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[QUOTE="Yegorange, post: 366149, member: 803"]
Tristan, unlike OPa I don't sense joy in your comment. More like frustration and disgust. But why such angst and drama? ;-)))

Exactly what metrics are you expecting from a newbie HC (yes, 3 yrs & 4 games total experience is still a newbie).  It's not easy even for an experienced coach to bring a program back from a state ours was in.

Sure he and his staff make questionable decisions at times.  But Hackett is also a newbie. As a side note, it's often a guessing game anyway. It's easy to criticize the 4th down call in the Minny game.  But not many teams have the closing speed of their player who chased down Jerome, even when the D doesn't attack the middle as they expected.  That play could be a TD against most teams on our schedule, and now everyone we play will have to be ready for it.

To get back to "metrics". Did you expect him to do better record-wise than he did in his 1st year? Or his 2nd?  The only thing you can continue pointing to is the ongoing 0-8 streak against BCS starting at the end of last year.  But last years' 0-5 can and should - at least partially - be attributed to the well documented depth and injury issues. Even this years' 0-3 to an extent

Why does one have to be an apologist for acknowledging obvious improvements in both depth and talent level?  Do you really think we're absolutely incapable of clicking against Pitt like we did against WVU, and then going on a winning streak instead of tanking (again due to better depth and health)?  If so, then I'd be interested to hear why.
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