To all the inpatient douchebags and doubters.... Rich Rod has won everywhere he has gone. He inherited walk on qb's, let alone ones that don't fit his system. The defense only appeared to suck as bad as they did because they spent 3/4 of the game on the field, often a short field after a turnover. We had numerous freshmen starters getting experience all year. We didn't catch a break all year...turnovers, kicking game, etc. Yes, some of this is coaching, some is inexperience, but also....some is just plain bad luck. As bad as it was, we easily could have been 6-6 by winning any 3 of these 4 winnable games (Utah, Toledo, NW, Purdue) All were close. With the experience from this year, and marginal improvements, (and we still play in the shitty Big Ten), we easily win 8 games next year. 3rd year = BCS year. Yes, this year sucked, and yes it was historically bad. But the circumstances relevant to this year (new coach, new system, bunch of talent gone to the NFL) are also historically unprecedented to this program. If you are one longing for more of the same...we probably could have gone 7-5 or 8-4 with Mallet at qb and Carr still coaching....as this team was not built for this year even in the old system. However, because the program was ready to progress into modern college football, we sacrificed a year of mediocrity for a year of crap. But I would argue that this was an extremely important year of crap....a big pile upon which the beautiful future of this program will be built. From motivation for the future to experience to expectation, this year was a necessary evil. Of course a 6-6 disappointment would have been much easier to swallow than 3-9, but to my point we really were close in a bunch of those games against the lesser teams on the schedule. Support the team and the coach as they deserve to be judged on more than one bad season. Next year will be much more enjoyable.