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[QUOTE="Oakland, post: 344166, member: 590"]
Stopped watching the game (taped) at 35-13 because of disgust, but mostly because I had to get ready for an engagement. Thought I'd quickly watch the end later but wasn't sure. Up to that point, it was mostly the same disappointing team of the last 10 years, however, I very much liked the faster paced offense.
 
As it always seems, SU plays better when I am not watching (just to prove this point, I completely missed the WV game last season). After I stopped watching, the team looked great the last 18 min of the game on both sides of the ball. Only a down on its luck program like SU could so thoroughly outplay (statistically) the other team and still lose.
 
If the question is: would I prefer a 13-10 win with the same crappy offense as the last 10 seasons or a 42-41 loss will much higher expectations, I'll take the higher expectations. I thought the team would be about 6-6, now I have hope they might do better.
 
Just a couple of things that others have not pointed out:
 
1) There were 5 -6 SU guys running to cut Marks off on his TD punt return. The last 2 guys were unlikely to make a play at the sideline and showed poor judgement in not containing the cut back. Maybe all the 3 heavies posts are correct, but those two guys allowed a 40 yd return to be a 82 yd touchdown.
 
2) The interception off of Sales bobble started with a poor shoe string throw by Nassib.
 
3) At 2.05 in the third qtr, an SU player, well after the whistle, and 5 feet out of bounds, gave the NW player a harmless little shove: no flag. It also looked like PTG got pushed just as he was OOB at the 7 min mark in the 4th qtr, also no flag.
 
4) Going for 2 pts at 39-35 is an interesting decision.
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