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[QUOTE="Chip, post: 3164293, member: 19"]
A few thoughts on all this excellent content.

1.  Brian Ward - He has had up and downs.  We’re never going to be a dominating D, and that’s ok.  We just need to hold up, tighten up in red zone, be opportunistic.  But it’s hard not to notice that in 4 years we’ve broken 3 ALL TIME records for futility here.  Rushing yardage (yesterday), Total yardage (Louisville), Total points allowed (Pitt).  I get that we have holes, but we shouldn’t be re-writing the record book of shame.

2.  Transfer portal - So it sounds good in theory, but how much of a quick fix is it?  Won‘t anyone we get have to sit out a year unless someone wants to stuff the NCAA’s pockets like Ohio State did to get Fields immediately eligible?  Guessing we don’t have that cache.  We can look for grad transfers of course, but have to pick better, can’t bring someone in for the sake of adding a human (see Alexander, Ryan).

3.  This may be unfair, but yesterday it really looked like some players had checked out.  It was as if they heard all week about how physical this game would be and they just weren’t up for it.  I‘m the casual fan that never notices this stuff during a game, I just watch where the football is.  But watching the replay, and watching plays over and over, focusing in different players, it’s eye opening.  There are plenty of examples where it’s obvious guys weren’t giving 100%.  How do you solve that one?  Just by offseason refocus?

Do you think it’s realistic we can bring in impact players for next year?
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