Bobby's last year and Jimbo's 3rd year as our OC we opened the season at home against Miami on Labor Day and lost a tough game to Miami 38-34.
5 days later we hosted.... Jacksonville State and couldn't have looked worse. We trailed 9-7 with less than 40 seconds left but found a way to win at the end scoring 2 TDs in the final 35 seconds. Yes, we won that game, but if a couple fluke plays happened like tonight, it could've easily been a loss. Either way, we looked HORRIBLE in the win.
The next week we went on the road to play #9 BYU and were big underdogs. I had booked a trip to Provo for the game before the season and remember regretting it big time KNOWING we were gonna get killed.
Well, we ended up destroying them 54-28 on their home field.
Then just when everyone thought we had figured everything out we came back home and lost 17-7 to USF, then lost @BC, and then again at home vs. GT.
We then went on the road on a Thursday night and beat a pretty good UNC team and won 5 out of our last 7 only losing @Clemson and @ #1 UF the rest of the way on our way to a 7-6 season.
This team kinda reminds me of that one. I'm not sure we're gonna get to 7 wins like we did that year, but we aren't going 0-12 or 1-11 either so stop with that. We will win games that nobody is expecting and probably will lose at least 1 or 2 more that we shouldn't. It's gonna be a process with some major lows (Last night!) and hopefully some highs too.
Anyway, I know I'm rambling but "Things are never as good as they seem or as bad as they seem". I still have faith that Coach Norvell will get this thing turned around and wouldn't be surprised at all if we bounce back with a win @ wake next weekend just like we did @BYU in 2009.
And who would've guessed that 7-6 season in 2009 was laying the foundation for one of the greatest teams of all-time just 4 years later...
Go Noles!
5 days later we hosted.... Jacksonville State and couldn't have looked worse. We trailed 9-7 with less than 40 seconds left but found a way to win at the end scoring 2 TDs in the final 35 seconds. Yes, we won that game, but if a couple fluke plays happened like tonight, it could've easily been a loss. Either way, we looked HORRIBLE in the win.
The next week we went on the road to play #9 BYU and were big underdogs. I had booked a trip to Provo for the game before the season and remember regretting it big time KNOWING we were gonna get killed.
Well, we ended up destroying them 54-28 on their home field.
Then just when everyone thought we had figured everything out we came back home and lost 17-7 to USF, then lost @BC, and then again at home vs. GT.
We then went on the road on a Thursday night and beat a pretty good UNC team and won 5 out of our last 7 only losing @Clemson and @ #1 UF the rest of the way on our way to a 7-6 season.
This team kinda reminds me of that one. I'm not sure we're gonna get to 7 wins like we did that year, but we aren't going 0-12 or 1-11 either so stop with that. We will win games that nobody is expecting and probably will lose at least 1 or 2 more that we shouldn't. It's gonna be a process with some major lows (Last night!) and hopefully some highs too.
Anyway, I know I'm rambling but "Things are never as good as they seem or as bad as they seem". I still have faith that Coach Norvell will get this thing turned around and wouldn't be surprised at all if we bounce back with a win @ wake next weekend just like we did @BYU in 2009.
And who would've guessed that 7-6 season in 2009 was laying the foundation for one of the greatest teams of all-time just 4 years later...
Go Noles!
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