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I'm talking about comparing today's team with the past and point out that many of the variables have changed. There is absolutely no comparison to be made with anything before 2016. The staff and players have completely turned over since then.

We'll know at the end of the season. I'd also bet Lashlee becomes a head coach somewhere and Likens moves into his role.

Not really. How can you hold anything prior to 2019 against him? If that was the case, you would have expected Schnellenberger to be a bust.

Past performance is not an indicator of future results. So many variables have changed.

People say that Manny doesn't like to change, but he's shown otherwise with his personnel. I'd also expect if the main reason Shoop is an analyst is to collect his Michigan payout, then the defense will be more like his style.

We've always talked about Manny's scheme and its weaknesses, but you'd have to think that Bob Shoop would play a role in reducing them. Also, when we had a disruptive line, we didn't always have the best secondary. We should be a lot stronger all around this year.

I was just curious how he sees those numbers and he answered. I suspect he's just managing expectations and really enjoys when they over deliver.

I kind of wish we'd played Bama to open 2019 and had the gator now.

Nobody's saying it can't happen. We have seen it before, but we all knew that 10-0 in 2017 was a house of cards. There were glaring weaknesses that weren't getting addressed. Basing a 7 loss season on nothing more than the fact that it's happened before is just unreasonable.

Ok, but how does that translate into a worse record?

You just weren't happy being correct about LB recruiting. So which 7, SEVEN! teams do you see us losing to?

There is no reason at all to think we won't improve. I'm a lot more optimistic than my usual preseason optimistic self.