While sad about Barnes departure, Cushman is a great choice for the program.  The players on both sides of the ball respect him.  6-4 seasons are not good enough at Augie and change will be good for the program.  Expect the first change will be the additon of an offensive coordinator with significant spread offense experience.  Good luck to Barnes---great record of producing great student athletes diring his entire tenure---things that last well beyond wins and losses.

Quote from: 79jaybird on October 05, 2009, 08:42:52 AM
Augie/Elmhurst

Could be summed up in a couple words for EC-  Missed opportunities.  Elmhurst had plenty of opportunities to win this game.  Holding Augie to 7 and then 14 points a half, the offense needs to reciprocate.  We dropped a sure TD at the 5 yd line when it was 7-3 and then missed an Int by the DE which would have been 7 when (I believe) it was 14-3.
Eventually any defense is going to crack when they are on the field THAT LONG a time. 
This is the first time all year I have seen dropped balls (our receivers had a horrible day), which cost us 14 points and many 3rd down conversions.

It was not as much Augie beat us  as we beat ourselves with poor execution.

Augustana gave up a total of 187 yards.  Perhaps the defense should get a little credit for helping "you" beat yourselves...