Through the Smoke

Well if u remember correctly everything got screwed up a week before the season throwing huge plumbers wrenches in every gear but RB basically... So yeah had we been full strength no suspensions a very different outcome to last years season.... This year I see the defense playing alot better carrying us through the first couple games while the Offense finds its identity and gets the kinks out..

Me personally I wouldn't say all the predictions last year were wrong. Who knew we would have the scandal we had last year, with most of our starters on defense being suspended for the first game of which we would have won otherwise. Last year was just a ruff season all the way around and the one thing we did find out about the 2008 class, is that they didn't have the heart to turn things around. A stop here or there, would have easily given us 9-10 wins last year.

That's sort of what I was thinking. I just feel this schedule Is ripe for the picking this year. With Butch gone from UNC, I feel they're in for a rough few years and I think we've mastered that GT offense.

It depends how many games we play. If we only play 12 then I think a 9-win season is realistic. If we play 13-14 games, a 10-win season wouldn't be far-fetched.

6-6 being realistic, nothing dooming about that; young team makes mistakes that's is a fact that you can clearly see all around the country and from past seasons.

For the people that keep saying 6-6, are you looking at the schedule and making a educated guess or just picking a safe number off the top of your head? I see the first 5 games of the year and there is no one there that will be favorite against us! Everyone keeps point to our question marks, but every team has question marks!

UNC has lost a bunch, including their head coach!
We have FSU, USF, UNC at home!
Our defense will be better.
No scandal hitting us in the face going into the year! I just don't understand the pessimistic outlooks. Are people really that scorned?

Ima follow ya 8-4 I think we win a game we aren't suppose to.

Have you looked at some of these other teams? They're no more experience then we are. No one is returning 22 of 22 starters from last year! Because we had so many injuries last year and supensions, we're returning a lot of players from last year that played more then they should have but it did give them valuable experience. We were playing with 250lbs DT's!!! Those kids are now a year older and around 300lbs this year and a lot stronger!

When you add up all those factors, you can therefore make an educated guess that we will be better then last year!

Cream the spin can go both ways, some guys (myself and Tamp) like to be optimistic. We are not saying that we are NC material but we ain't rolling out 250 lbs lineman this year either. The key for us is our D, we need stops and take aways, if we can do that then we will help our o out a lot.

Look all I'm saying is I'm being a realist, if things go as some of the optimistic posters say it will go then GREAT, I wouldn't want it any other way. But keep in mind, if this thing don't meet your expectations don't be angry at them or the coaches. Everything takes times and preparation and some times it takes more than one and half year to fix that issue.