I don't think they will improve any in 2018 and their offense will be as rotten as it was in 2017. I think Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi will be given 2019 to get better or he will be canned in December 2019. A rebuilding USF team can go 7-5 in the AAC. I think USF loses to GT,Illinois,Houston,Temple and UCF.
Might break into top 25, but not close to top 10. The reason being GT has a history of surprising Clemson so that would not be a big surprise, so to speak. And Tech's see-saw seasonal record of recent years is nothing to build a top 10 reputation on. We would need more quality wins to get that kind of recognition. (I think it was after the Orange Bowl vs. Miss. State we finally cracked that number.)If GT were to shock the World and beat Clemson making their record 4-0 i think they would be rated in the #10-#12 range
I agree. And Swinney can one-line you to death. Last year when the players at the ACC kickoff event were asked to vote on the coach they would most like to play for, excluding their own, it was Swinney in a landslide so to speak. His reaction was that, "Everybody wants to play for me until they play for me." And when Fedora was making silly about sissifying football, Swinney noted that when he first started coaching at Alabama, "they would have hauled us off to jail" for practice methods. That was of course under Gene Stallings, who played for the Bear at Texas A&M. Might have been one of the Junction Boys, I don't know.Man Dabo sure is surly. So confrontational with the media. Doesn’t make Clemson look good at all. I mean how is he supposed to recruit while presenting that dour display to the media?
All sarcasm aside I can’t help but like Dabo. And Clemson too for that matter. Doesn’t make me want to beat them any less but I’ll take them all day every day over duh U or any of the teams in N. Carolina.
Yeah Gene Stallings was one of the Junction Boys and so was all time great LB Jack Pardee.
Mike,
GT isn't playing UCF until 2020
A lot of the love for Pitt has come about because of the late season win against a depleted Miami team. They have 4 starters returning on O and will be coming off a physical game against Penn State. USF also lost a lot on one side of the ball. I can't recall which side.
USF's entire offense and defense graduated
And who amongst has who has read the book, gulped a couple of times, and wondered, "Could I have taken that?" My answer was a resounding no. Hello, basketball.
No argument. What is that contractual catch-all about past performance being no guarantee of ... Like others on the board I want to win it all, but given the alternatives -- FSU, Miami, VT, UNC -- I'll go with Clemson otherwise. There's just something about the others.
We'll learn something about Frost this season. He was at UCF just two years so his 19 wins were with somebody else's players, and I'm not diminishing what he did with them. But "his" players were just sophomores his last year, and if both sides graduated, well. Frost will not have been the first coach to slide in and out before the posse arrived to count heads, and all the new coach can hope for is that Frost's two recruiting classes live up to his UCF record. He came in with the usual it-won't-be-my-fault lines by telling everyone who would listen everything that was wrong with Nebraska. Which according to him is everything, and it has to be "fixed". I do love coaches. They pay agents to find them jobs and yowl about how tough they have it in he job the agent got them.