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Message: [QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 3111744, member: 668"] Solid post, and I clearly get your premise. Let me ask you this, If we did go 7-5 last year and [I]"all being thrilled"[/I] as you allude, how would you feel about this start? Not so much that we are 1-2, but in the way we've looked and played in getting there. There were serious struggles against an inferior Liberty team. If Liberty doesn't miss that early 41 yard FG, and then fumble on 1st and goal from the 4, we easily could've started that game down 10-0, and who knows how the remainder of that game plays out. The Maryland game was a complete debacle & annihilation. Many thought the game would be difficult, but there wasn't a soul who imagined what actually transpired. In all honesty, we made MD look like an NFL team and we looked like a high school one. It wasn't as if we had a plethora of turnovers, etc., but played as if we had no business being on the same field as the Terps. And, you mention what could've been early 3Q in the Clemson game, well, if we play that [I]"if"[/I] game, just as I mentioned what easily could've been the case in that Liberty game...being down early 10 zip. Fact is, we were dominated by Clemson as the total yards for the game suggests. I think I remember seeing a stat during the later stages of the 3Q where Clemson had well over 200 yards for the quarter and we were in negative territory. I clearly realize Clemson (at the moment) is the #1 team in the nation, but let's not fool ourselves about how "close" that game was. I in no way have given up on this season, as there's a long way to go. Many have commented about our apparent recruiting misses thus far, along with weaknesses on the OL, receivers not getting open/catching the ball, lack of a running game, etc. so there's obvious reason for concern. I'm not one to make predictions on how the season will play out, time will clearly tell. I'll mention one thing about the O and what Dino promised and uttered repeatedly in year one and two, and that was by the mid-way point of year 3 this offense of his would be clicking on all cylinders, petal to the metal. We are now 3 games into season 4, and this offense needs a serious tune up. I don't want to hear about the new young QB, Devito's 3 years into the program. And when Dino was going around saying this repeatedly, he was well aware of the personnel, who was graduating, recruits coming in, etc. He made it seem that his system would be rolling, and the "next" personnel of[I] his[/I] recruitment would just "plug and play." [/QUOTE]

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