(05-28-2020 08:17 AM)Deez Nuts Wrote: a lot of confidence on here but if we all put the purple koolaid down for just a second, and acknowledge that we all know that the Dukes are the best...
What makes anybody think we have a top 5 team let alone a National Championship contender... or even a quarterfinals contender? We don't even know who will be under center in September. I mean I think we have the parts to make a run but I doubt I'll be booking a hotel in Frisco any time soon even with the free cancellation. I think Hero's poll is generous. The coaches poll is lol. MVC is absolutely the strongest preseason conference to me
first off, i don't really care. it's not a big deal where you start, only where you finish. This is all just for discussion purposes.
i don't have a problem with us at 5. sounds about right to me. Because of the uncertainty at QB. if that resolves itself, we will be back in Frisco becasue we are loaded everywhere else once again and our RB committee is just ridiculous. possibly 3 NFL backs in that group.
the issue i have is the top 3 being MVC. that's totally based on NDSU bumping them up.
let me ask this, if one agrees that NDSU and JMU have basically been even the last few years, then why are MVC teams given a bump for playing NDSU "close" but CAA teams like Villanova are not given a similar bump for playing JMU close?
We have not lost to any MVC team except NDSU. In fact, we haven't been challenged in any of them. They were all over before halftime.
Both or our losses to NDSU were 1 play games. So if you are going to 'overrate' the other MVC teams just because they have NDSU on the schedule and play them "tough", i would expect a similar status for CAA teams that challenge us. Yet, that doesn't happen.
year after year the MVC teams seem to be given the benefit of the hype, over other schools in other conferences.
We'll see how it plays out. but i'd bet these MVC teams will disappoint and some CAA and Big Sky teams will prove better than the preseason hype. as usually happens.