It's football.  It's punching and being punched.  IU brought the attitude and UO did not match it.  That is on coaching.  That pick 6 should have been a momentum changer, but it never materialized.  

Nothing lost here big picture, the RU game will demonstrate how this coaching staff will pick this team off the mat.  Margin of error smaller, but a one loss B1G team makes the playoff.  

A real bright spot was the punting game.  Kudos to the ST coaching for their schemes and finding the talent to execute.

Orygun303 wrote:

Will Stein had a very subpar coaching game. 3rd and long screen passes against good teams just don't work. Was just shaking my head. Stein play calling completely vanilla like Marcus Arroyo from the Taggart/Cristobal era. Sadly, I don't see him evolving after three seasons.

I'm on the record here in this forum as not being particularly a fan of either coordinator, especially Lupoi.  Dude is simply not a master technician in reading film and scheming, he relies on his 4-5* athletes to make up for that.  Stein to the same degree, his deficiencies masked in the past by Nix/Gabriel, who were seasoned veterans that knew when to adjust on a well covered or broken play.  These guys are easily outcoached when the playing field is even, witness the last two Duck losses as evidence.  

That said and repeated, these are the guys on the staff and they are not going anywhere unless promoted to HC at another program.  They are ours.  And I will take the level of success with these dudes over what programs like PSU or both OSUs are going thru.