It’s sometimes hard to learn anything from games like Saturday’s, but here are a few things that I thought were worth mentioning..

The defense has a long way to go

"You think they look bad? It's 42-3!"

This was my friend's incredulous response to my bitching about our defense late in the 2nd quarter. He was not wrong, but before you take his side I encourage everyone to remember that East Carolina is bad. Like, really, really bad. This is not the pesky team that used to give us trouble in the mid-2000’s, this the team that finished 3-9 in Conference USA last year BEFORE losing their best player in a decade.