09-03-2012, 06:41 AM
Not to nitpick here, but IIRC people expected 1993 to be a building year, because we lost so many players off the outstanding 1992 team.
I don't think anyone anticipated 4-7, but I don't think we were expected to do particularly well. Probably a better example is 1997 when we had most of the top players coming back from the 1996 Sun Bowl blowout and many expected us to contend for the Rose Bowl. We started out 4-1 with the last victory being a buttwhipping of USB, and then everything went downhill from there with 5 straight losses.
I don't think anyone anticipated 4-7, but I don't think we were expected to do particularly well. Probably a better example is 1997 when we had most of the top players coming back from the 1996 Sun Bowl blowout and many expected us to contend for the Rose Bowl. We started out 4-1 with the last victory being a buttwhipping of USB, and then everything went downhill from there with 5 straight losses.