From here on out what makes the season: successful, on par or a failure

Let’s start with only giving up 40 points.

9-3 would be absolute best case scenario at the moment. I honestly think we lose this weekend and could be looking at a 7-5 season with losses to Bama and A&M.

You people are ridiculous. LOL. So the team overachieves last year after BK taking over a team with 39 scholarship players and a bowl game where the WR played QB. Could have easily gone 7-5 or 8-4 but got lucky in a few games then loses most of it's veteran defensive players and you think 9-3 is a failure.

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12-0 or 11-1 is a success

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This is the problem with 98% of y'all.

8-4/9-3 with a nice bowl energetic bowl win

Actually best case is 10-2

Wins and losses are important, of course, but if you fairly evaluate the roster, we are still in a crisis mode from two years ago. Setting aside how you allocate fault for that precisely, if you want success and continuity of success, you look at the larger trends in the program. That means you judge the success of this season in how we repopulate our roster for the long haul. Most here do not understand this, but I am now more concerned about how we end the year first, recruiting and, second in the portal, than where we are ranked at year end or what bowl we might end up in.
This program is weaker than i thought, and last year's success may have been fools gold. It certainly was not a good predictor of the health of the program.

Actually best case is 13-2.

I think improved play week to week by the defense will at least show us this staff can adjust and can coach. Imagine how good this team is if the defense moves up to 70th from 117th?