Fran Brown is no different than every other clown here

[Trueblue25]

I was hoping for 8-4 because next seasons schedule is brutal. This was one of the wins I thought we could pull off though. After 3 games I'm just hoping for a bowl game again

Its why the game’s played. I saw a bad football game, with some bad coaching. What I didn’t see was a hopeless team just completely outplayed. I’ve watched that hopelessness over and over for much of the last 20 years. This is not that. They don’t deserve to have our support just flushed

 

[CarlsbergMD]

How many Olympic Medals does their football team have? This is your argument? Lmao

They have Jim Plunkett, John Elway and Andrew Luck...McNabb was hung over in the biggest game of his life...They produce a lot of talented athletes based on location and academics...

 

[SUforme]

How many Olympic Medals does their football team have? This is your argument? Lmao

Yeah not sure how this relates to the football field...lol

 

[orange_in_VA]

Its why the game’s played. I saw a bad football game, with some bad coaching. What I didn’t see was a hopeless team just completely outplayed. I’ve watched that hopelessness over and over for much of the last 20 years. This is not that. They don’t deserve to have our support just flushed

Nobody on this board is flushing their fandom. That's not a concern, imo. People are sick of having all hope perpetually destroyed. Being upset is fair. We're invested. It's because we care so much

 

[orange_in_VA]

They have Jim Plunkett, John Elway and Andrew Luck...McNabb was hung over in the biggest game of his life...They produce a lot of talented athletes based on location and academics...

Sounds like you should root for Stanford. I don't know what to tell you

 

[bevosu]

Stanford will be one of the worst in the ACC. This is an awful loss. Awful. I still don’t understand how you call timeout only to let their QB play pitch and catch with one of the best and most physical receivers in the country.

The Athletic's power ranking coming into this weekend had us ranked #31 and Stanford ranked #91...out of 134 college football teams.

 

[CarlsbergMD]

The Athletic's power ranking coming into this weekend had us ranked #31 and Stanford ranked #91...out of 134 college football teams.

Good thing those writers are in the trenches preparing teams to line up and win...

 

[Trueblue25]

Nobody on this board is flushing their fandom. That's not a concern, imo. People are sick of having all hope perpetually destroyed. Being upset is fair. We're invested. It's because we care so much

Thats fair - I think it may suit some to sleep it off. The playoffs were a pipe dream. Lets get to work and build a foundation, an identity and a winning culture. I’ve seen enough signs to stay encouraged

 

[djcon57]

Level of copium in some is very high right now.

Not losing at home vs a very average Stanford team doesn’t mean you think they were a playoff team.

It means you thought they should be good enough to beat a very average Stanford team at home.

 

[SUforme]

Nobody on this board is flushing their fandom. That's not a concern, imo. People are sick of having all hope perpetually destroyed. Being upset is fair. We're invested. It's because we care so much

Yeah I'm not sure how anyone can blame the jaded fans. Sure there are some certainly H0T Takes but quite a few invested and sick of losing. Just when everything seems to be on track we fall off the rails and it starts all over again...

 

[orange_in_VA]

Yeah I'm not sure how anyone can blame the jaded fans. Sure there are some certainly H0T Takes but quite a few invested and sick of losing. Just when everything seems to be on track we fall off the rails and it starts all over again...

Every team we lose to is better than anyone could have estimated. It's a broken record. Lol

 

[CarlsbergMD]

Sounds like you should root for Stanford. I don't know what to tell you

I didn't root for Stanford, but I'm not going to get into an argument about how having Olympic training facilities can highly augment athletic performance, or the fact that historically Stanford has been a strong program that has produced Plunkett, Elway and Andrew Luck...A lot of you are acting like we lost to UB...I thought it was probably a 4.5 point game either way, and on this snap shot of a day, Syracuse didn't win. Happens...

 

[SUforme]

Ever team we lose to is better than anyone could have estimated. It's a broken record. Lol

So true.

 

[djcon57]

Stanford hasn’t been to a bowl since 2018. Jfc

 

[bigmike]

I was hoping for 8-4 because next seasons schedule is brutal. This was one of the wins I thought we could pull off though. After 3 games I'm just hoping for a bowl game again

Gonna buy you a drink in Vegas, maybe 2 (you and your bride).

 

[bevosu]

I just want to add to that Athletic rankings post. Outside of a handful of very good teams, most college teams are difficult to rank this early in the season.

 

[Archimedes]

No 4-0 with this schedule sucks. But let’s be honest we’d be a pretty shitty 4-0. But we beat a better team in GT like a drum.

2 of the road teams are BC and Pitt one who lost to us with no QB the other who should have lost to CDRW. Vegas we’ll have more fans. Cals homefield advantage is climate change protesters stopping the games. We really gonna take in those two int schools and lose to both? NC State has an 18 year old at QB.

I don’t really think we should lose more than 1 of them.

We didn't beat a "better team in GT like a drum."

We almost gave them the game.

My fear is that Syracuse showed us how they really are late in the 4th quarter v GT.

Just a fear for now.

 

[MGDCuse]

The H0T Takes in here are delicious
Never change SyracuseFan!!!!
Hugs and Kisses

This board is so much more fun after a bad loss lol.

 

[Sherman20]

Astounding 4th down call…. Impossibly bad to throw a DB on an island against that stud WR (especially with their QB’s accuracy woes). Cloud that side with a safety over top and play match to the strong side. Hell even just play cover 2 and force the QB to make a tight window throw

And out of a timeout! You can’t go single coverage on their star wide receiver. And you had to figure they were gonna move him to the other side of the field after the Cuse timeout. We took zero advantage of two timeouts to communicate with the players.

 

[JFly10]

It hurts but Fran will learn from this

So the expectation is that it's normal that he didn't know what to do there? Really?

 

[RyanCuse44]

This board is so much more fun after a bad loss lol.

Yeah and you know the admins just love that

 

[cusefan88]

Some of the comments and threads I've seen post game are very disappointing. Didn't know Cuse was the national title favorite and Fran Brown is Bear Bryant.

This is a process and he just took his first bad loss as a HC. Sorry that doesn't jive with people who had insane expectations after two games for a program that has been poor for 20 years.

Relax people.

 

[Millhouse]

Some of the comments and threads I've seen post game are very disappointing. Didn't know Cuse was the national title favorite and Fran Brown is Bear Bryant.

This is a process and he just took his first bad loss as a HC. Sorry that doesn't jive with people who had insane expectations after two games for a program that has been poor for 20 years.

Relax people.

Instead of making up dumb nonsense, can't you tell us what those insane expectations are

They had a one point lead against an underdog and did a horrible job on a 4th and nine that everyone could see in real time.

We agree it's his first bad loss. Made it almost a month weeeeeee

 

[blust2i3d4]

It hurts but Fran will learn from this

I think he will keep games close. Now we play like a P4/P5 team. I think the goal this year should be a good bowl game. It is impractical to aim on the playoff spot.

 

[kirbivore]

You can't just rush 3 there, full stop. That's fball 101 in that situation. Brutal job by Brown and Robinson, again fball 101.

Can't the defensive captain change the play if he sees how stupid it is?