I think you're chasing a rainbow, not those of us who are optimistic about the new regime. All this bringing up whose team had better stats when Coach X was at School Y seems straightforward, but fails to take into account many factors. You mention Dabo and the money for coordinators. What is making that engine at Clemson go??? Many on here scoffed at the idea of Tony Elliot as a HC prospect. Not only that, they implied Elliot wasn't really the playcaller and had nothing to do with Clemson's success. So who was. Chad Morris, the great OC guru? The same Chad Morris who was decidedly mediocre at SMU, and has nearly gotten fired at Arky in his first year as HC? Venables was about to get the heave ho at Oklahoma before Clemson took him. Maybe, just maybe, all those 5 star receivers like Deon Cain, Tee Higgins and Justin Ross, as well as the 5 star QB Trevor Lawrence and those 5 star DL have something to do with making the coordinators look good.
You keep going back to how Patenaude can't be that good because, afterall, Temple's offense was rated such-and-such. People have tried to point out repeatedly on here that he likes to run RPO, and he did not have the QBs at Temple left by the previous regime to do that. I'd add, after watching the bowl game, they weren't great passers either. So you want to chalk that all up to Patenaude sucking at developing talent. How about him having a shot at talent that fits what he wants to do??? I think he's got more of it here. Oh, damn, back to your f-in stats and rankings again. Just so negative, dude. Give it a chance.