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Player post game interviews

For perspective, some post game interviews. They seem to have a good healthy perspective (credit to the coaches and team chemistry/culture). Have to say AK and Ellis Brooks really seem like leaders.

Hand Wringing therapy: 1) Best possible loss 2) All goals still intact 3) Possible rematch

From my viewpoint, this game was the one loss we could afford and still make the playoff. 1) We lost to the #3 team in the country away after our QB was taken out of the game. 2&3) Beat OSU, Michigan, Michigan State and Iowa (in the championship game) and we’re in. In other words we still control our destiny. There fixed it for you now go back to your lives.

And please, no one knows the extent of Clifford’s injury so until we do, don’t.

Who honestly thought we could win without Clifford before the season started?

Granted, he had a lot of issues last year, but what realistic alternative did we have going into the season? It was sink or swim with him because it was definitely sink without him. We had little to no experience behind SC and that weakness got exposed yesterday.

You can't make kids portal to us and we can't keep them from leaving. It was tough luck that the coaching staff couldn't land a QB through the portal, but it is what it is. Can only hope SC can make it back or the rest of the season is lost.

Things we should know

1. The running back “room” has been incredibly overrated,

2. The tight end room has been overrated.

3. The OL has been overrated.

4. Sean Clifford may not be an elite quarterback, but he is certainly better than average.

5. Those of us, including me, who thought this looked like one of the least talented teams of the past ten years were wrong. The defense can dominate games with five outstanding players.

6. You live and die by the portal. Without AK and DT the defense has holes. Without at least an average backup quarterback on the roster this team was facing disaster.

7. Iowa had almost everything go their way yesterday. Field position, turnovers, and injuries. It still took them until a few minutes left in the fourth quarter to win. This despite an historically terrible game played by the backup quarterback and poor coaching that led to an incredible number of false starts by the OL.

8. The top teams in the B1G are tOSU, PSU "when Clifford is healthy", Michigan, Iowa, Michigan State in that order. When Clifford can't play PSU is no better than fifth or sixth.

9. If insanity is defined as doing something over and over again and expecting a different result, then the Franklin lovers are insane. A team that is unable to beat rated teams on the road better than PSU is not elite, and by CJF standards that is what we have to be to be successful.

10. Does anyone look at the roster and expect that next year this team will challenge for the Top Ten?

11. Iowa should drop in the ratings, despite beating us.

I think this Navy Captain deserves a medal

I suspect that he won't get one- and worse, that he'll be fired as soon as this is out of the public eye- I hope I'm wrong.

'He must have felt like that was the only recourse': Captain of coronavirus-stricken carrier issues urgent plea to Pentagon for help'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/he-must-...gent-plea-for-help-to-pentagon-154520796.html

OT: “ The Atlantic” magazine article: “The New Puritans”

By Anne Applebaum. It’s a must-read. As far as I’m personally concerned, it speaks for itself.

I’m a mathematician, and it’s been a luxury to have been able to avoid hot-button issues in my everyday working life. Max Dehn: “Mathematics is the only instructional material which can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.” In 38 years in the classroom I brought up politics three times. It’s a luxury. Anyway, this is an important article. It’s behind an x-free-articles-a-month paywall, but I was able to access it.

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