Expectations for this season?

[Torch_Da1]

F#ck they did it again. I've been cool all off- season with realistic expectations. But this last week of portal additions just might have broken the Dam to reality. I'm starting to belive there is a chance we could win 9 games this year. Someone please bring me back before I jump out of the window. What do you see for this team now?

 

[LuCane]

No more shoehorning ideology into the roster

+

Throw. The. Ball. Into. Space.

+

Tackle the other team and perhaps disguise what we're doing on defense.

=

Base level competence.

Please?

 

[CanesHoopsman]

6-6

 

[grover]

6-6

Roster gaps and injury risks still exist, especially with TVD. But barring worst case scenarios this team is now better than 6-6.

7-10 wins with most likely outcomes in the 8-9 range IMHO. Probably 8. 9 if we stay healthy and somehow find a quality DT grad transfer (not Campbell who is a project), a starting caliber OLB and Zion comes back healthy.

People are sleeping on Guidry and Dawson. Yes the coaching and personnel changes are drastic. But we saw Manny after D'Onofrio and Lashlee after Enos turn things around. I’m expecting the same 180 with these guys.

 

[redcane]

If TVD plays like he did in 21, we should be 8+ wins IMO.

 

[407cane]

I believe we have a 9 win roster, if we get there or not we'll see

 

[DontCareJustWin]

7 wins, not buying hype till they prove it on field

 

[The U is back to work]

8 wins. Only reason I’m not saying 7 is because I have to imagine the coaching changes will be more positive than negative considering how **** poor we were last year.

Team doesn’t have anywhere near the depth to win 10 and quite honestly we are cursed so I won’t say 9.

 

[IndayArtHauz]

10 win minimum.

 

[ghost2]

7-5, 8-4 if we stay healthy and catch some breaks.

People forget we weren't *just* 5-7. We lost games in spectacularly, historically, record-breakingly terrible ways. That said, gimme 7 wins and 5 close losses with another gangbusters recruiting class and I'll wager we're fuccin in 2024-25.

 

[mirvin88]

15-0

 

[Cryptical Envelopment]

7 wins, not buying hype till they prove it on field

<7: 15%
7: 35%
8: 25%
9: 20%
>9: 5%

 

[Memnon]

 

[dolemite79]

6 or 7 wins with a ceiling of 8 if everything really goes well. 7-5 feels like the most realistic outcome

 

[TheU1984]

Every year, the majority predict 9 or 10 plus wins. We end up not close. See last year.

This year, the majority are predicting around 6-7.

Well…. One can only hope it works the opposite way this year. Why not?

 

[Baba Yaga]

 

[Empirical Cane]

F#ck they did it again. I've been cool all off- season with realistic expectations. But this last week of portal additions just might have broken the Dam to reality. I'm starting to belive there is a chance we could win 9 games this year. Someone please bring me back before I jump out of the window. What do you see for this team now?

 

[Empirical Cane]

Every year, the majority predict 9 or 10 plus wins. We end up not close. See last year.

This year, the majority are predicting around 6-7.

Well…. One can only hope it works the opposite way this year. Why not?

or 3-9...

 

[Empirical Cane]

10 win minimum.

 

[OrangeBowlMagic]

6-6

The roster is nowhere near where it’ll be when it’s the finished product Mario has in his head, but if they can’t win more than 6 with what they’ve got now, it’s gonna be a real long next half-decade.

6-6 would be honestly more disappointing than last year was. A ton of coaches look real incompetent taking over malignant programs in Year 1. Happens all the time. But the good ones very rarely look the same in Year 2.