It’s mind boggling.
I was so angry last night because I coached through the exact sequence on the SAME day as my Canes. My JV football team figured it out, but my Canes did not. So disheartening. Love y’all. Try to focus on things other than football — it’s healthier for your emotional state.
Another year, another UM team inventing embarrassing ways to lose.
This will be my last post for a while, as I believe it’s time to unplug. It’s taken 20+ years of fandom, but the way we lost this game was the final nail in the coffin. Last night was a fricken nightmare — there is no other way to describe it. So, before I take a much needed break from UM football, I needed to vent quickly:
— When your favorite CFB team loses, it’s always a horrible feeling, especially when you lose in that fashion being favored by 20 points. Unlike the NFL, one loss can set your team back for YEARS. This was one of those losses. All the momentum Mario was building is completely gone. None of the recruits in the stands who witnessed that abomination are going to give us another chance. And to top it off, the entire CFB media apparatus is using us as a punching bag this morning, so why would anyone in their right mind show “The U” any love? We’re back to being a joke.
— There were so many coaching blunders last night that I’m not sure where to begin. I guess I’ll just stick with the fact that TVD hiking the ball with 6 seconds left on the play clock multiple times ended up coming back to bite us. But more importantly, I can’t understand why a dude making over 8 million a year — empowered by a staff of at least 20 others — were not smart enough to take a knee. That sequence infuriated me, but you want to know why it cuts even deeper for me than maybe even some of you? Please allow me to explain:
I coach JV football in New York. We had a game yesterday morning against a team who was supposed to beat us, but we battled hard and ended up winning the game. I coach running backs on offense and my backs were **** near giving me a heart attack due to the lack of ball security, especially because it was raining hard for most of the second half. The other team kept trying to strip the ball from my backs since the game was basically over. We needed one first down to exhaust their timeouts and we got it. With approximately 1 min left to go, our OC signaled in the play. I was talking to my back who just ran off the field so I didn’t have a chance to say anything until our guys were already breaking the huddle. I turned to both our HC and OC and said, “why are we running it?? Just call a timeout and go victory formation.” The HC listened to me and the rest was history. The point of this story was not to toot my own horn, but if a guy who makes a few grand coaching JV football in NY has the foresight to realize that’s the right call, then how does a staff that makes collectively close to 15 million not figure that out? It’s mind boggling.
I was so angry last night because I coached through the exact sequence on the SAME day as my Canes. My JV football team figured it out, but my Canes did not. So disheartening. Love y’all. Try to focus on things other than football — it’s healthier for your emotional state.
