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ND was a great game. Was Va Tech really a great game? I’d say very good, not great. Just look at the other games in 2017. The 31-6 Duke win might be passable as a relatively good game under Shannon or Golden. The other 10 games would basically have seemed like typical games under those coaches...

Adding 2 good games to a Shannon or Golden type season might be enough to make it a meh season. It doesn’t make it a successful season. And actually, the 2017 season (even with the ND and Va Tech games) was basically indistinguishable from Shannon’s 09 team per FPI. We finished 18th in FPI in...

Was the 2017 season really nice, except for the ND and Va Tech games? It’s an obsession of mine that might be stupid, but I find that season to still be super overrated by this board. If you take out those 2 games and maybe the Duke game, it’s basically a Randy Shannon/Al Golden season. For...

I’ve been reading CIS for a long time, dumbo. I just created an account recently.

The last 3 wins have been lucky. We’ve actually been outgained in total these 3 games. And, even before the last 3 games, the UVA win was lucky. I’d be willing to bet that we would have lost the Pitt and UVA games according to Connely’s model 70-80% of the time. We probably would lose the...

Manny started this current class at #1. The class has slowly but surely regressed, and now it’s something like #17. The real signing day is next month, and TBH, I suspect we won’t even finish at #17. The class for 2021 is currently #1, but I’m sure the same pattern will happen again.

In recruiting, Manny is following the Golden and Richt pattern where he starts every recruiting cycle at #1 nationally because he accepts commitments from everybody, including people who are just playing games with UM in order to get offers from other schools.

Of course it’s an improvement. I’ll am saying is that Manny was the coach for the awful games earlier in the year. So, he’s really only improving on his own awfulness. And this “improvement” with coRches always proves to be rather temporary. Remember when Golden “improved” the team in games...

You’re making it seem like the CMU death match was under a different coach.

So over the past 2 games (I wouldn’t say 3 games since the Pitt game was awful), we’ve improved from the awful football we were playing for most of the season. Yeah! Hail Manny Diaz! 7 awful FBS games, followed by 2 so-so games! What an awesome coach!