Last sunday morning streamofconsciouness rant

Well, that's a wrap, 4-8.  Another disheartening Pac12 loss riddled with stupid mistakes that once again dug a hole too deep.  Yes, it is nice that they don't give up and keep fighting, but if you do that from the outset, you can win the game sometimes. The team, especially the offense, was not in sync early and it was 14-0 before you could blink and it was not too long until 21-0. The defense was actually good enough to win, only giving up a few big plays, and only 3 second half points, but the offense could not convert when necessary, due to lack of execution but also terrible play-calling by Brian Lindgren.  The Buffs ran eight "and goal" plays from inside the 5 yard line and came away with 3 total points.  Their offensive line is not good enough to just smashmouth it in yet they keep calling Powell up the middle in those situations on first and second, setting up an obvious 3rd down pass.  Sefo had his worst day overthrowing everyone on the longer balls and fumbling twice with an INT. His receivers didn't help much with seemingly everyone letting a ball go through their hands; P-Rich literally dropped a an easy, perfectly placed pass with no one in three yards of him that would have changed the complexion of the game early.  As usual whenever they made a big play, whether it was Chido's strip and Gilbert recovery, the Spruce throwback to Sefo, the onsides kick, and Gillam's pick to give them 1st and goal at the 5 (followed by 3 runs with an incomplete on 3rd down) and Hall's fumble recovery (drive to 9 and kick FG).  After some awful play early (TE Jake Murphy was destroying them without much effort) the defense substituted almost the entire secondary with Tedric Thompson and Marques Mosley coming in at safety and Jeff Hall at corner (Orms injured early for sad ending to Buffalo Heart winner's career and then Bell finally benched along with friggin' Crawley),  The defense tightened and gave the team a chance but the offense and coaches could never repay them. When they got the fumble recovery late the offense drove down inside the 5 again, only to settle for a FG, instead of going for the TD, but "keeping within 2 scores-TD, 2-pt and FG.  Big whoop, especially since they turned around and gave up a FG to make it 2 TD difference again.  With a little over 7 minutes to go in the game, down 21-7, 4th and 3 at midfield...and they punt. Everyone then got so excited for Darragh's pin inside the 5 but it didn't matter for Utah-all they had to do was call a few running plays and take some time off the clock, which they did.  By the time the Buffs got the ball back, there was not really enough time to score twice. Even when they got the TD and tried an onside kick again, it failed and there just wasn't enough time left, even with getting one more defensive stop. There is not enough talent on the field to make decisions like that. Is the goal to win the game, or just stick around as long as possible?  You do gotta love that Sr. Scooter Fernandez had a huge day at TE and closed his career in style.  Year in Review, Recruiting Update and a Look Ahead coming in the next couple of weeks.