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[QUOTE="AcAndAc, post: 5317293, member: 10310"]
Also... game experience at QB is huge.  Our opponents are loading up on older QBs, while we are rolling with inexperience.  That will make a difference.  Not to channel Boeheim, but this 2024 football team does not win 10 games without McCord.  Start looking through the games... which ones do we win with a replacement-level QB?

Well... that will be next year.  Sure... someone COULD rise up and do well... but even that is not likely to be McCord-level.  The bottem line is that our toughest schedule on paper ever, top to bottom, with our least experience at QB since the year after Nassib graduated.  And even that year we brought in a vet transfer to handle the PSU game.

Sorry, I think next year is very ugly in the absence of a bigger splash at QB.  However, ugly can still set the stage for a great 2026.  I just think we are looking at a lot of victories that do not manifest into wins... i.e. keeping games closed, improving over the season, solidifying who is QB#1 in 2026.  I think a bowl is very unlikely.  Not talking about possibilities, but probabilities.  Not talking about what is wanted.  Not talking about what the players will be striving for.  Just reality.
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