There were so many low moments yesterday that I'm not sure what was the worst:
-You had two tries to get one yard by our power back and he didn't have a chance;
-between those two tries, we looked like an unorganized junior high team;
-you had the ball first and goal on their two and after four tries we turn it over on their seven;
-you had two of our receivers collide fifteen yards downfield and damn near knock each other out;
-when we still had hope, our junior quarterback loses the ball on a snap deep in their territory;
-again, in a position to score we try a double reverse but our second guy takes off at least a count early and we get a penalty;
-our junior quarterback has one of the worst looking grounding penalties in history when he panics and wings the ball into the turf five yards in front of him.
Our defense did make some great plays, but the sad fact remains that if a freshman quarterback wasn't playing so poorly, we would have lost to SDSU and we would have been really embarrassed yesterday with the score. At one point, when Griese was asked what was wrong with our offense he just sort of shrugged and threw open his hands. Things are so broken, you don't know where to start.
My faith has eroded so much that I'm at the point of doubting how much talent Brewster has actually recruited. There is no threat at running back. Yes, there's seldom blocking but no back makes a tackler miss or powers for additional yardage after hit. Our receivers have a hard time getting open, drop too many balls, and don't run good patterns. Early in the game we took a shot downfield and Weber threw a nice pass that McKnight looked like he short-armed instead of reaching out for it. Late in the game Weber threw a pass that looked bad, but it looked like Allen just quit on the pattern. Stoudermire excited everyone early, but looks very ordinary now. Finally, our most heralded recruit is apparently not good enough to replace a quarterback who has become totally dysfunctional. He's now a potential end?
Well, we are in a bowl game. We certainly have time to reassess and practice. Hopefully, there will be some positive differences. I can't see Brewster gone after this year and he probably shouldn't be, but with another showing like we've seen lately, all bets are off.