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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 4578013, member: 628"] A comment I'll add to the data... I've learned over many years that in all things - sports, business, you name it - it is incredibly difficult to become great. And it's even more difficult to maintain it. You need to be aggressive, innovative, keenly focused, and a little bit of good fortune doesn't hurt either. Once you slip it is exceedingly difficult to return to greatness. Jim deserves a ton of credit for the resurgence this program had between 2009 and 2014. Returning to a level of greatness as we had between 1985 and 1991 was truly remarkable. The man deserves all the accolades for that. However, it's been a long, persistent decline over the past 9 years, and I don't think anyone believes that JB is the guy who can dramatically alter that trajectory. [/QUOTE]