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[QUOTE="Ozcuse, post: 1158039, member: 766"]
It's the way we're losing and how badly we are losing. A loss is a loss but perception wise, I'd rather lose by a point, a FG, or a TD than lose by 3+ TD's.

These are the worst losses by year in the Marrone era:

2009-  Lost by 27 points (@ #14 Pitt 10-37)

2010- Lost by 31 points (Pitt 14-45)

2011- Lost by 21 points (@ USC 17-38)

2012- Lost by 14 points (#2 USC 28-42)

Now compare that to 2013-2014 in the Shafer era where we have already had [B]3 losses in 18 games worse than any of Doug Marrone's 50 games.[/B]

2013- Lost by 35 to Clemson, lost by 56 to Georgia Tech, and lost by 56 to Florida State.

Now you can say that it's an upgrade in competition however there has also been an upgrade in overall talent on our end as well. Doug Marrone also tended to get the team ready for good competition beating ranked WVU 3 times, ranked UL, and keeping respectable scores against USC.

I don't think the defensive strategy has changed, we've been high-risk, high-reward since Shafer arrived and it has burned us in the ACC but the offense the last 18 games has been pretty terrible against peer competition.

We have only broken 30 once against peer competition in 18 games (34-31 vs. Boston College)

This needs to change or we're gonna be Wake Forest 2.0 in the ACC.

I'm not criticizing Shafer at all for taking out McD he just wasn't up to the challenge.
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