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bavw said...

I support CDD for the following reasons: - I don't like hiring someone to a 4-5 year rebuilding job and then 3 years getting excited about the team they built and saying it is make or break year. If I am excited about the team they built I think the coach probably did a few things right. - This is just my opinion, I think coaches get teams to the 4th quarter, and players win in crunch time. There was a great post earlier this week about our drives in the 4th quarter with a chance to tie or take the lead, haven't scored once (changed since Troy). To me, that is Bray, Hunter, and CP not seizing the moment more so that a coach not doing his job. - I don't look at rankings for recruiting as much as others, but I think CDD has brought in a ton of talent across the program. The reason we are playing UF, UGA, and SCar close is because we have the talent to do so. Just look at the past few NFL drafts compared to the ones coming up. - Fan apathy says more about our fans imo than anything else. The people giving up season tickets and going to games now are not all of a sudden going to come back after Mullen, Strong, Smart etc...go 7-5 in year 1 to support UT in year 2. - Hiring a good coach is really hard. Look at CLK right now, he basically has what CDD would have if everyone came back next year, and they have 3 losses already. They could still lose to ND and UCLA, making them 6-5 with all that talent leaving this year. - Homerum hires are not out there imo with the exception of Gruden. The Mullen crowd is pretty funny to me considering coming into the year he had the same problems against ranked teams as CDD did and it looks like he will after this year too. - Stability counts for something. I don't think it should be too much of a surprise that our O is great and Chaney has been here building his system for 4 years and our D is horrible with its third DC in 4 years.

Sorry for the long post and please note I am not arguing that CDD is the best coach in the SEC or the coach who will lead us to a championship, I just think he is the best option for the program continuing to improve.