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Everything that happened after 2020 is simple math.
Harbaugh struggled against any "good" teams for fucking 6 years then all of a sudden starts out smarting everyone and becomes a master of in game adjustments and x's & o's? Yea fucking right.
How they've started this year is just proving it anymore. scUM in 2024 looks exactly how you'd expect a team that knew exactly what was coming at them for multiple years and then suddenly lost their book of cheats to look. They are completely lost and have no cohesion as a unit, not to mention all of the boneheaded mistakes they are suddenly making, it's a bitch to actually have to make reads for yourself instead of already knowing what's happening beforehand. I'm gonna guess a good chunk of these guys put in very little actual gameplay recognition type work over the last couple of years because they didn't have to when they were getting exactly what opponents were going to do told to them. Donovan Edwards being the most glaring individual example. The LBs and Safeties especially as units look like a bunch of guys running around like they have no clue what they are doing. Then you have the OL suddenly looking completely awful when that had been the strength of their offense the last 3 years. Go figure it's a lot easier to block the defense when you know exactly what they are coming at you with.
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buckalum01
They Call Me Assassin
In a few years, I'd really like to revisit the NFL careers of the UM players that saw their draft stock soar because they looked like monsters, but turn out to be Stay Puft Marshmallow Men....
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
In fact, I'd argue that their coaches specifically prevented them from attempting it. Why have a player "think" what's coming when you actually know what's coming.
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Yep, basically have to make guys drones who only do exactly what is told or they might second guess and fuck up the plan for everyone else. Assuming breaking any of the guys who aren't 1st year freshmen of that has been basically impossible, which is leading to hilarious results on the field this year.
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The 2 guys drafted the highest in 2023 are already looking to be on their way out of Dallas rather quickly
Mazi Smith (1st round pick 26) and Luke Schoonmaker (2nd round pick 58) have both failed to show anything.
DJ Turner and the kicker (the only others drafted before the 5th round) are likely the only scUMers from their 2023 draft class who will have a NFL career that's somewhat productive.
assuming the guys drafted in 2024 are really going to all struggle as a group as well.
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1926Buckeyes
Head Coach
If anything it just goes to show how shallow CFB commentary and coverage is. Not that anyone could have predicted what happened, but it was generally accepted without curiosity beyond 'Jimmy's a new coach and he has a special assistant who is smoothing out everything behind the scenes now. Yes, people really call him Biff.'
Going from 2-4 with your program falling apart to double digit wins can certainly happen. Doing so while dominating and immediately reaching the playoffs is abnormal. Now that I look at their transfers heading into '21, they had 22 outgoing, including 2 of their more talented players (Worthy and Charbonnet) and only 4 incoming. None of those 4 appeared to be more than backups. I assumed they had brought in some impact players to help the rosters, but that only started to happen in '22.
It's all much easier to see with hindsight, but the lack of improvements over 'our coaches are now geniuses!' is glaring.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
The fact that they're now willing to nuke the 21 and 22 seasons and probably send the program into irrelevance if they can cling to their precious 23 season tells me how important it is to strip them of it.
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Personally, I have a significantly reduced amount of respect for them as a university, and a hugely reduced amount of respect for their athletic department and their football program.
But I hate the sanctimonious pricks more than ever, and my passion for the rivalry is even more intense.
Strip them of their ’titles’ acquired by cheating.
Pass them on the all-time wins list.
Pass them on the head-to-head record in The Game.
And then, continue to beat on their cheating asses until eternity.
UTQTFS
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Most of the DFBIA doesn't care if others strip the title. They "know" they won it. No one can take their memory of it. They would rather it be vacated than that the program be crippled going forward.
The DPIA obviously have the opposite perspective.
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They reached their goal of winning the title and they got the fan base convinced that that's all that matters too, to hell with whatever happens retroactively with the NCAA taking things away or going forward, they don't even care that they are going to be a 7-5 type team at best this season and that next season is looking like it'll probably be a even worse disaster.
It's hilarious when they talk about "all the talent they lost" considering their "record draft" was made by a bunch of guys drafted in the 3rd round or higher. They didn't lose a bunch of 1st and 2nd round picks like the SEC schools & Ohio State constantly do, and those schools don't plunge into struggle mode every time that happens. DFBIA of course though is out here acting like they are the only school to ever lose a bunch of players to the draft.
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