season. Many of you are whining because you keep moving the goalposts as to what is a great season. Based upon last year, projections for this year, relative novices to Big XII play, taking on 8 P-4 games, etc., this was an outstanding and unexpected year.

To argue it was mediocrity is to be irrational in assessing the achievement. Coaching was good, not great. Many of the most egregious fails were due to less than great coaching decisions. The coaches were not great in getting disciplined and consistent play from some excellent raw talent. The Houston game was a vivid example, even though we won. The tackling was not good, many of our best receivers were dropping balls that were spot on, protecting the rock was absent. The game wasn't without great plays, but the sloppiness reduced the result from what it could and should have been. Frankly, looking at the coaches, they seemed a bit disconnected, not emotionally connected with the game itself.

This may all be true, but the shortcomings restrained the team from being great versus good; it wasn't a case of being mediocre versus good.

I'm proud of the coaches and team and do expect they'll learn the lessons and take it up a notch or two next year.