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Source: Tulsa World, Okla.迷你倉價錢Sept. 07--Head coach Bill Blankenship fears his team may have believed its press clippings. Assistant head coach Denver Johnson mulled the possibility that some players had felt entitled.If last week's 34-7 loss at Bowling Green shows the University of Tulsa football team one thing, it's that they're probably not as good as they thought they were -- or as bad as they looked.That kind of loss should remove any sense of entitlement."You do worry about that coming off a very successful year," Johnson said. "There's a certain comfort or complacency, maybe, that sets in and maybe you kind of take it for granted, like, 'That's how it's gonna happen.' "Everyone dreads it. No one wants to believe it. But coaches at every level fight it."We have really good hindsight," Blankenship said, "but it's hard to have foresight."Now, with Colorado State in town intent on giving the Golden Hurricane an 0-2 start, what does TU do about it?Oklahoma and Iowa State are up next, so Saturday's 6 p.m. home game against the Rams is pretty close to a must-win game.Quarterback Cody Green took some heat this week for his uneven performance at Bowling Green, but Blankenship and his staff insist defeat was a total team effort.Look no further than the TU offensive line to substantiate that.With three new starters up front, the Golden Hurricane needed a consistently efficient blocking effort against the Falcons, but didn't get it. Game-breaking running backs Trey Watts and Ja'Terian Douglas, who averaged 6.0 and 6.8 yards per carry last season while rushing for 152 yards per game and 10 touchdowns, managed only 2.0 and 1.8 yards per carry against BGSU, respectively, and never got close to the end zone. The longest run by either man was 7 yards. Green also couldn't get any space when he ran the football.Bowling Green returned eight starters from a defense that ranked sixth nationally in 2012. So give credit where credit is due."They're good," said Johnson, who coaches TU's offensive line. "Not to take anything away from Bowling Green, but we should have played a different ballgame. And had we played a different ballgame, I think the outcome probably would have been different."At 34-7, that sounds unlikely at first. But it was only 6-0 at halftime, and Tulsa had left 13 points off the board with missed field goals and a red zone fumble.Guards Jake Alexander and Stetson Burnett are Tulsa's only full-time returning starters on the offensive line. Center Gabe Moyer previously had five car迷你倉er starts, left tackle Garrett Stafford had two and right tackle Davis Walton is a newcomer with a year in redshirt and two in junior college. Experience isn't plentiful, but it's certainly not nonexistent.If the O-line had gotten the running game going, maybe Green feels a little more comfortable and doesn't miss those open receivers. Maybe kicker Carl Salazar is relaxed and hits those field goals.In any case, Johnson didn't push the self-destruct button for this week's game against Colorado State. The same five guys will start again, he said. That's a good thing, Blankenship said."I feel as well as I did before that it's the right guys," Blankenship said. "I think there may be a little more of a learning curve than what we were hoping."Said Johnson, "We had kind of expanded our offense a little bit, and I think there was a little bit of confusion, which causes you to play hesitant sometimes. Some of it was technical. And sometimes you've just got to tip your hat to (Bowling Green). Their interior linemen were good players."So there it is.Saturday night against CSU, Tulsa will simplify a few blocking schemes, Watts and Douglas will find some running lanes, Green will relax and hit his receivers and maybe even Salazar will split the uprights.Johnson said "we were as shocked as anybody" about last week's result, but looking back said maybe he should have seen it coming."I never got a feel that we had a great sense of urgency against Bowling Green, which we should have," Johnson said. "Johnson, a veteran of 28 college football seasons, looks at the early turnover and two missed field goals as a perfect teaching tool to move forward."I think what guys don't realize is, you come off a great year like (2012), you were probably six or eight plays away from being .500. That's any given year," he said.Blankenship recalls a similar scenario last season, when TU lost 38-23 at Iowa State in the opener, then simply got better each week en route to seven consecutive wins, an 11-3 record and a Conference USA championship."We weren't very good in the offensive line after Week 1 (last season)," Blankenship said. "But we've got great coaches and really smart young men that learn how to play. They're gonna continue to grow and gel and I'm confident coach Johnson will get them to play well."Read John E. Hoover's blog at tulsaworld.com/johnehooverCopyright: ___ (c)2013 Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) Visit Tulsa World (Tulsa, Okla.) at .tulsaworld.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存