re: The Players don't seem as Inspired Anymore

We no longer have any player that came on board before we were a championship program. The players then had the goal of building. The current group have the goal of sustaining. It's so much easier to get excited when the program is on its way up. That target on our backs became an albatross. It eventually caught up with us yesterday.

That said, there is zero excuse for coming out as tight and scared as we did yesterday. For a program that has played on so many big stages and prides itself on getting the mental edge, yesterday was a pathetic showing of mental toughness from the start.