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Obviously, we have played a very difficult season to this point. Every loss we have is against a team ranked in the top 40 of the country in offense. Against the high powered offenses, we hang for a while and just can't quite keep up in the end because our defense can't stop the other team, especially when they use a mobile QB.

Team Offensive rank
Baylor 1
UNT 102
TCU 3
JMU 1 (FBS)
ECU 38
Houston 6

Anyone else look at the second half of the schedule and think we might be able to just outscore some teams? Temple scored a lot at Cincy, but still had less than 300 yards of offense... Cincy turned the ball over 5 times. I could see us losing to Tulsa and then turning around and beating Temple.

USF 62
Tulsa 5
Temple 103
Navy 76
Tulane 122
Memphis 8

I just focus on improvement. As I said in the beginning of the sesaon that some of us are getting people too up in the air about wins and loses that it has unnecessarily put higher expectations on this seasons than they should be. We just need to be concerned about improving and not win and loses this year.

Jones truly returned us to 1989 football...this is ground floor, year one kinda talk. I'm so mad that our administration allowed this to happen to us.

Getting a couple of wins at the end would help with our last few recruits, would help convince people this crew is for real, and would hopefully help us with some sponsorship discussions for next year. Couple of wins would really help more than just a W/L record.

really need at least one more win for positive momentum; 2-3 more wins would be one heck of an accomplishment for this staff and team

Look at Fuente's first two years in Memphis. Our story is likely to be similar.

Just improve every week, play hard, and recruit harder than anyone else. We'll get there.

03Mustang wrote:Look at Fuente's first two years in Memphis. Our story is likely to be similar.

Just improve every week, play hard, and recruit harder than anyone else. We'll get there.

This.

03Mustang wrote:Look at Fuente's first two years in Memphis. Our story is likely to be similar.

Just improve every week, play hard, and recruit harder than anyone else. We'll get there.

This x1000.

Patience is hard to sell right now, especially after what the program has been through for the better part of 25+ years. But it's essential right now.

SMUer wrote:Jones truly returned us to 1989 football...this is ground floor, year one kinda talk. I'm so mad that our administration allowed this to happen to us.

As much as everyone hates June Jones -- for some good, rational reasons and for some very irrational reasons -- you nailed it. Our administration did allow the JJ debacle to unfold.

Prior to 2011, JJ tried multiple times to get out due to lack of administrative support and tried to negotiate a mutually agreeable buyout. Our administration begged him to stay because of the success he'd inarguably brought to the Hilltop with the winning seasons and bowl games we hadn't seen in nearly a generation. Then the administration in effect begged him to stay again when they wouldn't or couldn't garner the support for the buyout required to fire the guy and save face after the ASU debacle.

It's a good introspective idea to figure out exactly why JJ behaved as he did, why he wanted out. The answer is not that he was evil or stupid. And it's a good lessons learned to figure out why we couldn't move him on when the time was clearly over for him here. He wasn't going to leave money on the table -- would YOU?

Is Saturday our best chance for a road win?
I think so.

Probably.

Our defense has been trying to figure out the Navy offense for 15+ years.

We need to win a game or two more to make HCCM look like a better candidate for South Carolina.

PlanoStang wrote:Probably.

Our defense has been trying to figure out the Navy offense for 15+ years.

Did planostang just make sense????