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GROB

1, 4, 2, 3

Avg. 2.5 wins per year.

Marrone

4, 8, 5, 5 (and counting)

avg. 5.5 wins per year.

If that's not turning a corner, then I don't know what is. When Marrone got here we were garbage, plain and simple. We are now a borderline bowl team on average every year. That is a clear and meaningful change in the state of the program.

Sure, we're not averaging 9 wins a year like we all expect, but let's be honest, there are a lot of corners between 2.5 wins per year and 9 wins per year. We've taken 1, and we're in position to continue taking the rest of them.

I was as pessimistic as anyone when this team was down 20+points to USF a couple weeks back, but it's clear from where we sit now that this team is better than we looked at that point.

We're probably closing out our last BE campaign with 5 wins, which is pretty damn good compared to where we sat not too long ago.

We're heading into the ACC with some momentum on the field, and some reason to believe we can take that next corner, and be a bowl team every year.

Look, we can argue about the pace of the turnaround being too slow, but you just cannot argue that this team has not turned a corner.
 
Marrone could finish the season with a lifetime record at SU over .500. From where he started that is miraculous.
 
great post, i think the improvement is clear. the team has made dumb mistakes, alot of them, that have limited the upside. however, the physicality and athleticism of the team is upgraded by a mile. and even more important, these guys are playing their asses off.
 
Taj Smith. I actually think that if he hadn't gone down we might have scraped our way to a bowl.

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didnt we have taj smith and mike williams at the same time?
 
Most of us don't care about being better than Grob. That doesn't prove a thing.

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Most of us don't care about being better than Grob. That doesn't prove a thing.

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We want to be better than Coach P. That's where this process started. Consistent ~9 wins per season.
 
Taj Smith. I actually think that if he hadn't gone down we might have scraped our way to a bowl.

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We really should have finished 6-6 that season

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