Agreed. I also think we can win 10 games but we need A LOT of things to go our way and to stay healthy. I just don't agree with the "anything less than 10 wins is a failure" mentality. I don't think we should hype ourselves into a frezy to where we have morons calling for heads to roll and the closeted Gator and Nole fans creating Cane Tears threads because we improved as a team to 8-4/9-3.
Football, just like life is a game of INCHES.
I look more at how a team looks overall in the first year of a new regime. Last year, we could have won 10, or 4. We played down to nearly everyone, even losing to a bad FSU team. This year I want to see us start to bury bad teams, not having to kick a late FG or make a game saving tackle to do so. I want to see us compete with good teams, and win some. Every game shouldn't be a toss up, and that's where we were last year. A better staff should mean improvement in this area. We need to start beating the teams we should beat by more than one play, by more than one play. It shouldn't be a coin toss, every single week. We shouldn't get completely hammered every time we play a top 10 team. Just look improved. It's not always about the W/L total when you are rebuilding. It's about looking the part of a team that is improving. That is what I want to see this year.
I'm using my 1daily that's what she said.
Very well said my friend. That is where you can tell whether or not big improvements are being made. If next season is 8-4 but the wins are all convincing (including face ******* FSPoo) by one or more scores and the losses are down to the wire against better than average competition (read have plenty of talent such as Clempson and aTm) then we can say that is a solid year 1. People severely underestimate how poorly coached and mentally weak this team was the past few years.
That same argument works the other way. Could have easily finished 4-8
Manny also won more close games against teams we were supposed to lose than he lost.
Likely 9 wins so this is right where it should be
You don't even really need to identify games specifically to likely be right that we will lose 3 or more games. Very few teams win all the games they should in a season, it is just how it goes. We aren't a top 5 roster, and even if we were those rosters don't go undefeated every year anyway. The odds of us beating every team we are favored against is probably in the high single digits or low double digits at best.
I agree 9 wins easy unless we still have the same ****** ***** mentality in our players we’ve had the last 15 years
