re: BO never for one second lost the team

It’s hard to believe that Tennessee and Florida are this bad this year.
If McCann doesn’t kick it to Samuel, Mizzou could be 7-2 or 6-3 right now.

Hooooray. We beat up on a team that didn't bother to show up.

Same as last year. Team comes out totally unprepared, drops the first half of the season, then learns to play by beating up on cupcakes mid season. We cannot go back to square one every damn season. And recruiting is still a black hole of nothing.

your post makes sense.

you are on the wrong board buddy

Y'all are going to beat us by at least 4 scores. Still, we'll always have our big come from behind win over Coastal Carolina.

Sometimes, it just takes awhile for a new head coach, and his team to gel. It’s not that easy with all the defections, and terminations of players. Not to mention that all of the upperclassmen are not his players to begin with. When we’re playing 10-15 true freshmen and RS freshmen there’s going to be rough sledding along the way, and losses to teams we shouldn’t lose to. He’s only been a HC for 1 1/2 yrs.
I think we will continue to get better as time goes on, and by the time his 4 th year rolls around, I think we’ll see a more consistent football team, with trips to bowls each year. Then, maybe we can get some better recruits to take us to the next level.
It takes time for the upper class men to buy into a new coaches philosophy. Some never do. It also takes time for the HC and younger players to grasp what they’re doing. But I do think we’re turning the corner a bit. Well still have bumps in the road, but fewer and fewer as time goes on.

We are far from out of the woods.

We played a team that is basically us 5 or 6 weeks ago - rudderless and with no effort. They have plenty of talent so it was good to beat them like a drum.

But just so we’re clear, we are 0fer teams .500 or above. The combined record of the teams we’ve beaten is 12-23. None of them have won more than 3 games.

Luckily that’s the type of team left on our schedule. Vandy (4-5), Tenner (4-5) and Arky (4-5).

Barry Odom is off to a good start this second half of the season. Even some of the national commentators are saying they look like a different team compared to September.

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Barry Odom is off to a good start this second half of the season.

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Yeah, everyone talked about him finishing strong last year too. Time will tell. Bottom line is, he finishes strong and he'll get the chance to show he can start a season and not just finish one.

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still believe he's too much of a micro-manage

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That may be true for the defensive coaches, but he definitely lets his offensive coaches do their thing.

I mean, ultimately we’re in the same place we were to start the season. Most figured the goal was to become bowl eligible. A lot of us had hoped for better than that. This season hasn’t played out the way we thought, but at seasons end if we are bowl eligible then improvement has happened. Yes, the schedule is weak, and yes the season started much worse than anybody wanted. That being said, win 6 and play a bowl And Barry has earned a third year. Perhaps he’ll have had enough OJT to take into year three and do better, perhaps not. I still want Barry to be successful at Mizzou because that would give great stability to the program. But, I still don’t want to just keep him around for mediocre success. At this point, all we can do as fans is see what happens and hope for the best