Its barely October and the season is already pretty much wrapped up for us. We will have to hustle just to go to a opt out ny6 bowl that would equal the result from last season. 9-3 is looking like a dream finish , 8-4 is looking like the most probable and 7-5 is looming as a possibility. We went 8-4 last season, Mullen had several goofs while threatening to go to NFL and yet he got a raise to his contract.
Recruiting ain't a good change of subject either. We will have to hustle just to maintain our current star level. We have taken advantage of the portal thus far to raise our over all team talent level but we are getting a lot of 1 year eligible talent so it is really just kicking the can down the road a season. So basically, there isn't really much of any sort of tangible evidence to support that we will be any different going forward. In fact, we will probably need to make similar moves in the portal to maintain our talent level.
What makes anyone think anything has changed or is changing? I support the heck out of this team and I will never say anything bad about these players, but our coaching staff gets paid a lot of money to do better than the above. I don't care about 'there aint nobody better out there' bullchit or 'wait till next year', it doesn't get any more obvious that nothing is changing. Whether Dan Mullen feels any heat for a ROI that should be expected for 7.6M is irrelevant to the fact that the end product isn't worth 7.6M. The only real difference between now and 2011-2017 is we are paying waaaaaayyyyyyy more. Stricklin is on the clock while we state the obvious and I wonder if it meant anything that he didn't include an extension with the raise to the contract last season.