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Originally Posted by bling49
You dont know what Petrino would have done with this current team.
If you think they would have gone 13-0 your dead wrong.
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How can you make these two statements one after another? We may not be able to say with certainty that Petrino would have finished ___ and ___, but you certainly can't say he WOULDN'T go 13-0. Stating either as fact is equally silly.
I think the point is that Petrino would have almost as certainly done BETTER than Krag as he would have certainly failed to go 13-0. I agree with Freddy... somewhere around 9 or 10 wins, even with the injuries and issues on defense.
The real problem, especially in the games after UK, was the precipitous fall-off on the offensive side of the ball. Giving up 55 to USF looks terrible, but until that game our defense was certainly keeping the team in the game by allowing fewer points than a Petrino offense would be expected to score. If you had offered me a 7 game stretch where the D allowed less than 40 six times, I would have banked on a 6-1 record with a shot at 7-0 as long as Bobby were running the offense.
You DEFINITELY wouldn't have seen five straight games where we failed to crack 35.
There's no way to sugarcoat this... Krag and Stubbs have derailed the offense and this program. Petrino may not have gotten the team back to a BCS bowl, but he would have certainly gotten the team SOMEWHERE in December beside sitting in the dorm rooms with thumbs up rears.