re: Realistically what were your expectations this year.

Honestly, I said 8-4 with losses to ole Miss, Bama, Texas and Tennessee. Didn’t count on the Kentucky loss, so headed to 7-5 now.

I figured 8-4. As I recall:

Split clemson & @kentucky
Loss @ole miss
Split alabama & texas
Loss @ tennessee

What does a loss to Tx do for next year's support. I know we hear about the NIL plan and all that, but 40 or 50 mil will be impossible to replicate yearly.

I wanted to make the playoffs. I thought that was a good attainable goal. Probably not happening now.

We paid for a championship caliber team

9-3 and it’s still in front of us.

10-2 and the playoffs with first round win or loss and I would have been satisfied with that.

We spent more money than anyone named Texas on players, and we have the highest-paid coaching staff in the country in an era where you have an open transfer portal and you can pay players as much as you want.

You don't get time to build any more. Kentucky had a worse record last year, doesn't spend nearly as much on players, has a new head coach it's paying a fraction of what we're paying hot yoga boy, and Kentucky beat LSU and has just 1 loss.

Excuses don't fly. LSU could have kept Brian Kelly and saved buyout money and the upgrade in Kiffin coaching staff payroll for the product he, his staff and his players produced today.

I said 8-4. Even with the players signed we have holes on this roster in major places.

Playoffs or maybe miss just because of a lucky break here or there.

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Cannot see this team making it to 9-3.

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I mean, I would put that at less than a 3% chance. I think most likely is dropping both Texas and Tennessee and eeking out a closer-than-it-should-be win against Arkansas to finish comfortably 7-5.

Frankly, I thought we would be 8-4 or 7-5 after Ole Miss and nothing really changed that. Kentucky kind of scared me that it would be worse, but, frankly, we overperformed those next 2 games.

November was always inevitable.