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The problem with late game collapses comes from either 1. players just not good enough, 2. poor conditioning, 3. players choking, 4. coaches choking, or some combination of the 4. Can’t speak to Nebraska against ranked teams, but I suspect it was the players just weren’t good enough. YSU had good enough players against almost everybody through 3 quarters, so by my theory; it’s one or a combination of the last 3. My experience over the years says it was a combination of “running out of gas” (conditioning) and coaching “tightening up”. Hopefully the attacking style of D talked about and show a little bit in the spring game with have us more aggressive in the 4th quarter. They certainly seem committed to conditioning, and the roster is probably a little deeper this year. Unfortunately I don’t see any future stars on either side of the ball in the recruiting class. I hope the Nebraska experience of OK players, but just not quite “there” doesn’t become an issue at YSU.
Your thoughts?