Y'all are out there if you really thought 2022 was going to be different, after the abortion the past two decades have been.
118-85 between the 2005 Peach Bowl and end of the 2021 season average out at 7-5 a year for the past 16 years.
0-for-18 in ACC Championships, 1-of-17 in Coastal crowns (and blown out 38-3 in lone title game appearance).
Upperclassmen on this team lost to FIU and were part of a culture where starting quarterback missed curfew and still started—none of these Canes afraid there'd be repercussions for any actions. Lost to Duke by double digits a week later and shutout in a bowl game against Louisiana Tech en route to 6-7.
But sure. just writing a fat check for a better staff and bringing on a new AD—poof—everything changes year one and the Canes win the division, simply because fans "expected" to.
7-5 last year could've just as easily have been 3-9 if TVD didn't play out of his mind in a bunch of games.
Our frustration with irrelevancy had us as a fan base fast-tracking the success this year; "9-3 at worst, and should win the Coastal!"—based on what track record or history?
Interestingly enough, the team Mario left out on Eugene is in good hands; a Top 10 team that just beat undefeated UCLA today, while the trash team Manny left him is in the toilet.
Really gonna lump this all on dude who went 35-12 over four seasons, with two Pac-12 titles, two double-digit win seasons, a Rose Bowl victory and some great recruiting hauls—and not a bunch of entirely underachievers who spent the past three years learning from a fraud?
Yeah, this season sucks and it's beyond embarrassing to lose to a high school from Murfreesboro, Tennessee and two ACC basketball schools—but welcome to years of irrelevance and a once-great program who has played down, no-showed and half-assed it since most kids on today's roster were even alive.
Eight f**king turnovers and mailed it in for the fourth quarter. Unreal.
Buckle in as it's gonna be a minute.