[JPR36]

I love the optimism but if this team and especially offensive coaching staff don't get their heads out of their rear ends they will be lucky to be in the Amazing Chicken Bowl. They were damn lucky to win last week and completely fell apart in the second half last night.

I really can't agree that the coaching staff had much to do with us getting beat by ND. The simple fact is that we lost the battle of our OL vs their DL very very badly. End of story. If the OL had played better, then we could talk about poor play calling or bad strategy being the issues that cost us the (much closer) game. As it was, it didn't matter  what was called. if the ND defense is in our backfield all night (or all the second half anyway), we are toast.
That will be true with Utah as well. If we can't block them, we will lose. If we can sort of hold our own, then we can talk about play calling. We probably won't have Love, so we will have to do something to generate a run game.

If we beat the Utes, it will be through the air. I hope we can generate enough a run game to at least keep their defense honest.

[JPR36]

I love the optimism but if this team and especially offensive coaching staff don't get their heads out of their rear ends they will be lucky to be in the Amazing Chicken Bowl. They were damn lucky to win last week and completely fell apart in the second half last night.

I really can't agree that the coaching staff had much to do with us getting beat by ND. The simple fact is that we lost the battle of our OL vs their DL very very badly. End of story. If the OL had played better, then we could talk about poor play calling or bad strategy being the issues that cost us the (much closer) game. As it was, it didn't matter  what was called. if the ND defense is in our backfield all night (or all the second half anyway), we are toast.
That will be true with Utah as well. If we can't block them, we will lose. If we can sort of hold our own, then we can talk about play calling. We probably won't have Love, so we will have to do something to generate a run game.

If we beat the Utes, it will be through the air. I hope we can generate enough a run game to at least keep their defense honest.