I have to throw the BS card in here. You really need to stop making excuses for the way that the coaches gave up.
Do you really think that "pounding the rock" against a team who was weakest in its secondary was the way to go?
In the World Herald today, BC said that "We had chances, but we just didn't execute." Excuse me, had chances like what, when NU got the ball back with almost 3 minutes in the first half, he ran 3 straight run plays to run the clock? B.S.
Hell, even Frank the Tank would have tried to get a screen pass, or get on the corner with his qb.
He also contradicted himself by saying that "We did what we planned to do to win the football game. We knew that we could come in and run the football." (Yeah, for only 1.9 yds per carry? ) 2 sentences later-"Again, let me be very clear, we wanted to run the football, and in a tough environment llike this, it's a real challenge to do that."