Last year was as easy as it gets. We went 10-4 which sounds great but really look at the schedule. In the 10 games we won only 3 teams finished with a winning record. Of those 3 teams we played a GA team with a QB making his first start, We made an unthinkable number of 4th down conversions vs Tenn and Ole Miss I am not sure how we won that. The east was down and for the taking.
Mac is now 14-5 as our coach. Those 14 wins those teams had a combined record of 64-79 with only 3 teams above .500. Think about that for a minute he has 11 wins currently from teams below .500. In his 5 loses the teams are 47-10. This year the games we won teams have a combined record of 7-13. His dog could coach and play QB and lead us to victory against those teams.
This to me shows we were lucky as heck to win the east last year and our luck is running out. Tenn is getting better. GA has a QB again. Mac is 14-5 because he has played an easy schedule. I see a team that beats teams they should beat (barely in some cases) and a team that has somehow won against 3 out of the 8 times they played a good team.
The post game vs Vandy was the same old same old. Mac tells some saying to make him sound deep minded and zen like. Talks about the things we are gonna fix. Then the players get on stage and say this crap. “Some teams, when they’re playing the Florida Gators, they’re amped up and ready to come out and beat us,” running back Jordan Scarlett said.“Sometimes, (the) Gators just come out a little lazy, like we’re supposed to win.”
and this sweet nugget by duck roll tabor “I don’t want to say it’s a different mindset, but it is,” cornerback Jalen Tabor said. “Look at the teams we play. I feel like we threw the first punch last week against Tennessee. We threw the first punch against Kentucky. I don’t want say Vandy got to us, but … UMass, North Texas and Vandy is like uhh. Kentucky and Tennessee is like (slaps hands).”
“We’re on another level when we’re mad and (ticked) off,” Brantley said. “We can’t be touched.” Really Mr. Brantley must not get ticked off often then.
We put that product on the field and they talk about the reason's being laziness, not looking forward to this game, playing not to lose. A "win is a win" is all you hear, you know who says that is teams that get lucky, lazy teams, poorly coached teams. You only use that saying when you are favorited and you play like crap you don't blow a team out by 40 and say a win is a win.
I'm not at the fire Mac stage, but he seriously needs to look at his style of getting players ready for the games. There are staff changes needed hopefully this AD opens the pockets for those to get done.
