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[QUOTE="Chip, post: 4076410, member: 19"]
Agree.  You start the year with a built in W against FCS.  So have to go 5-6 to make a bowl game.  There's typically at least 1 other OOC that should be a sure win (often 2, but not next year).  So now you have to go 4-6 to make a bowl game.  3-7 to just go 5-7.

If a new coach came in, blew it all up, decided to start all young players as a long term strategy, ok maybe.  If there's an unusual rash of injuries that forces way too many young players, ok maybe.

But in the transfer portal days, no one is going to go the young guy, develop on the field route.  They're going to develop them in practice, weight room, and try to fill the gaps (and hope they don't transfer if they don't start right away).  It's why a guy like Hafley could walk right in and go to bowl games.  You saw what what happens with no Jurkovec.

5-7 should be the every so often low bar, and frankly, the ACC isn't THAT good.

So we either have a Dino problem, or a Syracuse problem that very few can solve.  Better hope it's the former.
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