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[QUOTE="SU94, post: 1509147, member: 202"]
Agreed.

Agreed. We are gradually getting better, but to think that this is going to be a straight-line assent is silly. Ups and downs. Let's just hope there are are a few more ups than downs. And then on to next year.

Any BTW, the best team does not always win a given game. And that is not a shot at USF in any way.

We’ve won a few we shouldn’t (2012 Pinstripe Bowl, 2013 Texas Bowl perhaps?) and lose a few that, perhaps, we should’ve won (10-9 setback at Louisville in 2009, the infamous home loss in ’97 to NC State).

One game is such a small sample. So many factors come into play. Home–road. Weather. Wind. Humidity. Young team-veteran team. Thursday night vs. Noon on Saturday. Injuries. Injuries. Quality of depth. Of lack of quality depth.

That is why, personally, I try not to go overboard in either direction. That's me. But, honestly, others do (and they are nuts!).

And let’s be honest with ourselves, the margin between any BCS team not ranked in the top 10 and most G5 teams is pretty darn small. Temple beat Penn State. BC beat USC last year. Toledo won at Arkansas last month. Central Michigan almost beat us this year. Now USF just did. Our loss on Saturday was a bummer. Call it disappointing. Both fair. But it is not a indictment on Shafer or on SU football. It was a snapshot of what happened on a given October Saturday afternoon in Tampa. If we played them again next week, same site, the outcome could easily be vastly different.

This is a fluid situation, so to make concrete declarations is futile. 
For anyone, including myself (so this whole reply is now void, right?)!!!
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