Texas A&M GM Derek Miller and director of player personnel Allen Gaudet IV helped land Mims at ECU back in 2021... as ever, relationships and connections matter when it comes to the portal. We better hope Lance Thompson, Petrino and some of the few other college-experienced guys have some tricks up their sleeves.
UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway
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This is why he's hot.
Petrino does have tricks up his sleeve. Unfortunately, they mostly involve a motorcycle.
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I thought Petrino was the trick?
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There's a difference between realism and pessimism.
Acknowledging that UNC football is in a rut from bad resource management and roster construction is not pessimistic. Its realistic.
Acknowledging that UNC football is in a rut from bad resource management and roster construction is not pessimistic. Its realistic.
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Wondering why 79 avoided my question about expected wins next season? I think understanding his view on how successful the team will be next season might shine a light on why his take on the state of the program might be an anomaly from the majority of other posters here.
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Davion Gause to NC State. I missed that if it was mentioned previously.
Just saw this. I got no idea. I do not know what this team will look like, not that familiar with the opponents, etc. But I also am not going to establish a goalpost of win. Baltimore just fired its coach because kicker missed a FG. I will say again, we were three plays from 7-5, with wins over the two teams that played in ACC title game. Also could have been 2-10.
I am looking for program building through recruiting, coaching, fundraising, player development, coaching, etc. Some boxes are being checked, some not so much. I think any coach should be given the opportunity to recruit his own players and see what he can do with them. One of the things I like is that we seem to be getting a good percentage of portal targets. Chad Simmons had an upbeat story on 2027 kids who were on campus this weekend and their thoughts. They almost all talk about program building. I understand I bring a more positive view, but I have yet to say this will work. I do not know if it will. The example of my Polly-Annishness is that I said an Arkansas guy played some for Petrino, and supposedly I was trying to trick people into thinking he was a starter? Really? Maybe his snaps were limited because he is not good. Or maybe they were limited because Arkansas wanted to redshirt him. I don't know.
I just do not think firing the coach, especially in year 2, is always the answer. This crowd and the Hubert haters would have fired Dean Smith. They just would have.
I’ll give you UVA as one play away, but beating Duke was no guarantee even if fake FG were unsuccessful and beating Cal was no guarantee even if we don’t fumble at the goal line. Both of those games would have required defensive stands to preserve the win.
Duke Kalbe Cost dropped an INT with about a minute left. It would have been a touch catch, but it was in his hands. We also swatted a pass straight up in the air on their last drive and it came down right in their guys hands, not ours. My point though, is if we win all three, and are 7-5, the things that concern the anti-BB crowd, and me, are still there. There was much I didn't like. But the recruits, portal guys, and a lot of the players who re-signed seem to believe in what is going on.
But we weren’t “three” plays away as you keep saying. We had a lot of work in both of those games. You could also say we were one play away from losing Stanford.
I did say that. Said we could have been 2-10. Also said 7-5 would have been nice but some issues that concern people still exist. But it's why I am looking at way more than wins next season. If social media had existed in 1966 dean would have not survived IMO