re: This team is atrocious... Still, and the offense is simply poorly coached

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Petrinos teams always stretched the field against lesser competition and blew the doors off of the cupcakes we faced and that didn’t seem to hurt us too much in conference play when he was here.

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We didn't start blowing out cupcakes until later in Petrino's tenure with much better teams than this one. We beat Western Illinois by 4, ULM by 1, and Tulsa by a TD under Petrino with the team closest to the talent level of this one.

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Never throwing the ball more than 15 yards downfield for the sake of not showing too much is not a valid excuse

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I would take more issue with it if we lost. We didn't. Not sure there's much point in complaining about the playcalling when it's clear what the motive was. They obviously aren't going to call a game like that against a conference opponent.

I also noticed the passing game opened up a bit with Starkel in. He at least was taking shots over the middle. Another reason I hope it's Starkel going forward.