Quote Originally Posted by dawgday166 View Post
I'm happy (resigned) to very seldom getting beat by teams we should beat, beating KY every year, and getting the hell beat out of us by any pretty darn good (not necessarily great) football team, while throwing in a loss or two to SEC W teams we should beat in a given year (we always lose a couple of reasonably close ones to 2 teams in W we should beat when they are having a down year). So at best we finish 4th, most often 5th or 6th in the West and I'm good.

And I'm gonna get pissed as hell every time the media doesn't "give us any respect". *****

BTW ... I'd move Bama down to last in your list. Let's shoot for the low-hanging fruit first. Although if we could beat Bama then we should be able to accomplish all of the rest of those ... although we wouldn't.
My thing is if we get beat by any of the bluebloods- Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia...I can stand it. I won't like it but I can stand it. The ONLY thing I ask is that we at the very least don't embarrass ourselves by getting blown out and we give them a hell of a game. For example- when we lost to Alabama like 28-24 or whatever it was in 1994 or when we lost to Tennessee 24-14 in the SEC Championship Game but we had a lead and they had to make a perfect pass to beat us without JJ Johnson. Or the Florida game where Johnthan Banks picked off the two Tebow passes for TD's. That's what I expect us to have happen when we play a blueblood. 31-3 and 49-10 isn't acceptable to me.

The thing is if we keep the games close with the bluebloods every once in awhile we'll pick them off and beat them. It will also give us more media respect and raise our profile. Also, odds are at least one of the bluebloods are going to be down and we can beat them- like LSU this year or Auburn in years past and that can give us unexpected win every once in awhile. Throw in an upset over a blueblood and we're looking at 10-2 potentially.

I put Alabama that high mainly because of proximity as much as anything. The goals don't have to be accomplished in order or anything like that- it's more of a checklist.

Even worse for Dan- Jackie showed that we could pick off a good Florida, Alabama, and Auburn team every once in awhile and I think Dan is a better coach than Jackie.