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DMTCYNAW said:

3-9 with a win at UMass to put JM on the hot seat officially. Not quite "out" unless there's a mass exodus of talent he worked so hard to get and he decides he's personally done and packs up for Idaho. If we go 3-9 or 4-8 again in 2025, then it's over for this JM era.
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Agreed, and especially so in playing against teams with mostly losing records, and the other teams with winning records aren't exactly world-beaters either.

I get the springboard concept and not wanting to revert to blowout losses against clearly superior teams (as in recent years), but c'mon now, it's time to start winning and not just going 500 either.
 
DMTCYNAW said:

3-9 with a win at UMass to put JM on the hot seat officially. Not quite "out" unless there's a mass exodus of talent he worked so hard to get and he decides he's personally done and packs up for Idaho. If we go 3-9 or 4-8 again in 2025, then it's over for this JM era.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Why would you see 9-4 as a problem? Especially as apparently it would exceed expectations of both your head and your heart.
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Only for the following year. And not sure the system could handle the endorphin load after all these years in the wilderness. ;) ;)
 
I can’t see this reversion to a Crock of Sheet 3-3-5 being a good thing. I just can’t get there. Back to using tweens is not going to cut it.

But, the schedule is sufficiently packed with losing squads, mid-tiers and no-names we could break .500 and we can delude ourselves that we have progress.
 
giddyup said:
I can’t see this reversion to a Crock of Sheet 3-3-5 being a good thing. I just can’t get there. Back to using tweens is not going to cut it.

But, the schedule is sufficiently packed with losing squads, mid-tiers and no-names we could break .500 and we can delude ourselves that we have progress.
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We could play a 9-2-0 for all I care if we can’t tackle we won’t win games.
 
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DMTCYNAW said:

3-9 with a win at UMass to put JM on the hot seat officially. Not quite "out" unless there's a mass exodus of talent he worked so hard to get and he decides he's personally done and packs up for Idaho. If we go 3-9 or 4-8 again in 2025, then it's over for this JM era.
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I think this team could finish at 6-6 or better. Give mora a chance. Huskies very lucky to have him as our coach
 
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DMTCYNAW said:

3-9 with a win at UMass to put JM on the hot seat officially. Not quite "out" unless there's a mass exodus of talent he worked so hard to get and he decides he's personally done and packs up for Idaho. If we go 3-9 or 4-8 again in 2025, then it's over for this JM era.
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Mr. negative I would think you would be my buddy Ant with your picks but he just watches here
 
49 new players

New DC

New OC and QB Coach

None of the QBs appear to be particularly accurate. Welliver might be but Evers will probably start.

Nightmare fuel defensive scheme with two DBs purportedly out for the season already.

I’m going with 4-8. Just normal bad but a little better than last season.
 
Windham4th said:
Evers is in the Heisman convo by the Duke game
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I saw a CFB twitter account ask “who is your under the radar heisman candidate?” I said Evers lol the reply’s should be good
 
ZooCougar said:
49 new players

New DC

New OC and QB Coach

None of the QBs appear to be particularly accurate. Welliver might be but Evers will probably start.

Nightmare fuel defensive scheme with two DBs purportedly out for the season already.

I’m going with 4-8. Just normal bad but a little better than last season.
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I was getting my usual pre season over optimism but now you "QBs not so particularly accurate" has me a bit worried. The one thing we need is more accuracy, thought Mora was hyping Evers accuracy and the red shirt freshman kid was pretty good thrower. Is it more just an unknown?
 
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Just crossed this, hadn't seen it before. At least UConn is included.

 
I was optimistic based on the hype around Evers, our schedule, the upgrades at skilled positions, and a strong returning core of running backs. But in today's game, no matter how good the defense is, if we keep running the kind of offense UConn Football could have trademarked by now, I'll refer to the UConn Football Farmers Almanac and say no more than 4-5 wins.
 
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Just looked at another one of those early preseason rankings, interestingly they also showed "ceiling" and "floor" of expectations. And for the top guys there was a difference of 4 wins, i.e. the ceiling might be 12 wins and the floor 8 wins. FSU had a wider range of 12 wins vs. 6.

Some talking head has UConn at 4.8 wins and if that is a "middle" range at plus/minus 2 would be about 7 wins vs. 3 wins. Got me thinking that 2022 6 wins and 2023 3 wins maybe was much similar teams quality, just few plays making difference from stealing a couple of wins in 2022 and giving away a couple in 2023. To my way of thinking 6 wins or less 2024 is same relative team as prior two, need 8 wins going into bowl game to be real progress.

Looking at Ohio State with floor of 8-4, with 3 gimme OOC games are they really saying could go 5-4 in the Big 18.
 
of note - Hartford Courant's Joe Arruda is an AP voter this year.

 
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Ok fine, my prediction is a seven win season. My basis is mostly heart and not science. But thanks to the major reload from the portal and the coaching staff change, the heart has some reason to believe in something good.

If we beat Merrimack by 24 and hold tight against Duke in a loss, then seven is on the table. I'm going to assume that all the newest of this team leads to a mixed showing week 1.

Maryland L
Merrimack W (need to pull away)
Duke L (needs to be tight!)
FAU W
Buffalo W
Temple W (really need this)
Wake L
Rice W
Georgia State L
UAB L
Syracuse L
UMass W

Bowl - need the Win for #7.
 
Husky68 said:
Boy we need to separate ourselves from UMass, almost a toss-up is to close. Think the %'s if GS 50% gets about 6-6.
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I could care less than care less about preseason predictions.

We have shown even in a down year like last year that there is separation. Looking at committment of program facilities, they aren't on the same planet as us and finally, they couldn't wait to join the MAC and we would never even consider it.
 
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