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Message: [QUOTE="SuperHuski, post: 4768037, member: 12894"] I'm a Huskies fan first, but I love football in general. I especially love to follow teams that went from sucking to powerhouse. (Think, Coastal Carolina, Tulane, JMU, etc.) I enjoy figuring out the machinations of how those teams went from zero to hero. JMU, btw, is better than Duke this year and JMU was FCS less than two years ago. This is not just my opinion, computers systems like Massey would agree with my eye test. There's a lot of "tear down the program" sentiments lately. That's silly because I just gave examples of teams that made it. And we have top resources for G5 levels of play and lower tiers P5 levels of play. Another common sentiment lately is that 5-7 or 6-6 seasons with a chance of bowling is our ceiling. And people would be happy with that. While I can emphasize with that, it's also silly to me. We're so used to being bad and emotionally beat-up as fans, that we see mediocrity as the promise land. I don't know why our ceiling can't be a perennial top 25 with occasional random luck pushing us into New Year bowls. It's not a secret that we have a lot of problems as a football team. Our record speaks to that this year. But all of those problems can be fixed in as little as a year. 2015 UCF was 0-12. Hired Scott Frost. 2016, 6-7 bowl team. Then undefeated in 2017, beating Auburn in the Peach Bowl. It starts with coaching. I strongly believe that Mora is the right person for the job and I think most reasonable people with agree with me. However, I'm not convinced about some of his assistants. Coaches are the ones that recruit the players. Speaking about players, it's not JUST about the recruiting stars and rankings. JMU has been recruiting in the 140s on 247. [URL='https://247sports.com/college/james-madison/Season/2023-Football/Commits/']Their 2023 commit class is 140 exactly[/URL]. It's about scheme and fit. Sure stars and talent help (a lot), but scheme, fit, and play calling are equally as important. JMU runs a more complicated, pro-style offense than we do with RPO and spread concepts that requires everyone on the field to read the defense and adjust accordingly. I'm simplifying some things here. There's a lot of nuance being left out. But we have the bones of a good football program. There's Mora, there's the P5-level facilities, the CBS national TV contract, the partial P5 schedule every year, the 40k+ football stadium, the 5 million or so we spend on coaching, the back end infrastructure ([URL='https://uconnhuskies.com/staff-directory']support staff for recruiting, media, content, etc[/URL].), and more I'm not including. I think we need to make adjustments faster if we want to get better faster. Fix the stuff or remove what isn't working faster. [/QUOTE]

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