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That would be some turn around for Louisville. Coaching matters.

(07-05-2023 06:51 PM)XLance Wrote:  That would be some turn around for Louisville. Coaching matters.

Coaching and Transfer Portal … myself anything less than a 8-4 Regular Season would be a disappointment

(07-05-2023 06:51 PM)XLance Wrote:  That would be some turn around for Louisville. Coaching matters.

Personally I think the guy is full of crap but don’t mind the publicity. The energy around the football program now is night and day different from the last few years.

(07-05-2023 06:51 PM)XLance Wrote:  That would be some turn around for Louisville. Coaching matters.

Plus no Clemson, FSU and UNC

(07-05-2023 09:39 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(07-05-2023 06:51 PM)XLance Wrote:  That would be some turn around for Louisville. Coaching matters.

Plus no Clemson, FSU and UNC

All three were favored to win 11 games, with the FSU v. Clemson game a toss up. Carolina plays at Clemson this year.

While as a Louisville fan, this is fun, nothing screams "summertime content" than an analysis of how many times a school will be favored next year.

I'd prefer sneaking up on people than having a target on my back.

Yeah this just creates false expectations for the Louisville fan base.

I’m excited for this season but we’ll be Vegas dogs for at least three games on this schedule, upwards of five.

My guess is 8-4 before bowl season.

(07-10-2023 11:10 PM)marleycard Wrote:  Yeah this just creates false expectations for the Louisville fan base.

I’m excited for this season but we’ll be Vegas dogs for at least three games on this schedule, upwards of five.

My guess is 8-4 before bowl season.

The expectations are there for a reason. A team that went 8-5 last year, a team 5 points away from being a 10 win team, just got a better coach, good recruiting class and top 10 portal, and also doesnt play Clemson or FSU (2 teams we lost to last year). Why exactly should Louisville fans expect regression?

(07-11-2023 01:55 AM)ColumbusCard Wrote:  

(07-10-2023 11:10 PM)marleycard Wrote:  Yeah this just creates false expectations for the Louisville fan base.

I’m excited for this season but we’ll be Vegas dogs for at least three games on this schedule, upwards of five.

My guess is 8-4 before bowl season.

The expectations are there for a reason. A team that went 8-5 last year, a team 5 points away from being a 10 win team, just got a better coach, good recruiting class and top 10 portal, and also doesnt play Clemson or FSU (2 teams we lost to last year). Why exactly should Louisville fans expect regression?

Regression? I said “My guess is 8-4 before bowl season”.

Last year we went 7-5 before bowl season.

My main point though is this guy predicts us to be the favorite in all 12 games. The odds Vegas will feel that way is about 0%.

I hope the whole program is focused on their season record instead of Week 1.

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(07-12-2023 06:34 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I hope the whole program is focused on their season record instead of Week 1.

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I had known this was technically a home game for you all and that there was a deal with Mercedes stadium but apparently the game is now sponsored by Aflac rather than Chick-fil-a.

Do you happen to know if seating will be lower bowl only? I’ve heard that’s happened in the past.

(07-12-2023 07:31 PM)marleycard Wrote:  Do you happen to know if seating will be lower bowl only? I’ve heard that’s happened in the past.

Lower bowl only until the GT fan base has recovered from its severe Geoff Collins hangover.

(07-13-2023 07:29 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(07-12-2023 07:31 PM)marleycard Wrote:  Do you happen to know if seating will be lower bowl only? I’ve heard that’s happened in the past.

Lower bowl only until the GT fan base has recovered from its severe Geoff Collins hangover.

Waffle House really needs to sponsor a bowl just so the Yellow Jackets can play in it.

(07-13-2023 11:23 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(07-13-2023 07:29 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(07-12-2023 07:31 PM)marleycard Wrote:  Do you happen to know if seating will be lower bowl only? I’ve heard that’s happened in the past.

Lower bowl only until the GT fan base has recovered from its severe Geoff Collins hangover.

Waffle House really needs to sponsor a bowl just so the Yellow Jackets can play in it.

They almost went to a bowl last year despite Geoff Collins pissing away the first 4 weeks of the season and then Brent Key having to take control midseason of a program mis-run and mis-managed into the ground by the worst FB HC in the history of GT FB and having to rely on a QB from Akron to lead the team since the hand-picked molly coddled QB Geoff Collins fell in love with couldn't man up and play without his personal ass kisser around on staff.

That was the worst team and the worst coach and the worst QB I've seen GT field since I've been alive. And they almost went a bowl game after throwing the first 4 weeks away.

We'll be in a bowl game soon enough. GT FB under Collins was an afront of everything in football. But the ACC is no great shakes after Clemson. Everybody else is clearly not a complete team. Everybody else has clear flaws. And at least half the teams are not respectable (UVA, VT, BC, Cuse, Miami, UofL). I don't know what to think of the top of what use to be the Coastal in Duke, UNC, and Pitt ... since GT beat all three last year in the Collins train wreck clean up operation. FSU can go to the Clemson tier if they back it up against this year. Everybody else? Pfffftttttttttttttttt.

And I put UofL in the not respectable because they were inconsistent against a pretty soft schedule. I also think there's no such thing as a smooth transition between coaching staff changes. Maybe Jeff Brohm will hit a Mike Elko style home run right out of the gate. Typically the opposite occurs in the vast majority of cases. And keep in mind .... at Purdue Jeff Brohm's total record was ... 36-34. I understand that Ohio State and Penn State and Michigan are in the B1G. But you gotta lose a lot of games to Minnesotas and Indianas and Northwesterns and Illinois and Nebraskas to land at .500 after getting your usual OOC MAC cupcake in the B1G. I just don't believe Jeff Brohm is the guy for the Cards. Maybe that's my bias against Mike Bobinski, ruiner of GT Athletics, current Purdue AD, speaking. I do so enjoy watching every single time Purdue implodes under Bobinski's mismanagement. But I don't think my judgement is entirely clouded here.

(07-13-2023 01:37 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  ...I just don't believe Jeff Brohm is the guy for the Cards. Maybe that's my bias against Mike Bobinski, ruiner of GT Athletics, current Purdue AD, speaking. I do so enjoy watching every single time Purdue implodes under Bobinski's mismanagement. But I don't think my judgement is entirely clouded here.

OR, maybe Brohm is no fan of Bobinski and got out of there as soon as he could?

(07-13-2023 01:37 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  And I put UofL in the not respectable because they were inconsistent against a pretty soft schedule. I also think there's no such thing as a smooth transition between coaching staff changes. Maybe Jeff Brohm will hit a Mike Elko style home run right out of the gate. Typically the opposite occurs in the vast majority of cases. And keep in mind .... at Purdue Jeff Brohm's total record was ... 36-34. I understand that Ohio State and Penn State and Michigan are in the B1G. But you gotta lose a lot of games to Minnesotas and Indianas and Northwesterns and Illinois and Nebraskas to land at .500 after getting your usual OOC MAC cupcake in the B1G. I just don't believe Jeff Brohm is the guy for the Cards. Maybe that's my bias against Mike Bobinski, ruiner of GT Athletics, current Purdue AD, speaking. I do so enjoy watching every single time Purdue implodes under Bobinski's mismanagement. But I don't think my judgement is entirely clouded here.

(07-13-2023 03:55 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

I think that's a poor way to calculate strength of schedule. By that standard you could play the upper tier of the Sun Belt, C-USA, and MAC and claim it was murderer's row. Winning percentage just isn't a good way to gauge strength of schedule. A 0.600 Ole Miss team is a far harder out than a 0.800 Western Michigan team. Also, that was posted in LATE OCTOBER and thus the following schools Louisville had already played were not included: Syracuse, UCF, FSU, South Florida, Boston College, Virginia, Pittsburgh.

To get that Tweet, you're only considering the (at the time) still future games of: Wake Forest, James Madison, Clemson, NC State, Kentucky. That's quite some cherry picking you have there.

(07-13-2023 04:03 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  I think that's a poor way to calculate strength of schedule. By that standard you could play the upper tier of the Sun Belt, C-USA, and MAC and claim it was murderer's row. Winning percentage just isn't a good way to gauge strength of schedule...

Agreed... yet for many years that's exactly how the SEC was able to declare they have the toughest SoS. Therefore, accurate or not, I'd recommend the ACC follow suit!