{"id":925193,"date":"2022-12-27T11:08:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=925193"},"modified":"2022-12-27T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T17:48:07","slug":"one-bad-very-bad-loss-shouldnt-ruin-south-alabamas-historic-2022-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/one-bad-very-bad-loss-shouldnt-ruin-south-alabamas-historic-2022-season\/","title":{"rendered":"One Bad, Very Bad Loss, Shouldn&#8217;t Ruin South Alabama&#8217;s Historic 2022 Season."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/Td83TL1sajM\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The loss to Western Kentucky in the New Orleans Bowl will not be an easy one to get over. But one bad loss, and it was very bad, shouldn\u2019t take away from South Alabama\u2019s sensational season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Alabama will need to put Western Kentucky\u2019s 677 yards of total offense behind them.&nbsp; Same goes for Austin Reed\u2019s 497 yards passing.&nbsp; Both school records for an opponent against the Jaguars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the Jags offense, that sputtered in the 1st Half, scoring only three points before coming alive in the 2nd half with three touchdowns.&nbsp; South Alabama averaging more than 166 yards per game on the ground, rushed for a grand total of 44.&nbsp; And that\u2019s against a Hilltoppers defense that allowed over 150 yards per game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, yes the New Orleans Bowl was bad for the Jaguars.&nbsp; Very bad.&nbsp; I believe the technical term is \u2018stinker\u2019.&nbsp; But once the team starts to look back on 2022, they should put their shoulders back, stick their chests out and smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time since joining FBS, South Alabama won 10 games.&nbsp; No small feat.&nbsp; Especially when you consider combining the \u201919, \u201920, \u201921 seasons they won 11 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transfer quarterback Carter Bradley set school marks for yards thrown (3,316) and touchdowns (28). \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8397034184478847\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- header new -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8397034184478847\" data-ad-slot=\"3886828057\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the season, Head Coach Kane Wommack continued to compliment the offense live as the most improved position group on the team.\u00a0 And it showed.\u00a0 Transfer running back LaDamian Webb rushed for over 1,000 yards (1,062) and set a school record 247 yards in the come-from-behind 38-31 win against Georgia Southern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And one more for the books. For the first time ever, South Alabama will have two former Jags suit up for the Senior Bowl; wide receiver Jalen Wayne and corner back Darrell Luter, Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you can plainly see, there were things to be excited about from the 2022 Jaguars\u2026but that\u2019s not all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The morning after the game, I hopped on the Opening Kickoff with Mark &amp; Lee to discuss the game.&nbsp; Mark wasn\u2019t wrong in his assessment about the Jags needing to take the next step due to coming up short in their biggest games of the season; UCLA, Troy and WKU. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But after I thought about it, the Jaguars won plenty of big games this season. South Alabama hadn\u2019t beat the Cajuns in Louisiana until 2022.\u00a0 The Jaguars found themselves down 21-7 in the 1st Quarter at Georgia Southern only to finish the game on a 31-10 run.\u00a0 And against Southern Miss in Hattiesburg, the Jaguars needed a pair of 4th quarter touchdowns for a 27-20 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while South Alabama may have been the better team and favored in those games, that hadn\u2019t stopped the Jaguars from losing those type of games before.\u00a0 The Jaguars have a reputation of winning games they shouldn\u2019t followed by inexplicable losses.\u00a0 That wasn\u2019t the case for the 2022 Jaguars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8397034184478847\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- header new -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8397034184478847\" data-ad-slot=\"3886828057\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>And plenty of reasons to smile looking ahead to 2023.&nbsp; Bradley and Webb both return as do wide receivers Devin Voisin and Caullin Lacy.&nbsp; Wayne &amp; Luter will have to be replaced, but based on what Wommack accomplished in the transfer portal last season, I see no reason why the Jags won\u2019t be picked to at least win the Sun Belt\u2019s West Division, if not the entire Sun Belt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the 2023 Jaguars meet or surpass their lofty expectations, it\u2019ll be the 2022 squad that will be remembered for turning the entire program around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019ll take awhile for them to shake off their bowl performance.&nbsp; And it probably should.&nbsp; Unless you\u2019re going to use motivation from the game to improve, there wasn\u2019t a whole lot of positivity coming from the Superdome via South Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That doesn\u2019t change the fact, 2022 was an historic season for South Alabama and should be treated as such.\u00a0 Even if the last game a was \u2018stinker\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8397034184478847\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- header new -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8397034184478847\" data-ad-slot=\"3886828057\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The loss to Western Kentucky in the New Orleans Bowl will not be an easy one to get over. 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