Stewart Mandel's 10 bold predictions for the 2016 college football season

Discussion in 'On The Field' started by bck031, Aug 29, 2016.

  1. bck031

    bck031 1,000+ Posts

    9. Charlie Strong reminds everyone he can still coach

    All you need to know about the talent level Strong inherited is that the ‘Horns had six players drafted over the past three years. The program he left behind, Louisville, had 15 guys selected over the same time period, including five first-rounders. Not coincidentally, Strong went 23-3 his last two seasons at Louisville and 11-14 his first two in Austin.

    http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...ootball-playoff-heisman-stewart-mandel-082916
     
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  2. Horns11

    Horns11 10,000+ Posts

    This is probably more of a "dig yourself out of that hole you created" situation than a "show 'em what you can do now" one. We had enough talent last year to beat Cal, OK State, Iowa State, West Virginia, and Tech. I don't believe that's because we lacked draft picks. We had one draft pick in 2000, four months after winning the South Division.

    We **** the bed with mental mistakes in all of the games I mentioned. Not because of talent but because of preparedness and execution. I still think Strong can coach, but he needs to get the team focused on being prepared for each situation.
     
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  3. Brad Austin

    Brad Austin 2,500+ Posts

    Ok well it's Year 3 now. Mack left here at 8-5. Strong took over Louisville at 4-8. After two rebuild seasons he made a 4-game win jump from 7-6 to 11-2 in Year 3.

    Let's see what he's got after having time to shape his own program like Louisville. In the PC today he says he really likes this team now and they have talent everywhere.

    It's time for on the field results to reflect drastic improvement in the W/L column and move on from excuses. Let's do this. :hookem:
     
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  4. bck031

    bck031 1,000+ Posts

    I agree, and I don't think we had the right coaches in place. I hope the changes that Charlie has made bring us back to where we should be.
     
  5. caryhorn

    caryhorn 5,000+ Posts

    I like Mandel's confidence in CS. I hope it is well founded! He predicts "possibly" 10 wins. So that seems he expects at least nine wins, which would be one more than I picked on the thread on this site.

    Here's to Mandel being right!!
     
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  6. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    Let's hope he's right. Our first five games are daunting to say the least. UTEP is the only gimme.

    I watched ESPN's kickoff show. All four prognosticators had OU and Clemson in the playoffs. Everyone had some combination of Ohio St., Michigan, Tennessee, Florida St., or LSU filling the other two spots.
     
  7. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    ou made it into the play-off with one loss in 2015. Can they do it again in 2016 after the way they played in the 2015 semi-final game? From the "experts" that I have seen it would appear that the Big XII will be shut-out again as almost a majority of the "experts" are speculating that either the B1G (tOSU and Meatchicken) or the SEC (Alabama and LSU) will be sending two teams. (I know it doesn't make sense since tOSU and Michigan and Alabama and LSU play each other in the regular season and cannot meet in the CCG, but with a bunch of num-nuts on the Committee, ESPN's desires will be heeded.) No way does a one loss Big XII champion leap-frog a one loss Clemson, FSU, Stanford, Oregon or USC.

    Of course this is all academic as ou will have 2 (if not 3 losses from Houston, tOSU, Texas and TCU). TCU and Baylor will play each other, but they both still have the issue of their non-conference schedules (although TCU does play the pig-people - South Dakota State will be held against them). Texas is a wildcard as even if they beat both ND and ou, Strong's history at Texas and Louisville says Texas will lose one conference game they should have won and, until proven otherwise, they cannot stay within 50 points of TCU.
     

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