In a vacuum, there was nothing wrong with last Saturday’s performance against TCU. We played hard and gave ourselves a chance against the #7 team in the country, and I think most would admit that’s more than they expected heading into the stadium.
The conflict comes when you zoom out a bit, and the story becomes our Mountaineers once again giving themselves a chance to win a big game, and once again failing to make the plays needed to get a win across the finish line. “Almost” has become the theme of the Neal Brown era, and it feels like the ceiling of this year’s squad is to almost but not quite beat the better teams in a wide open Big 12 conference.