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So you think it doesn’t make any difference how many talented players are located near your school? You’ve never seen a kid flip when he finally gets his home state offer? You don’t see other teams in talent deficient states struggle to land top 25 classes consistently? It’s not the whole...

You have to check under the score.

I don’t think he even would have $50 mil to just donate.

I think what most of us (yourself included I assume) want to see as the next step is the season every now and then where these are avoided. That’s the next step to becoming on the level of an Iowa or even better. 2019 was the closest we’ve seen, so that’s like once in a 10 year span. Once...

Could’ve is different than should’ve. You can’t say he should’ve pulled out a win every time he goes up against a team of similar talent and capabilities.

We weren’t even favored in several of those you listed as should’ve won.

Essentially we’d be a playoff team every year if we did that.

We were 2-3 at this point last year with a tougher looking schedule ahead. I think this year’s team is a little less talented overall, but not massively so. With what could be a potentially more favorable schedule might end up with the same or better record.

TBD on if we lose Smith. Still have Howard, and Menz has flashed potential. We don’t have a lot of bodies in the junior class so a lot of the young guys haven’t played much yet. I don’t think the dline has been that bad this year, but I was hoping they’d be better. Other than Smith, our DEs...

Our safeties are too good for the pass defense to be this bad.

Well it has to land somewhere on the scale. I’d love to hear an argument about how it’s not more towards the difficult end.

Why do people think it’s not difficult? What coach has ever shown that it’s easy?

Outside of OSU, PSU, Oregon, and Michigan no one has put together a team that can compete for the big10 title in the last 8 years.

Right, were people thinking the NIL era would benefit us greatly?

Everyone wanted the playoffs and super conferences, this is what you get with that.