Maybe in seasons past I would have also been heartened by a loss like this. I'm starting to lose patience at not being able to close out these games though. If we want to be a top dog, then we have to actually beat some of these top dogs and right now we're shooting ourselves in the feet trying to do it.

Welcome to the board! I have a hard time seeing Dan letting Cody go at this point. I don't want to say it's straight up nepotism, but since joining the staff Cody has received a promotion every single season and is now up to OC. I think Cody would have to royally screw something up for Dan to even consider firing him.

I greatly miss Plough's up tempo offense even if there were still playing calling decisions I didn't agree with. Cody's offense is slow and too dependent on Gilliam bailing the rest of the offense out. That clock is ticking.

"We're a deeper team that may go .500 w average QB play the next few years."

Our defense is playing at a playoff level right now. We're allowing just over 20 points per game against the 2 ranked FCS teams we've played. In those 2 games we are winning the turnover battle 6-1 (2 INTs and a fumble recovery against SDSU, 1 INT and 2 fumble recoveries against Weber, 1 pick thrown against SDSU).

Miles Hastings is a sophomore, there is simply no way in my mind that we can't upgrade at the position. If we roll with him for another 2-3 seasons I think we see some of the stars on defense transfer out of the program. The offense (outside of UG who is done after this season) including the kicking game is massively letting the rest of the team down. This includes the offensive coaching staff.

The only thing I will really give Hastings credit for is that he's managed to keep a clean sheet in terms of interceptions over the last 2 games. You're not going to win a lot of games when you only have 6.6 yards per completion and 4.5 yards per attempt. Hastings is simply too limited in his skill set to take this team to the playoffs.

I'm getting tired of trying to make stipulations for the team in justifying their performance. Oh we're playing a FBS team this week. Oh we're playing a ranked team this week. But I'm done giving them the benefit of the doubt there. Why? Because we're going to be playing ranked teams consistently in this conference year in and year out and you know what? The conference is only getting stronger. Weber seems to always have an elite defense. Montana, Montana State, and Sac State are all looking like top 10 maybe even all of them in the top 5. Idaho is already looking much improved with a new head coach.

I don't know where my rambling is going at this point. I guess my point is where is the direction on offense man especially consider we lose Gilliam for sure after this season. Shoot, if he had actually ended up transferring this season we'd really be up a creek without a paddle. I will give kuddos to the offensive line who held up well even with injuries against a very good defense.

What movielover said, but with the addition of we were letting huge chunks of clock run without calling timeouts. Shot ourselves in the foot with time management. Hawkins was notoriously un-Hawkins like tonight and avoided going for it on 4th and short situations. The one time we went for it on 4th and short we actually had a good play set up, Hastings just overthrew Gilliam for what would have been a TD.

Cody has not overly impressed me over the course of him being OC

Defense played like they wanted to win this freaking game. Offense moved the ball but couldn't figure out how to finish a drive. Hawk should be entirely embarrassed about how the 1st half ended with the time management issues leading to a missed FG from the freaking 1 yard line.

Just... Why...

And now we're trying to get gimmicky at the most critical time

AGGIE BALL

Punting?

Defense does a good job aided by penalties. This is going to have to be THE drive for the offense.

Our WRs never seem to know where the marker is

Tip drill INT

Your guess is as good as mine. I don't think we're at an acceptable level in terms of kicking quality... Kickoffs and field goals

Why squib it? Just kick the damn ball

2 point conversion dropped

TD AGGIES!

Gilliam doing it all