re: Sayin tidbit from Watts

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The only reason I worry about this is that doubt spreads rapidly and a bad season is going to have the negative recruiting dialed up to 11 while we are surrounded by a bunch of absolute fricking snakes like Kirby and Freeze. I do think that for DeBoer to succeed long term we need to be pretty good this season and have a handful of guys really up their stock in the new offense.

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I agree about DeBoer needing to be successful in year 1. I'd be ok with 7-6. But looking at the schedule, umm...
I can't find 6 losses.
Nobody is going to know what to expect from BAMA on offense this season. That will be a good thing, especially if DeBoer can keep it vanilla until uga comes to T-town. I'm not going to be shocked if BAMA wins that game. I'll be more shocked if they got blown out.

The other thing about recruiting is that, DeBoer will be recruiting players for a different system than Kirby. That will help him a lot. Do you really need a 5*WR that comes with all the NIL shite when there's guys like Rome Odunze out there? Odunze turned Saban down to go to Washington. He's from Nevada. I know DeBoer didn't recruit him, but there are guys out there like him. I'm thinking DeBoer will be great at getting guys that he can turn into stars because of his system. If not for DeBoer, I'd probably never heard of Rome Odunze, but he's probably the best receiver in the draft, and he still has eligibility.