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Message: [QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 2354328, member: 204"] It's nice to be happy with the improvement in the team this year and it's a good thing to be optimistic about where this program is headed, but I would not get too excited about what happened yesterday, and I would not discount how well the program performed from 1987 through the McNabb years. The Miami team we played yesterday is a solid team but not a great team. The Syracuse University Football team that lost badly to Miami in 2001, was beaten by what is probably the greatest college football team ever put together. That Hurricane team, you may recall, led Nebraska 34-0 at [B]halftime[/B] in the National Championship game. That team had All-Pros all over its roster. The Va Tech team that beat us up badly when we had Troy Nunes at QB was led by probably the most dynamic college football player of his era, Mike Vick and I am pretty sure went on to the National Championship Game that season. We went to the Liberty, Gator, Fiesta and Orange Bowls during the McNabb years. We beat a very good Wisconsin team, a solid Michigan team and a pretty decent Miami team while McNabb was the QB. We beat a favored Clemson team pretty badly in the Gator Bowl and competed hard against, and with a few breaks could have beaten a very good K-State team in the Fiesta Bowl with McNabb. We lost a few disappointing games during those years - a few - but I don't recall any McNabb teams getting beaten badly, other than maybe the Orange Bowl loss to Florida. So, I am very enthusiastic over what I have seen this year, but I am not accepting yesterday as a moral victory - I thought we could win that game and thought that at that point when we were down one point with five minutes to go, we would win the game. [/QUOTE]

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