Originally Posted by travman23 
We won 3 games last year and lost several key contributors to graduation on both sides of the ball, what did you expect to see us rated at?
People need to stop talking about 3 wins last year like that's a comparable reality (I'm not meaning to pick on you--travman). In my book, 5 wins this year is equal to last year because I'm giving us a bye on Kent State and UNI. We got 2 conference wins last year. We lost some people--we gained some people. 2 conference wins this year would be . . . the same. No improvement. So 3 non-conference wins is . . . what? Technically it's better than 1, sure--but I'm not going to buy into that. Last year's team that won 2 conference games would not have lost those 2 non-conference games.
So last year we improved dramatically over the season. Realistically, I think 5 wins this year is equal to last year's team at the end of the season. Sure that means I'm hoping for 6 wins this year. I'm not going on a witch hunt if we don't get it--I'm just saying that I don't believe 5 wins is any REAL improvement over the END of last season.
