I give our guys a lot of credit for fighting as hard as they did. Most of us would agree that if last year's staff were still in place there would have been no fourth quarter comeback.
I keep thinking back to what LeRoy Jordan said a couple of years ago about what he sawe after observing a Bama spring practice. His comment was that he saw a whole lot of average football players. With a late start on his first recruitiong class, Coach NS certainly has not had time to change this aspect. So what we have seen so far this year is a team with mostly average football players fighting their hearts out against some tough opponents and going into the fourth quarter believing that they had a chance to win. Georgia is a good football team, and we hung with them all the way. We just couldn't quite get over the top. If you compare our team with Georgia's position group by position group, I think we would only be considered better at the receiver positions.
I think that we will continue to get better, but lacking depth and without a lot of top drawer talent we have to be on our game every week. I've been saying 9-3 all along, but there are several teams still on the scheule that we could lose to, (FSU, UT, Auburn) as well as LSU, whom most of us expect to lose to. In addition, if we decide to "mail it in" we could have unhappy outcomes versus Houston, Ole Miss and Miss State. Of course with the new staff, we certainly hope that there won't be any mail ins.