Henduster,
First of all I have to say the UD football team has my respect as do the their fans that I had the pleasure to speak to in Frisco.
I based my comments on the post game comments Coach Keeler made during a press conference. He vigorously criticized the officials for the spot of the ball. He indicated it was clear to him that Mario Brown had not advanced the ball far enough to make a first down and that this "bad spot" was the cause of the UD loss. First of all I disagree with his conclusion that the spot was wrong, from what I saw the ball indeed a foot past the down marker. Secondly, blaming the officials for the loss is wrong, the hens could have stopped us from scoring but they didn't. Additionally he had plenty of time to score after our third touchdown but couldn't. Thirdly, most conferences have rules regarding public criticism of officials but either the CAA doesn't have or enforce these rules or Keeler thinks the rules don't apply to him. Not once during the press conference did he either take responsibility for their loss other than to say "we should have put more points on the board earlier in the game", or give credit for the EWU win to the superior performance of the Eagles.
I honestly believe that his comments made him sound as if he felt that the mighty Blue Hens were entitled to the win and how dare the officials make such an egregious error giving the lowly EWU Eagles the win.
You may be right, perhaps it was just his ego talking, but out here in the polite Pacific Northwest we consider comments such as his to be a sign of a person who lacks character. A person in his position should be a humble winner and a gracious loser.
