(11-29-2015 11:02 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(11-29-2015 10:34 PM)WIowl Wrote:  

(11-29-2015 10:32 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  So how improbable would it be for a team like Rice to improve by 5+ wins and go 10-2 regular season next year?
Or 12-2 and finish the season ranked top 25?
Similar to Northwestern's comparable turnaround this year?
I don't know.
But I do know that in the past decade Rice has already had two comparable bounce back campaigns:
In 2008 we improved by 7 wins from 3-9 to 10-3.
And in 2013(plus the second half of 2012) we improved from 5-13 (in 2011 plus the first half of '12) to 15-5. +10 games (or a +7 win per season pace).

As improbable as it may sound... If you've been watching you've seen this thing come together before.

A turnaround, yes. Top 20, you're jokimg. Baylor and Stanford are on the schedule, to make top 20, will require a win in one of those. No way That's happening under Bailiff. Both will be blow outs.

Top 20 would be a stretch goal but I'd be pleased with top 25.
So are Baylor and Stanford both returning their full squads next year from this season's top 10 lineups?

Plus, we proved this year that we can play our best game against a name P5 opponent.

So I'll take the split on those two, get to 5-1 and we might be ranked before we even get to November.

The Stanford game got moved to Thanksgiving weekend (bummer - now I can't go; will have to make @Army my road trip for next year) so it looks like we'll have to beat Baylor to be ranked going into November. Realistically speaking of course.

Stanford will have a new QB next year (although I guess he won't be new anymore by the end of November). Luckily they typically don't get quality QBs at that school so maybe we'll get a sweep instead of a split!

(12-01-2015 11:18 AM)illiniowl Wrote:  Stanford will have a new QB next year (although I guess he won't be new anymore by the end of November). Luckily they typically don't get quality QBs at that school ...

I see what you did there.

(11-29-2015 11:30 PM)Antarius Wrote:  

(11-29-2015 11:27 PM)Orange County Owl Wrote:  I'll call for 5-7 next year.

Number of fans in the stadium?

I'm surprised lack of fan enthusiasm isn't enough to trigger a coaching change.