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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 279613, member: 289"]
The paragraph beginning 1987 addresses the issue I brought up- it provides reasons to think that rebuilding the program could be done faster now that in the past and therefore allow us to be more impatient with a lack of success. But Stern also pointed out the importance of money and facilities today and we don't seem all that well positioned there. It would be nice if we had a Phil Knight/T. Boone Pickens sugardaddy but we don't. There's also the subject of all the formerly small time programs who have become big time in search of the big bucks they can make and are now recruiting rivals.
 
The integration issue actually can be turned around. SU was in the forefront of using integrated teams back in 50's and that accelerated our development vs. teams that did not use blacks.
 
Overall, I think it will be at least as hard to rebuild the program this time around and even Marrone succeeds in doing it, his record until the break through will look very similar to Ben's and Mac's. If we keep firing coaches until we get a genius who could do it faster, we could be condemning ourselves to mediocrity or worse for many years to come.
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