When I arrived home Saturday evening from this debacle, my hands still
chilled into claw shapes from sitting in rain with temperatures in the mid-50s,
my wife said, "I told the kids you'll be in a bad mood." Nope. I never
react to dire situations with anger, because when things hit the fan, you have
to stay cool, not pitch a temper tantrum. And a loss to JMU qualifies as a dire
situation.
This isn't a missed opportunity against a top-ten team. This is the exact
opposite, a home loss to a 1-AA school. What this means, and what will happen
next, can't be plumbed at this point. All I can do is tell you what went wrong
Saturday, and what it tells us about where we are right now. Projecting beyond
that is just guesswork.