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Def takes some of the sting off this season. RAMMER JAMMER, YELLOW HAMMER, GO TO HELL ALABAMA!

One more thing, can we stop with this “I don’t care if we have a better record, I just want iMpRoVeMeNt?” I find it hard to believe that anyone would be okay if we lost six games by single score margin.

See previous comments—I don’t think we’ll be a playoff contender until year 4 but I do think this team has a better shot at a 9-4 (w/ bowl win) type season than next. Both need to be better than 6-6 obv.

Honestly I WISH Josh Pate were correct here, claiming that we would be a very young team (13 minute mark). Getting some playing time just isn’t the same thing as starting, sorry!

Yup, after going out and getting Lewis, Lambert, Raikes and Blidi thereby adding even more seniors to the lineup does not indicate to me that CHF is viewing this as another recruiting year (assuming “another recruiting year” means 6-7).

If we had only 10 seniors in the (projected) starting lineup, he could possibly get away with that.

LMAO! Remind me of how Drink’s first three years at Missouri went again? He was the ONLY P5 coach Potato Man beat without Bo. Oh man, my sides…that was a good one.

I’ll default to 7-5 for now. It’s just frustrating that nowadays QB can override all other positions, since everywhere else would set up quite nicely for 9-3. -.-

I just wanted to add that because of Leath, we had zero leadership in December 2020. Put yourself in Jay Gogue’s shoes. You have to be called out of retirement because your replacement was such a [redacted]. You then have to guide the university through the biggest global crisis since WW2. Are you doing anything BUT mailing it in at that point? I fully believe the Gus-Steele saga, and therefore the Potato hire, wouldn’t have happened had Roberts been prez by that point.

Not sure why you’re “blown away,” those two and Kentucky should be considered toss-ups.

Are you referring to this year or next? Because you talked, as many others have, about ‘25 being “our year.” And if the current starting lineup holds, we’re only going to have seven returning starters next year.

We should definitely be more talented next year but there’s been countless examples of talented rosters that have struggled early before blossoming (2011 and 12, but also look at UCF in 2015).

In any case, the betting is 7.5 wins still, correct? My current prediction is we split OU/TAMU and lose to KY to go 7-5.

I’d love to hear you elaborate on why you think KDB is overrated? If Washington had been his only stop, I *could* see a Scott Frost type situation, but he’s done very well at other stops too. Anyhow, I hate how CFB has reached the point where one certain position overrides positives everywhere else. -.- That said, the analytics seem a bit higher on us (or at least this one highly regarded analytics guru—Adam McClintock—does). Has us going 8-4 with wins over TAMU and Kentucky.

The harsh truth is that we don’t have our pick of the litter when it comes to coaches. For the exact same reason Tennessee doesn’t—remember, Heupel got worse each year at UCF, they just got incredibly lucky that somehow against all logic and reason he has *so far* worked out. If Potato had stayed 2023 would have been Chad Morris level bad. It was the year where all the neglect of the roster that admittedly started under Gus came home to roost. Jury is out on Freeze but I can def see a path to success under him.

Sorry to cause pain to anyone, but heading into that MSU game we had a wide open path to winning the west.

Because a good portion of the fanbase (foolishly, I might add) saw him as being a nepo-baby.

Off topic a little but the number of sites that are basically defunct is quite sad. I miss Track ‘Em.

I’ll just leave this here. For the record I have been strongly against protestors trying to silence conservative speakers on campus (such as that event with Milo that went super viral).

Hate to say, but at this point who can win at those three?

6 reg season wins is a failure. 7…I’m conflicted. A winning season would undoubtedly be an important step in the recovery process. So many are pointing to year 3 as the leap forward. However, we have so many seniors that I think it may be more realistic to win 8 then 7 than the other way around. 8 is a success.

Jaden Rashada is reportedly visiting. Georgia has been considered the favorite, but it seems like they have so many QBs already. Could we pony up the NIL here if we want to? Would we want to?

We’ve had one really good QB signed out of HS since Campbell left, and really most starting QBs in the league are from the portal anyways.

Do you expect year 3 to be better despite how many starters we lose? Because that’s where I’m conflicted with what I’m asking for this year…if only half our projected starts by lineup were seniors I’d for sure take 7 wins, no question.

Is Autry going to visit us again?