Rice vs.ECU

I'll make this short.

Saturday the Rice Owls played well and IMO ECU looked like they were not in the game. Rice scored nine touchdowns and "only" gave up five. So they won. They had a great concept and broke many tackles. They looked much faster than the ECU team.

But DW was more excited than I was. This is too little too late in the season. It's too late to have a winning record. It is too late to go to a bowl.

I plan to be spoiled, to expect that at least we will be in contention for a bowl each year. I do not think that is too much to ask in the secondary conference we are in.

But this team has been lackluster all year.

In this game coach found a unique plan for offense. He has also eliminated many players who do not want to do what it takes to win, like catch passes or block or learn the plays. We are down to several true freshman who are contributing.

You have give the coach credit for recruiting these guys and not giving up on the season. But it is too late to actually play meaningful games.

DW was wondering why I was not happy about how well the team played. I just could not help thinking "what if". This team, like many other teams, had the talent to win, to go to a bowl. But many players did not care enough to try hard enough.

So I find mixed with some excitement about the game win and the good individual plays quite a bit of smoldering anger at the lack of effort by "my" team.

The Texans are a similar story. But I do not care as much about the pro team in town.