- Virginia Tech, which plays hapless Virginia this weekend, winner gets a bottom shelf bowl game, was certainly a winnable game.
- It is not just Georgia Southern, this guy has a history of blowing games we should have won.
- No P4 (and, side note, is it not time to retire that term, Boise State is going to get the 4th place spot, and the AAC champion will also be higher ranked than the champion of the joke "Big" 12) team is looking at CH. CH is trying to get a job at USM. USM is, at best a lateral move, actually a move down considering resources and the GIANT shadow USM plays in with two SEC teams in state.
- CH doesn't want to be here. Really that simple. He had a plan, which was parlay success at a solid G5 (G6?) program into a slot in the P4, or perhaps the AAC or MWC. Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth. He simply hasn't made it. His dreams of intergenerational wealth that one gets in the big time, simply won't happen for him. I didn't get picked for astronaut training. Same deal. Dreams often don't come true. So CH is APPLYING for a job at USM, and his fall back is reabsorption into the buddy-buddy system of career journeyman assistants.
- Doc is gone. Doc's record is Doc's record. His history, other than leaving behind what CH said was "not a rebuild" is irrelevant.
- But, if you want to go there, SOME posters here got on this whole CUSA hate, back in the day. MU was just supposed to win, every week, every week, every week. Somehow the other teams in CUSA were all beneath us. NOTHING that could ever happen would satisfy. The truth, of course, was everyone else had the same goal, similar resources, etc. This year is totally different. This is not just some haters hating on the SBC. This is a skillful and thoughtful analysis of the teams we have played, and how we really drew an easy path, which won't come around again for a while.
- But, if you want to go further, in ALL of the G5, it seems clear to me that there are programs that simply will realize that they like Icarus, have flown too close to the sun, and will move back down a level or drop football entirely. The weakness of SBC teams this year is part of the proof of that. Conferences are going to be in a flux before we settle out at about 120 or so total schools. Navigating that take a nimble and able AD. But we have CS. At least we won't run out of Pepsi.
