Lizardgrad89

Probably a condition of his contract.

Why in the world would you want a bowl game? Three weeks of pointless practice with a coach who would only be here because of the bowl game, players who don't care? Last time we did that the interim only practiced them about twice a week and we got shellacked by Central Florida. You want to be 4-9 that badly?

On the bright side, at least now we won't have the debacle of yet another pointless bowl game with an interim coaching staff, where the coaches and players don't care and we end up being embarrassed by some other crappy team that actually showed up.

Actually, if you don't count interims, it's basically 5 years. Unlike Georgia, which is...basically 5 years.

You know, we could easily be 1-6 right now. We had three of our games won before Billy decided to Napier his way to a loss. We won two of them anyway despite him. Defense bailed him out twice, only fell down against USF. He let Texas back into the game, he let MSU back into the game. He let USF back into the game.

I held out hope for far too long. Far far far too long. But when I saw him take the timeout against Texas to save the 10 second runoff when we were trying to run out the clock, that was the final straw.

I gave up on Billy ever figuring it out when he called a timeout to stop a 10 second runoff when we are trying to run out the clock. I mean, I had mostly given up already, but that really was the final nail.

I can live with the timeout, but tell the refs you want the 10 second runoff! Also not sure why the clock didn't restart after the ball was set. The clock had been running, should have continued running. It was shades of the Dallas Bakeer head slap game where the refs let (the real) UT have an extra minute so they could drive for a winning FG. I would have been all over the refs about that. (But, if that is the actual rule, that the clock stops when a helmet comes off, I'm telling my defense whenever we are behind and need the ball back to be throwing shoulder pads into helmets to try to knock them off, free timeouts.)

When I saw the Texas game was a day game I thought "They wouldn't give us a night game because the Swamp would be so crazy we might beat them".

After we won anyway, I thought "TAMU will definitely be a night game to minimize our chance of beating them"

And here we are.

The sad thing is, Napier found a good DC and gave him the defense, now the defense looks good. Why couldn't he do the same with the offense? Pride goeth before a fall.

I'm just glad I no longer allow delusional preseason optimism to push me to make a prediction I will later deeply regret.

What Central America is doing to North America, the Middle East is doing to Western Europe.