Wild crazy frustrating awesome game. Had a great time on a beautiful November evening. A perfect 6-0 at Oeden appears imminent (yes I am looking past Umass, they are awful).
Hats off to the students, really good turnout and a solid amount stuck it out 'til the end. This after what I thought was a great turnout for the basketball opener. The F Miami chants were loud, proud and well executed. Many painted chests, signs, etc. I have more hope about this current student fan base than I have in the last 15 years...Hope they keep it up. The excitement spilled uptown, several OU Oh Yeah chants.
The pass interference call was one of the most crushing and awful calls I can remember. It was a massive game changing call, and absolutely terrible.
But, on the game winner we had an extremely egregious hold as the throw was being delivered. Unforgivable for them to have missed it. So we call it even?
The facemask penalty was huge too, but not oly was it legit but it affected our opportunity to make a throw downfield as Parker was in the process of escaping as he so often does.
Parker looked off much of the night. No doubt poor protection at times, and poor routes / good coverage at other times...but how many times did he drop back and just not deliver the football? Seemed hesitant and timid. His incredible elusiveness was as present as ever though.
Very exciting win, but not exactly a performance that has us rolling with confidence going into WMU. The way we have performed on the road, it's going to be a difficult hurdle to clear.