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<blockquote data-quote="mattcoldagelli" data-source="post: 1948738" data-attributes="member: 11524"><p>This is what has made this so disappointing and hard to take. </p><p></p><p>Speaking for myself, the reason for so much optimism wasn’t necessarily even the winning, it was that we finally - FINALLY - stopped beating ourselves (or at least heartily joining in on the effort when a better team was already beating us). It felt like for the first time in decades we weren’t trying to win college football games with a hand tied behind our back. </p><p></p><p>With each snap we see our guys play on Sunday, I think we’ve probably realized we lost more talent than we originally thought. That’s fine. I can live with that. There are even silver linings to that. </p><p></p><p>I cannot fathom how our program suddenly snapped back to being dumb. That just doesn’t make any sense. And it makes me wonder just how much certain highly skilled players were making certain coaches look a lot more competent than they are/ever were.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mattcoldagelli, post: 1948738, member: 11524"] This is what has made this so disappointing and hard to take. Speaking for myself, the reason for so much optimism wasn’t necessarily even the winning, it was that we finally - FINALLY - stopped beating ourselves (or at least heartily joining in on the effort when a better team was already beating us). It felt like for the first time in decades we weren’t trying to win college football games with a hand tied behind our back. With each snap we see our guys play on Sunday, I think we’ve probably realized we lost more talent than we originally thought. That’s fine. I can live with that. There are even silver linings to that. I cannot fathom how our program suddenly snapped back to being dumb. That just doesn’t make any sense. And it makes me wonder just how much certain highly skilled players were making certain coaches look a lot more competent than they are/ever were. [/QUOTE]
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