(10-04-2016 08:15 PM)ShoreBuc Wrote:  All I know is I am preying Bonds server gets wiped out by Matthew for at least a couple weeks so I can stop reading his non stop diatribe of ECU sucking. Like most other topics you beat it to death. We get it Bonds, you think ECU sucks and will not win any more games. I would suggest instead of providing this board with a step by step description of your own autopsy of ECU Football that you walk away from the keyboard for a while and go enjoy more important things in life

Nah that's alright. I ramble on to you people so I get it out and don't torture people in person with it LOL.

(07-12-2016 08:36 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  Way too much talent to not get to a bowl.

Just at RB for instance, we have two 4* and three 3* players on the depth chart.

This was a painful thread to read...

At 3-9, this is ECU's bowl.

Scottie Mo...

(07-12-2016 08:48 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(07-12-2016 08:37 PM)Indiana Bones Wrote:  

(07-12-2016 08:34 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  How can you NOT?!? There are like 40 bowl games lol.

True but you gotta win 6 and I haven't seen a single prediction giving ECU more than 6 Ws this year.

I think that's because prognosticators just don't know much about the team. The only thing that kept us from being an 8 win team last year was the lack of a QB. Now we have a guy who has been here a year with Big Ten starting experience.

If Ruff was still coach, I think most folks would have picked us to be 7-5 or better.

This is true.

(11-29-2016 01:50 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  

(07-12-2016 08:48 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  

(07-12-2016 08:37 PM)Indiana Bones Wrote:  

(07-12-2016 08:34 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  How can you NOT?!? There are like 40 bowl games lol.

True but you gotta win 6 and I haven't seen a single prediction giving ECU more than 6 Ws this year.

I think that's because prognosticators just don't know much about the team. The only thing that kept us from being an 8 win team last year was the lack of a QB. Now we have a guy who has been here a year with Big Ten starting experience.

If Ruff was still coach, I think most folks would have picked us to be 7-5 or better.

This is true.

Man.... It's a tough time to be a Pirate.


You just love to turn the knife in the wound, don't you?

If ruff was still coach his poor coaching and not having the locker room would've turned out an 1-11 season. UCF showed us what keeping a coach a season too long looks like. This season showed us that we all had purple shades on and thought the team was more talented than it was.


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(11-29-2016 03:17 PM)PurpleReigns2012 Wrote:  If ruff was still coach his poor coaching and not having the locker room would've turned out an 1-11 season. UCF showed us what keeping a coach a season too long looks like. This season showed us that we all had purple shades on and thought the team was more talented than it was.


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If that were so, I think you'd have better candidates this year than you had for the job last year. Perhaps even Lincoln Riley, who would be more understanding because it wouldn't look like you didn't give Ruff a fair shake.

I have no doubt Riley would be an option in that scenario.

(11-29-2016 04:22 PM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  

(11-29-2016 03:17 PM)PurpleReigns2012 Wrote:  If ruff was still coach his poor coaching and not having the locker room would've turned out an 1-11 season. UCF showed us what keeping a coach a season too long looks like. This season showed us that we all had purple shades on and thought the team was more talented than it was.


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If that were so, I think you'd have better candidates this year than you had for the job last year. Perhaps even Lincoln Riley, who would be more understanding because it wouldn't look like you didn't give Ruff a fair shake.

I have no doubt Riley would be an option in that scenario.

I don't think LR is HC material to be honest.


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Only a d-bag troll would dig back up a thread like this. Congrats to BEH.

(11-29-2016 09:44 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Only a d-bag troll would dig back up a thread like this. Congrats to BEH.

LOL. This thread was made to revisit. As are all prediction threads.

You just don't know how to play internet.

(11-30-2016 12:12 AM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  

(11-29-2016 09:44 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Only a d-bag troll would dig back up a thread like this. Congrats to BEH.

LOL. This thread was made to revisit. As are all prediction threads.

You just don't know how to play internet.

TripleA prefers to forget his many predictions

(11-29-2016 03:17 PM)PurpleReigns2012 Wrote:  If ruff was still coach his poor coaching and not having the locker room would've turned out an 1-11 season. UCF showed us what keeping a coach a season too long looks like. This season showed us that we all had purple shades on and thought the team was more talented than it was.


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My main defense of not firing Ruff was that he deserved one more year based on what he had done for ECU. I also thought he would come back and have another down season but it would result in a overwhelming majority of the ECU fan base agreeing that it was time to move on from Ruff. We all wanted him to do well because he was not just a Head Coach but a Pirate so he was like family and you want to see family succeed. It was apparent the success we had during Ruff was due primarily to the combination of Lincoln Riley and Shane Carden. A solid QB with enough weapons can overcome a lot of other mediocrity on the team.

Bottom line is ECU is set up and grown via Ruff's recruiting to compete just fine at the CUSA level but we are not in a position yet to step up and compete against programs that have passed us by at the AAC level. I agreed with the logic behind letting Ruff go in that our recruiting was stale and the direction and discipline of the program needing a change. My nightmare scenario was Coach Mo coming in and having the exact season that he just had because that only riles up the war of Ruff defenders and Compher haters even more. Most of us remember the years after Steve Logan was fired and it was not a fun time and it took Skip Holtz winning Back to Back CUSA Championships for most folks to get over it.

I have no idea if Coach Montgomery is the right coach for ECU. I know he desperately wants to be successful and is a sharp guy. He does not seem stubborn like a Logan or Ruff in that he will hold on to a failed coach based on loyalty. I think if he sees a need for change then he will make it which I think comes from his time coaching in the NFL. I gave Compher more rope then most ECU fans but I think his post Ruff planning was a miserable failure. He seemed to just fire Ruff and then hope he could find a good candidate to replace him.

Based on our OOC and AAC schedule next year we will have to have remarkable improvement to get to 6 wins and go Bowling.

(11-30-2016 06:25 AM)Tor Johnson Wrote:  

(11-30-2016 12:12 AM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  

(11-29-2016 09:44 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Only a d-bag troll would dig back up a thread like this. Congrats to BEH.

LOL. This thread was made to revisit. As are all prediction threads.

You just don't know how to play internet.

TripleA prefers to forget his many predictions

What does that have to do with this subject?

Oh, and I never made a 100% prediction. Not once. Pay closer attention.

I said Memphis and UC were in good shape. I said the Big 12 was planning to expand. I said I thought they wanted to expand by 4. I said Memphis did not get cut at 12. All of that was true. Until they got pressure at the last minute to do something different.

(07-16-2016 04:49 AM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(07-12-2016 09:34 PM)pesik Wrote:  ecu fans are a rather defensive bunch, so take this as pure analytical, and not a jab on ECU

ECU can make a bowl but they wont, WCU is the only game i can say for a fact ecu wins.. ecu has some talent, alot from a respectable defense last year and a lot of talent on offense return, so the talent is there but...

ecu was 5-7 last season, i don't like ecu's qb situation nor is there anything on your coaches resume that pops out as amazing (instant turn around)..a better qb or more proven coach and i might have had a different opinion ..

Good, cause to have track record of vastly undervalueing ECU's abilities.

do i???

months later clapback

(07-16-2016 07:33 AM)pesik Wrote:  

(07-16-2016 04:49 AM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(07-12-2016 09:34 PM)pesik Wrote:  ecu fans are a rather defensive bunch, so take this as pure analytical, and not a jab on ECU

ECU can make a bowl but they wont, WCU is the only game i can say for a fact ecu wins.. ecu has some talent, alot from a respectable defense last year and a lot of talent on offense return, so the talent is there but...

ecu was 5-7 last season, i don't like ecu's qb situation nor is there anything on your coaches resume that pops out as amazing (instant turn around)..a better qb or more proven coach and i might have had a different opinion ..

Good, cause to have track record of vastly undervalueing ECU's abilities.

true...ecu did win the aac like the ecu fans called year 1 and were contending for the east last year like the ecu fans called year 2

"my undervalued prognostication of ecu clearly are always wrong"..funny how the truth is my predictions for ecu has been lower than ecu fans but the reality is ecu actually ended up lower than what i projected both years

make that 3 years in a row, im really undervaluing ecu i see