From start to finish this game was simply unfair.
1. First of all, there are too many rules. We kept committing penalties. Can't run into this guy. Too late to hit that guy. We moved too soon. We grabbed hold of somebody. Just too many damned rules.
2. Purdue was wearing black at night. How are you supposed to find a player dressed in all black at night? Last year we played at Iowa at night when they were wearing black and the same thing happened. Two years in a row just isn't fair.
3. Our best player can't play for us anymore. That makes me sad and I am sure it makes our players sad. It is hard to play at your best when you are sad.
4. We have not one - but TWO thousand yard rushers. We haven't sorted that out yet. We shouldn't have to play at night against guys wearing black jerseys until we have sorted that out.
5. Our quarterback is setting season records for passing yards. When you are trying to figure out where you are in the record book you have to do a lot of math in your head and that makes it difficult to keep track of where all your receivers are - not to mention the defenders who are all wearing black at night.
6. The fans were wearing black too. There were some red jerseys in the stands but it was hard to see them because of all the damned black. And they were yelling really loud which makes it hard to do math or find players who are wearing black or sort out your thousand yard rushers. Especially when you are sad.
7. But most of all it is the coaching. The Purdue coaches had clearly planned all week to do things that exploited our teams weaknesses . Our coaches didn't do that. In fact, they didn't even try to fix those weaknesses. It just doesn't seem fair.
8. I think we should play this game over. During the day. After we get over losing our best player and have learned all the rules and sorted our our two thousand yard rushers and maybe fixed some of our weaknesses and stopped doing math in our heads.
1. First of all, there are too many rules. We kept committing penalties. Can't run into this guy. Too late to hit that guy. We moved too soon. We grabbed hold of somebody. Just too many damned rules.
2. Purdue was wearing black at night. How are you supposed to find a player dressed in all black at night? Last year we played at Iowa at night when they were wearing black and the same thing happened. Two years in a row just isn't fair.
3. Our best player can't play for us anymore. That makes me sad and I am sure it makes our players sad. It is hard to play at your best when you are sad.
4. We have not one - but TWO thousand yard rushers. We haven't sorted that out yet. We shouldn't have to play at night against guys wearing black jerseys until we have sorted that out.
5. Our quarterback is setting season records for passing yards. When you are trying to figure out where you are in the record book you have to do a lot of math in your head and that makes it difficult to keep track of where all your receivers are - not to mention the defenders who are all wearing black at night.
6. The fans were wearing black too. There were some red jerseys in the stands but it was hard to see them because of all the damned black. And they were yelling really loud which makes it hard to do math or find players who are wearing black or sort out your thousand yard rushers. Especially when you are sad.
7. But most of all it is the coaching. The Purdue coaches had clearly planned all week to do things that exploited our teams weaknesses . Our coaches didn't do that. In fact, they didn't even try to fix those weaknesses. It just doesn't seem fair.
8. I think we should play this game over. During the day. After we get over losing our best player and have learned all the rules and sorted our our two thousand yard rushers and maybe fixed some of our weaknesses and stopped doing math in our heads.