Season of redemption for Paul Johnson

Minawreck

Minawreck

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I was wrong as well. Preseason I predicted 12-2 with a loss @ UNC and against Ohio State in the National Semi-Final. Looks like I'll be a little bit off. Season's a disappointment.
 
flounder

flounder

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I like this quote from MBob

"I do believe the best thing that might have happened to us this year is when we got picked so low in the preseason," athletic director Mike Bobinski said. "We were already well on our way to having a good offseason and having a better locker room, having a group of guys that are more together and honestly care about each other, play for each other and push each other harder more than we had in recent years. Adding that extra impetus of, ‘Hey, we're not getting a whole lot of respect from folks' was a nice little addition to the mix."
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kg01

kg01

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Loved this ...
"There have been so many misperceptions promoted for so long about, well, people catch up to the offense, and it's this, and it's that. Once you play it, you figure it out," Johnson said. "It's like anything. When people say it long enough, they want it to be true. A broken clock's right twice a day. … We beat Clemson 28-6. You're not going to see any headlines that say, ‘Well, they figured out the hurry-up offense. It's through now. That's the blueprint, they'll never score again.' Now if that's us, you get the, ‘Well, they figured it out, and that's it for that offense.'"
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takethepoints

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Like most fans, I took the migration of players in the off-season hard. I could see that we could develop into a melt-down on D, but I hoped it wouldn't happen. Luckily, hoping worked this time.

What I didn't see and this article points out, is that so many players leaving over the summer could actually help develop team cohesiveness. We'll never know and I'm just speculating here, but it could be that the players who left were part of the problem, not part of the solution. Having, as Bobinski says, a "better locker room" is something that everyone wants, but that is real, real hard to conjure up or plan for. Further, if I had told the coaching staff that, if we lost 5 DLs over the summer, we'd be a better football team, they'd have concluded that I was stone crazy. But it looks like that's how it worked out.

Now watch: they'll pick us to win the Coastal next year. God alone knows what that'll lead to.
 
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