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[QUOTE="anomander, post: 1242000, member: 2766"]
His first 2 recruiting classes he was working with absolutely nothing.  Our facilities were an embarrassment, we were coming out of the darkest period the football program had ever gone through, and there was hardly any fan support.  Who could possibly be expected to upgrade talent so quickly?  I'll be first to admit his first 2 recruiting classes were terrible.  But once we got facilities renovated, and produced a bowl season our recruiting was trending upwards.  People give him a hard time about his lack of recruiting prowess, but that still didn't mean he was bad at it.  Marrone himself may not have been a charmer, but he had some assistant coaches that could really recruit.  Things were looking better.  I thought our 2012 was rock solid.  I'm not sure why people expected automatic success.  Besides the reasons I listed before that had him handcuffed for his first 2 years, he was also getting established in new recruiting territories.  Following a solid 2013 class, the 2013 class had a solid foundation before he took off and the decommits started.  We were just starting to see some of the results from working the downstate area.  We missed on the best that year, but we had all the rest.  Also in that class was a potential qb.  Nobody knows how it would have turned out, so just as saying Zach Allen would have been the savior, you can't say we didn't upgrade the qb position.  As for wide receiver he must have felt comfortable with what we had.  In that offense you didn't exactly need big, athletic speed freaks.  We need smart, crafty kids with good hands.  It's not like Lemon or Sales were NFL talent.

In 4 years we went from 10-37 with no hope to 2 bowl wins in 4 years, and some quality wins.  We had things humming at the end of 2012.  It seemed everyone was bought in, and the program was set to take off.  The best was yet to come.
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