Phil Steele...lol
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He wrote that in July. This board, for the most, would have agreed back then. Many of us were on the wait and see bus. July/August was when I placed my over bet on wins, but I was hoping for 3/4 based on the schedule.
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With the football rags, I always like to do an end of season retrospective to see how accurate the forecasters are. Steele dealt in a generality, but never printedan actual win-loss record. As for Coach not being a miracle worker, last Saturday's post game celebration is testimony to his abilities.
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5 wins was a pretty aggressive prediction even on the BY. That we're thinking 7 or 8 may not be a miracle, but it is remarkable.
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I've been saying we would go bowling from the beginning. Ok I said we'd be in the NC, but a bowl game is close enough.
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I guess my 6 wins (because... why not???) was even a tad more aggressive... Glad I was right (so far)
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We may have had a couple of UConnAl type outliers...
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UConn had a lot of room to improve and really did.....The Huskies will improve the win count by 5 to 6. That is significant and probably not predicted by Steele. Maybe one of the biggest win count jumps in FBS.
Maybe some teams got notice as possibles...but didn't start out with a 1-11 baseline.
And some picks were busts...like Miami
Some were good turn around picks.....USC has gone from a losing 4-7 season to #7 in the CFP poll and LSU from a losing season to #8 in CFP.
Maybe some teams got notice as possibles...but didn't start out with a 1-11 baseline.
And some picks were busts...like Miami
Some were good turn around picks.....USC has gone from a losing 4-7 season to #7 in the CFP poll and LSU from a losing season to #8 in CFP.
Didnt UCF go winless under O'leary's last season and then to a bowl the following year with Frost?
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A 6 win improvement....and and additional 7 win improvement the year after....but earlier, UCF had an 8 win improvement from 2004 to 2005....zero wins to 8.
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Phil Steele will also be man enough to eat his words.
He also went on Aaron Torres and was much more optimistic than his write up.
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Thanks for breaking it down. None of us already knew this.
Miracle worker would not be an overstatement in my book. There is no way anybody with a sound mind could possibly believe we would be where we are.