What was YOUR reaction to the title? A snort? A grumpf in disgust? A smile because you KNOW Mr. OBD?

It was an attempt at humor to lighten this very heavy day of opinions and analysis by so many on this forum.

Personally, I am still processing it all, because it was so opposite to what I expected. I understand the negative thoughts here, and I think there has been some superbly reasoned takes on our current state.

This kind of discussion is what a forum is for…

P.S. It is FINE to discuss player performance failures, just don’t go personal. Stick to their play, good-and-bad, and the same applies to coaching decisions.

Yeah, I would love to dream it into existence.

I think the frustration is really comes from this program being the best program in America that has yet to win a national title, we've come so close...so many times...and every year the program hypes itself up, and then the fall flat on their face at some point. It doesn't help (at least for me) that Indiana just basically comes in and wins a title within 2 years of being relevant.

Lanning's losses have been absolutely abysmal. Either he's getting blown out in games where he isn't even competitive, he's losing to a rival making bone headed coaching decisions, or now losing to a team that hasn't beaten a FBS team in 21 tries.

There are ways to lose, and he's falling way short of them. I think the one loss where I felt okay was the Pac-12 championship game, at least there we showed some heart to try to come back, just got outplayed there.

I appreciate the humor though Charles.

Truthfully I did not feel good about this year. There are teams that get close to the top but never seem to close the deal and they start to decline. We may be at that point for all the reasons discussed. Not that we can’t climb to the top but things just don’t feel right. We seem off.

I will say Both Boise and Ok. State are far better than most would have thought.

The biggest issue as far as just mot right is the DL play. All NFLers, over 5 mil in NIL and they have been a big zero thus far.

I get the inexperience of the OL,

but not the DL. Effort, coaching, scheme…who knows.

At SC we either continue the spiral downward or we rise up and beat the daylights out of them.

Hopefully Lanning has the ability to fix things.

1 hour ago, Charles Fischer said:

What was YOUR reaction to the title?

That twelve men on the field is a penalty we haven't achieved yet, although it is still early in the season.