[jacket3ree]

So the new way of thinking is to unburden ourselves from the weight of expectation? 

The most interesting thing about the Elon game was seeing three Elon fans at SFO Sunday night as I disembarked from a flight from Philadelphia. I said nothing to them and could barely muster an 'I wonder if they won' in my head. Looks like they did. Joy.

After reading the Cardboard grades and hopes to maybe get to 4 or 5 wins somehow after a decade in the desert of CFB irrelevance, I came across ACC midterm grades:

Mid Terms Posted

If you want the quick take, there's no Stanford grade inflation. Solid F.

"It brings me no joy to give a failing grade to one of our nation's elite institutions, but there's some work to be done before finals if we're going to come out of the 2026 season with a passing grade. Tavita Pritchard has a group that is 1-4 against power-conference opponents and ranks 133rd nationally in scoring margin (-18.3 points per game). Outside of a 34-27 home win against Georgia Tech back on Sept. 26, there haven't been a lot of encouraging signs for closing the gap with the rest of the conference. Grade F"

Grade it on a curve if you want. Still failing:

Boston College C-
Cal D
Clemson D
Duke C+
FSU D
Georgia Tech D
Louisville C+
Miami A
NC State C-
North Carolina B-
Pitt B-
SMU B
Stanford F
Syracuse C-
Virginia C
VA Tech B-
Wake A

Some Tech fans declared the Key era over for losing to effing Stanford. There's where both programs sit.

Until proven otherwise I fear Andrew Luck is Stanford's Buster Posey and Pritchard its Vitello but without even success at a lower level that everyone knew wouldn't translate anyhow.

[jacket3ree]

So the new way of thinking is to unburden ourselves from the weight of expectation? 

The most interesting thing about the Elon game was seeing three Elon fans at SFO Sunday night as I disembarked from a flight from Philadelphia. I said nothing to them and could barely muster an 'I wonder if they won' in my head. Looks like they did. Joy.

After reading the Cardboard grades and hopes to maybe get to 4 or 5 wins somehow after a decade in the desert of CFB irrelevance, I came across ACC midterm grades:

Mid Terms Posted

If you want the quick take, there's no Stanford grade inflation. Solid F.

"It brings me no joy to give a failing grade to one of our nation's elite institutions, but there's some work to be done before finals if we're going to come out of the 2026 season with a passing grade. Tavita Pritchard has a group that is 1-4 against power-conference opponents and ranks 133rd nationally in scoring margin (-18.3 points per game). Outside of a 34-27 home win against Georgia Tech back on Sept. 26, there haven't been a lot of encouraging signs for closing the gap with the rest of the conference. Grade F"

Grade it on a curve if you want. Still failing:

Boston College C-
Cal D
Clemson D
Duke C+
FSU D
Georgia Tech D
Louisville C+
Miami A
NC State C-
North Carolina B-
Pitt B-
SMU B
Stanford F
Syracuse C-
Virginia C
VA Tech B-
Wake A

Some Tech fans declared the Key era over for losing to effing Stanford. There's where both programs sit.

Until proven otherwise I fear Andrew Luck is Stanford's Buster Posey and Pritchard its Vitello but without even success at a lower level that everyone knew wouldn't translate anyhow.