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Spring Football News
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You guys might want to pay attention to this post.
Saying the same thing over and over doesn't magically make it true.
Fact is none of us knows for sure what the criteria is for keeping MM. It's worth the discussion, but I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss opposing viewpoints simply because they don't agree with your take on things.
Bowl game or he is gone. Simple
We all just need to bow to the Junta
Why. There is very little room for improvement between this year and a bowl game. This year was not acceptable. All signs point to a bowl game. Simply doubting that without reason seems... Contrary for the reason of being contrary
Nik did not post that just to repeat something.
buffs04
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For the record, I hope that you're both right.
Do you and/or nik have some serious inside information?
Let's just say Nik would not make that post without knowing what the clear expectations are for the 2016 season.
If you can't win half your games in year 4 with a team dominated by upper classmen, you are not the guy.
All the arguments about there being room for improvement without making a bowl were made last year. Make a bowl game or find someone who can. The excuses for losing need to end eventually, hopefully that time is now.
All the arguments about there being room for improvement without making a bowl were made last year. Make a bowl game or find someone who can. The excuses for losing need to end eventually, hopefully that time is now.
RG said, two seasons ago, that his expectation was to make a bowl game. He's trying to sell this program to boosters. He's trying to raise $105 million plus. Not making a bowl game would make for a very difficult sell. We are a much more desireable job than we were after Embree. We will be an experienced team next year and will lose much of that experience in '17. Alparently RG was visibly and vocally upset after the Utah loss. All of this adds up to Mac being released if he does not get us to a bowl game.
Except that he's starting to get a bit nervous on the Bernardi retirement scuttlebutt.
When the AD is sending out bulk emails saying "The football team is performing below expectations and we are committed to fixing it", that is a not so subtle public communication that his standards are higher than closer losses.
The AD has been very patient with HCMM. I think RG, being involved with football at multiple levels including at CU, understood what type of mess HCMM was working with. That being said, I think the patience is about at its end. There has been improvement in virtually every stat, at most positions, on this team. It is time for that improvement to start showing up in the W column. Its not a hard concept.
There's a whole lot of definitive statements being thrown around which makes me wonder if there is some inside info that the rest of us don't know about. If it's nothing more than reading between the lines from the latest AD update, I'd be cautious of making any conclusions based on what was said there.
doubting just to doubt is fine, but I'd say that your doubt is based on less evidence than those who think it's bowl game or bust.
What evidence? The AD newsletter where RG says he's disappointed with the results of the season? There's a big leap from that to "MM is fired if he doesn't make a bowl game in 2016". If there's other evidence, please show it to me. Honestly, I could have missed it.
I think what all of them are saying is that they have evidence, that they can't show you. Saying as much as they can without actually saying it.
That's usually the kind of thing that gets posters excoriated around here. "I know something you don't know, but I can't tell you, so you'll just have to believe me."
Think its a bit different when those posters have a history of having reliable inside information vs 21 year olds running their mouth.
Every single thing RG has said about the football team points to it going back to his long term goals for the program. Other circumstantial evidence: The recruiting class we need next year. The size of the senior and junior classes next year. Insider rumblings.
Plus, your alternate theory (more incremental improvement of what, one more win, and it's fine) has even less evidence beyond being illogical.
You don't think that incremental improvement in wins (1) and a big leap in recruiting could save his job? If this evidence is his communications with boosters then I would take that with a grain of salt.