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". . . . . . . ." I am so speechless I don't even know what to say Chris B.
Overall: Well this is one of those "trap" games that everyone talks about. By the way I really hate that. In college football you only play 12 games. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET UP FOR EVERY GAME. Anyway this 31-0 loss to a UVA team that just got beat by Duke 31-3 last week, is just inexcusable. There is no way you can justify that loss. This may be the worse loss in the program since I really began caring about MD football way back in the year of Lord Nineteen-Hundred and Ninety-Four. Sure we used to get our yearly whippings by FSU, we used to be on the brink of pulling out some wins only to fall short under Dufner and Vanderlinden. However, this ranks up there as maybe the worst loss in those 14 years. A double digit favorite to a team decimated by injuries and suspensions. UVA QB Mark Verica looked like a Heisman hopeful. He passed the ball with great ease and had all day to do it. This hurt for so many reasons. We were starting to generate a buzz around the college football world, and were on the verge of being ranked. Sure the rankings really don't mean much, but in a sense they mean everything. When you watch all the highlight shows during other games and at halftimes, how often do they show games of a couple of unranked teams. You need to be seen in this day and age of recruiting. It gets you in all the newspapers box scores, on the ticker on the bottom of the screen. It puts you everywhere, so you are in the mind of these recruits. Secondly, look at what they had in front of them. 2-0 in the conference would have been nice, with both wins on the road. That would have been huge. None the less, shoulda, coulda, woulda. What does it all mean? Really who knows. Things are so out of whack in the conference these days. It hurts, it hurts real bad, in my opinion. This could have been one of those years, where you get all the bounces, and calls (not likely), and who knows you may wind up in the ACC Championship game. Now beat Wake at home, and all that still may be available, but you have to look at this as a major bump in the road to what could have been. Around the ACC will return next week. |