Let’s all take a deep breath

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Looking at the big picture, 10-2 and a trip to the Sugar Bowl is still very doable, and would undeniably be a good season and constitute improvement from last year.

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Oh look, it’s the annual week after the Alabama loss thread that pops up every year at this time.

10 regular season wins and a Sugar Bowl trip is a good year, that’s just a fact. Win that and you’re 11-2 and finish in the top 5. How would that be anything to complain about?

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1 game season

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A decade of offensive mediocrity is insulted when you get shut out after running off an actual OC in lieu of promotion of a position coach.

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10 regular season wins and a Sugar Bowl trip is a good year, that’s just a fact. Win that and you’re 11-2 and finish in the top 5. How would that be anything to complain about?

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If you don't demand better, you don't get better.

You think the university wants to spend money on the program? They'd be content to go 8-4 / 9-3 every year, fill the stadium every week and save $2M-$3M a season on an average head coach.

If you don't demand excellence, you won't get excellence.

Sorry, 10-2 with yet another broken offense and another loss to Alabama isn't good enough.

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Only team Bama has shutout this year... go look at who all they've played.

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Also the only team to stop bamas opening drive, also the only team to still have a game after half, and most importantly the only team to get bamas 1st string for four quarters. no doubt i wanted to win, or at least score, but dont compare our lack of success against their monster 1st string to weaker opponents success against their 2nd/3rd/or even 4th string.

Tend to agree Draconian. 11-2 is a 2 game increase in the right direction from last year. Yes, we want to beat Bama, but we have to get a dynamic offense and a few other key positions to do that. I want to see this team not give up the rest of the way and lay waste to the rest of their opponents.

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Also the only team to stop bamas opening drive,

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Only in fantasy football is a team rewarded for not allowing an offense to score alot of points. At the end of the day... a point must be scored to win a game.

I mostly agree

11-2 is a great season
10-3 is pretty decent

This wasn’t supposed to be a rebuild but it is what it is.

We had some legit wins this year.

At this point I am just still concerned about the offense. We should be getting better and we’re really just all over the place. We have 5 more TDS than field goals on the season. We are not great.

“Big picture”

The big picture for me on this Tuesday morning is that we haven’t beaten Bama now in eight years and after last Saturday nights performance, I’m not sure we’re going to beat them anytime soon.’ The other big picture is that our offense isn’t one damn bit better today than it was three years ago. In fact, it’s worse.

We can soft pedal that as much that we want by imagining what nice bowl games we might go to, but for me and at this time those to facts are very disturbing.

Any competitive person that has ever played a down of organized football at any level full well knows that if you don't finish in first place at the end of the season, you might as well be in last place.

Second Place Acceptance is for losers; no difference between second place and last place.

The only bare minimum acceptable finish to the season would be wins over Arkansas, A&M and whatever team we play in the meaningless whatever "Participation Bowl."

That would produce an 11-2 season, which would signify some "Improvement" over last year. Nothing less is acceptable.

No doubt all the Under Rock Dwelling Pump Nuts "will be fine" with something less......