re: Hardy / Handy / Thompson in transfer portal

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I am totally OK with 2021 being an experimental "culture building" year. I don't expect 3-9 but I am not going to get my panties in a wad if we end up .500.

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This.

If there’s any comparison to AU’s gridiron past to be made, its 1999. Sure, last year wasn’t nearly as awful as Bowden/Oliver, but it was also clear that the program wasn’t going to improve, and there was a power struggle going on behind the scenes. Tubs came in with an entirely new staff and a lot of players opted out/were processed. We struggled mightily with talent differentials against most of our opponents that season, but by the end of the year we showed we could compete (blowout win over UGa, close loss to eventual SECC Bama). The next year we won the West.

Not saying that will happen this time around, but it’s clearly the most analogous to any other time in our history.

ETA: realize this would probably fit in better in the 2021 Football thread