Originally Posted by
thewyldman
Personally, I think the 2020 season was actually a very successful season considering, how messed up our schedule got. Not playing for a month in the middle of the season, is hard for any team to truly recover from. Plus the three games cancelled were ULM, Rice, and FIU which would probably have been wins for us. I do think this years team had real potential, but I think using all of those potential upsets really just killed any momentum our team. Heck in some ways, I think it would've been better for the team if one of the body bag games had been a blowout. Add in having to play Allen for multiple games and the the fanbase turning on the coaching staff and you just have a mess on your hands.
I'm not shocked that Skip didn't see his firing coming. He had a very successful tenure here and this was his only true losing season since his first season. Outside of the Tech fanbase, I saw plenty of people questioning the firing at the time. As I've said, I hope it works out great with Cumbie, but there's a good chance we're no better off than we were with Skip or that it's actually worse. I will have a laugh in a few years if this hire doesn't work and certain individuals start getting nostalgic for Skip.