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The last really meaningful one, was the game in Cincinatti to close the 2011 season. We were 5-6 in the first season of a coaching and systems change, and we laid an egg. Oh, ugly. McEntee handed the ball to the D in the endzone, McCombs got picked up by Cincy D-backs and thrown around like a rag doll. Not pleasant memories. We had some flicker of life after beating Louisville and Pitt in November 2012, in the second season of a systems change, and were struggling to get back up to .500 and bowl eligibility - against Cincy once again late, but we didn't have the discipline and will power to get it done.
I did touch on this, and I think people get it. I want meaningful football in December. That means competing for league titels and a post season game at minimum. MINIMUM. That also means meaningfull football, in November, in October, in September - in August.
What's amazing, is that the guys on the 2013 roster, that played late in the season - something happened at halftime in Philly against Temple. In the ugly weather, with nobody watching and nothing to play for. That something - whatever it is - is something that obviously should be there all the time, and they need to bring it into the 2014 season, because unlike November 2013, there is a TON to play for right now - beyond those basics of playing for each other, playing for the name on the front of the jersey.