Expectations for Pruitt's 2nd year

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Most of the people who had the highest expectations are now the ones arguing Pruitt should not be fired for 0-3 wins.
 
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Honestly, most of these pics are still possible. We gonna likely lose to Bama and UGA. Other than that, nobody we play has looked that good either. Did anyone catch the Florida game this weekend? That game, on a play by play basis, was a lot more competitive than the score indicates. USC obviously beatable. Mizzou already got blasted. We've got serious problems, but our schedule is weaker than anyone could have anticipated. We will win some games this year, in conference.
 
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volgrad500 said:
Honestly, most of these pics are still possible. We gonna likely lose to Bama and UGA. Other than that, nobody we play has looked that good either. Did anyone catch the Florida game this weekend? That game, on a play by play basis, was a lot more competitive than the score indicates. USC obviously beatable. Mizzou already got blasted. We've got serious problems, but our schedule is weaker than anyone could have anticipated. We will win some games this year, in conference.
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How much cognitive dissonance does it take to really believe that '9-10' wins is still possible at this point?
 
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volgrad500 said:
Honestly, most of these pics are still possible. We gonna likely lose to Bama and UGA. Other than that, nobody we play has looked that good either. Did anyone catch the Florida game this weekend? That game, on a play by play basis, was a lot more competitive than the score indicates. USC obviously beatable. Mizzou already got blasted. We've got serious problems, but our schedule is weaker than anyone could have anticipated. We will win some games this year, in conference.
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We're going to get beaten badly by almost everyone you name. There's not looking "that good" and "more competitive than the score" and there's losing the opener at home to Georgia State, it's apples and oranges.
 
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BeardedVol said:
How much cognitive dissonance does it take to really believe that '9-10' wins is still possible at this point?
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Lol. Well I mean (mostly) from a mathematical standpoint. I'm not saying I think we will win that many games. But we've all been focused on how bad we are (and rightfully so) but people are forgetting that no one in the East not named Georgia looks t be all that good.
 
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volgrad500 said:
Lol. Well I mean (mostly) from a mathematical standpoint. I'm not saying I think we will win that many games. But we've all been focused on how bad we are (and rightfully so) but people are forgetting that no one in the East not named Georgia looks t be all that good.
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It just compounds our misery that we play Bama, every fricking year. Some teams can sometimes get a pretty good draw out of the West but in recent years we never do because the 800 lb. gorilla is ever present. I'm not one of those who wants to drop the game, mostly out of pride, but dangit, taking our medicine down there this year is not going to be pleasant.
 
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volgrad500 said:
Lol. Well I mean (mostly) from a mathematical standpoint. I'm not saying I think we will win that many games. But we've all been focused on how bad we are (and rightfully so) but people are forgetting that no one in the East not named Georgia looks t be all that good.
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BYU is not very good for a sudo-P5 team. Georgia State isn't even good by Sunbelt standards. I know there is no transitive property in football, but without catastrophic collapses by our SEC opponents, coupled with a groundswell of improvement, unseen so far in Pruitt's tenure, 9-10 wins being "mathematically" possible, is realistically nearly impossible.
 
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BeardedVol said:
BYU is not very good for a sudo-P5 team. Georgia State isn't even good by Sunbelt standards. I know there is no transitive property in football, but without catastrophic collapses by our SEC opponents, coupled with a groundswell of improvement, unseen so far in Pruitt's tenure, 9-10 wins being "mathematically" possible, is realistically nearly impossible.
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I wouldn't be as down on the team and the coach if not for the loss of Georgia State, BYU can never be taken lightly simply for the reason that many of their players are 2-3 older on average than everyone they play and many are grown men who are married with families. They also play with a lot of religious pride, as most of their players are of the LDS faith. Add that to the fact that being Mormons a lot of their kids don't deal with the same kind of distractions (namely a love of booze and women) that every other school's athletes do and they are usually pretty focused so you have to actually beat them. Accordingly, they are always a reasonably tough out, even when they are just kind of so-so. I was telling people all summer that I wasn't going to count that game as an automatic win. Everyone though, everyone considered Georgia State an automatic win, and there is no way in hell we should have lost that game with reasonably adequate coaching, especially considering it was the first game. Viewed through that prism, the BYU loss, after going to the extreme of having a players only meeting after week 1 looks much, much worse.
 
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Vol_from_86 said:
I think folks underestimate what solid LB play can do for a defense. I also think people underestimate the impact that an elite true freshman can make on the offensive line in the SEC.

To'o'to'o and Crouch put in a good year while Taylor and Thomson lock down the perimeter. Morris is Freshman All-SEC. Throw in a Chaney offense and you've got yourself a 9-3 season. 10-2 if Trey Smith stays healthy.
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Redo?
 
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