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Agree with your assessment that Sims has gotten marginally better. I've seen him step up in the pocket more (before it inevitably collapses) to gain a second or two. He seems to be making somewhat better decisions, although his situational awareness could use more improvement, and as we saw...

I've often had the same thought about the play calling with respect to down and distance. However, I don't always see the nuances that go into what may be the best situational call. For example, if the other team's defense is stacking the box and has successfully and repeatedly stuffed the...

Pretty sure Batt would have shown interest in the GT job prior to our 2-game winning streak, or at least certainly before our win over Duke. I imagine he saw our wins at Pitt and over Duke as a pleasant surprise and possible upside, but still understood the mess he was getting into.

Zach was asked specifically about this in the post-game interviews. According to him, he "got a lot of practice with the 1's", and "had two great weeks of practice". He also said they "had a lot of plays that were there, we just didn't execute." Based on his statement it appears that our...

The way CBK answered Ken's question, I got the impression he was simply playing the issue close to the vest to keep the opposing coaches guessing in the usual manner.

Can you imagine former Presidents talking about NIL and the transfer portal? I can't.

As an alumnus, I agree with much of what you said. However, short of emulating something like UNC's fake classes, I don't see how a few more accessible degree paths would result in our "character poisoned". Seriously, name an elite academic school where this has happened (and if so, didn't...

I was about to say, Isn't Cabrera basically "The Hill"?

The favorable shift in our remaining games' relative RPI has largely taken place since we beat Pitt and Duke. We were not favored in either of those two games and at the time would not have been favored in all but 1 or 2 of the remaining games on the schedule. Using current RPI as an...

Perhaps not the actual bar for Cabrera, who had seen enough after 4 games (as had many of us) to conclude that this season was not going to be successful. But I was referring to this board's discussion where a lot of us landed on 6 games (bowl eligible) as the minimum to retain Collins...

Just read an interesting article in The Athletic about trying to keep coaching searches confidential. Virginia's AD was wrapping up his hire of Mendenhall but hadn't announced it yet. In the local paper was a well-researched article listing 5 candidates. The article was 0-5. 😀

Your point has merit. But again, to be fair, this would imply that Key's competition such as Chadwell should be expected to win 5-6 of the next 6. A high bar indeed.

To be fair, if Key wins 6 he would have met the bar many of us said was required of Collins to keep his job. Has the bar been raised?

Agreed. If any comment could be called trollish it would be the quoted statement. It deserved to be countered.

I don't know the answer, but I do think our D has shown flashes of improvement every game this year with the exception of the Ole Miss disaster. They were solid for 2.5 quarters vs Clemson, decent in the UCF game despite not getting any help from special teams and some late 3-and-outs from our...

Agree we may never know exactly what transpired behind the scenes - but I can imagine a convo between Cabrera and Stansbury that went something like this after the UCF game: Cabrera: This is unacceptable. What action are you going to take now? Stansbury: He needs to go but we need to wait...my...

Yes. And Abanikanda had a few nice runs. But nothing to indicate we dodged a bullet when he went out.

Indeed, and per the box score we held him to 3.1 yards/carry in 10 carries, which is enough to start getting some statistical validity. Not sure what evidence there was in our game that would lead one to conclude we would have fared significantly worse if he had stayed in.

Arguable but perhaps true you are only referring to the last couple of decades. Otherwise, a generalization that is easily disproven.

To expand on that, once you can no longer trust a senior leader's decision-making skills, you can't continue to allow him to make critical decisions.