BleedGoldNWhite21
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Eh, the heat is fine. My only original point was that I was on these boards in the Johnson days. I was on other boards for the Gailey days. Those days winning 6 games was basically expected. Nobody ever celebrated 6 wins. If we only got 6 wins we would question most things about the program and be disappointed with whatever bowl game we were sent to. Maybe there was too much entitlement back then but there were certainly higher expectations. Teams are currently firing coaches for doing better than that regularly. We used to fire coaches for doing better than that. Now, in a relatively short period of time we have fallen to a level that we celebrate it. Collins really did a number on us. I hope its a short term thing and we haven't just dropped all expectations for having a decent football team going forward.
You answered your own question. The simple fact is a coach destroying the program for 4 years does lower expectations. You have to climb out of a hole. This is simply the first step to get out of it. No one wants to be going 6-6 every year, the Johnson and Gailey years prove it, but you can’t be pissed off about not being the starter when you haven’t even made the team yet. It’s a process. You realistically aren’t going to take that big of a leap in one season. Some would call going 10-9 after going 10-28 a huge leap already.