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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1849219, member: 40"] Why does it have to be "greatly" extrapolated? Just because you feel the need to temper your own enthusiasm / expectations? Nobody suggests that the schedules were perfectly comparable. What you seem to be overlooking, however, is that BGSU wracked up a ton of yardage and points against P5 competition despite fielding a team of ostensibly inferior recruits. So, while it might not be an apples-to-apples perfect comparison, if Babers could do that with MAC level recruits playing outside, what might he be able to do with ACC recruits and the ability to play more than half the schedule in a domed environment? And who said anything about overlooking anybody? The funny thing is: when you score a lot of points, you have a margin for error in any game. When you don't score a lot of points, then you have an infinitesimally smaller margin for error, no matter who the opponent is. We've tried the latter, time to get with modern college football and give the former a whirl. Edit--for the record, I don't expect a "magical" transformation. I think it will probably take Babers 2 full years to turn over the talent on this roster, get the systems fully implemented, to get the team comfortable with said systems, and to fully replenish depth. That will put us in a state of near-optimization. But we don't have to be fully optimized to win / have success. Dungey is a huge reason why we can be good this year. How good? We'll see. But for me, success doesn't mean rainbows and unicorns need to dance in the end zone after we score touchdowns every possession, and disappointment if that doesn't occur. I think we're actually going to be surprised by how solid the offense plays early, and that it will get better over the course of the season. And by next year, we'll see the same jump in productivity that Babers's teams have seen at both of his previous stops, and we'll be a borderline top 25 team NEXT year. And from there--it will all be a function of recruiting and how good Dungey will prove to be [and how good Culpepper and / or DeVito are following after him]. [/QUOTE]

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