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puc86

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  1. Jose Fernandez came into an actual crisis and faced tremendous adversity taking over a program that had just lost their coach to a national racism scandal, Seth took over a Paschal team that won two conference games and managed to win two conference games and CWT came into a 3 win team and managed to win 2 games following an awful plan that if he had continued with would have seen him justly fired. Most people have managed to make their tweaks and even if they were completely wrong stay marginally close to the person they replaced but that’s not the case here, CJS failed on a level nowhere near the level that CCS got fired for dragging us down to and even today it is being trumpeted as a major success if he can even get back to that level with his second recruiting class and second season. That speaks a lot more to how remarkably CJS has failed in his time here than it does CCS. Just do better, when you are coming into a 4 win team competing in the AAC it shouldn’t be that hard. Yet here we are, thanks VPMK.
  2. He personally snatched two losses from the jaws of victory so three is a given, as for QBs he was using the same one as last season but with the added bonus of a years experience and any and all talent measurements have us easily in the middle of the pack to upper portions of the AAC (your recruiting followings are probably much more in depth than mine but the compilations do tend to be directionally correct). What I am positive I would have done differently that would have paid off immediate dividends? As a first year coach I would have hired better and more experienced coordinators from a higher level than FAU even if I had to pull from my own compensation (as Usf is not where I am getting rich). I would have put them in control of their areas of expertise and had accountability for their areas without micromanaging them. I also would have hired a bagman if needed and got the QB I felt wasn’t on my roster here as coaching careers are made and lost by the qb of which he should be painfully aware for having come from Clemson. If he wants to take the moral high ground that’s lovely but I hope he figured out how to go about getting one the honest way going into this season because the next recruiting class is pretty much his last opportunity at finding one that would not be playing for his replacement.
  3. Well first and foremost I like you and respect your fandom far more than my own and I am sorry that I detract in any way from your enjoyment. In all fairness to me I’m not bring these things up but simply commentating on them (probably mostly because I do not disagree with them) and I do think they, when looked at cumulatively, point out that you don’t have to have a grudge or green and gold glasses to expect that CJS should be doing better at this point. Back when we were actually doing well in life and moving up the college ranks people like Steve used to complain the entire time about CJL’s failure but that didn’t take away from my enjoyment because I knew something special was actually happening, that being a fan is now miserable I think has more to do with you can’t replace a LRS and CJL with a VPMK and CJS than it does me talking about their “success”. I do try to be mindful of other’s feelings and not turn everything, everywhere into a negative but what honestly did you expect would be talked about in a thread about how we have the worst coach in the AAC from an outside perspective? If there is a reason he is not currently the worst I would love to hear it and I hope this year we see actual improvement that can be seen by all instead of having to force everyone to pretend they see a new suit when he is clearly standing there naked.
  4. We just need to destroy the patriarchal, imperialistic structures that prioritize silly things like results and success so that CJS can finally ascend to his rightful place at the top of lists but until that time it’s ground hog day every time they come out because it’s ground hog day every week that he fields a team.
  5. It’s not the sun’s fault for coming up and shining the light on the fact that your 3 am 10 is actually a 10 am 3, if you don’t the cruel reality of how your actions cast you then you just have to do better. Lucky for CJS his career has been short so his narrative can completely turn around in a single season but the longer he takes to turnaround the harder it is and the less likely it becomes that he will ever do so, I would have preferred starting in year one but since that’s not an option any longer this season seems as good as any. If you go into your third year of being the worst there is no way anyone honestly has a lot of faith that a turnaround is eminent as your story has mostly been written as it plummets to its final chapters having the recruiting trail already abuzz your impending doom, the dumpster fire of the program and your continuous ranking at the bottom of every coaching ranking that doesn’t involve hot seats. Luckily for CJS the majority of our fans have given up and for the dedicated few that remain apathy has run a muck but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t have to do better than the absolute worst by every measure every single time, assuming of course he is capable (but unfortunately has never actually been demonstrated a single time).
  6. That’s typically all any coach needs to do, unfortunately it seems to be more allusive than it sounds like it should be.
  7. He called his first season a failure and said it was driven by mistakes he personally made as a first year coach, I would like to think that he will learn from them and did an honest assessment of the things he can control in life but the fact still remains that his first year failures were completely unnecessary, most coaches rarely change, Dabo’s coaching tree is not awesome, more coaches that get started going the wrong direction end up getting fired than miracle things around and by every ranking that spans the country he is ranked at the bottom of his hiring group and the AAC (they have no dog in the fight and I see nothing that leads me to believe they are simply biased against CJS, it would be a lot easier to make an argument for it if he hadn’t failed so substantially and unquestionably at a rate not just worse than more talented programs but so amazingly worse than his own program and the failure he was following).
  8. He has to have somewhere to be able to go, I have faith that if anyone can do it it’s him.
  9. No one expected him to do as well as Memphis in order to not be last, he simply didn’t have to do four times worse in overall record than CCS got fired for sadly for all of us CJS managed the unimaginable and was able to beat one FCS team for a singe win all season where CCS had four, zero FBS wins where CCS had three, and zero AAC wins where CCS had two. The delta between 4-8 and a national championship can be blamed on CCS but the delta between 1 win and 4, with a comparable roster, is entirely on CJS and why he has earned his title as the worst coach in the AAC (a rather amazing accomplishment).
  10. What if we didn't have to hire an unproven coach that started in 10th out of 11 and then while competing in the AAC with the same programs some how does the unthinkable and actually manages to move down? I guess the good news is this is rock bottom unless the conference expands. Ryan Silverfield got to start his first coaching gig in a covid year and managed to move up two spots, so there is that.
  11. They just don’t know him like we do and that, despite their example of how Clemson coordinators are not guaranteed home run hires and how losing horrifically in year one usually means that your on a course to a losing career, the only way to turnaround a program and be a winner is by going as far away from winning as possible and burn the program completely to the ground. Who has it better than us? Well besides apparently 10 other AAC teams and obviously they every P5 team…
  12. Shockingly more insightful than most of the posts on this thread
  13. No I’m talking about people that switch programs are of course more likely to switch programs again How many years ago?
  14. If you have been divorced you are 50 percent more likely to get divorced again and if you marry another divorced person you are 200 percent more likely, doing something for the first time is always the hardest and once you get over that hump doing it again is really no big deal.
  15. I would have to know what yard line, about the food spread and bar situation in order to make an informed decision on what I would do. Especially because I’m sure they didn’t say how you had to wear the shirt.
  16. The best way for us to capitalize on this (read the absolute only way) is that the NCAA is planning on their rules to prevent athletes from competing with the university on exclusive sponsorships they have signed which mostly is impactful to their shoe deals. That’s a lot of money for the university at a major program as well as the best path to money for the athletes but we can probably afford to give up the $5 adidas gives us to wear their ****** HS hand me down uniforms in order to get in talent that maybe attracted to their own shoe and glove deals.
  17. If I have to choose between winning and losing against them or anyone I obviously prefer winning but my favorite era of the bore on I-4 was when we didn’t play them. 0-4 and no more was where the series was meant to end from a Usf perspective. I honestly don’t have a single person irl that’s ever told me about how excited they are to play UCF, not a one.
  18. Which brings us back to the fact that no one on earth cares at all about how many aac teams you beat, everything always comes down to what you do against the P5. Ecu et al may as well be citadel and at least from an attendance perspective would be better off being FAMU.
  19. That’s a fair way to look at it if the tv networks see it the same way if they don’t then we are stuck with the same amount of money or less with the added benefit of it being divided more ways and with the added bonus of having to compete with more teams for the same goals we already can’t obtain
  20. I’d be happy enough to begin discussing if we are returning back to the National stage and getting back to where we decided to nuke the program, 1000 aac wins in a row wouldn’t get me or most people to think we are in a better place than we were 12 years ago.
  21. Either that or we will have the most over developed section 8 house with no hope of ever being financially solvent when the market crashes down and our remodeling is valued at zero dollars which we were counting on using the sell of the property at a gain over the house and remodel to pay the contractors with and now we are sitting at a net negative, one or the other.
  22. I think you are kind of missing my position but it is probably because I am not conveying it quite right. I value the AAC at exactly zero so I honestly put no weight on the games, winning the conference is but a means to an end to playing and hopefully winning another valuable game. If we managed to win the aac and won zero p5 games or didn’t play in a NY6 game I wouldn’t be excited or celebrating and if I had to choose between beating Florida or Texas in a season vs winning the conference I would pick those wins every single time without question. No one discusses their big wins against AAC teams and no one remembers or cares about winning the little league championship. There was probably a sling champion among the sheep herders and it probably wasn’t David but no one gives a **** or writes stories about them however David gets got be king and live on forever because he beat Goliath and that’s actually a competitor people give a **** about.
  23. Athletes have a much smaller window than even a coach and their contracts are not as inequitable as coaches, maybe baseball is closest. Guaranteeing large portions of the contract without any expectation of performance or having equally severe penalties for leaving is pure insanity. FSU certainly has felt the impacts of their coaching contracts and I think it’s more impactful than you expect to even money schools. It is entirely weighted to the coaches and even Clarence Thomas commented on the insanity of them as amateur status of the students is defended tooth and nail while the coaching contracts continue to balloon.
  24. It certainly involves beating teams I care about and I honestly can’t remember a time when that happened under CWT, I think it happened a couple of times under CCS and I’m certain that our current coach hasn’t done it because well he has beaten exactly one FCS team. Being in a P5 conference obviously gives a coach more opportunities at success but if we beat Florida or Texas win a conference and then beat a P5 team in a NY bowl I am going to be just as happy with the coach as I would be had we actually been in their conference. Beating Tulsa, Tulane, ECU and UCF just doesn’t do it for me and that doesn’t feel like the pinnacle of anything because it used to be expected. We need to not only schedule the games that get people excited but we actually need to try winning one again which we didn’t need to be BCS to do.
  25. Until I see a higher top to this mountain I’m going to stick to my belief that it was the actual pinnacle, if we haven’t found it in over a decade and a handful of new better coaches I’m not quite sure it actually exists for us. I dream of a day of one day sniffing that plateau and it seems so far out of reach that the thought of something beyond it almost seems unfathomable.
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