re: Am I alone in this?

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For all of our faults on defense, and I readily admit many are due to youth and talent, Freeze had the opportunity to put us up 4-0 to start the season in his last year with a proven QB. A huge missed opportunity.

I hope Hugh realizes he needs to cut the playing conservative crap after a 3 touchdown lead. I also hope Patterson in the prince that is promised, because if he isn't goo, next year is going to be awful.

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Really? The only real losses on offense will be Kelly and Ingram. I don't have to tell yo who will replace Kelly and the receiving corp might be the best in the country next year. O line should be better. That combined with hopefully a stable of healthy and pretty good backs the run game should be much more of a threat. Defensively, almost the whole bunch will be back. We'll miss Haynes if he goes, but according to the experts he's as likely to maul the quarterback as much as be out of position in his gap. The defense should only get better overall; it can't get much worse.

As for the schedule, it's soooo much better than what we've faced this year. We start with South Alabama (I don't see us pulling a Cow U on that one), before hosting UT Martin and traveling to Cal. Could be 3-0 with just pretty good play. Then we have an off week before the toughest two weeks of the season, at Alabama and at Auburn. We have Vandy, LSU, Arkansas and A&M all at home. Kentucky on the road (certainly winnable), State there and UL Lafayette at home. Next year's schedule is so much more favorable than this year's.

I really don't see us being awful even if Patterson is just fair.

P.S. - We should be able to put all our efforts into each and every week because with the bowl ban there will be none. Every big game should be our bowl game. It's what good teams on a ban do.