Reply To: Sometimes the better more talented team doesn’t win

Players have to perform and not have turnovers, BUT this loss is on Riley. Despite everything, it as you said and they could have won. They scored with too much time only to give up the FG to lose. They could have won if the play calling/ clock management at the end was better. Meet the new team, same as the old team.

Penalties are a coaching issue, lack of discipline. I was surprised that the two lines did as average or poorly as they did – minimum pressure on D which didn’t help the piss poor DB’s. Physical teams will destroy us on the lines, even if they aren’t that great.

It’s one game so I don’t want to go all Fraud and overreact. BUT, CLR might have peaked. If he can’t do it this year not sure he ever will. Not in this conference. Maybe he could make the playoffs from the BIG12 and just play shoot out every game there where defense doesn’t count. Old UNLV basketball on the football field. But in the BIG I’m not sure that he can adjust to the physical play that we need.

Sigh.