I know he missed some passes deep but come on. He was pressured all night and was sacked 8 times…..he had no running game and only one reciever who has the ability to get open….i know everyone is pissed but JP did a great job for us all season and you hang him out to dry after just one game.

Wilson can’t be blamed at all for last night. Like Bammer said, he missed a few deep passes sure, but it was like watching the ‘05 line the way the Utes were shredding through. Sam Bradford or Colt McCoy couldn’t have done anything with that protection.

but they are a whole different level of quarterback, and in a whole different pass offense philosophy. That said, yeah, I can’t blame Wilson.

an embrassment to lose to Utah. I think we played our worst game which sometimes does happen in a bowl game since you have so much time off etc. We learned some lessons last year from some bad losses like ULM & MSU and the lessons we learned helped us win 12 straight. Hopefully besides lossing we will learn something to help us next year when hopefully we are back in BCS Bowl.

By the way, JPW was not the reason we lost and GM would not have done any better. Star Jackson might have been more mobile but you can’t take off the redshirt on him when we are down 21 pts. in bowl game. We just are not very deep on the line RIGHT NOW- next year our O line will be deeper.

And, we did lose a game, but it was not a title game. We will finish #6 or #7 and that is the best we have done in a long, long time.

Thanks for riding the bandwagon train! I am sure we will see you again next time Bama wins. Utah is a dang good team. Everything 5026 and Nico said I echo. Wilson is not a game changer, but don’t get mad now that we needed that and blame him. The kid can only live up to his talents and abilities. We will be fine, heck, we are 5 games better this year than a lot of people thought. Watch out for us next year. I am excited.

…by your comments, makvic, than I am by anything MY team did Friday night. We did not play well and we were playing a damn good team that you have to play well to beat. We won some games this year even though we did not play well because those teams were nowhere near the team that Utah is. I am not embarrassed by losing to a good team. I am upset that we came out flat and looked unprepared in the first quarter. We won quite a few games this year by scoring big first and the other teams had too much to overcome. The shoe was on the other foot this time. Our O-line was not itself and John Parker is not to blame for that. Nor should he have had to come out of such a big hole that our much touted D put us in. John Parker kept fighting to bring us back. He did not give up til the game was over and I appreciate those efforts. I am proud of this team AND our coaches even though the season finale was not what I had hoped it would be.

I bet Gator fans who paid their money to travel to see the Ole Miss game this year were saying the same thing in the days following that loss too! All of the same old stuff about it being a business, but now I bet they are glad they actually witnessed a loss! It is all a part of CFB and part of a GAME—-somebody just has to lose.

Maybe, in the future, we can look back at this game as a turning point for these under classmen. Maybe they will decide they never want to feel like that, ever again. Hopefully the coaches can continue to help them want to be champions, as they did for the majority of the games, moments this year!

If you had paid to see every game, I don’t think you could really complain about not getting your money’s worth this year. Even with the SB and SECCG included. You pay your money for your ticket knowing there is a chance your team will lose on any given Saturday, and this team came out on top 12 out of 14 times.

All that being said, I believe “bandwagon” may have been used b/c you claim to be a “long time Bama fan,” yet you say that after typing in the words National Embarassment. I cannot see myself ever using those words about this team. Maybe if they had gone out there and ……….no, I really cannot even envision a situation where I would use that phrase about this team. So, you see, you could have been watching games for 30 years with me and still would have been called “bandwagoneer” with terminology like that, I do believe.

I didn’t agree with was the call to kick a feild goal instead of going for a 4th and 2(I think it was) late in the game.

La Tech, now that was a national embarrassment. We lost to an undefeated Utah team that had something to prove, and they did. We had one distraction after another, the media and fans talking about not if we would win, but by how much. With remarks like I hope we can get our subs in at the end of the game. How would you expect any other team to play? We got our butts kicked, the end!
Am I embarrassed, NO. Emabarrassing is being a barner and seeing what you’re program has become from the top down. Embarrassing is being a UcheaT fan and losing to Wyoming, and having had at least enough since to get rid of fat phil.
Come now, many of you may not remember losing to Louisville 34-7 in a bowl game, but I do. Bowl games are just the end of the year unless you are in the MNC game. This will just be a memory come next spring, and when the footballs start flying and the pads start smacking, we will all say “Sugar Bowl, that was last year”.