Some Day...Maybe
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11 or 12 baby!
When you break it down, I see the season in four sections:
1) Non-conf -- I am cautiously predicting 3-0.
2) @Purdue/Ill/Neb -- very doubtful we'll go 3-0 here. Not sure if 2-1 or 1-2. Purdue will be out for blood. Don't know how good Ill or Neb will be this year yet. Both smoked us last year, but folks here will tell you those don't count because now we're Rossi-fied. We'll see
3) @Rutgers/Maryland -- on the road is always tough, but you'd like to hope we can find a way to win, and we owe Maryland a loss. Cautiously predicting 2-0.
4) Penn St/@Iowa/@NW/Wisc -- brutal stretch. My big thing here, and for the season too ... don't get embarrassed in any of these games. No games like NW 2017. Keep them close. Keep them winnable. Could see anything from 0-4 to 2-2.
And of course all of these are on paper, with no injuries or anything really out of the ordinary that changes the teams drastically.
So if you say, 3-0, 1-2, 2-0, 1-3 .... that's 7-5. ***This is what I voted.
High end, 3-0, 2-1, 2-0, 2-2 .... that's 9-3.
I also split the season into four parts, but four equal parts.
Part A) SDSU, Fresno, Talons - I've heard good things on this board about Georgia State, and Fresno isn't easy on the road. I'm going to go 2-1.
Part B) Purdue, Illinois, Nebraska - Last year 1-2 against these three. I say 1-2 again this year. (This is the area we can most improve in)
Part C) Rutgers, Maryland, Penn St. Last time we played Rutgers, we barely won. Penn St will be tough and Maryland is talented. I'm going 2-1.
Part D) Iowa, Northwestern, Wisconsin. Last year 1-2. This year we are better, and finish strong. We go 2-1.
Total 7-5.
I also split the season into four parts, but four equal parts.
Part A) SDSU, Fresno, Talons - I've heard good things on this board about Georgia State, and Fresno isn't easy on the road. I'm going to go 2-1.
Part B) Purdue, Illinois, Nebraska - Last year 1-2 against these three. I say 1-2 again this year. (This is the area we can most improve in)
Part C) Rutgers, Maryland, Penn St. Last time we played Rutgers, we barely won. Penn St will be tough and Maryland is talented. I'm going 2-1.
Part D) Iowa, Northwestern, Wisconsin. Last year 1-2. This year we are better, and finish strong. We go 2-1.
Total 7-5.
If you can’t go 8-4 this team is painfully mediocre.
This statement is off by one win, IMO.
The difference essentially boils down to, your eighth win comes from winning at Purdue.
That is not a “should win, or else you’re mediocre” game. It’s just not. Don’t be silly.
This statement is off by one win, IMO.
The difference essentially boils down to, your eighth win comes from winning at Purdue.
That is not a “should win, or else you’re mediocre” game. It’s just not. Don’t be silly.
It's Year Three; it's time to make a move.
2017 means literally nothing to this year. Purdue and Minnesota are essentially the same in that regard.
Last year we won big, at home. On the road is different, and they’ll be motivated to correct for the embarrassing loss.
There is simply nothing wrong with saying that @Purdue is “not a game we should lose, but also not a game we should win”. It’s the truth.
Literally contradict yourself in the same post.
Literally, 2017 is not last year.
I stand corrected. Aren't you correlating a past result to a future result with that revenge quote? Pretty sure you just posted about that in another thread.
Does not compute. And makes me very thankful that fans with your level of impatience don’t get to make decisions.
8-5 with a win over Texas A&M in a bigger bowl than last year would be the perfect stepping stone season to 2020. THEN we can start working out some of those big dreams of yours.
Well Purdue is mediocre. So if you have an average record and you lost to an average team...to me that makes you average.This statement is off by one win, IMO.
The difference essentially boils down to, your eighth win comes from winning at Purdue.
That is not a “should win, or else you’re mediocre” game. It’s just not. Don’t be silly.
Fleck was not hired to go 7-5.
What "fans like me" have in common with Fleck and Coyle: all of us would be quite disappointed in a 7-5 season in Year Three.
Then good riddance.
Thing is, when 2020 is a 9+ win campaign, you'll be pushing over small children in order to clamber back onto the bandwagon. <b>Maybe we'll save you a seat, <\b>at the back. Maybe...
Well Purdue is mediocre. So if you have an average record and you lost to an average team...to me that makes you average.
Who is “we”.
You're entitled to think whatever you want to think. I've stated my reasoning, and I feel it's correct. You don't, that's fine.