well, this thread has really deteriorated...even more than most! But for what it is worth, I sort of agree with nelson's opening post...not the part about not being angry. I was and still am ticked about losing to another team we should have beaten, but the part about us playing pretty well. I made these points earlier on another thread, but to reiterate, but for a horrible job by Christen, we played well enough to have won that game handily. In fact with any kind of D1 kicker we do. But when you mess up things that should be automatic and you let a lesser team hang around, bad things can happen, and they did. Look, we had 3 1st period drives. A missed fg and 2 tds. Since no team scores a touchdown every time having a dependable kicker is important. then we drove into field goal range in the 3rd quarter and missed and again late for the block that was described as a low kick by Pasqualoni. Hit the first one and everyone could go home at halftime. Hit the 2nd or 3rd and the final drive matters not at all. Hit all 3 and its a comfortable win whether they score late or not. It isn't uncommon for a team to win scoring a couple of touchdowns and a couple of field goals. happens all the time. Not is it unusual for a team to jump out to a lead and not be able to keep up the same level of play for all 4 quarters. Not every game is Oklahoma over Texas 105 to 2 or whatever it was at the half. the problem here wasn't the play of the offense, and the defense played well except on a couple of plays. The kicker was awful, which allowed Temple to hang around. When you let a lesser team hang around, a lucky play can make the difference. But the reason the Owls hung around was because Christen kept missing.
