#uptick

[RedStickHusky]

I'm really hoping that this is the year we all move on from talking about bare cupboards and/or raw talent woefully untapped and are somehow able to collectively reach a happy place where performance on the field aligns with any emotional predilection to think our guys are the best....
I'm still of the opinion that players leaving the program should be better than when they arrived and a graduating class should be better than it was as a recruiting class. Talent, if you factor production (and really, what is a better metric?), ought not to be a constant.

 

[IMind]

There was obviously a talent drop off when PP came on board. You can ramble on about development of talent, etc. all you want.... PP sucked there too... but there's a reason our two deep is heavy on freshman and sophomores and the first PP recruiting class produced zero NFL players. And oh yeah... we lost a lot of football games. I'm hard pressed to come up with any evidence that matters that would indicate that our talent level didn't drop off. Honestly if you believe anything else you're thinking too hard or you have an agenda.

I was going to give PP a bit of credit for bringing in better skill players, but I'm not even sure that's entirely true outside of QB and MAYBE WR.

 

[businesslawyer]

I'm really hoping that this is the year we all move on from talking about bare cupboards and/or raw talent woefully untapped and are somehow able to collectively reach a happy place where performance on the field aligns with any emotional predilection to think our guys are the best....
I'm still of the opinion that players leaving the program should be better than when they arrived and a graduating class should be better than it was as a recruiting class. Talent, if you factor production (and really, what is a better metric?), ought not to be a constant.

Why in the world would you hope for that? At least realistically? Where you here when our Fiesta Bowl team was being ripped apart on a daily basis for its faults?

 

[RedStickHusky]

Why in the world would you hope for that? At least realistically? Where you here when our Fiesta Bowl team was being ripped apart on a daily basis for its faults?

I just love tilting at windmills. I was around, but I don't remember the BY really melting down until HCRE left and then through the horror of the PP years. What got me the maddest in '10 was the dweeb covering the big east on espn (Bennet?) rooting for us to lose to USF so we wouldn't embarrass the conference. I will freely admit though, that memory is selective, especially at my age.

 

[DoctorWho85]

I just love tilting at windmills. I was around, but I don't remember the BY really melting down until HCRE left and then through the horror of the PP years. What got me the maddest in '10 was the dweeb covering the big east on espn (Bennet?) rooting for us to lose to USF so we wouldn't embarrass the conference. I will freely admit though, that memory is selective, especially at my age.

I remember that. He released an article on the Big East blog basically stating how West Virginia was the most deserving team in the conference to go to the Fiesta Bowl. It was like he was saying "That's great and all UConn and Ima let you finish, but West Virginia is the most deserving team of all time."