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When you rarely get beat it makes it tough when you do get beat. Our success, 2nd loss in 79 home games, our 12 in the last 10 seasons home and away. This loss shocked me for a couple reasons. Last year we had a great team that did not win it but was close and we returned a lot of the stars this year leaving myself and many fans thinking this would be one of the best teams we have had in years. I fully expected a 15-0 season with lots of running clocks but we have had none so far and we just got beat. Reflecting on this all the signs that we are not where I and many thought we would be have been there all along but I kept pushing those aside. After last night the reality of ignoring is no longer possible and we are not going to be that 15-0 team. This team obviously has the potential and we have a great staff that will most likely get this team to improve and I will still be shocked if they are anything less than state champs but we are not as far along as I had thought we would be. Last night we made some big mistakes that got us behind the 8 ball early and often and it got worse once McCracken smelled blood in the water. McCracken flat out took us behind the shed in pretty much all phases of the game and all you can do is now that its over is give them all the credit in the world, they were better. I listened to the coaches show this morning and Coach Morris told it like it was and said they would use this L to fix areas McCracken exposed. Morris said this might be in the end a good loss to learn where we need to get better and we have time to learn and improve. He gave all the credit to McCracken and I really liked the way he handled a rare situation for all us. I hope we can learn from this and for now I have re thought where we are. Many of us are victims of incredible success in the past and I really do not know how to lose very well. I really don't care for it, that is for sure.