Total Team Loss. Offense, Defense, Special Teams, Coaches. (Refs)
Special Teams, yeah we ran back a kick but we also had a FG Blocked and Fumbled a Kickoff that led to a score.
Offense, Rolled up a lot of yards and if you score over 40 you should automatically win BUT you drive into the redzone and throw 2 picks in the endzone?? 1 into triple coverage and I am still deciding if the other can be considered quadruple coverage. 3 defenders for sure, 1 came in late. Those weren't great plays by USU. Colby wasn't under heavy pressure. Those were garbage picks. (Oh and no ones fault, and I LOVE Dixon, Holley and Lee, no doubt King is heavily missed. He is a home run hitter everytime he touches the ball. He would have mattered today.)
Defense, Finally came up with some big stops but overall another pathetic performance. Gave up over 300 yards rushing and over 630 yards overall. That is an inexcusable embarrassment. Sadly I think our fans are so used to poor defense they will actually try to pin this on the offense. Sorry, that's a no go. We failed on all levels today. That TD in OT was WAY too easy.
Coaches, We still can't figure out a way to have even a medicore defense??? Really?? Terrible play call on that last play in OT. No options, way too easy to snuff out. Again fool me once, shame on Spangler. Fool me all season, shame on Dykes. If he stays, my opinion of Dykes as a coach will be determined by what he does about our defense in the off season.
I could go on re: offense, defense and special teams but I will keep it brief.
OH, one more thing!
Refs, Sorry but anyone that didn't see that Patton was completely mugged at the end of the first half on what would have been a TD is BLIND. WR's mugged all game, their OL holding all game.
All that said, we wouldn't even be in this position if it were not for the hard work of the players and this coaching staff. I still love all of them. Since I have followed Tech we haven't won 10 games. We can do that this season. We win the bowl we finish with 11 wins. That is a hell of an accomplishment. 11 wins and back to back bowls is nothing to sneeze at. Let's make it happen Dawgs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!