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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1144771, member: 40"]
...which is precisely why incremental progress is not settling for mediocrity, it's about making  short term strides on the recruiting trail.  Nobody wants to be a perennial 7-8 win team.  But that is the means to the end of landing the much needed infusion of athletic talent.  We need to win and get to bowls to enable our coaching staff to have something positive to sell on the recruiting trail.

I don't think that the progress curve is necessarily linear, meaning that you are going to necessarily see consistent year-over-year improvement on the record.  As in, we won 7 last year, therefore we will win 8-9 this year, or bust.  I believe that progress / improvement actually comes in punctuated jumps up or down.  And when we get better offensive talent, and those players are ready to contribute [as opposed to being thrown to the wolves as true frosh], you'll see the offense make a jump in terms of effectiveness.  We're probably closer than people think in several important respects--but we still have a ways to go with the skilled talent and athleticism on both sides of the ball.
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