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Originally Posted by Blackgate
Go Gators? haha!
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If you're talking about the USC loss its hard to compare them to the Gators considering we lost Sanchez, Matthews, Maualuga and 7 others (4 of them in the first round). Talk to me next year when you don't have Tebow.
The expectations on USC/Florida this year were way different. The Gators are the defending national champs with a heisman winning senior QB - quite the contrast to USC.
Like I said, while I didn't think we'd suffer the worst loss in Carroll history I wasn't very confident that we'd beat Oregon. Its a down year for us and I firmly believe we're doing better than most people thought we would, even with the usual USC hype.
Am I making excuses? Sure, but I think they're legitimate. When you lose the heart of your defense and your QB to the NFL draft you're obviously going to suffer some setbacks (though I think we'd only have 1 loss if Barkley played in the Husky game).
We'll see how Texas fairs w/o McCoy and Florida fairs w/o Tebow and shit like that next year when USC should hopefully be returning a pretty solid team with experience at the QB position, especially if McKnight stays, although losing McCoy and Mays is going to blow hard.