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I said by current standards. And I guess it was the manner of the losses last year. Couple blow outs. But you make a good point.

Yeah, we had those two blowouts and the brutal Colorado game, but the team was also super injured. I'm not sure I can think of a team with more injuries to key players during a short stretch, maybe the Chargers a couple years ago? The Giants now? At any rate we were playing without our top two corners, a few linemen, our top two RBs were both banged up, and IIRC a couple other role players. That was the sort thing you might be able to survive if it's timed well relative to your opponents, but boy howdy was it not. It was bad and it ended up being bad.

But we still won 10 games! That it felt like a disappointment is more about our current standards than anything else, it really wasn't that big of a down year.

If we lose our remaining three games at home--then I will be willing to concede that the run seems over.

Eh... if that were to happen it would be pretty brutal and an indictment of the coaches, but I don't think even then you'd say that the run was over. We went 7-5 in the regular season in 2014 and then to the Rose Bowl the next year. College football can be really streaky, did anyone see this year coming from FSU, for instance? But to think that this means they're going to be a perennial "happy to get to 6 wins" teams is foolhardy. Our peak wasn't quite as high as theirs, but I think Shaw should get that same benefit of the doubt.

[stupac2]

I said by current standards. And I guess it was the manner of the losses last year. Couple blow outs. But you make a good point.

Yeah, we had those two blowouts and the brutal Colorado game, but the team was also super injured. I'm not sure I can think of a team with more injuries to key players during a short stretch, maybe the Chargers a couple years ago? The Giants now? At any rate we were playing without our top two corners, a few linemen, our top two RBs were both banged up, and IIRC a couple other role players. That was the sort thing you might be able to survive if it's timed well relative to your opponents, but boy howdy was it not. It was bad and it ended up being bad.

But we still won 10 games! That it felt like a disappointment is more about our current standards than anything else, it really wasn't that big of a down year.

If we lose our remaining three games at home--then I will be willing to concede that the run seems over.

Eh... if that were to happen it would be pretty brutal and an indictment of the coaches, but I don't think even then you'd say that the run was over. We went 7-5 in the regular season in 2014 and then to the Rose Bowl the next year. College football can be really streaky, did anyone see this year coming from FSU, for instance? But to think that this means they're going to be a perennial "happy to get to 6 wins" teams is foolhardy. Our peak wasn't quite as high as theirs, but I think Shaw should get that same benefit of the doubt.