Kirby isn't losing this team for crying out loud. Good Lord Scooby.
And wasn't the game on CBS, not ESPN?
I've refrained from speaking much about this game because it's already been said. I'm not going to start now.
I thought the AJC article was spot on that said the heartbreaking loss overshadowed a LOT of improvement on this team. If we hadn't been burned on that last play, I can guarantee you that everyone would be heaping praise on the coaching staff and talking about how well they made adjustments in practice. Football is a game of inches, not yards. This time, we were just a few inches short of blocking that downfield miracle. It happens. It's heartbreaking. It's the SEC.
From my chair, I saw a team that looked a hell of a lot better than the team I saw last week in Oxford, and the week before that against Mizzou, and the week before that against Nicholls.
I have no time, ZERO time, to sit around and debate people about this coaching staff. It's been said once, it's been said too damn many times, this is not our year. Should we have won the game? You bet. But we didn't. We know what the weak links are. Kirby knows what they are and he's not making excuses. I was so happy to hear him say "I'm not about moral victories." We call that no BS. Owning up to what the problem is, not trying to candy coat it with the feel good anesthetic of "moral victory."