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Message: [QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 4003658, member: 297"] I've made peace with Dino getting the whole year, and even with a losing record may be retained. We've clearly improved. But the long-term outlook is rough. Recruiting is a lot harder with a coach on the hot seat. However settled or unsettled we are this year has some ripple effects down the road. It's not a victory if the road to winning consistently gets more difficult. We need Dino to definitively stabilize the program after last season. To me, that means making a bowl game. Every win over 6 makes the seat colder. Every win below 6, if retained, makes it hotter, which then means recruiting gets trickier. Dino has to stop shooting himself in the foot. Giving up on games like Pitt and Rutgers, some of these brutally bad decisions that bite him... the margin of error is already thin, and he can't keep getting in his own way. He's not going to get a timeout czar or anything. He has to just own his own improvement. [/QUOTE]