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UC will be solid overall.

I think there will be QB issues though. I don't want to get in trouble again, so I'll leave it at that lol. The truck was great, but I always wondered if Doaks was actually the better of the two. The receivers are better on paper. I'm assuming the O-Line will be better too. Losing a 3rd round TE hurts a lot, but that is the deepest part of the team.

I think the graduated linebackers will be missed too. I think two of them are on NFL rosters. Not enough is being made of that. The secondary will probably have 3 NFL prospects. The D-Line is sold, not great, but I think they are all back. So it should improve for that reason alone.

I could easily see them losing to 2-3 conference games. I could also see them running the table, but I think that is far less likely.
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(05-06-2020 12:34 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  
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(05-06-2020 11:54 AM)Hurricane Drummer Wrote:  Right now, I see Tulsa somewhere between 5-7 and 7-5.

So.... 6-6.

Not with Monty in charge. 4-8 is likely and I could see us going 2-10 very easily. The team will be good.enough to win seven though. Much like we have been every year that Monty manages to work us into a losing season with is 8-45 record in games decided by a touchdown.

Monty is a good person, but a bad coach. That extension Gragg gave him has become an anchor we dropped through the deck and keel of our boat. He is an albatross for this program that we will at sometime have to pay a pound of flesh to remove.

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If we have a 2020 football season...

I will predict Navy football at 8-4 (5-3)...after waffling over guessing one more win.

We obviously lost Malcolm Perry, but we are returning a lot of talent and experience at fullback, slot backs, and wide receiver. Our O-line started same five all thirteen games last year - two return and I feel good about the guys stepping up. Defense returns even more starters.
Missing Spring Ball is NOT a good thing for Navy (the mids were on Spring Break as the world fell apart in March expecting to have spring football camp upon return). Obviously need to i.d. the #1/#2 QBs and get them reps, reps, reps. Also, DC Newberry is still installing his defense, so spring would have been important on that side of the ball too.
Overall, as long as we get S&C and summer camp time to start out, though, we can bounce back.

In-conference schedule is generally in our favor. We miss UCF and Cincinnati. The other consensus top-of-the-conference team we get Memphis at home in November, so as long as it rains... My optimism is guarded - as I pointed out in another thread one could make a case for several games being Navy Ls: Memphis, Houston, and Temple have all handled Navy recently; SMU, Tulane, and USF we're on the road. On balance, though that makes my conference prediction 5-3.
ND will be tough. (If we play, wherever we play, etc. Week Zero in Dublin seemed so awesome a couple months ago, and now that is TWO big items making it the most problematic event in post-COVID sports.) AF is on the road, at altitude...but my predictions will ALWAYS include winning the CiC Trophy. And Lafayette will not be Navy's second loss to an FCS team in the Johnson-Niumatalolo Era.
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(05-05-2020 08:28 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  
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(05-05-2020 07:58 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  I have been especially excited for cfb this week and have gone through a lot of preseason previews (even looking at MAC write ups). I think Cincy, Memphis and UCF are going to be really really good this year.

It would be neat if we could a have a representative from each school give a comprehensive breakdown of their team before the season.

It really would be! The only part of our team that worries me is the O-Line. It was incredibly inconsistent last year, and it was said to be potentially one of our best ever. They made FAMU look like the 98 Bears.

If Gabriel makes the leap, I really don't see how any team in conference beats us unless Heup opens up the Vanilla playbook again. No excuses this year. No more coaching debacles.

I agree with the offensive line worries, I didn’t get the hype preseason last year for them and unfortunately they were the worst unit. I believe we only lose 3 defensive starters but 2 of them are Nate Evans and Clarke

I think Memphis probably has the best offense ( we are close second IMO) and Cincy has the best defense. Both will be tough, especially Memphis away. I think Temple, Navy and SMU are especially dangerous. Since UCF plays 1/3 compared to Memphis and Cincy who both play all of them, I think Ucf makes it to the CC.

Cincinnati doesn't play Navy this year.

However, I think you're right. To me, UCF has the best road to winning the East, Cincinnati having UCF and Temple away to end the season really doesn't do us any favors, and adding in having SMU away and Memphis on our schedule...it's too many of the top teams to not drop one or two, even with us returning 17 starters.
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(05-06-2020 03:37 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:28 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:11 PM)IamYourDad Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 07:58 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  I have been especially excited for cfb this week and have gone through a lot of preseason previews (even looking at MAC write ups). I think Cincy, Memphis and UCF are going to be really really good this year.

It would be neat if we could a have a representative from each school give a comprehensive breakdown of their team before the season.

It really would be! The only part of our team that worries me is the O-Line. It was incredibly inconsistent last year, and it was said to be potentially one of our best ever. They made FAMU look like the 98 Bears.

If Gabriel makes the leap, I really don't see how any team in conference beats us unless Heup opens up the Vanilla playbook again. No excuses this year. No more coaching debacles.

I agree with the offensive line worries, I didn’t get the hype preseason last year for them and unfortunately they were the worst unit. I believe we only lose 3 defensive starters but 2 of them are Nate Evans and Clarke

I think Memphis probably has the best offense ( we are close second IMO) and Cincy has the best defense. Both will be tough, especially Memphis away. I think Temple, Navy and SMU are especially dangerous. Since UCF plays 1/3 compared to Memphis and Cincy who both play all of them, I think Ucf makes it to the CC.

Cincinnati doesn't play Navy this year.

However, I think you're right. To me, UCF has the best road to winning the East, Cincinnati having UCF and Temple away to end the season really doesn't do us any favors, and adding in having SMU away and Memphis on our schedule...it's too many of the top teams to not drop one or two, even with us returning 17 starters.

Is this where everyone underestimates Tulane ? I think so. I feel very good about us beating Navy this year. It’s always an intense and close battle (last years game was silly), but without Perry and at home i would make a handsome wager Navy Loses to Tulane.
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RE: 2020 Football Season Predictions
(05-06-2020 03:37 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:28 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:11 PM)IamYourDad Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 07:58 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  I have been especially excited for cfb this week and have gone through a lot of preseason previews (even looking at MAC write ups). I think Cincy, Memphis and UCF are going to be really really good this year.

It would be neat if we could a have a representative from each school give a comprehensive breakdown of their team before the season.

It really would be! The only part of our team that worries me is the O-Line. It was incredibly inconsistent last year, and it was said to be potentially one of our best ever. They made FAMU look like the 98 Bears.

If Gabriel makes the leap, I really don't see how any team in conference beats us unless Heup opens up the Vanilla playbook again. No excuses this year. No more coaching debacles.

I agree with the offensive line worries, I didn’t get the hype preseason last year for them and unfortunately they were the worst unit. I believe we only lose 3 defensive starters but 2 of them are Nate Evans and Clarke

I think Memphis probably has the best offense ( we are close second IMO) and Cincy has the best defense. Both will be tough, especially Memphis away. I think Temple, Navy and SMU are especially dangerous. Since UCF plays 1/3 compared to Memphis and Cincy who both play all of them, I think Ucf makes it to the CC.

Cincinnati doesn't play Navy this year.

However, I think you're right. To me, UCF has the best road to winning the East, Cincinnati having UCF and Temple away to end the season really doesn't do us any favors, and adding in having SMU away and Memphis on our schedule...it's too many of the top teams to not drop one or two, even with us returning 17 starters.

Ah your right about not having Navy this year. Also, I thought this year didn’t have division champs?
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RE: 2020 Football Season Predictions
(05-06-2020 04:19 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  
(05-06-2020 03:37 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:28 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:11 PM)IamYourDad Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 07:58 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  I have been especially excited for cfb this week and have gone through a lot of preseason previews (even looking at MAC write ups). I think Cincy, Memphis and UCF are going to be really really good this year.

It would be neat if we could a have a representative from each school give a comprehensive breakdown of their team before the season.

It really would be! The only part of our team that worries me is the O-Line. It was incredibly inconsistent last year, and it was said to be potentially one of our best ever. They made FAMU look like the 98 Bears.

If Gabriel makes the leap, I really don't see how any team in conference beats us unless Heup opens up the Vanilla playbook again. No excuses this year. No more coaching debacles.

I agree with the offensive line worries, I didn’t get the hype preseason last year for them and unfortunately they were the worst unit. I believe we only lose 3 defensive starters but 2 of them are Nate Evans and Clarke

I think Memphis probably has the best offense ( we are close second IMO) and Cincy has the best defense. Both will be tough, especially Memphis away. I think Temple, Navy and SMU are especially dangerous. Since UCF plays 1/3 compared to Memphis and Cincy who both play all of them, I think Ucf makes it to the CC.

Cincinnati doesn't play Navy this year.

However, I think you're right. To me, UCF has the best road to winning the East, Cincinnati having UCF and Temple away to end the season really doesn't do us any favors, and adding in having SMU away and Memphis on our schedule...it's too many of the top teams to not drop one or two, even with us returning 17 starters.

Ah your right about not having Navy this year. Also, I thought this year didn’t have division champs?

No divisions for at least the next 2 seasons. Gonna take some peeps here awhile to burn that into their memory banks, lol.
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(05-06-2020 12:20 PM)NothingButKnight Wrote:  UCF getting Cincy, Tulane, Temple, FIU and UNC at home will be a big help.

We didn’t play a single bowl-eligible team at home last year, every such game was on the road. That makes a huge difference. All it takes is one look at the AAC 2019 season.

I don’t think FIU belonged on that list
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Here's the best I can do. Memphis, UCF and UC should be the 3 best teams in the league, in some order. I have no clue what order.

I just hope we get to play the season and find out.
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RE: 2020 Football Season Predictions
(05-06-2020 04:19 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  
(05-06-2020 03:37 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:28 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:11 PM)IamYourDad Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 07:58 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  I have been especially excited for cfb this week and have gone through a lot of preseason previews (even looking at MAC write ups). I think Cincy, Memphis and UCF are going to be really really good this year.

It would be neat if we could a have a representative from each school give a comprehensive breakdown of their team before the season.

It really would be! The only part of our team that worries me is the O-Line. It was incredibly inconsistent last year, and it was said to be potentially one of our best ever. They made FAMU look like the 98 Bears.

If Gabriel makes the leap, I really don't see how any team in conference beats us unless Heup opens up the Vanilla playbook again. No excuses this year. No more coaching debacles.

I agree with the offensive line worries, I didn’t get the hype preseason last year for them and unfortunately they were the worst unit. I believe we only lose 3 defensive starters but 2 of them are Nate Evans and Clarke

I think Memphis probably has the best offense ( we are close second IMO) and Cincy has the best defense. Both will be tough, especially Memphis away. I think Temple, Navy and SMU are especially dangerous. Since UCF plays 1/3 compared to Memphis and Cincy who both play all of them, I think Ucf makes it to the CC.

Cincinnati doesn't play Navy this year.

However, I think you're right. To me, UCF has the best road to winning the East, Cincinnati having UCF and Temple away to end the season really doesn't do us any favors, and adding in having SMU away and Memphis on our schedule...it's too many of the top teams to not drop one or two, even with us returning 17 starters.

Is this where everyone underestimates Tulane ? I think so. I feel very good about us beating Navy this year. It’s always an intense and close battle (last years game was silly), but without Perry and at home i would make a handsome wager Navy Loses to Tulane.
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(05-06-2020 04:23 PM)TripleA Wrote:  
(05-06-2020 04:19 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  
(05-06-2020 03:37 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:28 PM)Yung Knightt Wrote:  
(05-05-2020 08:11 PM)IamYourDad Wrote:  It really would be! The only part of our team that worries me is the O-Line. It was incredibly inconsistent last year, and it was said to be potentially one of our best ever. They made FAMU look like the 98 Bears.

If Gabriel makes the leap, I really don't see how any team in conference beats us unless Heup opens up the Vanilla playbook again. No excuses this year. No more coaching debacles.

I agree with the offensive line worries, I didn’t get the hype preseason last year for them and unfortunately they were the worst unit. I believe we only lose 3 defensive starters but 2 of them are Nate Evans and Clarke

I think Memphis probably has the best offense ( we are close second IMO) and Cincy has the best defense. Both will be tough, especially Memphis away. I think Temple, Navy and SMU are especially dangerous. Since UCF plays 1/3 compared to Memphis and Cincy who both play all of them, I think Ucf makes it to the CC.

Cincinnati doesn't play Navy this year.

However, I think you're right. To me, UCF has the best road to winning the East, Cincinnati having UCF and Temple away to end the season really doesn't do us any favors, and adding in having SMU away and Memphis on our schedule...it's too many of the top teams to not drop one or two, even with us returning 17 starters.

Ah your right about not having Navy this year. Also, I thought this year didn’t have division champs?

No divisions for at least the next 2 seasons. Gonna take some peeps here awhile to burn that into their memory banks, lol.


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(05-06-2020 04:25 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  
(05-06-2020 12:20 PM)NothingButKnight Wrote:  UCF getting Cincy, Tulane, Temple, FIU and UNC at home will be a big help.

We didn’t play a single bowl-eligible team at home last year, every such game was on the road. That makes a huge difference. All it takes is one look at the AAC 2019 season.

I don’t think FIU belonged on that list

Teams we play next year that were bowl eligible in 2019 and at home in 2020. They’ve beaten us before when we thought it was a sure fire victory lol.
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(05-06-2020 02:11 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  If we have a 2020 football season...

I will predict Navy football at 8-4 (5-3)...after waffling over guessing one more win.

We obviously lost Malcolm Perry, but we are returning a lot of talent and experience at fullback, slot backs, and wide receiver. Our O-line started same five all thirteen games last year - two return and I feel good about the guys stepping up. Defense returns even more starters.
Missing Spring Ball is NOT a good thing for Navy (the mids were on Spring Break as the world fell apart in March expecting to have spring football camp upon return). Obviously need to i.d. the #1/#2 QBs and get them reps, reps, reps. Also, DC Newberry is still installing his defense, so spring would have been important on that side of the ball too.
Overall, as long as we get S&C and summer camp time to start out, though, we can bounce back.

In-conference schedule is generally in our favor. We miss UCF and Cincinnati. The other consensus top-of-the-conference team we get Memphis at home in November, so as long as it rains... My optimism is guarded - as I pointed out in another thread one could make a case for several games being Navy Ls: Memphis, Houston, and Temple have all handled Navy recently; SMU, Tulane, and USF we're on the road. On balance, though that makes my conference prediction 5-3.
ND will be tough. (If we play, wherever we play, etc. Week Zero in Dublin seemed so awesome a couple months ago, and now that is TWO big items making it the most problematic event in post-COVID sports.) AF is on the road, at altitude...but my predictions will ALWAYS include winning the CiC Trophy. And Lafayette will not be Navy's second loss to an FCS team in the Johnson-Niumatalolo Era.

Man I fret over our game against you guys every year. I honestly love watching your offense in action just not against us. I'm so enamored with watching your fullbacks in action it makes me wonder why more teams haven't added a true fullback centric package of plays to their arsenals. Memphis has some good plays that are meant to throw a curve at the opposing defenses from time to time with Joe Dorceus one of our starting D lineman and it usually brings about some good results. 04-cheers
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(05-06-2020 04:46 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  
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(05-05-2020 08:11 PM)IamYourDad Wrote:  It really would be! The only part of our team that worries me is the O-Line. It was incredibly inconsistent last year, and it was said to be potentially one of our best ever. They made FAMU look like the 98 Bears.

If Gabriel makes the leap, I really don't see how any team in conference beats us unless Heup opens up the Vanilla playbook again. No excuses this year. No more coaching debacles.

I agree with the offensive line worries, I didn’t get the hype preseason last year for them and unfortunately they were the worst unit. I believe we only lose 3 defensive starters but 2 of them are Nate Evans and Clarke

I think Memphis probably has the best offense ( we are close second IMO) and Cincy has the best defense. Both will be tough, especially Memphis away. I think Temple, Navy and SMU are especially dangerous. Since UCF plays 1/3 compared to Memphis and Cincy who both play all of them, I think Ucf makes it to the CC.

Cincinnati doesn't play Navy this year.

However, I think you're right. To me, UCF has the best road to winning the East, Cincinnati having UCF and Temple away to end the season really doesn't do us any favors, and adding in having SMU away and Memphis on our schedule...it's too many of the top teams to not drop one or two, even with us returning 17 starters.

Is this where everyone underestimates Tulane ? I think so. I feel very good about us beating Navy this year. It’s always an intense and close battle (last years game was silly), but without Perry and at home i would make a handsome wager Navy Loses to Tulane.
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Sounds like the predictions are that there will be a bunch of 8-4 teams, a few teams with maybe 5 to 7 wins, and perhaps a couple with less than 5 wins.

For that to happen, there would be a remarkable amount of parity.

If the top teams in conference only have 8 wins, then there won't be a single AAC team in the top 25.

Prior experience would suggest that there will actually be a couple of teams with at least 9-10+ wins, a couple with 8+ wins and 2-3 other bowl eligible teams.


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A couple of Temple FB fans on this message board have predicted that Temple might be able to win 8 games. I wish that I could agree. Six wins sounds more realistic to me.

Last season, six of Temple's eight wins came against teams with losing records (Bucknell, GT, ECU, USF, UConn & Tulane (5-6 against FBS teams). The Owls only had two quality wins last season, both of which were home games; the average margin of victory in those 2 games was only 2 points.

Despite winning 8 games, including 6 games vs. teams with losing records, and despite playing 7 home games last season, Temple only out-scored their opponents by an average of 0.39 ppg:

Temple's ppg: 26.31
Opponent's ppg: 25.92



Temple was outscored by an average of 18+ ppg vs. opponents with winning records:

Temple's ppg: 20.00
Opponent's ppg: 38.29



Temple's losses:

Buffalo 38, Temple 22
SMU 54, Temple 21
UCF 63, Temple 21
Cincy 15, Temple 13
North Carolina 55, Temple 13

Temple only managed to score more than 30 points in two games last year, one of which came vs. FCS (3-8) Bucknell, and the other one of which came vs. (2-10) UConn. Both of those were Temple home games.

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Unfortunately for Temple, the performance of their offensive unit last season was highly similar to the performances of their offensive coordinator's prior team (NIU) the previous two seasons. In none of the past three seasons has Uremovich finished the season with an offensive unit ranked above #90 in the nation.
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Assuming that there will be a football season this year, I think SMU will have a really good team and will surprise a lot of people. 10 wins again would not be unreasonable.
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(05-07-2020 04:05 AM)jedclampett Wrote:  Sounds like the predictions are that there will be a bunch of 8-4 teams, a few teams with maybe 5 to 7 wins, and perhaps a couple with less than 5 wins.

For that to happen, there would be a remarkable amount of parity.

If the top teams in conference only have 8 wins, then there won't be a single AAC team in the top 25.

Prior experience would suggest that there will actually be a couple of teams with at least 9-10+ wins, a couple with 8+ wins and 2-3 other bowl eligible teams.


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A couple of Temple FB fans on this message board have predicted that Temple might be able to win 8 games. I wish that I could agree. Six wins sounds more realistic to me.

Last season, six of Temple's eight wins came against teams with losing records (Bucknell, GT, ECU, USF, UConn & Tulane (5-6 against FBS teams). The Owls only had two quality wins last season, both of which were home games; the average margin of victory in those 2 games was only 2 points.

Despite winning 8 games, including 6 games vs. teams with losing records, and despite playing 7 home games last season, Temple only out-scored their opponents by an average of 0.39 ppg:

Temple's ppg: 26.31
Opponent's ppg: 25.92



Temple was outscored by an average of 18+ ppg vs. opponents with winning records:

Temple's ppg: 20.00
Opponent's ppg: 38.29



Temple's losses:

Buffalo 38, Temple 22
SMU 54, Temple 21
UCF 63, Temple 21
Cincy 15, Temple 13
North Carolina 55, Temple 13

Temple only managed to score more than 30 points in two games last year, one of which came vs. FCS (3-8) Bucknell, and the other one of which came vs. (2-10) UConn. Both of those were Temple home games.

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Unfortunately for Temple, the performance of their offensive unit last season was highly similar to the performances of their offensive coordinator's prior team (NIU) the previous two seasons. In none of the past three seasons has Uremovich finished the season with an offensive unit ranked above #90 in the nation.


I also see Tulane (I’m a fan) turning that temple game into a win this year.
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(05-07-2020 06:54 AM)SMUstang Wrote:  Assuming that there will be a football season this year, I think SMU will have a really good team and will surprise a lot of people. 10 wins again would not be unreasonable.

People are ignoring the fact that the road to the AAC championship goes through Dallas.

Forget the fact Memphis, Navy, Houston, and Cincy all come to Dallas, and that we don't play UCF.

We are sitting there waiting for them with the best QB, OL, TE, WR corps, and 1-2 LB combination in the conference.

Kendric James was slated to start at TE for Alabama and is going to be fantastic as both a pass catching TE and a run blocker - he and Granson as a 2 TE set are going to give teams fits.

At DL we get Loveless back from the season ending injury and picked up Mike Williams, a transfer who started 25 games at Stanford - that's the difference in SMU's transfers; they actually started at the schools they came in from. Our D-Line should actually be more talented than last years, a key to taking the next step.

Can't wait for this year.
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RE: 2020 Football Season Predictions
I just hope we don't all cannibalize each other. The league has been getting stronger every year, and I don't think this season will be an exception. Hopefully things break up into 3 tiers of NY6 contenders, solid bowl teams, and bottom-feeders. We're not getting the NY6 bid if everyone has 3 or more losses heading into bowl season.
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RE: 2020 Football Season Predictions
(05-06-2020 11:19 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  No offense but please oh please ECU and Tulsa fans don't drown this thread with every minuscule tidbit about your teams. Some of these threads have become unreadable. Once again honestly no disrespect. I'd kinda like to hear from some fans of teams that are actually doing good things. 04-cheers

Troll. But I'll bite since you come off so prickish. What exactly did he say that was false? He said how terrible Montgomery left us, said we'll continue our slow uptick and gave reference to two players that are not only the best on our team but two of the better players at their position in the conference. If you want to make an argument about Holton that's fine as most QB's coming from behind constantly are going to have good numbers but CJ Johnson is a legit WR. Put up almost 400 yards against the two best teams in the East as a true freshman.

There was a pretty good span there, similar to what ECU is going through, where Memphis was a bottom feeder in CUSA so don't be so fast to trash others when you've been in the same place in a much worse conference.

Not many on this board will admit it but a good ECU football program is a boost to this conference. Maybe we'll be there in another year or two, Houston and Co. are building a good foundation.
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