Football season has pretty much ended, and for the boys at Troy it wasn't a happy kind of ending. Saturday's game showed us both the best and worst of what the team has offered all year. Unfortunately, we saw a lot more bad than we did good. Three quarters of it in fact, before they woke up and realized they were handing the bowl bid to the opposing team. From where we were watching, the problem seemed to be primarily with the offense. They seemed confused, like they didn't get what the coaches wanted them to do - or didn't like it. I'm leaning a bit towards the latter, as Troy's quarterback likes to throw the ball and he did very little of it for the first part of the game. Once they started letting him throw again, the boys started getting touchdowns, and quick. Going into the forth quarter 12-38 with all of our points to that point off of Whibbs' toe, their comeback was nothing short of amazing. But it was too little too late. They ended the game 32-38 after not managing to complete a play in the last 45 seconds of the game. So they end the season 8-4, ranked 50th in the nation according to CBS Sports, but still can't get a bowl. The Sunbelt gets no respect.
Except from the fans.
I have to say, this was easily the best home crowd I've seen all season. Not only did the majority stay for the whole game (this is something we have a big problem with), they were also really into it. They actually made noise and stood up to cheer the boys on as they were getting beaten so badly. Why can't it be like this every game?
I won't comment on the FAU fans. Every group has it's bad apples, but it's looking like they may win the award for worst/most obnoxious fans in the conference. Hopefully it'll only be the fans that travel and not the home game crowd as well.
So with our season over, we're just waiting around for LSU to kick Ohio's nut. ^_^
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