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<blockquote data-quote="dbeverly26" data-source="post: 1455164" data-attributes="member: 515868"><p>Context is always important. If we played a schedule like last year, we'd be looking at 17-18 wins and some bubble talk, though we wouldn't have enough to get in. </p><p></p><p>As for Painter, Keady's last team played a brutal schedule that looks a lot like ours from this year, and Painter's second team had a couple of very good seniors (Landry and Teague) which is a luxury that Underwood does not have, so the 'turnaround' he oversaw played out a bit differently than what it looks like on the surface.</p><p></p><p>From your post, I don't think that you're making a case that Underwood's tenure has been a failure, though some are. I'm not really concerned about the direction of this program, though November can't come soon enough. I know freshman bigs are freshman bigs, but I can count on zero fingers the number of prospects we've brought in during 40 years of watching this team that look like Kofi Cockburn, at least in terms of physicality. I'm eager to see what a team with a bit more talent and experience can do here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dbeverly26, post: 1455164, member: 515868"] Context is always important. If we played a schedule like last year, we'd be looking at 17-18 wins and some bubble talk, though we wouldn't have enough to get in. As for Painter, Keady's last team played a brutal schedule that looks a lot like ours from this year, and Painter's second team had a couple of very good seniors (Landry and Teague) which is a luxury that Underwood does not have, so the 'turnaround' he oversaw played out a bit differently than what it looks like on the surface. From your post, I don't think that you're making a case that Underwood's tenure has been a failure, though some are. I'm not really concerned about the direction of this program, though November can't come soon enough. I know freshman bigs are freshman bigs, but I can count on zero fingers the number of prospects we've brought in during 40 years of watching this team that look like Kofi Cockburn, at least in terms of physicality. I'm eager to see what a team with a bit more talent and experience can do here. [/QUOTE]
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