(07-15-2017 12:03 PM)AppManDG Wrote:  

(07-15-2017 11:09 AM)eaglewraith Wrote:  

(07-14-2017 07:34 PM)Saint3333 Wrote:  Navy just scored again.

I think Liberty did too.

Yes they did, but let us have a little clarity here. App was a struggling 1-4 team whose win came over powerhouse, non-scholarship FCS Campbell. Playing mostly freshmen and sophomores we miss a 32 yard FG to win in regulation then loseto the Flames in OT. LIberty goes on to become a 9-4 FCS playoff team. Ga Southern was 8-2 (at the time of the Navy game) with narrow losses to 2 ACC teams and on their way to a conference championship. The in the conversation for the Access Bowl team gets shelled - no pun intended - by 33 to a 4-5 (again at the time of the game) Navy team. If you think that's a fair comparison, OK.

But since then....
App goes 27-5 with 3 loses to top ten P5 teams, a conference champion and a Troy team that was ranked the week after beating us. During that time the Apps win 2 bowl games and a conference champioship. Ga Southern on the other hand, goes 15-11 with a bowl win and the afore mentioned conference championship, BUT two loses to a Ga State team with a combined record of 9-16 and twice to the much hated and dispised Mountaineers by a combined score of 65-13.

I'll gladly accept the Liberty loss for what has been accomplished since. Do you say the same? Huhhhh????

Yes Georgia Southern was in the conversation in 2014. The Navy game did also indeed stop all the conversation as well. In any case, there wouldn't have been a Sun Belt candidate that year anyway since we won the conference and you have to win the conference to TRULY be in the conversation. That's what happened to Boise in 2015 when it became obvious they wouldn't make the MWC championship game.

I'd take Georgia Southern 2010-2015 all day every day. (Although honestly, you couldn't PAY me to be an App fan.)

As a program, Georgia Southern achieved much more than App did in that entire span. Accomplishments include: 3 straight semifinal runs in the FCS playoffs, 2 Southern Conference championships, win over an SEC team, undefeated record in Sun Belt also making us the first team to transition into FBS and go undefeated in conference play in the first year, 1 Sun Belt championship, bowl win in first year of eligibility.

Even looking at just time in FBS, the only thing I would change is not hiring Summers last year. Prior to the 2016 season, the only notable achievement you had that we hadn't equaled or bested was a 10 win season. We had both won a bowl game in our first year eligible, but we had already torn through the conference undefeated and won a title. The difference is one bad year in 2016.

Pray that you don't make a mistake when hiring a coach/staff, cause that's all it takes to cause things to unravel. I'm hoping we've made the correct decisions to right the ship a bit.