FLORENCE, Ala. -- It all happened so fast.
After a long and mostly glorious season, Winston-Salem State couldn’t deliver on the biggest stage. Aggressive, talented and mistake-free Valdosta State had an answer for every challenge in the NCAA Division II football championship game.
The result was a 35-7 WSSU loss — the worst loss in Coach Connell Maynor’s three seasons. The Rams had a season-high six turnovers, also the most in Maynor’s 39-game tenure.
Despite the disappointment of falling short of a goal, Maynor put things in perspective for his players.
“You won the CIAA back-to-back years, and you win your region back-to-back years, and you were the second HBCU to play for the national championship, so you have no reason to hold your head down,” he said he told them.
“(We) fought for 60 minutes, and we didn’t come out on top. That’s OK. We’ll keep fighting, and we’ll learn from it, and we’ll get better.
“They were the better team….”
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