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Message: [QUOTE="LGO4488, post: 1524692, member: 5556"] Why is everyone so focused on "improvement." Shafer was brought in to continue/forward what Marrone had started, not to improve upon the disaster that he himself created last season. Having said that, a bowl game is continuing what Marrone started and should be considered a success. Anything else should be seen as the season again being a failure regardless of what happened last year. College football is big business. As an alum who has seen our academic ranking plummet I'd love for the football team to have more success, get more exposure, and the university to get more applicants. College football also pays the bills for all of our olympic sports. Unlike previous administrations, Coyle/Syverud have demonstrated that they understand this and are willing to commit the resources to make us a big time program -- this automatically makes Shafer's seat very hot if we don't make a bowl game for the 2nd consecutive season. [/QUOTE]