Look, I'm usually quite optimistic and this year even my optimism is waning. Its pretty simple, we lost 4 of our last 5 regular season games last year by an average of over 23 POINTS (17 points at OM was actually the closest). So its not just that we lost to the better competition we played last year it was that we weren't even competitive. Now we did replace Wilson and Smith with Turner and Townshend and we have Collins moving to DC but I really don't know what effect that will have until I see some games. And getting Gonzales for Brewster I am taking as a break even at this point.

And our schedule this year is a killer with OSU and SC replacing fairly easy wins last year that we had in South Alabama and TN. Then, I hear about all this talent we've amassed from some of you. Well yes, we've recruited decent over the last 4 years but the vast majority of our team are MS 3 stars. Other than maybe KY, every team in the SEC has recruited on paper as well are better than that on average. And we all know that the last 2 classes have been signficantly better than the 2 before that but those guys from the last 2 are still VERY young. I'm trying to be very cautiously optimistic but we are really going to have to step it up pretty good from how we played last year just to get to the 6 to 7 win type season. Much of it depends on how good Auburn and Arkansas are. I personally don't know how good either will be but I can assure you that BOTH will be better than last year when they were train wrecks.