I wonder how this happened

[MIHawk]

I think teams prepare differently with a month to prepare for a bowl game. Stanford really did there homework on us and the fact they had been there 3 of the last 4 years took away much of that overwhelming feelings you get with a bowl trip.

Kirk 3.0 needs to examine his bowl prep our team was totally unprepared mentally to play that game just like last year.

I've been saying this all over the place. Our bowl prep has been terrible the last several years. We will be judged by our games against top non-conference opponents. KF needs to figure it out.

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

im not an X's and O's guy and never even played football. But it's hard to logically c how this could have been such a glaring mismatch. Even if u ignore the fact that we smoked a northwestern team that beat Stanford. Maybe that game was a fluke. But we beat two teams on the road (wisky and nebbie) that beat pac 12 teams in a bowl. And we played pretty even with an msu team that beat OSU.

Maybe we just caught our opponents at the right time, with injuries, suspensions, etc. and maybe the injury bug just finally caught up to us

And I do realize that it was a matchup of 2 stars vs 4-5 stars, but really we didn't look like a 2 star team for most of the season.

That game looked like a d1 team vs a high school team. Just hard to c how we so utterly overmatched in all 3 phases of the game when we had such a solid first 13 games against a lot of bowl caliber teams

On the positive side, we should not have big heads going into next year as the Hawks try to repeat (or improve on) their success from this past year......unlike 2009-2010.

Hopefully.....please?