I like Kempt and really respect what he did because the season could of really gone down hill after the whole Park situation. I wonder though if the coaching staff realized his limitations early on and changed basically our whole gameplan for most of the season, by trying to chew up more clock, get the ball out asap to our receivers and swing passes rather than trying to score more. There wasn't many times on the field where I thought, wow that was a smart play by Kempt. He simply ran the play that was called. I think clearly when you score more points and score more often, your defense is on the field more but I think the coaches deserve the credit they got for what I believe was tayloring the offense around Kempts abilities and improving the defense by what we were doing on offense.
My other thing I wanted to touch on was Kempt's stat line from Saturday. It looks great, however he had 2 interceptions called back, another that was a jump ball in the end zone that could of been picked and the touchdown Lazard caught, really could of been intercepted. Seemed like he was playing 500. I do wonder if the wind on the field was different than normal due to the dip in the height of the bleachers in the end zone. Either way, his arm strength was limited but lets not get carried away with his stats. We caught some breaks.
All in all, I am happy that Kempt got to experience everything he did this year given his past. I am very excited moving into next year. It's crazy to believe how much fun having a good football team can be. For so many years, it's almost like it was just there, now for me personally when we are good and have a good season, it creates the same excitement as for our good basketball years.