That spring schedule didn't seem to wear down the Bearkats, who'll enter the playoffs on a 21-game winning streak. 1 seed in the 24-team playoff field announced Sunday.
Still, it's tough to say it was a threat to the fall season when Sam Houston - which won the 2020 FCS title (despite it being played in the spring of this year) - is the No. It seemed half-baked at the time, and the Mocs weren't the only ones who felt that way. You can certainly argue if there should have been a spring season. Wright never really seemed to want to play it, and because he didn't, the players sort of fell in line and midway through it, they all just up and quit.
So as Wharton stood there, his jaws clinched, his facial expression somewhere between numb and seething, one couldn't help but wonder if he was silently thinking, "We quit on the spring season for THIS?"īecause when you walk out on last spring's COVID-necessitated schedule because you don't want to jeopardize putting your best foot forward for the fall, then go out and lose your opener in this same Finley Stadium to Austin Peay, then drop your final two in rather listless offensive fashion at Mercer and to The Citadel, a lot of questions are worth asking.Įspecially when you're Wharton, and you had envisioned the spring season as a way to generate desperately needed dollars only to have football coach Rusty Wright and his team view it otherwise. Instead, The Citadel - a Southern Conference foe that had begun the day with a 2-5 league mark - was about to shock the Mocs 24-21, ending all dreams of an FCS playoff bid and cementing a 6-5 final record. Out on Davenport Field, the final minutes were disappearing on a colossally disappointing UTC football season, especially given the championship hopes it had fostered through the summer. No one seemed bold or daring enough to enter his private space and he didn't seem the least bit interested in inviting anyone in. It was as if the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletic director had an invisible 10-foot force field around him. Mark Wharton was all alone as he stood behind Finley Stadium's west end zone late Saturday afternoon.
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