10-31-2011, 07:33 AM
Pete, that must have been a heck of a game experience :)
Wildcat with 4-5 min left in the game was terrible. Going PAT wasn't clearly worse than going for two. Did you see how gassed the U$C team was? Woods managed to contribute even though he had to be helped off the field after his last touchdown. Dion Bailey leaving allowed Fleener to snag that +2 conversion. McNeal's fatigued arms allowed Stephens to force that fumble. The team must have seen the weakness and gone after them.
I don't think USC's players are unheralded at all. They may have played terribly in other games, but a lot of these guys were four or five star recruits coming out of high school. They thought that they'd be playing for a program of Stanford's current stature when they committed to U$C. It doesn't make them weaker or less athletic that their W/L record, which only had one loss--Arizona St.--before failing an endurance test against Stanford. This is not a bad team, which means this was a great win.
Wildcat with 4-5 min left in the game was terrible. Going PAT wasn't clearly worse than going for two. Did you see how gassed the U$C team was? Woods managed to contribute even though he had to be helped off the field after his last touchdown. Dion Bailey leaving allowed Fleener to snag that +2 conversion. McNeal's fatigued arms allowed Stephens to force that fumble. The team must have seen the weakness and gone after them.
I don't think USC's players are unheralded at all. They may have played terribly in other games, but a lot of these guys were four or five star recruits coming out of high school. They thought that they'd be playing for a program of Stanford's current stature when they committed to U$C. It doesn't make them weaker or less athletic that their W/L record, which only had one loss--Arizona St.--before failing an endurance test against Stanford. This is not a bad team, which means this was a great win.