If our next coach wants to completely blow everything up and start over, I'm cool with it
Barring bad behavior, which has been pretty well culled already from all outward appearances, or total lack of fit for a system, which tends to be overstated except in the most extreme of cases, one thing the Lovie era has proven to us is that roster teardown for its own sake is dumb and counterproductive.
It is often the case that it takes time to build in college football. But the way the (objectively false!) losing-is-winning tanking mentality that has poisoned professional sports starts to bleed into some of this stuff is really, really dumb and mistaken and destructive.
It's clear, at this point, that at the very least Josh Whitman sold Lovie Smith and Brad Underwood the leeway and the institutional support to burn everything to ashes and start from scratch, if not actively encouraging them to go that route. He had his reasons. Maybe he felt that was an appealing message to prospective coaches leery of the prior lack of success here.
But that SHOULD NOT be the message this time around. The message is that we've got a bunch of good kids who have played a lot of football and who are ready to have a higher level of instruction to take the next step, and to build a culture through which the next coach can bring through his recruits. That's the actual path to success in college football. You go to Humiliation Town starting nine zillion freshmen because you stumble into it having inherited someone else's mistake, you don't plow into it in year 2 on purpose.