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[QUOTE="Pyle, post: 3555906, member: 137"]
It was a tough pill to swallow, worse than those pre-nat purple horse pills they gave my ex-wife during her two pregnancies but I did it. I still have questions, still not happy, still have many negative opinions however one of my longest standing arguments is that Shafer wasn't given a fair shake. Fact is Shafer was doing better in recruiting, Shafer didn't really get much chance to play with his own recruits either, at least not offensively. But no denying that Dungey, Ish, Custis, Erv, Estime, etc were major contributors. Shafer recognized the issues with McF'it and the offense was showing promise under Lester. Shafer had to play with a 4th string QB(whether it was his fault or not is a different discussion) and got fired for it.

Fast forward to this year. I see what a kid like Tucker is doing as a frosh and I'm impressed. I see Dino changing coordinators and then not having the proper time to install their plans. I see his QB go down and he's left with a hold-over from the Shafer era and two true frosh. Attempts to fix the QB depth(Amie) and OL have blown up in his face for numerous reasons. Should these things be fixed by year 5? Maybe at a land-grant state school but maybe not here, idk. I do know that in my gut if I were to find out that Dino was fired this year, it wouldn't feel right. It would feel knee-jerk and based more on emotion than logic.

That being said, no more losses to schools like MTSU or Liberty or blowouts to MDs. At least beat who you are supposed to beat and compete when your are supposed to compete.
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