We Weren’t Good This Year

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#126
FLVOL_79 said:
Giving Ohio its second ever win (or is it three?) over an SEC team stings but it is what is. They were going to break their losing streak to UT one day.
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And it only cost them $20,000,000 to do it. I’d say there will be a salary cap in the future with a luxury tax involved for teams that want to go out and pay LA Dodgers/NY Yankee or Mets money.
 
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#127
bpalmer28 said:
We went 10-3 and beat 2 of the 3. Shut up. We aren’t National Champions and the guys weren’t good AT ALL tonight but 10 wins is 10 wins.
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I’m good with the 10 wins. It’s 2 of the 3 losses I’m not ok with. We shouldn’t have lost to Arkansas and we didn’t even show up against Ohio St. offensively we have regressed the last 2 years and are supposed to have playmakers been recruited. I know it will take time to build depth but my goodness we have enough to compete and we didn’t compete in those games.
 
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Volwonder1 said:
And it only cost them $20,000,000 to do it. I’d say there will be a salary cap in the future with a luxury tax involved for teams that want to go out and pay LA Dodgers/NY Yankee or Mets money.
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The NCAA is actually sanctioning $20M for revenue sharing by the schools with the players. That's before any private NIL deals.

Via Larry Ellison (he's worth $200+ Billion,) Michigan is supposedly going to use $50M per year for football NIL. They just flipped a QB with a $10M deal.

There's no way to put a "salary cap" on NIL deals. Even the pro teams don't control the money guys like Curry or Kelce get from commercials and endorsements.
 
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We have some of the worst orange tinted "homer" vision of any fan base. We are so desperate for relevance that we'll grab on to anything and scream "Vol's By Fity". We aren't objective at all. Any negative comments are immediately dismissed as NegaVol. The reality is that we were never meant to be in the playoff.
Freshman quarterback.
No standout talent in the receiver corps.
A secondary that was so bad that last years team basically all left or were sent packing.

The team has grit. They fought back from being behind several times this year and even got FL and AL wins. We trounced OK on their home field as their inauguration into the SEC. Can't be mad at that.
We need to collectively acknowledge some things. Nico is likely a bust. Not in the sense that he's terrible, but rather, his ceiling isn't as high as we though. He was overrated coming out of high school. Is he still better than 90% of the other QB's in the country, probably. Is that enough to get us in the playoffs year in and year out? no. Nico isn't likely to develop into the guy who just puts the team on his back and wins.


CJH is our coach and will be for several more years. We better hope he stays. There isn't a savior on our horizon that's going to be better than him despite his flaws. He's going to have to make some changes to get beyond where we are. We are getting out recruited by teams that have no business out recruiting us. CJH has to get into the portal and grab some talent. We just got abused in what was supposed to be the best game of the entire playoffs. Running up the score on clearance rack teams to pad stats won't camouflage bad play from here on out. We've seen that movie before.
 
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#133
Jbob1871 said:
Next years schedule is a cake walk. Unless SOS is given greater weighting we will be back in CFP.
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No it's not. It will be tougher than this year's schedule. Bama and Florida will be better next year and we have to play them on the road. Syracuse will be a tougher test than NC State was. Despite playing them in Neyland, Oklahoma will be better next year. And we can't seem to beat Georgia in a parking lot.
 
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uncle chewii said:
I’m good with the 10 wins. It’s 2 of the 3 losses I’m not ok with. We shouldn’t have lost to Arkansas and we didn’t even show up against Ohio St. offensively we have regressed the last 2 years and are supposed to have playmakers been recruited. I know it will take time to build depth but my goodness we have enough to compete and we didn’t compete in those games.
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I’m still pissed about the Ohio. I will not travel for a game anytime soon.
 
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#135
bpalmer28 said:
I’m still pissed about the Ohio. I will not travel for a game anytime soon.
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Yea the Ohio game was an embarrassment to all. That has been the only knock I had against CJH until this year. I thought last year was an anomaly because of Milton but it’s the same thing this year and we the “studs” we are supposed to have on offense we are very very vanilla. We have to throw the ball more than 5 yds out or bubble screens. Our o line hasn’t given Nico or the receivers enough time to get open. Some self check needs to be done offensively this off season.
 
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We were expected to lose to Georgia, and we did, so in that respect, we weren't a great team, just a good team. But we lost to Arkansas, and it was an ugly loss. Really good teams don't do that. I'd say we're a middling team, probably 4th or 5th in the SEC.
 
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carolinaviking said:
We were expected to lose to Georgia, and we did, so in that respect, we weren't a great team, just a good team. But we lost to Arkansas, and it was an ugly loss. Really good teams don't do that. I'd say we're a middling team, probably 4th or 5th in the SEC.
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Besides Georgia and Texas, who was better
 
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