[yvonne]

[quote author=Yvonne link=topic=13448.msg138688#msg138688 date=1446393249]The game was both grit and luck. It took grit for the players to come back and make it a game — including making some of their own luck with some excellent defense and turnovers of their own in the second half, but it also took luck for the kicker to coug it at the end. There was much local celebration when Low APR U had the same luck against Texas in the beginning of the year.

Everyone close game is won partly through luck, which is why good teams blow out other teams. But it's unrealistic to expect to blow out everyone, so any good run is going to take some luck. Remember 2012? We were 7-2 in close games! I'll take 1-0.

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Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. How many times have we been on the other side of that luck, and often against a good team? I can think of several times against Notre Dame, and Colorado's championship year with a very positive call for Eric Bienemy at the end. "Orange Power" brought home a trophy because of such luck.

I'm also pointing out that some of the loudest voices complaining about Stanford's luck were the beneficiaries of nearly identical luck at the beginning of the season.

Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good, as the saying goes. I'm happy to be on the winning side of this one, but I seriously hold nothing against Coug fans complaining about the refs. We might be doing the same thing if the tables were turned. It's more the hypocritical cal fans that I bash in this case.

[yvonne]

[quote author=Yvonne link=topic=13448.msg138688#msg138688 date=1446393249]The game was both grit and luck. It took grit for the players to come back and make it a game — including making some of their own luck with some excellent defense and turnovers of their own in the second half, but it also took luck for the kicker to coug it at the end. There was much local celebration when Low APR U had the same luck against Texas in the beginning of the year.

Everyone close game is won partly through luck, which is why good teams blow out other teams. But it's unrealistic to expect to blow out everyone, so any good run is going to take some luck. Remember 2012? We were 7-2 in close games! I'll take 1-0.

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Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. How many times have we been on the other side of that luck, and often against a good team? I can think of several times against Notre Dame, and Colorado's championship year with a very positive call for Eric Bienemy at the end. "Orange Power" brought home a trophy because of such luck.

I'm also pointing out that some of the loudest voices complaining about Stanford's luck were the beneficiaries of nearly identical luck at the beginning of the season.

Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good, as the saying goes. I'm happy to be on the winning side of this one, but I seriously hold nothing against Coug fans complaining about the refs. We might be doing the same thing if the tables were turned. It's more the hypocritical cal fans that I bash in this case.