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[QUOTE="TexanMark, post: 738978, member: 35"]
The way I see it:  If this team is to get to 6-7 wins we will know in the next two weeks.

Let's be honest...Wagner just got upset by Division 2 Merrimack at home
[url]http://www.merrimackathletics.com/sports/fball/2013-14/releases/20130906d1qnsx[/url]

and Tulane lost to South Alabama ( a newbie program like UTSA) at home.

We should be able to work on issues (play selection, player packages) against Wagner and still win by 17-21 points.  Tulane is having some issues like us but we should be able to win by 10 points.

We get to 2-2 and win both games by comfortable margins we have hope.   I do fear the Clemson game.  I think we can hang with them but thoughts of sold out crowds and an upsets look like a pipe dream now.  I know our CNY fanbase and out of the local area alumni base...if we are 2-2 at best we get 43-44k in there.  The good TV slots surely vanished after the o-2 start. I don't see anything better than ESPN2 now and that is mostly off the respect Clemson will receive and the novelty of SU's first ACC game.

Fortunately for us I see wins with Wagner, Tulane and Wake Forest.  BC is still likely.  I put NCState and Pitt as too close to call.  Maryland looks like we'll be an underdog now.  Maybe we can steal another game like GTech.  So to sum up I see us right now at 5-7 wins depending on how fast our team/staff gels.  I don't think we are as hopeless as we saw in the first half of NW but thoughts of 8-9 wins preseason was a pipe dream.  Sadly I drank the kool-aid like I usually do in early August and switched my last spring 6-7 wins prediction to 8 wins for the season prediction contest.

Bottomline:  Fight and get to 6 wins.  Getting to a Tier 3 bowl game somewhere should be our expectation right now.  This will still create momentum as long as we don't get blown out GTech 2004 style in the bowl game.
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