Ault...refused to blame the loss on anything but poor football...
"They out-played us. They out-coached us. They did an excellent job."The Pack also flat out gave up.
Neither the team, the staff, nor Ault himself (least of all), showed any tenacity in this game. As is now famous in all of Wolf Packdom, on November 2, 1991 the Ault and the Wolf Pack lead the fans on the wild ride what would become the greatest comeback in NCAA history...midway through the third quarter. In Hawai'i on Thursday it was clear that nobody believed, nobody cared, nobody was willing to try...after just the first drive of the second half.
Eventually Nevada found itself poised to score, and facing 4th down on the SMU 4 yard line the Pack elected to kick for 3 rather than attempt one last push. This does not show the grit and/or tenacity of a champion or champions: this was desperation; desperation to save any kind of face, however small it may be.
And the buck stops with Ault.
This proves that Ault-cubed is not in the right place at the right time; he does not have the proper instrument at exactly the right point in history; and the Wolf Pack does not have the leader for the 21st century. They gave up the game early, never finding the heart or the swagger to do anything about it, and when they finally had an opportunity to show some mettle they responded by 'backing out as gentlemen,' taking the easy road.
Throughout the season a number of us in fandom almost started to believe again through the 8-0 run that was the middle of the season. There were some hiccups, but by and large it began to appear that the Pack was getting its proverbial 'stuff' together; that Nevada had yet a chance to make some real noise. Now we know that, like a school-yard bully, the Pack was able to pick on and pound the smaller and weaker of the playground mercilessly (it was also nice of the Pat Hill Choke Train to arrive right on schedule this season...that helped, too), but can't keep up with the 6th graders at all. This time they ran into the bathroom and hid until the bell rang.
Ault is a much older man now: this may not have been where he was ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, but it is where he is now.
Ault sees himself as...
but really he's more of a...
except in big games where he turns into...
Why should we have expected a different result? This was a "big game" and Ault can't win those . . .
ReplyDeleteI am so tired of Ault but I have a funny feeling that in typical Reno fashion nothing will happen to him. He will continue to control the athletic decisions made at the school since he is Groth's puppet master. He will continue to drain the life out of UNR football and once he has done that he will blame it on someone or something else. What do we have to do to get this guy out of here? I mean seriously what do we have to do?
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