Once again it's about HOW we got to those three losses that's becoming a recurring theme for this program -Odd. If you read this board you’d think we were the worst team in the history of college football. But somehow we ended the season ranked for just the 4th time in the last 15(!) years.
It didn’t end how we wanted but we took a step forward this season. Need to take another step forward next season.
I thought...or maybe hoped..that you were banned. Too bad.Yeah but a lot of those 15 years we were under a cloud
Even moreso Wiggins.Would have been higher if Mark Pope could catch
Once again it's about HOW we got to those three losses that's becoming a recurring theme for this program -
- didn't put up a fight v. Clemson
- utterly embarrassing and historically bad late season loss
- no-showed the first half of the bowl game en route to yet another loss
So yes, 8-3 is better than 6-7 especially in this clusterf#ck of a season, and I think 22 is about where we should be as a program. That said, the trend for even our "good" seasons is becoming sadly predictable.
I don't know why people can't see this. when the losses become atleast competitive then talk to me about being close. we don't even show up in meaningful games.Once again it's about HOW we got to those three losses that's becoming a recurring theme for this program -
- didn't put up a fight v. Clemson
- utterly embarrassing and historically bad late season loss
- no-showed the first half of the bowl game en route to yet another loss
So yes, 8-3 is better than 6-7 especially in this clusterf#ck of a season, and I think 22 is about where we should be as a program. That said, the trend for even our "good" seasons is becoming sadly predictable.
People also hang on the bad. Relentlessly.I don't know why people can't see this. when the losses become atleast competitive then talk to me about being close. we don't even show up in meaningful games.
That UNC loss is the problem. There were other teams that had huge losses after us but we did it first to a UNC team that got whipped by FSU. UNC came out of it looking great and we looked ridiculous.If any of the following would have happened, we would have been top-15, IMO:
1. Kept within 3 scores of Clemson
2. Not had a record-breaking loss to UNC (even a "regular" loss would have done it)
3. Given a crap about the bowl game in the first 15 minutes
Especially #2 for me. So far, the Diaz Era has been defined by incremental progress tainted by annual inexcusable, near-hilariously bad performances (FIU 2019, UNC 2020).
Nothing else needs to be said.. All that goodwill we built up was erased with a record setting performance at home against freakin UNC.. You lose like that at home wipes away alot and the whole nation saw it. Then next game nation will see is opening weekend against defending champs, juggernaut alabama introducing a bunch of new stars ready for their debutOnce again it's about HOW we got to those three losses that's becoming a recurring theme for this program -
- didn't put up a fight v. Clemson
- utterly embarrassing and historically bad late season loss
- no-showed the first half of the bowl game en route to yet another loss
So yes, 8-3 is better than 6-7 especially in this clusterf#ck of a season, and I think 22 is about where we should be as a program. That said, the trend for even our "good" seasons is becoming sadly predictable.
So now it's about quality losses? Cool story. How we lose is the barometer.That UNC loss is the problem. There were other teams that had huge losses after us but we did it first to a UNC team that got whipped by FSU. UNC came out of it looking great and we looked ridiculous.