They have a nebraska-esque way of blaming the loss on their not living up to their “ability” rather than getting beat by a better team. Basically they’re saying that Iowa didn’t beat them, they beat themselves.
That’s a hallmark of a childish, excuse-making, and (most importantly) delusional personality. In other words, they still think they’re good and are surprised they aren’t winning nattys.
Frost and USC should start the Uncle Rico Association of America, est. 1994. They could even do like the Hell’s Angels and get leather vests with “6-6 er” patches instead of “1% er.”
Get Miami in the mix and you have a perfect three team charter of has-beens.