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<blockquote data-quote="SuperMetroid" data-source="post: 1563922" data-attributes="member: 227330"><p>But that's kinda my point - regardless of the reason, we probably ARE looking at another 3 year rebuild. It's not really a dig on Lovie. It's just the nature of this program since pretty much 1980 when Mike White came on board.</p><p></p><p>The cycle roughly goes:</p><p>1. New coach is hired to clean up the previous coach's mess</p><p>2. We endure 1-3 years of mediocre to absolutely terrible football rebuilding</p><p>3. The new coach has some measure of "success". In a good year, it's 10 wins or a Rose Bowl, usually it's 7 and a Kmart.com Bowl.</p><p>4. We <em>immediately</em> begin a slide back down into mediocre to absolutely terrible</p><p>5. Coach is fired in the midst of his own mess (scandal, recruiting failures, on-field record)</p><p>6. Repeat steps 1-5</p><p></p><p>There's just never any sustained success that lasts more than a year. We haven't had back-to-back winning regular season records since Mackovic and Tepper's 6-5 / 6-4-1 in 1991-1992 <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤮" title="Face vomiting :face_vomiting:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f92e.png" data-shortname=":face_vomiting:" /> Given the way we've looked most of this year and the state of recruiting....well...I'm strapping in for another heart-pounding Redbox Bowl appearance in 2024 and then hoping against hope for the best after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuperMetroid, post: 1563922, member: 227330"] But that's kinda my point - regardless of the reason, we probably ARE looking at another 3 year rebuild. It's not really a dig on Lovie. It's just the nature of this program since pretty much 1980 when Mike White came on board. The cycle roughly goes: 1. New coach is hired to clean up the previous coach's mess 2. We endure 1-3 years of mediocre to absolutely terrible football rebuilding 3. The new coach has some measure of "success". In a good year, it's 10 wins or a Rose Bowl, usually it's 7 and a Kmart.com Bowl. 4. We [I]immediately[/I] begin a slide back down into mediocre to absolutely terrible 5. Coach is fired in the midst of his own mess (scandal, recruiting failures, on-field record) 6. Repeat steps 1-5 There's just never any sustained success that lasts more than a year. We haven't had back-to-back winning regular season records since Mackovic and Tepper's 6-5 / 6-4-1 in 1991-1992 🤮 Given the way we've looked most of this year and the state of recruiting....well...I'm strapping in for another heart-pounding Redbox Bowl appearance in 2024 and then hoping against hope for the best after that. [/QUOTE]
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