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This is the year. The schedule be dammed. No more excuses.
It is time for Fran to deliver some hardware.
The schedule may be easier in 2006 but the shoe will be on the other foot as we will have a first time starter at QB and every other team in the South will have their experienced QB back from this season. There will be plenty of available excuses for 2006 in the form of 17 Srs gone from this year’s team and an inexperienced QB. The Nebraska is back after a couple of great recruiting classes excuse may well be available in 2006 and 2007 as a bonus.
The stars will not align for both schedule and experience until McGee’s Sr. season in 2008.
Amazing. This doesn't even rise to the level of stupid.
You show that you barely know **** about the team, but you're going to beat your chest and make demands on Fran for "hardware"? Learn something about the team before you deliver your powerless ultimatums, or, please, either follow the Aggies in silence or don't follow them at all.
Let's start with the painfully obvious---the fact that a "starter" and a "senior" are not the same thing. We will not be losing all 17 of the returning starters from last year after this next season.
Do you have the faintest understanding of the hole RC left this program in in terms of talented depth? This team is not anything like the teams that Stoops, Carroll, Saban, and Tressel took over. Those teams all came loaded with good to great talent. Not a similar situation here in 2003. Each of those teams was primed for success. All that was needed was some great coaching. Fran, on the other hand, had to rebuild this program from the bottom up.
Fran's recruits are currently mostly RS freshmen and sophs. We have plenty of older players, but many of our current starters are simply not close to being as talented as their counterparts at Texas and OU. You can ***** if we aren't competing at a very high level when Fran's recruits are mostly upperclassmen.
Furthermore, your fixation on the QB position is silly. You don't need a SR QB or even a superstar QB to be competitive at a high level. Superstar QBs are not nearly as important for championship teams as great lines and great defense (run defense especially). The level of Fran-recruited experienced talent on both sides of the ball in 2006 will more than compensate for the loss of Reggie. Our secondary and o-line especially will both be worlds better a year from now. Depth across the board will be much improved. You can't win championships with just a 1st string.
This year's road schedule is brutal. We still have serious personnel and/or experience issues at too many positions. It is idiotic to expect this team to win the Big 12. Please educate yourself more about this team and about football in general so I don't have to listen to you and your ilk whine and complain for an entire offseason after Fran likely doesn't live up to your absurd and unrealistic expectations this year.
[This message has been edited by Austin_Aggie_13 (edited 7/26/2005 3:26a).]
