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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 3972645, member: 40"] Which was totally unnecessary, by the way. All good. Here's the thing: GoSU96 is consistently one of the least "fanboy" type of posters with respect to football. He's pragmatic [sometimes frustrating so -- sorry, Go] and usually downplays optimism. He's data driven with respect to his opinions. And he sometimes calls out why on-field results are misleading or should be taken with a grain of salt. So prior to preseason camp, when he started breaking down the roster and looking objectively at this season's outlook, I took notice when he started saying things like [paraphrasing]: [LIST] [*]Hey, I know that the OL has sucked for two years, but looking at depth / experience, I think we're going to see markedly improved execution up front... [*]The back 7 on D are stacked -- if the DL does their part, we might be better than expected on D... [*]DeVito and Shrader are pushing each other in practice. If QB play improves... [/LIST] Then, once the games started and we had observable data, he started taking note of things like: [LIST] [*]The OL is looking serviceable, and this is without a key starter [Davis] [*]The DTs are performing MUCH better than expected, again without a key starter [McKinley Williams] [*]WRs have been pedestrian, but if we get some of the younger players into the mix... [*]DeVito hasn't been all that bad, despite some of the opinions expressed on the board [/LIST] EVERYONE is frustrated about the Rutgers loss. It was a huge opportunity to get out of the gate 3-0, in a season where we absolutely have to get to a bowl. And it would have been a statement win against a local peer program that negative recruits the hell out of us. But most of all, RU wasn't better than us. We held them to a low score, but shot ourselves in the foot with repeated turnovers. But when Go says that he likes our chances against Liberty and beyond, and that this is possibly the best team we've had behind 2012 and 2018 -- I pay attention. Not because he's saying what I want to hear, but because he isn't usually a rah rah poster who views things through orange colored goggles. Doesn't mean we're going to win tonight. But it also suggests that whatever today's outcome is, an L isn't the end of the world. We need to get 6. Anything more, while that would be great, is gravy. Postseason or bust -- and per Go's assessment above, we're trending in the right direction on BOTH sides of the ball. [/QUOTE]

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