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Message: [QUOTE="alphaorange, post: 72585, member: 305"] I hate losing as much as the next guy but with all the losses of upper-classman starters, I felt we would get to six wins, maybe seven. I don't care about how we look getting there or who we beat to get there. I'm also not a football guru like JO or some of the guys. I am very good at logic, analysis, and problem solving, however. I know that football is a game of talent and execution and strategy. I fully understand that lack of any one of these makes it nearly impossible to win games. In my view, the team talent level is on the rise but still not high enough to overcome injuries, lack of execution, or horrendous strategery. Although I have no inside information on why the coaches prepare the game plans they do, I have a feeling it has to do with the way we match up at certain aspects of the game due to inadequacies of talent or the ability to consistently execute plays. There is no denying the lack of excitement in the play calling on both sides of the ball. But since we have seen games that have contained what we thought the future would hold, I have to think the coaches do things for a reason. But for some horrible officiating and equally bad individual execution in a couple of games, we would be sitting at 7 wins right now. It is really THAT close. The problem is that people on here would still be complaining about Marrone's ceiling and recruiting (even though all signs point to a recruiting haul that is going to be better than any we may have had in close to 15 years) and how we should be doing better if the coaching and recruiting was better. Marrone gets 5 years unless the team continues to regress. It is rare when a coach takes over any program that had regressed to the point ours had and improves ever year over the previous year in wins and losses without a hitch. Sometimes improvements don't show up immediately, such as improved coaching from experience and more talented new players (because they all need time). As I said, I hate losing, too, and I was also upset watching last night. However, I am also aware that there were some individual failures of execution that left at least 18 real points on the board. Not could have been, but would have been. That changes the whole complexion of the game. This board is definitely starting to resemble the bad board...... [/QUOTE]

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