re: Hunter Yuracheck

START with.

If we had gone to and won 3 straight bowl games would you or would you not feel better about where we are?


Obviously it's not the big picture goal. It's like learning to drive a car. You have to learn how to take the country roads before you drive through Dallas

Bowl games mean nothing now. I'm not exaggerating - literally nothing. Good teams don't even want to participate in some of the better ones. Good players definitely don't. I wish it wasn't that way but it is.

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f we had gone to and won 3 straight bowl games would you or would you not feel better about where we are?

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I'd feel good if we had won more conference games. The bowl games would have no impact on my outlook. Sam beating Penn State and Kansas in pretend games are a big part of the reason we kept him 2 years too long. Our fanbase and administration need to accept that these games no longer mean anything.

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You're telling me finishing 2-10 would have you feeling the same way as 7-6?

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What does that 7-6 mean?

3 rent-a-wins and a scrimmage win to end the season?

So we went 3-6 in legitimate games. 2-6 vs teams we have to compete against year in and year out. That's not an achievement. It's better than going 0-8 but the difference isn't as huge as you're making it out to be.

I think our starting point/baseline should look something like this...


Win your non-conference games. You get an exception if you have a nonconf game vs an opponent that finishes ranked in the top 25

Go .500+ vs the teams you play from the below group:

Vandy, Mizzou, Kentucky, A&M (I know they are good right now, but this is a completely backward and retarded program that should never be feared, regardless of $), Ole Miss, Miss State, South Carolina


Win 1 game from the following:

Texas, LSU, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, Florida



If we did that since 2018 our record would have been:

8-4
8-4
-skipping covid year-
7-5
8-4
7-5
7-5
6-6

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So.... An average of 7.2 wins. We're really arguing about winning 6 or winning 7?

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Huh? We are arguing about winning games vs scrimmages

Your math comes out to an average of 7.2 wins. I'm talking about winning 6 regular season games.

Honestly you could on average end up in the same bowl game either way.

We're saying the same thing

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For now we shouldn't be scheduling Notre Dame, Utah, etc

It should be Boston College, Northwestern, Minnesota, Kansas State, Purdue. Schools in the same type of class as where we currently are.

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Yes especially with the 9 conference game schedule.

Is it still going to be a requirement to schedule a p4 team?

The minute the 9 game SEC schedule dropped we should have called Utah and backed out of the contract, then called Boston College and sad you suck, we suck, lets suck together and do a home and home that lasts for the next 6 years so our p4 is Boston College for almost a decade.

My guess is yuracheck tried but they wanted more than that bean counter wanted to pay.

My guess is your guess is probably closer to correct than my original guess