That seemed to be the case previously and the way I saw it as well until someone brought it to my attention to reread his posts in the thread that shall not be mentioned.
**** nah w @gogeta4!! The team will ONLY be from South Florida; QB, WR, TE, RB, OL, DL LB, CB, S, P, K, LS, Water Boy! Fck that ****.
This is the reality that most fans just will not accept. We just started spending the money 4 years ago that these other top programs have been spending the entire 20 year period we were down. Most of them longer than that.
You can make the argument that we are still atoning for our past sins, sure, lets agree there. However, we must admit that we are atoning for our current sins. Going 12-12 the first two years with some pathetic losses helped preserve everything being held against us. Finally, last year we started shedding some of that, only for us to **** the bed again in November against inferior teams. This is 2025, its easier than ever to turn around a program with how active the Portal is, the excuses have to stop.
Not sure how you can blame Mario. He has been on this kid forever and selling the U 18 hours a day. In sales, sometimes you can do everything right and the customer still picks the other competitors product because they just feel better with the other product.
You are over focusing on the loss of Cooper, when its just a part of a bigger disappointment. Cooper just happened to be the most recent loss and local to boot. You land say two of the big fish that committed elsewhere over the past two months and Cooper is a complete afterthought. We were sold that we had a top 5 NIL program this go around and were going to be pushing for the top class. Instead we are holding on by a thread to a top 10 class and will be passed the second Oregon gets its 16th commit there.
NIL helps for sure, but lets put this in perspective. Take your orange and green glasses off. Without the on field and draft success other programs have, do you think we are a top 5 destination for any random player with offers from everywhere, offering competitive NIL? The fact we are in the top 10 is not bad until we can put a couple 10 win seasons back to back to back. If we win, we will see top 5 classes in the future. If we don't, we won't.
My orange and green glasses have been off for a long long time now. I agree with what your saying here but disagree the level the current staff should be held accountable. Our problem is that we were 12-12 the first two years and last year's collapse was against a butter soft schedule. Our disfunction on defense doesnt help either, and what we saw last year despite winning 10 was an utter abomination. These kids are young and have short memories. They dont need a ton to be convinced here, just dont lose to a meh GT team that was telegraphing run or pass based on which QB was in that play. Dont blow a 21 point lead against SYRACUSE when the playoff is on the line.
So the head coach is not to blame or be held accountable for any of this?
I keep hearing and reading this excuse. Watch when we send dudes into the first round and win. They still won’t come here pause
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also... take the good with the bad... you can't throw out definites, peacock around when you are right, then cry, make excuses and run away when you got bad info... has never landed well on a message board of fanatics and likely never will -- just take the L and move on to the next
