As long as the Browns don't take him he should go. I'd like to see UNC have an all pro QB that wins a lot of games in the NFL. That won't happen in Cleveland.
Yeah, with our schedule I don't see that happening. I would be shocked if we get to 8 wins next year. We've got Cal, ND and UL next year. I know all are at home and ND and Cal didn't have a good year, but I don't expect to win any of those games. On top of that we play at VT, Pitt, GA tech and moo. I would bet we at least lose the VT and Pitt games. That's 7-5 right there. We could just as easily lose the moo and tech games as well. I think missing a bowl next year is a real possibility.
Whoa... why don't you expect to win them if Mitch and Hood stay?
I was going under the assumption that Mitch would leave. We are losing a lot on offense next year and Fedora doesn't know how to properly use a RB, so even if Hood stays he's not going to be used. UNC football history also shows that no matter how good our defense is, we will find a way to screw it up.
If I'm not mistaken he's on track to graduate this year, so he really has no reason to come back other than he likes it here. If he is going to be a first round pick then how much he likes playing here shouldn't matter. I'm willing to bet that Fedora is telling him the same thing.
Not without Mitch I don't.
We shouldn't have lost to moo at home either, but we did.
Given our history I think it's being realistic. Yes, they only won five games, but they didn't really have any horrible losses. We did.
I can't speak for other posters, but I'm not trying to say that we are back in the Bunting years. I just feel like we are going to revert back to our historical norm, which is an average to slightly above average team that flirts with the top 25. We've never had back to back double digit winning seasons and I think the last time we finished back to back seasons ranked was Mack Brown's last two years. That's two decades and counting. I raised my expectations this year even though last year was an outlier, historically speaking. I think we'll get more than 3 wins, but I'm not going into the season expecting a lot of wins. My expectation is somewhere between a 6-8 win season. I hope we get more, but there is nothing in our history that says I should expect it.
You make a good point. It's going to be hard for that to happen here because of the success we have enjoyed in every other sport, not just basketball. We routinely have top 25 teams in pretty much every sport we participate in. If you are routinely a top dog in almost everything it's hard to accept the underdog role.
