I guess there is just no convincing yall to stop with the doom and gloom even though we have 2/3 of our season left. Enjoy the self pity I guess.

I just think we've painted ourselves into a corner.

I think we need to be 6-2 at worst in conference to have a shot at a bowl. That makes this game this weekend to be a BIG game for us.

(10-04-2015 07:03 PM)CatMom Wrote:  ah, the old sports transitive property theorem but in reverse.

Kind of. More of a strength of schedule argument and one that was factored in the BCS era and one that is used currently with the playoff committee. Yay you are undefeated, but who exactly did you play again?

The FCS days matter. Because we were a bad FCS team. Someone posted the records for our last 10 seasons earlier. Go look at the 10 seasons before that. It was really bad.

In our final season in the Southland we went 4-7 overall, only won 1 conference game, and finished last place in the league. Then we went 6-6 in Fran's first year while we were still FCS but beginning our transition to FBS. I was legitimately worried about spending season after season winning 0 to 3 games a year when we first got to FBS given our FCS ineptitude. I think Fran did a pretty decent job transitioning us from 2011 to 2014 and I think we saw the program progress every year during that stretch.

This season has been tough so far, because through 4 games it appears the progression may have stopped. Though with 8 games left that remains to be seen. I don't know what peoples' expectations were going into FBS. I was excited but worried. I thought there was a pretty good chance we'd transition poorly and fail miserably for years. I'm not the biggest Fran fan ever, but I really think he doesn't get the credit he deserves from our fanbase for transitioning us respectably.

My worry now is that he has peaked. He may have been the guy to respectably transition us from FCS to FBS, but he may not be the guy that can make us a good G5 program. Again, that remains to be seen and we have 8 more games this season before we need to rush to judgement.

I think it's a tad early to say our progression has peaked... but we will go through seasons where our offense or defense have to rebuild... even this early in our transition. Happens to everyone.

I remember people griping about our young offensive line just a couple of years ago.

Interesting Q&A at media luncheon today. A couple statements (paraphrased)

Fran tried to talk Thompson out of resignation

Little Fran almost got the DC job when Naivar left in 2013

Thompson decided to go soft (not use a lot of his schemes and just try to keep the plays in front of them) vs FSU and that concerned Fran

vs UH we had 3 DTs not play and 4th went down on 11th defensive play. Also out was a LB and had 2 injured safeties that did play.
(just let our true lack of depth rear its ugly head)