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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4679046, member: 5685"]
What does 2001 have to do with the 2005 environment? Also did we have a Freeney waiting in the wings? All coaches run their course. It happens to everyone. Saying Coach P is human, isn't an insult to him or his legacy. Pretending it didn't happen is delusional.

In 2004 we had bookend blowouts. We also lost to a very bad Temple team who ran the same play over and over and we had no solution. We should have gone to the BCS Bowl that year. Going 6-6 isn't some achievement. It was a sign of a downward trend.

That 2004 team barely won 6 games. We lost players to graduation. 2005 was going to be worse. Saban couldn't win with our QB and WR combo in 2005.

So what exactly was inaccurate? Post McNabb in the old Big East we were 17-18 in conference. That is a five year period and a LOSING Big East record. Then with a watered down Big East we go 4-2. So he was 21-20 in his last 6 years in the Big East. Take your head out of the sand. That isn't good enough. It is JBesque.

Like I said every HC eventually runs their course. Admitting Coach P was at his end does not mean he wasn't a very good HC during his heyday. Pretending he is not human, is a little weird.

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Those huge losses that we had no replacements for Reyes (look at the big games he had in our Ws that year), Ferri (BC alone, but also on D), Terry (NFL 2nd round pick), Tarullo (all conference and started last 37 games), Jones (the only real WR on the roster in 2004). So without those huge losses we are having a better season in 2005?
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