LibertyBear said:Thee University said:TheBearableVariabl3 said:
Bruh we won 10 plus games four out of his last five years, had the nations number one offense in 3 of those years, and were ranked second in the country before Seth Russell got injured. We were just starting to get top 25 classes and five star recruits.
We were ABSOLUTELY on the path to compete for a national title. To act otherwise is just coping so it doesn't hurt as much that we wasted it.
That's fine but when you look at the Top Rated Defenses for nearly every year you orgasm over, BU was never better than #36 in Defense and actually got worse the last 3 years you blow. They were #113 , #78 & #49 during these years of having the #1 offense while losing 17-47 to Oklahoma State, 42-53 to that commuter school UCF, 27-41 to West Virginia. Most National Champions have a Top 10 defense!
We were #1 in one particular category more than anywhere else......PENALTIES! We were the most penalized team in 2013, 2014, 2nd most penalized in 2015.
Art made a horrible decision to only carry 2 real QBs when Seth was trying to run over linebackers and got himself hurt. Most Big 12 teams carried 4, 5 and even 6 QBs.
The other high school decision he made was to ignore the light bulb that was trying to come on in 2015 so we lost to OU, TCU & UT that season. That TCU team was starting something like 3 or 4 freshmen on defense and that 2015 UT team was one of, if not their worst team, in modern era football and we are winging it downfield with a guy who was not a QB. First in a monsoon in Ft. Worth and then against a sorry UT team.
National title? Ha. That's about like saying the 1980 team, which gave SJSU a gift in Waco, was going to go undefeated and play somebody other than Alabama in the Cotton bowl.
You can not ignore the fact that, because our offense was so good and because they scored so quickly, other offenses has 3-5 more possessions than average per game.
Yes, this was widely discussed at the time. Considering the number of snaps our defense spent on the field, being ranked in the 30s was actually quite good.
