After a 32-point loss, it is only natural to go looking for scapegoats.
Five turnovers are a good place to start.
"Chalk it up to five turnovers," Murphy said. "When you turn the ball over against a quality opponent, this is the result you should expect. The turnovers put us behind the eight ball in field position from the start."
Chalk the loss up to turnovers, however, and you're oversimplifying the game.
Turnovers didn't lose this game.
Inexperience and a tough opponent lost Harvard the game.
"Our 1997 squad was a veteran team," Murphy said. "This team's the exact opposite. It's a young team and we've shown flashes of brilliance, but we didn't play like a mature football team today."
Flashes of brilliance kept this game close when turnovers nearly buried the team. Inexperience killed it in the end.
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