Yeah, it was a bad loss. But (a), if Vegas knew about the injury report ahead of time, there's no way we would have been favored, and (b) all the fanbase and media nonsense about RU being special this year was way, way, way overblown. We were never special. We were looking to be competitive with just about everyone we played as long as we didn't have injuries to key players. And yeah, we have injuries to a bunch of key players.
It was fair to say the schedule was easier than in prior years. But that doesn't mean it is an easy schedule at all. It was never an easy schedule.
It was fair to say we had a lot of returning starters. But that doesn't mean much when most of them are injured.
It's far to say KM is a great RB. But that doesn't mean anything if the OL cannot run block - and in the past two games, they mostly could not run block.
Anyway, I'm not defending Schiano's coaching for the game. When you lose that bad, you can shake your finger at the entire locker room because it was everyone, coaches, players, training staff, etc.
But I am defending his (and every other coach's) postgame press conferences after a bad loss. I'll never understand what fans expect a coach to say, as if saying anything at all will make it better. Most of whatever a coach says in most press conferences is BS anyway so who cares what they say.
What coaches say is almost entirely meaningless. What they do is what matters.
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