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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1158045, member: 40"]
There's no doubt that those three losses last year were disconcerting.  And you didn't even include the Northwestern loss, which was another lopsided blowout that wasn't nearly as close as the final score [I know, because unfortunately I was there to see the game in person].    After the Clemson game last year, I began to get really nervous about how unprepared our coaches / players seemed.
 
But then they rallied, the defense improved exponentially, and we played much better down the stretch. We finished the season on a high note, won our bowl, and all of that gave me confidence that the coaching staff--many of whom were new coaches, implementing new systems, some of whom were in stretch roles--had "passed" the test of their batism by fire. 
 
I was greatly looking forward to seeing what the coaching staff would do this year, now that they had a year's worth of experience under their belts, and had so many starters returning. 
 
Obviously, the results thus far have been underwhelming and disappointing.  How could a team with so much returning, experieinced starters struggle so badly?  Where are the wins going to come from?
 
Not the FSU game, because that would be unfair to saddle the staff with that expectation, but beyond that--can this group rally again and get the team to play better ball?  The gauntlet has been thrown by Shafer in terms of not tolerating unacceptable performance.  It will be interesting to see if this group can somehow turn things around, or whether they just aren't up to the task, and Year One was a mirage.
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