we were 8-7, 1-1 in conference.
The narrative varied pretty widely but there were some commonalities.
But in general, the consensus was, not bad, not great. Decent job, not great. The blowout losses were terrible but there was a lot of growth from that point to the Wyoming win... talent wasn't enough to do well but it was enough for such a bad conference. Some thought slightly overachieving, others said slightly underachieving. In general, that's what the majority of people were thinking. Somewhere near that ballpark.
Here we are, just 11 weeks later and we stand at 10-18, 3-12. That means UNLV, against a very weak schedule, has gone 2-10 THIS YEAR. That's woeful UNLV football stuff.
Now the narrative has shifted greatly. Now it's... we've done as well as possible given the talent level ....
The talent level hasn't changed, so maybe they drastically overachieved the first half of the season and then came back to earth? If what we saw in November and December was overachieving....
It's weird how the narrative has changed. Maybe that's expected in such a monumental disaster of a year. Nobody has done a good job. You don't have this level of failure unless everyone contributes. The players have been brutal, the coaches have been brutal and the given situation was brutal. It's to to stomach.
It's tough to see UNR laughing at our guys. It's tough that UNR patronizes UNLV with such mercy when they could have beat us worse than Duke did. It's tougher that this is our reality rather than an anomaly.
This season just needs to end. The look on our '87 team's faces as the game went on ... they couldn't believe their eyes and some of the stuff I heard afterward.
The narrative varied pretty widely but there were some commonalities.
But in general, the consensus was, not bad, not great. Decent job, not great. The blowout losses were terrible but there was a lot of growth from that point to the Wyoming win... talent wasn't enough to do well but it was enough for such a bad conference. Some thought slightly overachieving, others said slightly underachieving. In general, that's what the majority of people were thinking. Somewhere near that ballpark.
Here we are, just 11 weeks later and we stand at 10-18, 3-12. That means UNLV, against a very weak schedule, has gone 2-10 THIS YEAR. That's woeful UNLV football stuff.
Now the narrative has shifted greatly. Now it's... we've done as well as possible given the talent level ....
The talent level hasn't changed, so maybe they drastically overachieved the first half of the season and then came back to earth? If what we saw in November and December was overachieving....
It's weird how the narrative has changed. Maybe that's expected in such a monumental disaster of a year. Nobody has done a good job. You don't have this level of failure unless everyone contributes. The players have been brutal, the coaches have been brutal and the given situation was brutal. It's to to stomach.
It's tough to see UNR laughing at our guys. It's tough that UNR patronizes UNLV with such mercy when they could have beat us worse than Duke did. It's tougher that this is our reality rather than an anomaly.
This season just needs to end. The look on our '87 team's faces as the game went on ... they couldn't believe their eyes and some of the stuff I heard afterward.
