Obviously, the thing most of us are going to take away from our lost football season is the inability of Kragthorpe and Stubbs to properly utilize the many returning pieces of one of the great offenses in UL history. Basically, we pissed away talent more carelessly than Pluto in Animal House. My question is now, how did it happen?

Most people are blaming the playcalling which I certainly agree has been atrocious, but I think it goes deeper than that. It goes to Krags' overall philosophy on offense. From what I see, we basically have turned into a dink and dunk passing game and "taking what the defense gives us".

This is bullshit. We are playing right into the defense's hands with this.  A highly successful defensive philosophy (in the NFL at least) uses this exact same philosophy in stopping offensives (the Tampa/cover 2). The Cover 2 gives the offensive the underneath and check down crap and forces you to string together long, efficient drives. Even in the NFL, offenses struggle to but together sustained drives consistently, so what makes us think it is going to work in college?

We need the big play back in the offense and we need it bad. It will open up the running game and give us a chance to be relevant again. Instead, I head to Tampa next week thinking I would rather be in the `Ville watching us take on Hartford and Jackson St. Depressing.

Few  other quick notes from the game:

-Deon Palmer played as well as I have seen a UL safety play since Kerry Rhodes. I know he might have taken a bad angle on the White run, but overall, very impressive.

-Thursday Night Football took a huge turn for the worse when Herbstreit went to Saturday nights. Mike summed it up best- Craig James Sucks.

-I wish Owen Schmidt would have knocked himself out with that fucking helmet.