kungfoodude

I am gonna disagree. Likely more like 8-9. If you include depth guys, probably more like 14-15.

Yeah, not matter how bad Bryce is, he can't be worse than Rattler/Shough. That's a nightmare fuel QB room.

The offense could prove to have gotten better, even if Bryce is a bust. The defense keeps getting worse. TBH, IF TMac/Coker/XL pan out(or at least 2 of the 3), the offense could just be a QB away from being pretty decent. That cannot be said of the defense. We are more than likely quite a few players away from being a top 10 defense.

If the defensive FA signings are mostly a bust, it's unquestionably time to move on. We keep getting guys for his defense. It's overdue for some sort of result. For me to even consider keeping him around, this defense has to finish top 16 overall.

Hopefully we have learned some fuging lessons for once.

I would rather doubt that.

I am in the "he is a CB" camp. I am just not sure he is special at WR. He is at CB.

LOL. Clark is a three time Pro Bowler.

I wouldn't have had a problem with giving up Brown for Parsons but we literally can't afford the 2 firsts. That's future roster suicide.

The time it takes to turn them around isn't likely to be hit by a 73 year old.

The "student" part has historically beeen a farce for revenue athletes.

They got Baby GOAT fever.

I am curious to see how long it takes for them to realize Hunter isn't a WR but a CB.

Yep and that is at Texas Tech, who pulls in a massive chunk of money from both of those sports.

Yeah, lot of these chirping fans would quickly find out their real place.

Yeah, that's what I mean. It will basically be a football organization filled with the deepest pockets and best markets. That likely excludes almost if not all the ACC.

If the coaches have freedom of movement and if the regular students have freedom of movement, so should the athletes. Tired of this fake "student athlete" crap that they have pushed for decades when what they meant was unpaid labor. I am perfectly fine with free agency every offseason until real contracts exist.

Pretty much the entire ACC minus perhaps Clemson and FSU would be outside that agreement.

I don't agree. Free agency exists in the pros so if they want that version, then have contracts.

I think he viewed this as his proof of concept for his triumphant return to the NFL. It always seemed drenched in some level of hubris. That he would waltz in, be a massive success and have ample NFL grovelers at his feet. Also not very rooted in reality. Truthfully, he was almost always a terrible personnel evaluator and that doomed New England to being the dumpster fire they are now.

Yeah, I don't think your perception is anywhere close to reality. You are more than welcome to that but I don't think you are going to get much in the way of legit agreement from any sort of football commentators.

I think it was a matter of seeing how difficult it would be to compete with FSU. They had far more resources and football was always going to be a second fiddle. Plus, at that time who could compete with Texass in terms of resources? Literally no one in the ACC.

I am sure it must be nice to have a live arm that doesn't hit the broadside of a barn or a guy lasering a pass into a DB's hands. Dalton serves his purpose perfectly fine. Don't completely get the wheels blown off and potentially have a shot to win a game or two. I think a lot of people are definitely confusing "starting" versus "backup."

I mean, if we are lucky, none of us ever sees the third string QB. Ever. He is washed in terms of being a regular starter but definitely not in terms of being a backup QB.

Agreed. Basically the "free agency" has made every team have something of a shot each year. That was never the case prior. Bad recruiting was death...for YEARS. If college sports is ever to genuinely survive, they have to get a commissioner. That's part of the big difference between pro and college sports. At the NFL/MLB/NBA/NHL level, they all generally operate for the common good(increased revenues/value). At the college level they all try to rip each other apart and take all the spoils they can. You will never survive that way, regardless of the demographic or economic issues that also put them in peril.