[French Rage]

Love definitely personified grit for the team.  But overall the whole team showed tremendous spirit this year.  Costello with the TD drive on a bad thumb is another example.  And just the way the team recovered from the 1-2 start and did what they needed down the stretch against tough competition to win the division.  Going down by 10 last night, and still finding a way to get the score closer and keep it a game until the 4th down in the final minute showed that they wouldn't give up until the very end.

Yes there are some personnel changes we should have made at different times, but to some extent hindsight is 20/20.  And yes if a couple plays here and there are executed a little better, we could be in the playoff.  But it's a college team; it's young players learning; that's always going to be the case.  The fact that this team was prepared to take their licks and learn from them and get better and fight to the last minute of the CCG makes me look back at this season as a plus.

[French Rage]

Love definitely personified grit for the team.  But overall the whole team showed tremendous spirit this year.  Costello with the TD drive on a bad thumb is another example.  And just the way the team recovered from the 1-2 start and did what they needed down the stretch against tough competition to win the division.  Going down by 10 last night, and still finding a way to get the score closer and keep it a game until the 4th down in the final minute showed that they wouldn't give up until the very end.

Yes there are some personnel changes we should have made at different times, but to some extent hindsight is 20/20.  And yes if a couple plays here and there are executed a little better, we could be in the playoff.  But it's a college team; it's young players learning; that's always going to be the case.  The fact that this team was prepared to take their licks and learn from them and get better and fight to the last minute of the CCG makes me look back at this season as a plus.