JabbaNoBargain

It’s August which means I’m allowed to get excited about the roster. Pretty sure he’s going to blow up!

There are a lot of crap shoots in the first half of their schedule. Fresno is in a reset, Cal seems to have lost their good players, but they drubbed Beavis last year. Trip to Boone won’t be a sure win by any stretch. 0-6 is certainly not impossible, but I’m guessing a couple of their first 6 opponents will end up being terrible teams and Beavis will end up starting 2-4, then hope to stay healthy enough to finish up 4-2 down the stretch. All very difficult to forecast given the portal world, but one would think any P4 team should be bringing in better new players than Beavis.

tOSU Michigan PSU Wisconsin/Iowa to a degree unless they’re about to stay mediocre. That’s it from my view, and it’s plenty given we have 3 rivals from the real PAC. We’ve beat Michigan 3 straight including twice on the road, I would hope that might fire them up a little. The rest of the conference is wildly inconsistent and with schedule rotation we won’t play any of them enough (prior to the new “super conference” starting within a few years) to develop anything imo.

I’d put them both at 6 wins. The Sewer Rats have a much worse floor though IMO. Their front loaded schedule makes losses more likely even at full strength. Thin depth could make the second half of their soft soft schedule worse than anticipated with a few key injuries and some wear & tear. They also play 5 P4 teams, with 3 of these being perceived as teams in transition that they play at home and they seem to be penciling in as wins. I’d say in the age of NIL there’s a reasonable chance those squads (Cal, Wake, Houston) will have better rosters than the rats.

$40 Billion endowment, these are all choices being made.

If Clownzano thought he was asking me a “hardball” question I’d just start laughing and close Zoom.

They should just be for fun to start dialog. They shouldn’t serve any purpose if SOS is ever actually implemented for assessing a playoff ranking halfway into the season. Alas…

We’re getting a home/home no matter how much most fans (imo)on both sides don’t want it. Clownzano

Agree we should never play a G6 on the road, but apparently Beavis is a special exception to this.

Well my smart-aleck answer is not at all. As mentioned above, he did serve as the catalyst for better recruiting, but there’s a lot of possible cart before horse even with that. He was the first “outsider” coach in decades, it’s possible that any decent recruiting “outsider” could have elevated recruiting, we’ll never know.

Did we have NIL starting in 1994? Interesting logic.

Alabama just can’t get a break

The general strategy seems to be to simply spend the bigger $$ on players who will play right away, regardless of how old they are, but there are no absolutes or simple formulas. USC has an incredible HS class. We’ll see if spending a ton on HS talent upfront is a whiff in short order. Although at a different scale and out of necessity, I think our buddy at CU was ahead of the curve on this front.

With this schedule, 9-3 feels like a worst case to me. As in, we have a negative QB situation we will still go 9-3 with that schedule.

Awesome, bring it on! This is hardly the time to take it down a notch.