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this is 100% correct - it just feels like we are at the bottom of the canyon with some new climbing gear and headed back up to a spot we can at least see the horizon and then make a plan to climb the mountain.

agree totally - Miles had a great end to the season, however OL deserves a chunk of that credit.

I think his work is done 100% between sunday and friday. When saturday gets here we probably have a game plan and the players just need to execute. Now i'm sure there is a certain coach in charge of the unit during the game to make minor adjustments if a wrinkle is found or needed.

Yes first class was mostly a bust - Scott and company have stated many times that their goal was to over recruit the class before so that the guys had to work hard to keep their rank on the team and it is pretty evident that the first class was a notch down. With that said we will probably see a couple slow bloomers that surprise us this year and next.

Agree the program is on a decline that needs to change soon - as i stated. Technicality - LOL. That's like a statistician leaving out a group of data to get the "right" answer. Either way we both agree with nearly everybody on this board that the level needs to climb a couple steps and hopefully more like 4 or 5 steps.....

NU has fallen way below what fans, players and coaches have expected over the past twenty years. And high bowls and conference championships on a steady basis may be a better indicator then National Championships (this is easier to say now that we have 5 - for a team that has 0 it would probably be the other way around) but we have played in a top bowl in the past 20 years so luckily we can't be lumped into the "few power 5 conference teams that have failed......

Here come the excusses

Hope this year goes well. however if we show small signs of growth - the above should lead to success in future years.

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....sure glad that second description was just a hypothetical.

Was there a specific injury listed? Will Covid issues be stated or will they be listed as a generic "unavailable"?

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Glad to see that gap shrinking - little misleading with the ratio of upper classmen for them compared to NU. However that changes over the next couple of seasons. Need to win 2 games this year that we aren't supposed to to keep this rolling.

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In a normal year yes but all team's are looking for live bullets for the guys that see the field the most - 4 games have been removed for ramp up of the starters.

It serms that a combination of DL Talent and DL Development got 3 guys to the league last year. Unless you want to give ice cream man all the credit for developing them.

OSU will probably put up crazy yards. Part of this will be their talent and part the NU def will play super agressive. This could lead to 2+ turnovers. We could see 550+ yards and 2+ turnovers causing the the total points to be 35/40ish

Guessing you haven't had the pleasure of watching a game with two or more wives that say we should get together for a game and then after the first kickoff forget there is a game for the next 3+ hours

Part of the advantage of SF offense is to have guys that can do 2 or 3 things in the same series - if offense doesn't sub defense won't have time to. If defense has a pass defense on the field the advantage to move an extra WR to TE and another WR to RB would be a nice run advantage.

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Agree completely on all areas. The Frost pressers looks like he has some confidence and the bodies of some of the big boys look like they want to proof something. Now things may not go our way early in the season.... or maybe they will. But to say that SF hasn't had gains with this team is only looking at the W/L column.

It's a joke that gets made every time something doesn't go our way even thou we have plenty of nice things. i figured if we were just joking i would send one also - sorry if you can't take a joke.

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