Before the season when everyone was predicting realistic expectations for the season pretty much everyone with sense whether in support or against Dooley predicted 7-8 wins which would mean we expected to lose 4-5 games which is exactly what this season seems to be headed for.
I get people don't like to lose but these are the games we expected to lose (if we had sense) Every team that has beaten us either is or was at some point ranked in the top 12. All are currently top 12 BCS teams. And it is not like our team flat out didn't belong on the field with those teams when we played them we were in all those games save Florida.
Yes our defense let us down in each and every game but honestly we just switched out not only almost an entire defensive staff but an entirely different defense.
I do not think anyone should be in any way happy with the season but I do not think the level of alarm-ism is appropriate either. This is what a team looks like when it's a year away from winning because whether are not you guys want to hear it we are competing.
If we lose after the USCe game that will be cause for alarm but if we run the table and win a bowl game after that and come out 8-5 how do you fire the coach? The teams we lost to in most cases dominated their other competition and we were the guys that took them to the wire. We ain't gonna do that to Bama and anyone stupid enough to expect that needs their heads checked. They are the best team in the nation hands down and have been for the past 3. If we can keep the final score respectable we should be damn happy.
The chances of winning against Bama or South Carolina are slim in my own opinion as I think the are the best defensive teams, and heck to an extent offensive even, we will face all year. no one has really gotten to our QB this season and when they do bad things happen and these are 2 teams that will get his jersey dirty early and often.
What I am trying to say is this you guys are asking a coach to pull off the impossible and then blaming him for not being able to do it. It is just not possible for the expectations of the average fan to be realized by this team no matter who the coach was because fact is most fans are what would be considered "low-information" voters.
You guys are the guys who walk into a bar on the wrong side of town and write checks your a-- can't cash and wonder why you wake bleeding in a ditch. The guys who went out and painted the rock should be ashamed of themselves. no matter what you think about the guy that move hurt UT. It made us all look like a bunch of stupid, backwards, impatient rednecks. Yeah we want our coach gone so bad we will make UT look like the perfect place to send your kids. Trust me quite a few recruits looked a that and crossed UT off their list and not just for football. Opposing recruiters are wetting their pants in joy.
This is the same ignorant behavior that happened when Fulmer was let go and one reason we could only get Kiffin and then Dooley. You want him gone so you poison the well...that you have to drink from.
I get people don't like to lose but these are the games we expected to lose (if we had sense) Every team that has beaten us either is or was at some point ranked in the top 12. All are currently top 12 BCS teams. And it is not like our team flat out didn't belong on the field with those teams when we played them we were in all those games save Florida.
Yes our defense let us down in each and every game but honestly we just switched out not only almost an entire defensive staff but an entirely different defense.
I do not think anyone should be in any way happy with the season but I do not think the level of alarm-ism is appropriate either. This is what a team looks like when it's a year away from winning because whether are not you guys want to hear it we are competing.
If we lose after the USCe game that will be cause for alarm but if we run the table and win a bowl game after that and come out 8-5 how do you fire the coach? The teams we lost to in most cases dominated their other competition and we were the guys that took them to the wire. We ain't gonna do that to Bama and anyone stupid enough to expect that needs their heads checked. They are the best team in the nation hands down and have been for the past 3. If we can keep the final score respectable we should be damn happy.
The chances of winning against Bama or South Carolina are slim in my own opinion as I think the are the best defensive teams, and heck to an extent offensive even, we will face all year. no one has really gotten to our QB this season and when they do bad things happen and these are 2 teams that will get his jersey dirty early and often.
What I am trying to say is this you guys are asking a coach to pull off the impossible and then blaming him for not being able to do it. It is just not possible for the expectations of the average fan to be realized by this team no matter who the coach was because fact is most fans are what would be considered "low-information" voters.
You guys are the guys who walk into a bar on the wrong side of town and write checks your a-- can't cash and wonder why you wake bleeding in a ditch. The guys who went out and painted the rock should be ashamed of themselves. no matter what you think about the guy that move hurt UT. It made us all look like a bunch of stupid, backwards, impatient rednecks. Yeah we want our coach gone so bad we will make UT look like the perfect place to send your kids. Trust me quite a few recruits looked a that and crossed UT off their list and not just for football. Opposing recruiters are wetting their pants in joy.
This is the same ignorant behavior that happened when Fulmer was let go and one reason we could only get Kiffin and then Dooley. You want him gone so you poison the well...that you have to drink from.
