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Message: [QUOTE="anomander, post: 1033022, member: 2766"] I am extremely excited. The more and more I think about it, and look over our opponents, and what they return/lose, the better and better I am feeling. Not only I am expecting a remarkable improvement from our offense, but we also catch a couple breaks in the schedule. Obviously there are no such things as gimme's but I think it worked out well that 2 our of conference road games BC, and Wake should give us a good shot at a win. There has been threads here how Addazzion basically cleaned out the cupboards and is going at it with a skeleton roster of 65 kids or something like that. Throw in the fact that it's the last game of the season (and i am expecting a very poor season for BC) BC very well could be working with walk ons getting playing time. They also are going through a 1 year transition at the qb spot. My guess is they give the start to Murphy, who if anyone watched Florida's offense last year, is nothing to write home about. I think he will get Addazzio through to Darius Wade who can take over as a 4 year starter in 2015. It actually seems like he saw the writing on the wall and sacrificed a season to better themselves going forward. Same can be said for Wake in a sense. Another brand new staff, and a team that lost all their leaders. Total rebuild year for the Deacs. Obviously it's reallll early, but having it set up where we are in a good spot to take 2 division road games can't be taken for granted, regardless it's just BC and WF. It would also be nice to go up 2-0 on both of them after joining the ACC, and then getting them both at home the following year. Don't think that won't be used on the recruiting trail. A couple other small related schedule advantages is getting Pitt on the road after a bye week. We will probably need it at the time since we would have been playing for 8 straight weeks. We also get NCST at home who will have 33 new faces, and Duke, who I feel is extremely over rated. They played absolutely nobody last year in the OOC to pad their record. So basically when playing @Pitt following a bye is potentially your 3rd toughest conference game...well you can see where my confidence is coming from. And that's really not getting into us that much. We return a ton of talented, experienced starters on both sides of the ball. I have no doubt that our offense will be much improved, and we have enough talent returning, and entering the program that I think the defense can be just as good. If we can stay away from injuries to Hunt and our offensive line, I see no reason why we shouldn't EXPECT to win 8 games, and hope for 9 if everything falls into place. [/QUOTE]

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