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Where are we? - Program Rebuild

louisville easily should have beaten ND (they outgained ND 2-1) if it weren't for turnovers, SMU they got hit by tempo, but that was by far the best team on our schedule this year
 

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Noliaboi said:
Let me preface this by saying, I don’t like the way we won but I am appreciative that we won today!
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🤮 Would you rather we lost 31-28? Or would you rather have watched a 14-12 field goal fest that goes to 4 OTs to win?

We have the most exciting and explosive offense since the the 80s and y'all ***** about us winning shootouts.
Noliaboi said:
However, legit question. Where are we on the process of our program rebuild? I know this is a new era of CFB with the transfer portal and being able to quickly accumulate talent. But I’d be lying if I didn’t think by now we would be at the point of just plugging a few pieces in yearly from the portal. This year is not over and I’m already having doubts about next season we still need a lot of pieces.

So my legit question is, where are we on the rebuild? My head says learning to win is the first step in a program rebuilding but my eyes see what happened to FSUck with a portal roster and a super human QB for a season.

Are we really trending up?

Again happy we won today because the last three weeks would have been 0-3 the last few seasons.

But I’m ready to officially feel “We’re Back” to stay! Like Texas regardless of this season, I feel like it’s safe to say they are back.
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Regarding the rest of your question, with the portal being free agency, who knows. Mario can do one thing and that's recruit.
 
YLCANE said:
By the way,
The days of having a dynasty like Miami or Alabama - they are prob over w portal….tooany good players will leave one program for another
Depth will be limited imo for everyone
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Absolutely every year could be a rebuild. Look at FSU. Can happen to any team
 
miamimike305 said:
Yes we are building the program but in my opinion we are building depth more than actually recruiting elite talent. Eventually we'll get there but man is it a slow process.
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We’ve recruited well but it’s been unbalanced

We’ve had to “take it personally” with a different position each year. The elite teams recruit across all positions every year. I don’t care for the people that just point to our recruiting team rankings
 
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407cane said:
what's going under the radar here is game management - again flawless by Mario - called a TO before the onside kick, and in the redzone on D which seemingly worked until Louisville ran an obvious pick play that wasn't called
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For the most part the refs let us both play all game.
 
407cane said:
what's going under the radar here is game management - again flawless by Mario - called a TO before the onside kick, and in the redzone on D which seemingly worked until Louisville ran an obvious pick play that wasn't called
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I give Mario a lot of credit, too, for going for it twice when we were backed up deep in our own territory.

When you have a QB of Cam Ward's caliber and you can't trust your defense whatsoever, those aggressive calls were absolutely the correct decisions.
 
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Mario isn't Prison Mike so I'll throw that comp out the window. We're heading in the right direction as far as I'm concerned. Incredibly fun to watch on O while needing to get much, much better on D and ST's. This isn't the teams of my younger years but I'll support them and smile.
 
407cane said:
i think some of you are too emotional for college football

did you watch the 2001 season?

we have two top 10 classes in a row, another one on the way and a ton of young talent playing

we just went into Louisville and beat one of the best playcallers in the nation, enjoy the win dude

not sticking up for the defense too much here but the points can be misleading

that last PI that they converted and scored a td late on was uncatchable
kickoff return for a TD
fletcher gavve them a short field

other than that, considering the playcaller we were going against - i think we played well

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All of this.

No one wants to talk about:

This is the exact game Miami loses every single year in years past. We won.

We trailed once early in the first. Never trailed after that. Took punches, sent them all back at them.

We were dominant through the air and on the ground. The RBs were feasting. When have we ever done that on O? BEEN THAT ABSOLUTELY BALANCED

D gave up a lot to a big time offense but made crucial stops. Including the last one to give Cam the ball back with the lead and he lead the drive to seal it.

We were up 14 after an amazing clock eating drive out of the half. Idk why we weren’t booking outright KOs but if we touchback them there this may never be close. Even after that if we don’t fumble we may still never be close.

We covered the spread on the road to the Acc runner up from last year and probably ended their acc push. ON THE ROAD.

THE last drive running it right at them at will and devouring the clock with 7 more on the board? That’s dominating.

This could have been much more of a blow out save for a few wild happenings. Our first TD that was called back for OPI? Idc if you call that, what makes it awful is not calling it on UL late when their TE WAS aggregious in his screen/block. We score there, don’t give up the kick off or fumble and it’s a blowout.

A lot to clean up but this was always our toughest game and we looked much better than past weeks. We did what we needed to do. 7-0 and all our goals in front of us.

Can we fix the S position to give us a chance to do something really special this year? That’s really the question. That’s what the DC and DB get paid A LOT to figure out and fix.
 
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Noliaboi said:
Let me preface this by saying, I don’t like the way we won but I am appreciative that we won today!

However, legit question. Where are we on the process of our program rebuild? I know this is a new era of CFB with the transfer portal and being able to quickly accumulate talent. But I’d be lying if I didn’t think by now we would be at the point of just plugging a few pieces in yearly from the portal. This year is not over and I’m already having doubts about next season we still need a lot of pieces.

So my legit question is, where are we on the rebuild? My head says learning to win is the first step in a program rebuilding but my eyes see what happened to FSUck with a portal roster and a super human QB for a season.

Are we really trending up?

Again happy we won today because the last three weeks would have been 0-3 the last few seasons.

But I’m ready to officially feel “We’re Back” to stay! Like Texas regardless of this season, I feel like it’s safe to say they are back.
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OP, don’t think you picked the right timing for this post. Can we not just celebrate the win?

You answered your own question. We are still a work in progress - building depth and learning how to win. It is a process.

Still about two years away from being elite. Love the O but our D - especially the backend - is just not there.

We are 7-0. Be grateful and try to enjoy each step in the journey.
 
JHallCanes said:
We’ve recruited well but it’s been unbalanced

We’ve had to “take it personally” with a different position each year. The elite teams recruit across all positions every year. I don’t care for the people that just point to our recruiting team rankings
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And it shows on the field. You got a good dline but don't have the backers nor the secondary bc they've been focused on recruiting Dline. I think I rather see recruiting a good Dlineman, good LB n good CB than recruiting Dline and ignoring the back end of the defense.
 
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Reyrey said:
Loose big
Loose close
Win close
Win big

We are at 3. It’s also year 3. This is cliche, but follow how Texas got to where they are today In year 4
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💯
We will need to get another baller at QB
But that is possible
With Cams Journey others will be more than willing to follow….this is setting up nicely for us imo to be mercenaries in recruiting g elite QB annually
 
It’s on track. Secondary needs to be overhauled. This class will add speed and talent there. Got to figure out how to consistently get high end DTs. I think offensive recruiting after this year will be fine
 
Our QB performance next year will determine a lot of where we are. We took this step forward now, because we haven't had a competent QB with leadership skills like Cam in a long time. If we can't replace that, we're back to where we were last year potentially.
 
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