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[QUOTE="721Comstock, post: 3057599, member: 5429"]
No predictive system is perfect, and it's acceptable to rag on the flaws.
Bill C will freely admit (and has) that S&P+ is really bad for predicting anomalous results - like ours last year.  
Which is fine, and completely understandable.

IF recruiting was really so impactful, then teams like FSU, Llvll, and UNC would almost never have losing seasons, since they all recruit consistently very well.  
Certainly better than we have done over the past bunch of years.

Yet - here we are, they all sucked last year, and all 3 of them have new coaches now. 
(FSU's was new the prior season, of course)

S&P+ is right - We ABSOLUTELY gave up waaaaaay too many big plays on D.  
However, most of that was the first half of the year, when the LB's were playing on their heels, rather than attacking, and we ran the 4-2-5 for most of that.  
Once we went 4-3, and the LB's started playing upfield, the D improved dramatically.

And our O was most definitely inefficient.   Dungey struggled with his throwing for most of the year, with the NCST game as a miraculous passing outlier from him.   
He made up for a lot of that with timely running, but as Dino would say "we left a LOT of meat on the bone" in most of our games on O.
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