We should probably keep the coach around for another 2 years, when we can look for major production from next year's juniors & maybe even 13 healthy scholarship players on the roster. We also in 2 years might see who he uses when he doesn't have Crisman as a starter.

What's wrong with Keke?

This is why most large conference schools start their season nursing their new players along with a string of home games. Against D-I competition, we're currently 1-0 at home, 0-4 on the road, and 1-1 at neutral sites. Despite our injuries, illnesses, and short-handedness so far this season, in every road game we've held second-half leads of between 5 and 19 points. We've lost our four road games by 5, 6, 4, and 1 point in OT. It's totally imaginable that with similar team effort, spaced out differently, we could have won all four of the road games.

Most of our schedule was set before we got into the MVC, because Milwaukee (a replacement for a game against Bradley), Tennessee Tech, Mississippi State, Northern Illinois and Fordham are all a result of return games from previous seasons. Hopefully, we'll be able to rest up, get healthy, get some wins, and work some things out in the upcoming homestand against UIC, Campbell, and Northern Illinois. And then let's please never again go 4 weeks and six straight games without a home game against a D-I team.