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You can compare the numbers all you want, but we're still talking about actual losses. He hasn't had a season wiht less than 4 losses, fact. 4 losses is not a good season, is it?

Which have decreased every year, while Gus's have more than doubled every year. Freeze said the goal was to make a bowl game in Year 3...we were primed for the college playoffs if the injuries didn't happen.

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It's been 3 years, not 1. And the thread was asking others how good is he. I never said he sucks and is the worst coach I've ever seen. If 3 years isn't long enough to evaluate a coach, when is? 5 years, 10? Or is it when they finally have a breakthrough season that enough time has passed?

Actually, it's quite fricking simple, dinglehead. Once the coach has a full team of his recruited/developed players. aka Houston Nutt. Looked like a great coach with Orgeron's players...his recruited players were questionable as D1 athletes.

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they're still vanderbilt football. they shouldn't beat real SEC teams, just like UK basketball shouldnt' ever lose to SC basketball.

This is your problem. This is how I know you're a dumb, bandwagon riding fan.Funny you say this, but probably thought Pearl was going to change AU's program.

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ok? And? Hell if it weren't for the last FSU drive we'd be national champs right?

Are you really that dense to realize that I was referencing our extreme lack of depth and that all these games we win if we had any D1 athletes past our 1-deep?

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yet real life shows that you actually did go 7-6.

Correct. Real life also shows AU had 5(6) losses this year.

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most of what you're saying is a hell of a lot of "we almost"s.

Again...are you that dense to catch my point? We almost did a lot of things, but our decimated team that Freeze took over had zero depth. It's as simple as that. We're building depth. Ole Miss will win the SEC before Shea Patterson goes to the NFL.

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I'll ask again, what is the standard accepted baseline for when we're allowed to evaluate coaches, when you say so? 3 years is ample time.

And in fact, based on what has already been said and the fact he hasn't finished better than 3rd in his division, I think a ranking bordering on 7/10 is pretty generous.

Let's bring this back to Pearl and the doormat program of AU basketball. If Pearl had y'all at #3 in the conference next year, what would you rank him?