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Message: [QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1138895, member: 2265"] The board reminds me of 2011, Ryan's second year as a starter. Many of us thought that team could win a BE Championship and go to a good bowl. The team had talent on both sides of the ball, a good staff and a few good skill players. [LIST] [*]We started out with an exciting OT 36-29 win over Wake Forest (great TD pass/catch Nassib to Chewey). Very exciting. [*]Then, with everyone excited, we pull out a clunker vs Rhode Island 21-14. [*]We're 2-0 headed to MetLife to face the Trojans. Everyone though we had an outside chance of an upset. We lose 17-38 but know we really did have a chance if we had not made so many mistakes. [*]We then return to the Dome and win a game we really lost. A PAT in regulation that was clearly missed was called good even after the replay. ESPN played it 1,000 time to show we lucked out. We won in overtime 33-30 in the OT. 7 penalties for 75 yards. [*]At this point we are counting our lucky stars being 3-1 and looking forward to Rutgers at home. The football gods decided to even things up. San San Te kicked a 47 yard FG in the second OT and then, as we were driving, Antwan Bailey fumbled and Rutgers recovered ending the game. Bailey appeared to be down on the replay but the ruling on the field "stands". We had 5 To's and Rutgers had 4. So many blown plays - a hard loss to swallow. [*]We travel to Tulane and despite being -2 in TO's we pull out a squeaker 37-34. We clearly played down to the opponent in this one. [*]Then THE GAME - we absolutely kill WVA in the dome 49-23 and we look like a top 25 team. We're 5-2. [/LIST] At this point we are all saying to ourselves OK, the team is ready, we can win out and have a 10 win season - yeah! No so fast my crusty friend. We lose our last 5 and look even worse doing it. This team has started out in a similar fashion in that we have talent on both sides of the ball and have a lot of experience, in fact the most experience in the ACC. We have a good staff and a few good skill players. But we also have the same problems. A QB that looks great at times and terrible at times. A lack of focus that makes us error prone. An offense that at times looks very promising and then falls back into an uncoordinated mess (Oh, the humanity!). Our attacking defense will always give us agita as we live by the sword and die by the sword. That's OK with me. Promise, promise, promise - my kingdom for a hero here and now! [/QUOTE]

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