[Hieronymus]

I'm old enough too. Not interested at all in jumping ship. I appreciate having a team that I care enough about for it to hurt this much. It wasn't always so.

Players have bad games. The Rebels played aggressive defense and our players didn't adjust. You could tell a lot of them were expecting calls. We missed so many bunnies, not to mention free throws in this very winnable game.

At the end of the day, we are all just fans. It doesn't, nor should it, hurt more than the players and coaches. Our lives go on, as it should, but this loss will stay with the players for a long time I'd imagine, more so for the seniors unfortunately. But life moves on.

My only thing is it wasn’t just one game. This loss looked exactly like the USC loss or the UCLA loss. Exact same issues in all 3 games; so for me some of that falls on the coach. That said Tara did change through the year, and she obviously sees them in practice all the time so she knows them better then I do. Unfortunately, those adjustments didn’t work in the end.

It is also possible this team was flawed in ways that weren’t fixable. Or other changes would have created different, more serious flaws instead. I wanted a bigger team on the floor not a smaller one, but maybe we would have had 35 turnovers instead of 21. Tara has been doing this well for a long time; so I trust her more then me.

Now it’s hope that key players like Leopolo and Demetre and others work on their game for next year. I am worried though that some of the athletic limitations I see may not be fixable long term either.

[Hieronymus]

I'm old enough too. Not interested at all in jumping ship. I appreciate having a team that I care enough about for it to hurt this much. It wasn't always so.

Players have bad games. The Rebels played aggressive defense and our players didn't adjust. You could tell a lot of them were expecting calls. We missed so many bunnies, not to mention free throws in this very winnable game.

At the end of the day, we are all just fans. It doesn't, nor should it, hurt more than the players and coaches. Our lives go on, as it should, but this loss will stay with the players for a long time I'd imagine, more so for the seniors unfortunately. But life moves on.

My only thing is it wasn’t just one game. This loss looked exactly like the USC loss or the UCLA loss. Exact same issues in all 3 games; so for me some of that falls on the coach. That said Tara did change through the year, and she obviously sees them in practice all the time so she knows them better then I do. Unfortunately, those adjustments didn’t work in the end.

It is also possible this team was flawed in ways that weren’t fixable. Or other changes would have created different, more serious flaws instead. I wanted a bigger team on the floor not a smaller one, but maybe we would have had 35 turnovers instead of 21. Tara has been doing this well for a long time; so I trust her more then me.

Now it’s hope that key players like Leopolo and Demetre and others work on their game for next year. I am worried though that some of the athletic limitations I see may not be fixable long term either.