(02-03-2018 12:26 AM)goherd24herdfans Wrote:  I always did crack up when people would say "We got everyone coming back next year" that are fans of a team that went 3-9.

Yes, a year of experience and growth will make someone slightly better. Id rather have 2 people coming back from a 2-10 team than all of them. Bad is still bad.

The only time that really matters is if you had a team go 10-2 and returns everyone, then you have that slightly better that could be a special season. If you're 2-10, you should be sad everyone is back.

True. What sucks though is when you have a pretty decent team, return nearly everyone, but are then saddled with injuries the next season. I think back to UTSA in 2013, when we went 7-5 in our third season of football and would've qualified for our first bowl back then if not for the NCAA rule disallowing it because it was only our 2nd year in FBS. We got basically everyone back the following year, were mostly a senior and junior laden team in 2014, and had really high hopes. But we had one injury after another at QB until we were down to using our 3rd and 4th string at the position, and a couple injuries on the OL. You're not gonna have much depth in the 4th year of your program, so it killed our season as we went 4-8.

Not-So-Fun Fact: We qualified for a bowl in 2016 as a .500 team (6-6). But in our three winning seasons of FBS football so far (8-4 in the WAC in 2012, 7-5 in C-USA in 2013, and 6-5 last year), we didn't get into a bowl in either (lol), for different reasons of course.