Just win....I learned a long time ago that very few [except places like this site] remember much other than whether it was a win or loss. Players take less stock on the point difference, they just enjoy the team W. If we can win a non league by 1 point, I call that a goal achieved. Maybe, a sign of much more work to be done, but a win. I know this will not be a popular view, but it's mine. "Fire Away"
I learned long ago, and feel it has worked well, to look at things long-term, big picture. So tolfbfan is absolutely right, for now we just need to win a game. Then win another. Then another. JUST WIN! Maybe as the program progresses we can expect to win BIG, but for now, just get a win. Football has so many variables, we could beat UNI by 3 points and then beat Iowa by 17. So for that first game, it really doesn't matter the point differential, just beat them.
ESPN replayed the Penn State/Ohio State game today or yesterday I forget, but Penn State blocked a punt and it was such a freak one in a million play. The Penn State guy got blocked off to the side and was in no position to block the punt, so all he could do was lean over and stick out his hand to the side. But it just so happened that the punter kicked the ball forward directly into that little 6 inch square box of space occupied by that hand even though it was not all that close to the punter. Penn State wins the game.
So that is what I mean, there are so many random circumstances and chance events in a football game. Heck, Nebraska might turn the ball over to ISU eight times in one game.... Oh, wait, that actually happened (2009)! So as tolfbfan says, let's all just be satisfied September 2 with a W, however we come by it.
