The game’s the game.

[orangeinohio]

Our OC took almost an entire half to figure out that not passing + running Tucker up the gut wasn’t working

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I'm tired of it.

I'm tired of having to graciously acknowledge that it comes down to more than one play.

Screw that.

We've lost twice, and we've been boned to a ridiculous extent by things refs called and things they didn't call both times.

It's frigging exhausting and I'm tired of living with a creeping feeling in the back of my mind that WE'RE NOT EVEN GOING TO CATCH A BREAK, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THE GAME CALLED FAIRLY.

It's bull. Absolute bull.

 

[qdawgg]

basically FSU is a play or 2 away from entering 3-1 or 4-0 that had a ton of bad luck and injuries. they got breaks today.

Pretty sure most teams can go through, throw out the plays that didn’t benefit them, add in the plays that should have gone their way and have a better record. They were 0-4. They didn’t get there because you’re really a 4-0 team.

 

[orange79]

I have been more than fair.

It's the posting of the same thing in every thread that gets people rolling their eyes. No one has a problem with what you say. It's the repetition that gets you the reputation you have.

 

[upperdeck]

They lost to Jacksonville state.

on a play that happens 1-1000 times.. lest we forget they got some key guys back for todays game who had huge impacts

 

[upperdeck]

Pretty sure most teams can go through, throw out the plays that didn’t benefit them, add in the plays that should have gone their way and have a better record. They were 0-4. They didn’t get there because you’re really a 4-0 team.

yup.. but unless you win by 20 most every game comes down to some key plays. sometimes those plays are things you do sometimes its bad calls and sometimes its plays the opp do..

 

[Oakland]

There’s no sugarcoating. Blaming refs gets you nowhere, whiner’s way out.

Giving the best recap of the game also gets you nowhere.

 

[SWC75]

This is a 3-9 football team. Every other team on the schedule is significantly better than the one we lost too.

You can’t be the worst coached, most penalized and have the least talent in the conference. You have to at least get 2 out of 3 and this program hasn’t done that since it joined the conference.

I just don’t see this team winning more than 3 games. This was our best chance to win an ACC game. Hope I am wrong.

If thinking that makes you happy, have at it.

You might be right but do you really want to spend that time having already decided that?

Sports is about hope.

 

[samspann1]

There’s no sugarcoating. Blaming refs gets you nowhere, whiner’s way out.

Simple question : did you think that the refs did a good job today?

 

[dan7800]

Dino has to go. He has consistently shown that he cannot coach, and it’s pretty clear to me that he has been giving minimal effort since he got paid. We’ve all grown to expect his ineptitude.

The team played hard today. Tough to overcome terrible coaching. Feel bad for the kids.

 

[dan7800]

WE'RE NOT EVEN GOING TO CATCH A BREAK, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THE GAME CALLED FAIRLY.

Good teams create their own luck. There have been a few bad calls, but there is no conspiracy.

 

[dan7800]

Simple question : did you think that the refs did a good job today?

The point is that complaining about the refs does nothing.

 

[samspann1]

Good teams create their own luck. There have been a few bad calls, but there is no conspiracy.

Florida State sucks

 

[samspann1]

The point is that complaining about the refs does nothing.

What does complaining about the coaching, or players, do?

 

[David321]

Dino lost us that game. It was like the Liberty game but reversed.

 

[Finwad32]

Simple question : did you think that the refs did a good job today?

No. Still irrelevant. You CANT change it.

 

[samspann1]

No. Still irrelevant. You CANT change it.

What CAN we change about the game?

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Good teams create their own luck. There have been a few bad calls, but there is no conspiracy.

No, screw that.

Wax made his own luck by dominating their left tackle.

 

[Millhouse]

It’s not about refs… we had our chance and we didn’t execute.

Team played tough and with resolve. We are significantly better than last year. There is no QB debate. One gives us the best chance to win.

Chips didn’t fall our way today. But I feel much better about our chances today and from here on out than I did yesterday.

Eph that, the refs cost us the game with obvious bs and the gomers that run this Bojangles bobullshlt league can go to hell

 

[SuFTW]

Dino has to go. He has consistently shown that he cannot coach, and it’s pretty clear to me that he has been giving minimal effort since he got paid. We’ve all grown to expect his ineptitude.

The team played hard today. Tough to overcome terrible coaching. Feel bad for the kids.

Please explain the minimal effort. That’s a silly statement that invalidates your whole point.

 

[MikeSU02]

 

[SuFTW]

What CAN we change about the game?

How you view the result. The sky has already fallen or do we have something to work with.

 

[RF2044]

It’s not about refs… we had our chance and we didn’t execute.

Team played tough and with resolve. We are significantly better than last year. There is no QB debate. One gives us the best chance to win.

Chips didn’t fall our way today. But I feel much better about our chances today and from here on out than I did yesterday.

Agreed.

That missed holding penalty was costly, but so was letting their QB run 30 yards up the sideline on that last possession.

Freaking Gilbert. Wait...

But we had our chances, we just didn't get it done. But if this is how we can play offensively, against a team of 4 and 5 star recruits, this season is going to unfold favorably.

 

[Finwad32]

What CAN we change about the game?

They can finish our last drive and take the game.

If we take the points on either of the 4th down drives FSU’s kicking for the tie.

Everyone loves going for it on 4th until you don’t get it. If he had converted one or both, we’re feeling much better this morning.

Not having our Punter ended up being crucial, and I knew it was going to be big before we kicked off. Nothing you can do about that but have another guy ready.

FSU is not the FSU of old. But we played hard and better. Still think WR’s getting open is a problem? Because we schemed them open all day.

We’ve got to be able to continue to grow our passing game alongside of our ground game. When we started hitting some passes, what happened to Tucker’s YPC? Yup, he started to hit chunk plays.

The loss sucks, but I firmly stand by that I have more confidence in this team than I did before the game.

 

[CousCuse]

They can finish our last drive and take the game.

If we take the points on either of the 4th down drives FSU’s kicking for the tie.

Everyone loves going for it on 4th until you don’t get it. If he had converted one or both, we’re feeling much better this morning.

Not having our Punter ended up being crucial, and I knew it was going to be big before we kicked off. Nothing you can do about that but have another guy ready.

FSU is not the FSU of old. But we played hard and better. Still think WR’s getting open is a problem? Because we schemed them open all day.

We’ve got to be able to continue to grow our passing game alongside of our ground game. When we started hitting some passes, what happened to Tucker’s YPC? Yup, he started to hit chunk plays.

The loss sucks, but I firmly stand by that I have more confidence in this team than I did before the game.

The passing game opened up because they committed to establishing the run. Had they tried going to more passing earlier and it wasn't immediately successful, people would have went crazy as to why they weren't feeding Tucker. It's not like Shrader was on fire passing against Liberty, hindsight is 20/20. The game plan was correct IMO.