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Back during the Sherrill era, this season would already be considered a failure.

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MadDawg.sixpack

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Imagine, if you will, no UT-Martin on the schedule. No 4th non-conference game to up the win total. If you didn't win 3 SEC games, you were home for the holidays, and sometimes even 4 SEC wins didn't get you there.

I know we don't all have the warm fuzzies over this season, but for the most part it's not considered a failure. It's not quite where we want to be, or even where we thought we'd be, but it's not a failure either. We think we are still pretty much on track and moving in the right direction.

Amazing what an added game and a different attitude in scheduling can do.
 
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I mean, really... Recruit a few Top 40 classes in a row, schedule some cupcakes, and get your 6 wins. We have done nothing this season that anyone is all that excited about, yet we're still in great position to go bowling. How do you screw that up for the better part of a decade?
 
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and I'm not arguing we would have done a lot better, but we would have at least had one more non-losing season in 1996. Add UT-Martin that year and we are 6-6 instead of 5-6. But unfortunately Sherrill had a knack of losing non-conference games that we shouldn't. Otherwise, it could have been even more.
 
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When during Sherrill's era was the West even close to being as strong as it is now? We currently have 4 losses to to 4 ranked teams(2 of them are in the top ten) and we were blown out by none of them. We have the #2 ranked team(unfortunately soon to be ranked #1) and the 7th ranked team in the nation coming up on our schedule in the next three weeks, 6-6 is disappointing but not as bad as it sounds when you look at the competition. JWS is the "Kang" and always will be, but I can remember several years during his tenurewhen a 6-6 record that includes a 3rd straight victory over the Rebs wouldnot have been viewed with much disappontment.If you would have told meon the day that we hired Mullenthathis recordwould be 21-17 with two bowls and three Egg Bowl victoriesafter his third year at the helm, I would have been more than satisfied. Yes, the 12 game season makes it easier to get bowl elgible, but considering the strength of the West the past three years, I would not say that getting to a bowl game right now is a simple feat. We can't slip up against anyone that we are favored to beat and we have to deal with the injuries that come with playing the caliber of talent that we face week to week in the SEC. The program is heading in the right direction and we are only a FG and a few inches away from having a very good season even with key injuries sustained to an O-line that is lacking in depth and experience. The bottom line is that JWS would not have benefitted much from the expanded schedule, it may have propelled us to a bowl in one of his many seasons as our HC. It surely did not help him or make a difference in his final couple of years here.
 
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It has already been pointed out that Jackie had his down years too. In fact, he only went .500 his entire tenure here. I think Mullen can do that or better. For a matter of clarification, just look at the West. Good night people, the division is better than it has ever been. LSU, Alabama, both national championship teams. Arky would be undefeated in any other conference. It aint like we're going up against some toilet tissue thin schedule. In fact, the only teams that we have lost to that we should really have won were Auburn and SC. You can even argue the SC game. Taking a deep breath and stepping back, we aint doing that poorly here people. We could always be TSUN.
 
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All we had to do was beat them, and we're 6-5 that year. We also lost a close game to UK on the road as well, and to an average Arkansas team in OT a week after Bama- we definately had a hangover from the week before.

That's what was so maddening about Sherrill- yes, he would occasionally beat a team like Alabama, but then he would have a WTF? loss to a La Tech. What made me upset about those losses was how totally unprepared we looked at times against people like La Tech.

If anything, at least Dan is beating who he is supposed to beat. If he does lose to someone that he isn't, at least it's another SEC team. That's tolerable. But at the same time, he isn't winning quite as big as Jackie did. Other than Florida on the road last year, Dan needs to start pulling some upsets at some point in time. Don't see it happening this year to be honest. I hope it does in the future, and I would not be surprised if he does pull it off at some point in time. It's only year three after all.
 
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Our 2000's teams lacked one huge and important part of the great game of football: OFFENSE. <div>
<div>Croom era mostly. I remember the 3 hole run, 4 hole run, pass, and punt offense. We had some kind of awesome defenses under Croom but hold a team to 3 means nothing when you only score 2(yea you remember). </div></div><div>
</div><div>Mullen is a great coach give him time. Things will get figured if he stays with us. </div><div>
</div><div>Finally the two biggest problems we have with building a program are: LSU and Alabama. Hard to recruit with 2Juggernauts next to us. </div><div>
</div><div>That is all. Hail State.</div>
 
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prettygooddawg

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or else I need to begin counting backward. From a Nationally ranked [15th] to a 45 or something in eight weeks. Hmmm, oh, I see, another wishing-a-win summation.

I will say if Dan is an exceptional coach he will win two of the last three games.

The drama this week builds....will Dan take a knee in each quarter setting a NCAA record?
 
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