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Need to beat Tulane. ECU win was nice, but a real barometer of progress is winning the games we were supposed to win. Bad teams can always rise up and pull an upset here and there (See: UConn-UCF in 2014).

We should have beaten Nova, Army and UCF. USF could have gone either way IMO, and unfortunately it didn't go our way.

But to know you are really making progress as a program is to consistently beat the teams you are better than every time.

Right now I think we are on the right path, but I am not ready to give a complete vote of confidence until I see them go down to NOLA and get a win over Tulane.
 
SeoulHuskyFan said:
Yes, it's been a long, hard road to mediocrity.
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I may have to have my sarcasm meter serviced, but yes, yes it has. To be honest we're not quite there yet, but I like the trend line.
 
CL82 said:
I may have to have my sarcasm meter serviced, but yes, yes it has. To be honest we're not quite there yet, but I like the trend line.
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A wee bit snarky maybe but I intended no sarcasm. Your meter is fine.
 
I'm going to start this by saying I think UConn gets win #6 to be bowl eligible. But there's a real good chance there are several 5-7 teams going bowling this year (just by the nature of the number of bowls.) I think a bowl would be positive even at 5-7, what do the rest of you think?

EDIT: The math. 40 bowl games. 80 teams. 128 FBS teams. 48 non-qualifying teams.
There are already 27 teams with 6 or more losses.
 
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I wanted 3-4 wins and to be competitive in all games. Outside of Cincy this year, it's met my expectations let alone exceeding them. Like other said, winning made me want more and the USF game makes me angry. However, if I'm trying to stay in reality, the improvements this team made this year so far has me very excited for next year and the the rest of this season. I will be disappointed if we lose to Tulane but it's a factor of enjoying winning games again.

It's hard to stay in the reality of where we came from last season. However, I'll gladly take where we are right now knowing that this team has shown that they can be very good moving forward.
 
Here is my take. We are about where I thought we should be but better than I thought we would be. But I think we need to at minimum beat Tulane. A loss there undoes all the positives of the ECU victory. Tulane is not a good football team by the way. And I'm with subba on being bowl eligible. Just getting there at 6-6 means you are a decidedly mediocre team. Better to be decidedly mediocre than awful but hardly something to hold a parade to celebrate.
 
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Here is my take. We are about where I thought we should be but better than I thought we would be. But I think we need to at minimum beat Tulane. A loss there undoes all the positives of the ECU victory. Tulane is not a good football team by the way. And I'm with subba on being bowl eligible. Just getting there at 6-6 means you are a decidedly mediocre team. Better to be decidedly mediocre than awful but hardly something to hold a parade to celebrate.
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I agree with you for the most part except we have just endured a stretch of 4 putrid years of football where we have been labeled one of the worst football programs in the country.

We are now "Risin."
 
freescooter said:
Here is my take. We are about where I thought we should be but better than I thought we would be. But I think we need to at minimum beat Tulane. A loss there undoes all the positives of the ECU victory. Tulane is not a good football team by the way. And I'm with subba on being bowl eligible. Just getting there at 6-6 means you are a decidedly mediocre team. Better to be decidedly mediocre than awful but hardly something to hold a parade to celebrate.
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Posts like this remind me of the guys in college who had a history of dating ugly girls. They would finally date an average one, would have cut off their apendage to get her, but then felt they were proving something by pretending that they weren't happy that they were finally sleeping with someone decent looking because they felt better pretending that they shouldn't admit to being happy until they dated the prom queens.

Whatever.
 
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businesslawyer said:
Posts like this remind me of the guys in college who had a history of dating ugly girls. They would finally date an average one, would have cut off their apendage to get her, but then felt they were proving something by pretending that they weren't happy that they were finally sleeping with someone decent looking because they felt better pretending that they shouldn't admit to being happy until they dated the prom queens.

Whatever.
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We don't need a program with self-esteem issues.
 
Psychiatrists would call this fan base manic, with low self esteem. If we can't expect a victory Saturday after our visible improvements both with players and coaching, we need to all get on the couch. Bet us to win. Sit up straight and root us home. Then we can all get ready for the three (that's right) glory games to come.
 
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