Unconquered

Good point, but I'm still not sold that his overall position has really changed all that much. That to me, was basically a sound business decision, and it reinforces the thought that we are not in a really sound conference when the decisions by all but one other member are being made on scare tactic positions ... but then again, I realize I'm an odd duck here with my thoughts.

Please Maryland, leave. Be the catalyst to get us out of this awful conference.

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Wetzel saying USF and UCF were the only non-UConn candidates worth taking? WTF is he thinking? Terrible schools to add. And, uh, you forgot Louisville, chap.

I will do all those things with you and stuff......

Is there a place I can sign over my DNA to make this happen? Show me the pool of blood next to the paper. I'm with it. Let's do this.

Fuck you ACC.

Jimbo is "pretty good" -- I view them roughly equally at this point.... considering what they've had to work with.

However -- I do have higher expectations for Jimbo. I firmly believe, all things being equal, FSU is a much easier sell to a kid...

And it's not like I've never complimented Jimbo.... I've said a dozen times he's a fantastic recruiter and does everything right, short of 'game day'. There is no question -- he's earned a right to coach another year here... I just measure the delta between his offense from 6-years ago and the offense he fields now... and his game management from 6-years ago... and his game management now.... and have trouble understanding why we are still making so many of the same mistakes.

If he increases his rate of improvement, he will be one of the best coaches of all time.

Thank you -- fixed.

Anyway, my point is...it's hard to be the best when you surround yourself with riff-raft. The trick is determining what % of the acc suckyness is cyclical and will shift over time.... vs.... what % of it is residual, because they pour their resources into other things.

The residual suck is far too high in my opinion and I think the ACC is more likely to become the Big East... before it becomes the SEC.

Plus... the Big12's death penalty is so damn effective... much more than the ACC's absurd 50 million dollar BS.... so that conference is going to be extremely stable. Clearly the ACC didn't think their way through this 50 million scheme.... if there is already someone ready to fight/pony up the money to jump ship a few months later. No way in hell would this happen with the Big12 Death Penalty... that all members have agreed to.

You guys are glutton for punishment. If we were in the Big 12, how many losses would we have? 4-5? You guys sure you want all of that?

Negative.

After 6-years of evidence, I see no reason why anyone should expect that his 'offensive/game management' rate of improvement will increase dramatically.... it's changed so little over this 6-year period.

In my opinion, hiring an OC is the only thing that will significantly change the 'offensive/game management' rate of improvement.... Now...If he is smart enough to put his ego aside and do it this off-season -- then I will be very impressed.

And you will hear me crowing a very different tune, until enough time has passed to come to a conclusion on said changes.

"We"?

Ridiculous. Oklahoma is the only team in the Big 12 this year that probably could have beaten us. And I'm not sure how likely that even is.

8-teams in the conference could beat us, if we played like we did vs. USF, NC State, Virginia Tech, or Miami (4-games)

4-teams could beat us on our average day (Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, K-State)

1-team would beat our A-game (K-State)....but I doubt they'd ever see it honestly.

I'd like to believe we'd play up to our competition... but even if that is true, we'd probably have 2 more losses this year if we were in that conference. With that said, I'd rather lose 3 games vs. top 25 big 12 opponents... vs. 1 to a suck acc team.... because it makes us that much stronger in the future.

Swoffords son was some executive or something like that at Raycom and they were about to go under until Swofford insisted they get ACC games