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[Chip]

A number of people in the tacked season prediction thread.

I put 10-2 in the prediction thread.

Because the prediction thread is meaningless. It's the time to dream.

I now regret not saying 12-0.

We've had about 7,000 threads regarding this year's schedule and results. The reasonable people in those threads saw this season as 3 losses before we ever took the field.

Louisville was probably thrown in the swing game group more than anything else.

 

[007]

I put 10-2 in the prediction thread.

Because the prediction thread is meaningless. It's the time to dream.

I now regret not saying 12-0.

We've had about 7,000 threads regarding this year's schedule and results. The reasonable people in those threads saw this season as 3 losses before we ever took the field.

Louisville was probably thrown in the swing game group more than anything else.

I'm not sure how "meaningless" the prediction threads are in the sense that it seems to spawn a lot of "I'm a better fan than you cuz I think we are going to win at least X number of games" ridiculousness.

 

[AZOrange]

ND plays @ FSU on October 18th. If the game was a pick em, would you bet on ND?

I might. The big hangup for me on that game is "@". Neutral site I might very well pick them.

 

[Chip]

I'm not sure how "meaningless" the prediction threads are in the sense that it seems to spawn a lot of "I'm a better fan than you cuz I think we are going to win at least X number of games" ridiculousness.

I guess it depends on how seriously you take it.

Let me know when I win cash, and I'll change my tune.

 

[007]

I guess it depends on how seriously you take it.

Yeah, and water is wet, Chip.

 

[CanadianSU]

Nobody On The Schedule Is A Given Win Right Now.

CMU Now Looks To Be A Challenge.

And I Have No idea Whether It's Talent Or scheme

It is scheme. Definitely scheme.

 

[anomander]

Nd is better than clemson

Big difference playing in Death Valley and MetLife

 

[CanadianSU]

Screw you guys! Your all offside. Seriously, saying 1-4 is us getting some breaks is just complete nonsense. YOU REALLY think we need some breaks to beat wake Forest? Signs of a Basketball only. Ville, ND, Wake, and yes even Clemson we can win.

Come on. Fix the scheme and we are good.

 

[KaiserUEO]

I guess it depends on how seriously you take it.

Let me know when I win cash, and I'll change my tune.

Gratuitous self plug here...I won the hoop Tourny pool one year and every year I bring it up...and NONE of the other winners EVER have.

Either the other winners never give a shlit about march madness or my theory is that we get a whole bunch of trolls and/or lurkers who sign up, 1 wins it...and vanishes into neverneverland with the satisfaction of pounding a bunch of fools who thought Harris was going to the nba right back into submission.

But yeah, god forbid you pick a loss for the football team, a ton will jump all over you. I picked a 4-8 in like June and boy did that spark about 4 pages of insults directed at me.

Traffic up, mission accomplished...

 

[TheCusian]

I said the only sure fire loss games are FSU and Clemson. I stand by that.

 

[Shrmdougluvr]

SU had a good change to go 3-2 against ND, FSU, Lville, Wake and Clemson.

1. I hope people are realistic and stop thinking the ND and Lville were going to fall off because of changes.

2. I hope the team emerges healthy.

3. I hope we don't see any "Shafer has lost me" or "He's horrible and in over his head" posts when they come out of that stretch.

Your defeatist attitude is refreshing. Nothing like a pre-emptive i told you so...you win the internets. Also, the premise of the thread and the numbers that follow are not mutually exclusive.

 

[KaiserUEO]

I said the only sure fire loss games are FSU and Clemson. I stand by that.

ND was the 3rd for me.

I was 60/40-L/W on lville & doook.

The rest were 50/50 or better.

Game 1 has me wavering...

 

[baggerbob]

Remember this thread at the end of the season, about who jumped ship after 1 game. As fans we can be upset about the bad 1st game performance, but this thread is over the top. How many teams had to play most of the 1st game without their most important player?

 

[RF2044]

Remember this thread at the end of the season, about who jumped ship after 1 game. As fans we can be upset about the bad 1st game performance, but this thread is over the top. How many teams had to play most of the 1st game without their most important player?

Hear, hear.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

damn it would be better if Marrone was the coach

Right?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[TexanMark]

ND was the 3rd for me.

I was 60/40-L/W on lville & doook.

The rest were 50/50 or better.

Game 1 has me wavering...

About where I'm at...next week (CMU) will tell us a lot. we win and a bowl is still likely IMHO. We lose, watch out.

 

[Crusty]

I think we will be a completely different team by October.

1. We are 1-0 after playing lousy against a team that was better than we thought.
2. We will beat CMU
3. We will beat MD
4. We will beat Wake
5. We will beat NC State
6. We will beat BC

I think we will win 2 of the others - probably Pitt and Duke.
ND is better than I thought they would be but I don't know that UL and Clemson really are yet.
We'll have to wait until 2015 when JW goes to the NFL or jail before we can beat FSU.
That is all.

 

[Cuseregular]

no sure things one way or another going forward with the obvious exceptions of FSU and Clemson. Regardless of outcome I'm going to be looking for how the team looks, effort given, are they ready to compete, appropriate game plans, some adjusting along the way, etc. Those things are well as W and L's will help determine where my heads at re the staff and team. CMU will tell us a lot.

 

[GoSU96]

no sure things one way or another going forward with the obvious exceptions of FSU and Clemson. Regardless of outcome I'm going to be looking for how the team looks, effort given, are they ready to compete, appropriate game plans, some adjusting along the way, etc. Those things are well as W and L's will help determine where my heads at re the staff and team. CMU will tell us a lot.

Very reasonable. Completely agree.

I think that Shafer needs to be cut some slack this year.

 

[OrangeinBoston]

Very reasonable. Completely agree.

I think that Shafer needs to be cut some slack this year.

Huh? Why do you think Shafer needs to be cut slack? Why shouldn't the expectation be higher than last year?

 

[CuseGoose]

I was out at a bar last night and overheard some guy saying that he regretted buying his ND tickets early cause now SU was certain to get crushed... I'm really sick of this fair weather attitude in this town. If you go to a game you should be going because you enjoy going and not because you expect to win. I have great seats for my season tix and could easily sell my FSU tickets on the secondary market for what I pay for the whole season. That will never happen. Even though I expect us to get rolled I enjoy the people I go to the games with and if some miracle happens and SU wins, I'll be able to say I was there...just like for Louisville and WVU for their last trips to the Dome as ranked teams. Unfortunately, threads like this and general comments I hear make me think I'm in a very small minority...

 

[Rocco]

Rank of those 5 teams in my book:

FSU
ND
Clem or Louisville (tie)
Wake


We can win 4 of those games and we can also lose all 5. Let's get past CMU and Maryland first.

 

[jgeorge322]

Our offense that mcd installed isnt good. Therefore, were going to struggle to win. I hope im wrong but i dont think so.

On another note, is mcd getting help in the box this year?

 

[Millhouse]

Nobody On The Schedule Is A Given Win Right Now.

CMU Now Looks To Be A Challenge.

And I Have No idea Whether It's Talent Or scheme

it's so much more work to capitalize every word. i'm the opposite, i can't be bothered with shift. normal sounding posts start to read like the worst headlines off of bleacher report

 

[OrangePA]

it's so much more work to capitalize every word. i'm the opposite, i can't be bothered with shift. normal sounding posts start to read like the worst headlines off of bleacher report

I am truly amazed that folks on this board can spend time worrying about letter capitalization.

I gather you missed the explanation I gave months ago.

So here goes.

For some reason when I post using my cell phone the first letter of each word capitalizes.

I've tried to stop it, but that's the way it prints.

Sorry, but there's nothing I can do about it.