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Watched the highlights and good gods are those announcers insufferable.

If Ike really was forced on Schmidt for a year, I would like to see that change come real damn quick. The only thing he has shown as an OC is that he can beat up on inferior competition to pad numbers.

This was a game where the offense needed to show up and it didn't. Schmidt was absolutely right in that the offense regressed as the year progressed and that is 100% on the offensive coordinator. Every legit team we played other than Kansas St the offense completely vanished. You aren't going to make it far if you are asking your team to hold the opponent under 10 points each game to win. I don't think Freuchte will be out this offseason, but I also don't agree with it. He has not shown the ability to field a competitive offense against the top end of FCS teams and the last two seasons of QB play are just depressing. Simon never should have been a full-year starter last year and Kaminski actively regressed throughout the season. That shows lack of recruiting and lack of development and you just can't have that and expect to be winning close games.

Someone let Taylor know...

I think second half of the season Jerry might have been getting in his own head when it comes to reads. Saw that today where the run game just wasn't working. Simon comes in and is able to get movement with the run game. Could simply be that Jerry isn't reading correctly and getting the line on the same page. I also wonder if they've fallen in love a bit too much going to the rpo with Jerry and are hamstringing the line a bit. RPO line has to worry about not getting downfield, whereas a dedicated run they can just put their nose down and bully the defense.

I agree with this, even prior to injury I would have preferred to see Simon in over JTJ in this kind of situation. JTJ was just flat inaccurate in the playtime he got during the season. Simon knows the offense and he did well in a high stress situation.

Crazy state of college sports with NIL poaching.

After a bit of reflection: the defense did what it's been doing most of the year and showed TT the best defense they'd seen all year. Their one score was just a broken coverage to the tight end. Other than that we pretty much locked up their wideouts and pretty sure their QB will be having nightmares about Rucker for awhile. The offense was atrocious. The playcalling was suspect, Jerry was wildly inaccurate, the decision making was not great, and was doing nothing to help out the running game. You hate to see a kid get injured, especially on a dirty hit, but it might have actually helped the offense in the second half. Romfo did nothing spectacular, nothing sexy, but what he DID do was make the right decisions. He got the offense checked into the correct audibles, he didn't turn the ball over or force it (other than that offside play), and he did enough via passing to help the run game. The two things that unlocked the offense were A. getting Ziebarth carries, and B. the outside pass. Just the quick receiver screen was enough to force the safeties to respect plays outside of the hashes and that opened up run lanes. That is the same things that Jerry was doing earlier in the season and why he was having success, do enough in the passing game to open up the run. Where Jerry's game excels over Romfo's is that he is more aggressive going downfield. That was leading to a lot of success when we had goodJerry reading the defense correctly but haven't had that in awhile with a plethora of badJerry games.

So long as we can keep the game out of being one-score difference in the 4th quarter we're solid.

With that game over, I really hope that's the last time that officiating crew takes the field. I also think they need to get reviewed for the Jerry hit.

Even getting sacks with the two's, Schmidt really has this defense going.

Came in, got the right audibles, did enough in the passing game. With today's defense that was more than enough. Heck, he should have had two more completions if they weren't dropped by receivers.

Also shows you just how much conferences matter in FCS.

That is a demoralized defense right there. A good run but that defense would've made that tackle in the first half.

The second. And more like Z and Brunell are just running the ball better right now.

The 11-1 record and high scoring offense looks good on paper.

It appears he's calling a better game because he's just handing it off to his bigger backs and they are getting north/south. That's all there really is to it.

Not gonna lie, this commentator is kinda hilarious.

Holy crap these refs are garbage. To me there was absolutely nothing conclusive about those replays to show he stepped out.

Welcome back Z!

Simon was always a game manager type qb. He's not gonna win you a game (except very rarely) but give him a running game and he knows what to do with it.

Wiltshire is feasting

4th quarter should be a steady dose of 28 and 21. Just power it down the field.

If that was supposed to be a back shoulder throw to 3 it was there if it didn't get tipped.

Lance Rucker is a man among boys.