I was fooled. I was the classic victim of over-hyped, meaningless preseason “coach talk.” I had nearly convinced myself that Hafley would bring the program back — only for realization to come crashing down thanks to Rocky Lombardi and the Northern Illinois Huskies.
After a couple days of letting reactions from the game settle, nearly everything that went wrong was relatively predictable. Poor penalties, mental errors such as drops, and a general malaise and not being ready to play are things that we have seen before from Jeff Hafley’s BC teams. What I didn’t see coming? The situation at quarterback.