The problem is, while that might work in the regular season, when teams only have a week or so to prepare for your uptempo offense, a team with enough talent, and enough time, will train and be able to hang tough for 60 minutes. You've said it yourself, your team doesn't have a ton of talent. Sure, sometimes hard work can overcome pure talent, but when pure talent works hard its almost impossible to beat.
This is what happened tonight.
Cam Newton, Nick Fairley and Co. were too talented and too prepared. They knew 2 months ago that they would possibly play you in the championship, and had all that time to at least begin conditioning for something like that. Not to mention the size advantage. Your aptitude for speed worked against you--all of your players are so small and have run off so much muscle that it's impossible for your D-line to overpower the O-line. Sure, you got Cam a couple of times, but they also busted right through YOUR O-line plenty of times, and without much resistance. Kudos to your O-line though.
Jeff Maehl was great, but needed to be brilliant. James was shut down.
Long story short, don't expect your system to place you at the top of the Pac-12, and the country, for long. Everyone will catch up. Including us. USC will be back.
And stop wearing that visor. It makes you look like a duck.
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