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RedHawks haven’t lost hope or confidence, yet
By Pete Conrad
Judging from the demeanor of the Miami RedHawks following their 16-6 loss at Michigan last Saturday, the players and coaching staff still have a relatively high level of enthusiasm despite their 0-2 record, the third time in the last four years Miami has lost its first two games.
Place-kicker Nathan Parseghian, for one, remains upbeat.
“We still have all of our goals ahead of us — winning the (Mid-American Confidence), beating Cincinnati, going to a bowl game,” he said.
Head coach Shane Montgomery is saying pretty much the same thing as his team prepares for Charleston Southern, a team from Division I-AA or the Football Championship Series or the Football Subdivision or whetever the heck those second-tier teams are called nowadays.
But he knows that enthusiasm won’t last forever without some victories to back it up. He knows it, the players know it, we all know it.
“We need a win in the worst possible way,” he said, “because it sort of validates what you do each day.”
The RedHawks do need to win Saturday in the worst possible way. If they want to keep their goals — and a winning season, I assume, are among them — they need to beat Charleston Southern and they need to win convincingly. They need to score a handful of touchdowns. One touchdown every two games just doesn’t make it.
This could be a break-out game for the RedHawks. Or it might simply break them.
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