Except that they stopped Tulane twice on third down to begin the game and the refs spotted the ball incorrectly both times to give the Green Wave 2 undeserved
first downs allowing them to possess the ball for almost all the first quarter. The second first down was directly down the line from where I was sitting and was not close to the line to gain. For whatever reason, they reviewed and moved the ball forward. The first first down was so obvious, Tulane was busting their asses to get off a play before WE could call for a review. So our defense was on the field most of the first quarter because the refs were Bozos. Of course, they wore down as the game proceded.
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I want to go back and watch the game on tv and look at the replays……but I just can’t stomach it.
I’m glad someone else saw that. I haven’t been able to make myself watch the broadcast yet, but it was obvious in the stadium.
I also wish this team had the discipline and composure to overcome crap like that.
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From my vantage watching the ESPN broadcast, I honestly thought the call after the review was correct. Forward progress appeared to end directly on the first down line. Commentators specifically mentioned that the line visual is not official, but it was accurate in that instance. The ball appeared over (above) that line to me.
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One cardinal rule of being a Niner (and really most sports teams) is you have to be good enough to win despite the refs. How about don’t go and obviously headbutt another player after they handed you a 15-yard PI call that would have put your team in the red zone and with nice momentum. I can’t complain too much about bad spots when crap like that is happening.
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The jawing/headbutt/penalty is the one that kills me.
Total lack of dicipline and control !
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And negated a pass interference call on them!
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The Commish had a buono time!
I didnt feel like we really had a chance or the refs beat us here. I do think the memphis game would have gone our way if the refs gave us just one or two obvious holding calls against them but oh well.
Tulane is solid, they were wearing us down the first half. You could see things would open up for them in the 2nd half from a mile away.
I do not expect to lose vs USF or UAB. I really think well win comfortably in both of those matchups. FAU scares me though, that will be a coinflip. Watching their game now reminds me of us. They keep beating themselves, they could be up by 3 TDs at least by half and its still a very close game.
Winning is tough in college football especially for Charlotte. No pushovers left on the schedule every team left has decent enough players.
USF scares me, we’ll be 7-10 point dogs against them. They’re obliterating FAU now, I’d hope though after last year’s embarrassing performance against them we’ll be highly motivated. FAU I think is more of a 50-50 game. UAB we should be favored.
If we can’t beat USF at home on homecoming we don’t deserve to bowl anyway, the schedue this year really sucks for us, don’t know how we got 3 top 4 teams in the conf in a row… I do worry if we lose the USF the team will pretty much give up and then who knows how the FAU or UAB games will go.
Historically, we play lousy on homecoming.
Fixed that for you.
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The talent gap was way to much against Tulane. They were deep in skill and fast players all over the field. They are loaded with athletic DB’s, the reason they have 6 pick 6’s on the year.
Their offensive line is quite impressive as well, their pulling lineman were making blocks all over the field. There is another twitter highlight somewhere where one of their OL when we had them on the goal line drove our DL guy 20 yds off the line.
They have a lot of guys that they have developed directly out of HS, which gives them the depth on the roster.
Their coach said they kept the game plan very simple due to the short week, clearly they didnt want to show much or need to.