Incromprehensible to some? Sure. Irresponsible? Nope.
The point is that that our schedule means that our record is not as bad as it looks. Also, we are regularly playing 5 freshmen and 3 sophmores. If they continue in their growth, there is no reason to believe that they can't at least be in the conversation.
Now, I am not saying that they WILL be on the bubble, but it is mathematically and logically within the realm of possibility, in a relatively weak SEC.
In my opinion, people are just being "politically correct" when they are unwillingly to at least entertain the possibility...A win over Big Blue and/or SC, and all of a sudden it goes from "not possible" to "possible". Well, are we saying that is so unlikely as to not even be worth discussing?
I personally do not think that it is that unlikely. Those teams are no better than some of the teams that we took to the buzzer.