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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2012735, member: 488"] Whaler's not wrong, and it's not a reactionary thing, either. He said the same thing after the SMU game. There are 0.0 excuses for losing to South Florida with the roster we had out there last night. As I said in the game chat, if we have six players...that's still six more than they have. It doesn't make you a miserable person if you're not taking pleasure in beating a fringe D-1 team, even if it was a "road game." Those games might show something, but they prove nothing. That happens when you play somebody in your weight class or above it or at least somebody only one or two levels below. This was none of that. That said, I did come away from that game feeling pretty good, because the underclassmen - particularly Vance and Christian - played well, and the stuff I posted above about not being able to gauge improvement against poor competition...well, that's true to an extent. Coaches don't view it that way and I know KO doesn't. Coaches will be thrilled even by a good practice, so the fact that they buried a D-1 team through execution and precision is encouraging. To me, this team is about what you'd expect...good enough to beat bottom barrel teams on the road and good enough to compete with the top of the league at home. The jury is still out on the latter but beating bad teams is certainly a way to salvage a no win situation. [/QUOTE]