Well, it is all conjecture and speculation at this point except for one fact...how may 3 game losses did Nick have in the regular season? He would have willed us into the playoff and it probably would have been a win in Nashville. Regardless, I am not disappointed with our new coach. Heck, we could have had Norvell steering this thing off the rails. But we will need to be patient. Gonna take a minute for this coach to get this thing humming again.
For now I just want to have a good showing in the Bowl Game and finish 10-3
Hmmmmm. For some reason, I don't even remember that, but that was still different bc that was a home game, and Arkansas was terrible. This was a very good Oklahoma defense. Mac struggled on the road against Auburn.
I may be being too harsh but I do believe he's capable of A+. I don't think he got close to that this year, but I do most certainly agree with you that he was not handed a stable ship to pilot. Not at all.
Compared to the rest of his tenure, that was a struggle. A healthy Tua wins that game, so my point still stands.
We lost that game because our defense was horrible. Your narrative is wrong.
Mac throwing 2 picks certainly didn't help. It's not my narrative. It's reality.
Mac and Waddle are the only reason the game was even close. Our defense couldn’t stop them.
I’ll second the OC thing. I believe he’s still out there running Milroe into the teeth of that OU defense.
I mostly just wish we'd mixed up the snapcount after Oklahoma had two weeks to time it up perfectly. Someone really should have thought of that.
So, what you are saying is that if the CFPC had not been gutless in choosing a team with a relatively pathetic resume from an almost garbage conference over a team with a top 5 resume and consensus # 5-7 by most objective measures, a team from easily the toughest conference in football (IMO, the SEC having one of the best reg seasons in college football history (13 bowl teams - 7 teams 9-3 or better 2 more 8-4.) - the # of losses of the best team, whom Alabama beat with a masterful offensive game plan, was 2. No one had fewer and Alabama had the 2nd toughest schedule of the top 9 teams, only UGA’s was tougher - criminally tough given by one of the worst commissioners in college football), then you would have considered the season a success. But since the Committee bowed to public pressure and gagged, Alabama is a failure.
We’ll also consider that the refs made two huge calls that changed the game and both went Auburn’s way.
I still wonder how the team might have responded if the refs hadn't stolen that TD at the start of the 4th.
And still no official comment from the SEC office or SEC head of officiating. Only thing that was said by CKD was “there was communication with him from SEC office but we have moved on”.
