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UCD football picks up the pieces
By Michael Mirer/Enterprise staff writer
Published Nov 01, 2006 - 19:45:38 CST.
It started to be all right on Tuesday, when the quarterbacks sat down in UC Davis coach Bob Biggs' office and began talking about some of the plays that the team might use this weekend. Before that, though, there were just the memories and frustrations of one of the most difficult losses in program history.
UCD allowed 15 unanswered points in the second half and lost 22-21 to South Dakota State, dropping out of the Great West Football Conference race. This emotionally taxing season will get no easier Saturday, when the Aggies welcome No. 5 North Dakota State to Toomey Field.
“The best way to get over it is to start game-planning for a new opponent,” UC Davis quarterback Jon Grant said Tuesday. “It was a tough weekend. It was probably the toughest loss of my life, to be honest. But you've got to move on. We've got three games left and we've got to defend the Toom.”
A conference championship had been a major part of the goals the Aggie team had set out before the season. This will be the first time in UCD's 26 conference seasons since 1971 that it won't be playing for a title during the final league game of the season.
Seeing that push end so suddenly was the most the difficult part of the loss to the Jackrabbits.
“This one ranked right up there with the Bloomsburg game,” said Biggs, referring to the 2000 Division II semifinals, when the heavily favored Aggies allowed 29 points in the fourth quarter to cost themselves a trip to the national championship game. “You just second-guess a lot of the decisions you make during the course of the game.” . . . (read more)
Go State!
UCD football picks up the pieces
By Michael Mirer/Enterprise staff writer
Published Nov 01, 2006 - 19:45:38 CST.
It started to be all right on Tuesday, when the quarterbacks sat down in UC Davis coach Bob Biggs' office and began talking about some of the plays that the team might use this weekend. Before that, though, there were just the memories and frustrations of one of the most difficult losses in program history.
UCD allowed 15 unanswered points in the second half and lost 22-21 to South Dakota State, dropping out of the Great West Football Conference race. This emotionally taxing season will get no easier Saturday, when the Aggies welcome No. 5 North Dakota State to Toomey Field.
“The best way to get over it is to start game-planning for a new opponent,” UC Davis quarterback Jon Grant said Tuesday. “It was a tough weekend. It was probably the toughest loss of my life, to be honest. But you've got to move on. We've got three games left and we've got to defend the Toom.”
A conference championship had been a major part of the goals the Aggie team had set out before the season. This will be the first time in UCD's 26 conference seasons since 1971 that it won't be playing for a title during the final league game of the season.
Seeing that push end so suddenly was the most the difficult part of the loss to the Jackrabbits.
“This one ranked right up there with the Bloomsburg game,” said Biggs, referring to the 2000 Division II semifinals, when the heavily favored Aggies allowed 29 points in the fourth quarter to cost themselves a trip to the national championship game. “You just second-guess a lot of the decisions you make during the course of the game.” . . . (read more)
Go State!