I think this team defintitely has a certain number of players giving minimal effort out there right now. Whether that is quitting or not well that’s not my point. When a team is that bad, they go through the week thinking they can right the ship and get a win. Now for the first quarter the team was giving good effort, getting turnovers on D and scoring points on O, then the switch flipped, once they started getting gouged in the running game and gave up the second big play action pass the game was over. The offense struggled, the D was getting pummeled by BC, the effort clearly nose dived by and a certain number of players clearly just started going through the motions, giving half arse effort hoping somebody else would tackle the running back. It’s what happens when your team really really stinks. its never been this bad with a Dino team but we have seen it pop up towards the end of his first two seasons but definitely the end of the Marrone season in 2011 as well. I wasn‘t watching the last two years of the shafer era very closely so I wouldn’t-know but GROB 4 years were all like these games. Louisville team that was horrible last here played like this as well, same talent this year playing much better because of effort and new coach
pretty safe to say that there is no way this team wins another game this year and have all the effort roller coaster type games of a really bad team with problems everywhere on and off the field, no leadership from players or coaches, probably some in fighting, and not much accountability. Doesn’t really matter if they quit or not every other sign of a horrendous sports team is already there but 90% of bad teams all quit at a certain point to a certain extent only so much you can take, well at least a certain number of the players do. There has to be a certain number of players on this team just dying to get the season over with who have already checked out to think otherwise is just crazy, IMO. Coaches will spew there nonsense about working hard and getting better everyday but it’s all crap at this point.
You will see good effort at duke for the first 15 minutes and if things go their way they will stick round for a while, that said if they get punched in mouth in 2nd quarter look for the effort to tank and the team will roll up quicker than I exited the dome yesterday.
This team is GROB type bad right now. Sure we have better talent than GROB did but we are also in the ACC so it’s relative but has to be the worst team since GROB, without a doubt and to be in year 4 of a coaches tenure here is just a bad look for everyone.