I understand the point, but I’ll counter with a couple of my own.
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@JHallCanes said in another thread, a lot of us aren’t necessarily mad about losing the bowl game. It’s more about how we approached it and called the game. The same issues that plagued Mario during the 2022 and 2023 season reared its ugly head again - undisciplined football, conservative play-calling on offense, poor clock management, woefully unprepared for a run-heavy team that only attempted 15 passes when we were missing just 1 starter in the front 7…that stuff drives me wild. If it’s a bowl game and we don’t care, why not try some new things out? Why not play more younger guys if Mario didn’t care instead of Lou Cristobal or Gore or Lichtenstein?
The other thing I’d say is it certainly matters to a lot of other teams. Watching Kansas St/NC State, Arizona/OU, USC, Boston College etc, they all absolutely cared. They played hard for their coach and battled. Even a USC that had a ton of opt outs took Louisville to the shed.
If we had won the game, people on here would be singing a different tune.