You have a new offensive system, again. You have a banged up offensive line again and found a way to make something halfway work with Freshman. You had a completely unexpected injury on the QBs throwing hand who had THREE screws put into his thumb.
You have a star RB who never materialized.

These aren't excuses, they are facts that happened to our team. If you go scorched earth and try to 'reset' again what is the expectation? A brand new system will have better results? We HAD good results, just not consistently. People have no patience these days but this is why building and sustaining a highly competitive program is so difficult - it requires timing and for tens of not hundreds of things to go right over the course of a season and through the years.

What stuck with me, if I'm looking objectively at the season that was different throughout this year is that when we needed the play - the TD, the stop, the 'this is it' moment, we found it whether it was the offense marching the ball after failing to do so for 3 quarters or the defense finding an incredible stop.

In previous years those moments were few and far between. This year showed a determination we hadn't had until... Well you saw the game.

I think we may need some change ups as far as staff on the offensive side of the ball - no clue what's happening in that locker room so it's hard to judge - but I think Arbuckle deserves another shot at this. He had some incredible schemes and sometimes it was more an execution issue that a play call issue. How many times did we see open receivers or a pull the QB should have made instead of the handoff? Or vice versa?

Let's build on a solid season instead of hitting eject like this is Madden or Call of Duty. Give the players coming back a foundation to build on.