I agree. I guess we will find out to what extent the run-and-gun players buy in to the physical side. It will take a couple more classes to get those players in Fayetteville.My spidey senses tell me to take the hawgs and the 24 against the barn.
Even as bad as the hawgs were last year, they do return 16 starters. I look for them to be more physical and play "Wisconsin Badger" like this year, ground and pound football.
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Almost every time, if there's a real trophy at stake, we show up and take care of business. What's not to respect?
They didn't have the same $uce$$ on the recruiting trail that they had last year.
Yes, we wanted Tony Conner, but Ole Mi$$ wanted him much more than we did.
Sometimes ol' Dickie $crugg$ is a much better recruiter than CNS.
Sometimes ol' Dickie $crugg$ is a much better recruiter than CNS.
I'm pretty positive I'll be in the minority here but I'm really not liking all the preseason hype we are getting. Not for this season. To be favored in every game, To win the West and SECCG and what's looking like a #2 preseason ranking is some major pressure when we have so many question marks on the QB spot, the O-Line, the Secondary, and the Kicking game especially. I really would rather we were starting out ranked somewhere between #6-10.
If we have all those things come together and go 13-0 to make the playoffs with a 1-2 seed I'll be just as ecstatic as everyone else but I honestly think 8-4 to 10-2 is our low-high realistic range for the season record this year. I dunno...jmho.
If we have all those things come together and go 13-0 to make the playoffs with a 1-2 seed I'll be just as ecstatic as everyone else but I honestly think 8-4 to 10-2 is our low-high realistic range for the season record this year. I dunno...jmho.
Not a minority of one, I agree IMO we could finish 10-2. I am not sold on our situation on the OL and QB is still a ?
I agree but the way the playoffs are set up you want to be ranked as high preseason as possible. If we started out ranked 10-15 it would be much more difficult for us to lose one and make top 4. We should have a good chance of still getting top 4 this year if we drop a game. Of course a ton of other factors will play into that. And I know the committee does not use these rankings but it kinda sets a precedent.
Yeah it sucks being a victim of your own success.
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I concur. By most standards I think we will have a very good year but I think we could easily lose 3 ball games this season. In fact I'm predicting us to do just that--go 9-3. I think we are in rebuild mode and will still struggle with the upper echelon teams (LSU, the barn, TAMU) after we wipe out the lower tier sec teams on our schedule. Not being negative because 9-3 is still a pretty good finish in our conference and I love our long term future prospects, I just think there are too many question marks to objectively predict us to win it all this season.
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I don't think A&M is considered an upper echelon team after all they lost to the draft and the ones that got kicked off the team. They won't be pushovers but they shouldn't be as tough as the past two years.
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