The whole offensive side of the ball lacks experience, from the coaches to the players. Overall I think we will be fine in the long run, just going to be growing pains this year. 14 points against a Grinch defense is pathetic. Everyone talks about what a great defensive mind Grinch is, he made his name with one year of the "spead D', and even they got shredded a few times. There were about 1/2 dozen plays, due to penalties, or dropped balls that would have changed this game, the Cougs got screwed on a lot of calls, from the PI, to the interception that was taken away, to some holding calls and targeting. Penalties is not an excuse, and a good team will over come the issues, and not let it bother them, a team that lack experience at all levels doesn't and that showed up today.
Everything had to go the Cougs way in order to win this game, and for about 10 minutes in the 2nd quarter it did, for the other 50 it didn't. I just hope they can patch up the line, and RB situation and find a way to beat Oregon State. Next weekend is the difference between 8-9 wins, or 6 or less. How they rebound from this SC loss will tell us how much this team can grow from a bad experience.