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Post by sdacardinal on Jul 22, 2024 11:46:12 GMT -6
Question marks everywhere with the biggest ones concerning the staff remaining. No faith in the staff to harness talent we have in meaningful schemes. Hope they turn it around.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 22, 2024 11:50:47 GMT -6
Depending on what kind of players Pete has to work with at UB, he'd clean Neu's clock in terms of schemes, using players, and in-game decisions. That lumps us in with Akron and Kent at the bottom - about what I'd expect. This should be the year Akron turns it around (excluding the 3 built in losses against the P5/4 schools). I thought it would be last year, but Irons wasn’t 100% coming into the season and the Zips fate was officially sealed once he went down. The talent level has dramatically increased - already 6 All-MAC players from the 2022 class alone. 13 one score games in two years with only 3 of those being wins. That’s tough. All that said, 4 wins in two years does not deserve a higher preseason ranking. I’d expect Buffalo and Kent to be battling it out for the bottom. It could come down to the last game of the season between those two on who gets a conference win. Buffalo has holes everywhere as Lembo decided to take the same approach Beamer did at South Carolina and attempt to keep the majority of the roster in place. He did make some wholesale specialist changes though. Kent is young at most positions on both sides of the ball. I do think it’s only a matter of time before Buffalo gets it turned around. Lembo already has some talented players committed for the 2025 class. If the preseason predictions are correct, finding 6 to 7 wins is a tall ask. Who knows though, if this staff gets the most of the available talent, it can be done. I keep thinking that with akron but it never seems to happen I agree they should be better |
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 22, 2024 11:51:15 GMT -6
Hard to have faith Neu will be able to do anything to save his job. I like Mike on a personal level and he's an All Time great Cardinal QB, but as a head coach he just has not gotten it done. I don't see any reason why this season would be any different. It'll be sad but I anticipate Mike will be removed the day after the last game. It doesn't feel great but it'll be very necessary. (man I hope I'm wrong. More wrong than usual) !00% |
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Post by officerfarva on Jul 22, 2024 12:03:35 GMT -6
Where are six or seven wins? Look, Negative Nancy, there's no reason whatsoever to think that this team can't put together 6 or 7 wins. (over the next 3 or 4 seasons) |
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Post by villagepub on Jul 22, 2024 12:22:55 GMT -6
Where are six or seven wins? Look, Negative Nancy, there's no reason whatsoever to think that this team can't put together 6 or 7 wins. (over the next 3 or 4 seasons) With the transfer portal and NIL, every season is going to be a brand new roster. Some years may hit, others may not. You cannot rule out 6 or 7 wins, just like you cannot rule out 2 or 3 win seasons. |
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Post by david75bsu on Jul 22, 2024 13:23:26 GMT -6
Hard to have faith Neu will be able to do anything to save his job. I like Mike on a personal level and he's an All Time great Cardinal QB, but as a head coach he just has not gotten it done. I don't see any reason why this season would be any different. It'll be sad but I anticipate Mike will be removed the day after the last game. It doesn't feel great but it'll be very necessary. (man I hope I'm wrong. More wrong than usual) This is why I did not renew my season tickets, tired of losing! |
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 22, 2024 14:02:04 GMT -6
Look, Negative Nancy, there's no reason whatsoever to think that this team can't put together 6 or 7 wins. (over the next 3 or 4 seasons) With the transfer portal and NIL, every season is going to be a brand new roster. Some years may hit, others may not. You cannot rule out 6 or 7 wins, just like you cannot rule out 2 or 3 win seasons. Exactly no one knows its like buying a stack of random lottery tickets... Some times your going to hit big.. Other times you break even sometime you lose it all |
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Post by 00hmh on Jul 22, 2024 16:58:03 GMT -6
With the transfer portal and NIL, every season is going to be a brand new roster. Some years may hit, others may not. You cannot rule out 6 or 7 wins, just like you cannot rule out 2 or 3 win seasons. Exactly no one knows its like buying a stack of random lottery tickets... Some times your going to hit big.. Other times you break even sometime you lose it all The big guys don't play the lottery, or at least can afford to... Lottery tickets are entertainment for those with money to spare. A sucker's game. Those guys go to Vegas and not the convenience store checkout to gamble. |
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Post by CallingBS on Jul 22, 2024 18:30:37 GMT -6
Those in the lowest fifth in terms of socioeconomic status (SES) had the “highest rate of lottery gambling (61%) and the highest mean level of days gambled in the past year (26.1 days)
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Post by thebsukid on Jul 22, 2024 19:54:34 GMT -6
6 wins!
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Post by cardfan on Jul 22, 2024 20:05:20 GMT -6
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Post by 00hmh on Jul 22, 2024 20:35:56 GMT -6
Those in the lowest fifth in terms of socioeconomic status (SES) had the “highest rate of lottery gambling (61%) and the highest mean level of days gambled in the past year (26.1 days) It's not a way to make money, it's a way to entertain for few bucks you have in hand, doesn't cost much... but it's a sucker bet. |
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Post by rmcalhoun on Jul 22, 2024 20:47:53 GMT -6
Exactly no one knows its like buying a stack of random lottery tickets... Some times your going to hit big.. Other times you break even sometime you lose it all The big guys don't play the lottery, or at least can afford to... Lottery tickets are entertainment for those with money to spare. A sucker's game. Those guys go to Vegas and not the convenience store checkout to gamble. I thought it was pretty clear we were talking Ball State level |
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Post by calpoly on Jul 23, 2024 8:48:50 GMT -6
1 MO State 2. JMU (hoping all their talent landed at IU) 3. WMU 4. Kent 5. NIU 6. Buffalo BGSU a possibility; heck even Vandy might be a possibility. Way to difficult as no one knows anyone's rosters. And, I could be way off and we win 3...... |
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Post by cardfan on Jul 23, 2024 9:35:27 GMT -6
1 MO State 2. JMU (hoping all their talent landed at IU) 3. WMU 4. Kent 5. NIU 6. Buffalo BGSU a possibility; heck even Vandy might be a possibility. Way to difficult as no one knows anyone's rosters. And, I could be way off and we win 3...... Lots of wishful thinking. WMU has way more talent than we do. The others, maybe? Just really hard to project 6 wins with much confidence. And I don't think 6 wins saves any jobs. |
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