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If Canes win last 3, where do you stand?

If Canes win last 3, where do you stand?

  • Excited for the future

    Votes: 90 27.5%

  • Optimistic but cautiously

    Votes: 169 51.7%

  • Apathetic

    Votes: 57 17.4%

  • Angry no matter what the Canes do

    Votes: 17 5.2%
  • Total voters
    327
This thread is meaningless. It's just a move the goalpost thread. First, we're not winning the next 3. But even if we do, we've seen enough with our eyes thus far that should leave everyone pretty pessimistic about the offensive philosophy moving forward, which appears inclined to eek out wins rather than assertively win games. We want a modern offense not some philosophy that is content squeaking out wins.
 
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B Run said:
Where do you stand if they win the last 3
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Ready for year three and wanting to put year two in the rearview.

9-4 would be fantastic, but unrealistic based on how this team has struggled offensively since Van Yips went in the tank.

8-5 wouldn't be the end of the world based on 5-7 last year; it's improvement—albeit not as much as we were expecting after 4-0 and rolling aTm.

7-6 is a drag any way you slice or dice it ... and 6-7 would be abysmal.


I'm gonna keep going back to Mike Norvell and Florida State as Seminoles fans wanted to run him out of Trailerhassee in year two—message boards filled with concerns about a buyout as they were still paying off Willie Lump Lump.

3-6 in year one with a 52-10 loss to Miami and started year two 0-4 with a home loss to Jacksonville State. By the time 5-4 Miami came to town in November, Florida State was 6-12 combined under Norvell those first two years and finished 5-7 with a loss to Florida—and 8-13 overall going into year three.

Year three improvement, opened with the win over LSU and ended up 10-3—albeit not beating a ranked team (lost to Wake Forest, North Carolina State and Clemson)—and eking out a bowl win over 6-6 Oklahoma to end the year.

This year they beat LSU again and have dinked and dunked their way to 10-0—but they're there and are No. 4 in the country (even though Boston College, Clemson and Miami all played them close, while Duke lost Leonard in the third quarter and it cost them the game.)


No one expected Tyler Van Dyke to go from so good to so bad; 4-0 out the game with 11 touchdowns and one interception—only to completely unravel when Georgia Tech threw a zone defense at him; now with 11 interceptions, five touchdowns and two fumbles his past four games.

Cristobal needs to close strong with this recruiting class and needs to hit the portal for some instant-impact player for next year; including a quarterback that can battle it out with Williams and earn the starting job.

With a quarterback and a little more talent, next year's squad can be vastly better than 2023.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Peaking in all aspects of "there" game = squeaking out a win vs Virginia

Barely hanging on with a tiring out exhausted defense = holding FSU to their lowest yards per play of the season on their home field.

They don't call CIS the best color men in the business for nothin' folks!
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I want you to be “ right “ big time, our kids need a huge win badly.
Not sure TVD can accomplish it all of a sudden be QB he was in TAM game.

TVD puts way to much pressure on his team along with opponents

GOCANES
 
AlexCane said:
This thread is meaningless. It's just a move the goalpost thread. First, we're not winning the next 3. But even if we do, we've seen enough with our eyes thus far that should leave everyone pretty pessimistic about the offensive philosophy moving forward, which appears inclined to eek out wins rather than assertively win games. We want a modern offense not some philosophy that is content squeaking out wins.
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Miami doesn't eke out wins if Tyler Van Dyke's game doesn't go to **** in a handbag. How many points has he left on the field with end zone interceptions or deep turnovers?

Miami legit should've been up 38-17 on Georgia Tech, not coming from behind late and needing to kneel it out at 20-17.... put up 31 points and just under 500 yards at North Carolina, where Van Yips and the Canes turned it over four times while the Tar Heels protected the ball all night... eked it out against Clemson with a true freshman quarterback and a limited playbook... stalled out against Virginia and North Carolina State as coaches have lost complete faith in their quarterback, as he threw FIVE INTERCEPTIONS combined against the Cavaliers and Wolfpack.

You can't take shots at the offensive play calling and complete ignore that the dude distributing the football literally looks like he forgot how to play the position and is turning the ball over left and right every game,
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
Peaking in all aspects of "there" game = squeaking out a win vs Virginia

Barely hanging on with a tiring out exhausted defense = holding FSU to their lowest yards per play of the season on their home field.

They don't call CIS the best color men in the business for nothin' folks!
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What, do you think people here actually watch football?
 
It would depend on how we win.

If the offense is effectively passing and running, and the defense is lockdown, then I'd be happy.

If its another sub 20 point overtime grind, then no.

Either way, were on track for 6-7 which is fireable in year 2 coming off of 5-7.
 
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crossover22[]_[] said:
Lol 8 regular season wins is like ******* your cousin.

You got ***** but them kids gonna wear helmets.



Excited over 8 wins. **** outta here with that bull****.
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Listen to this man. He knows about puzzy and not to get excited about 8 wins

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ItsAUThing.com said:
Miami doesn't eke out wins if Tyler Van Dyke's game doesn't go to **** in a handbag. How many points has he left on the field with end zone interceptions or deep turnovers?

Miami legit should've been up 38-17 on Georgia Tech, not coming from behind late and needing to kneel it out at 20-17.... put up 31 points and just under 500 yards at North Carolina, where Van Yips and the Canes turned it over four times while the Tar Heels protected the ball all night... eked it out against Clemson with a true freshman quarterback and a limited playbook... stalled out against Virginia and North Carolina State as coaches have lost complete faith in their quarterback, as he threw FIVE INTERCEPTIONS combined against the Cavaliers and Wolfpack.

You can't take shots at the offensive play calling and complete ignore that the dude distributing the football literally looks like he forgot how to play the position and is turning the ball over left and right every game,
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I hope you're right but we now have 2 seasons of Mario and a lot of history to rely on in terms of how he wants his offense to look and run and it doesn't get me too excited. I think you're using Tyler as a scapegoat but we'll see.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
5-7 to 9-4 is definitive progress, no matter how much the women here would try to convince you otherwise.

Winning 9 in Year 2 isn't good enough, overall. But if you want to believe the program had to be torn completely to the studs and rebuilt from the first board, then going from 5 wins to 9 wins and being competitive in every game is certainly progress in that regard.

But then you better win 10 next year.
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Mario better win 10 games next year regardless of going 8-4/9-4, 7-5/7-6, or 6-6/6-7.

Being optimistic and going 8-4 doesn’t mask the fact that we have a QB/OC issue, depth issues at various positions, game day coaching issues and the fact that all of the P5 wins we have had this year up to this Louisville game (with the exception of TAMU) has been a hard fought, tooth & nail type of victory. Nothing has been comfortable vs P5 teams.
 
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I've said this several times, but the last time we had a pretty good season was the year after we went to what everyone was, i'm sure, calling a meaningless bowl game after an 8-4 season. We won the meaningless bowl game and maybe that had something to do with propelling us towards a 10-0 start. So yea, it would be amazing to win out including a bowl game and get everyone, including recruits, excited about some positive ****.
 
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