After reading some of the expectations people have posted for our upcoming season, I'm curious what kind of minimum expectations everybody has for Ash and crew. I'm sure we all want him to run a clean program free of the kind of extracurricular issues that we had with Flood. So this isn't about that.
This is more about specifically what kind of minimum win/loss expectations do you have for the next five seasons. The idea being, if he fails to meet that expectation, you would start souring on him or calling for him to be fired. How patient are you?
Here are mine:
2016: 2 wins minimum
2017: 5 wins minimum
2018 through 2020: a bowl game minimum each season, but at least one 8 win season out of the three.
I realize that those are going to seem like low expectations. But (a) we're in an incredibly tough division in a very tough conference, (b) we have nine conference games now and will soon be unable to schedule Howard for easy wins in non-conference games, (c) I think it's going to take at least five solid years of ever-improving recruiting to build the program up to the point where we can be regularly expected to have a potentially conference-title capable football team each year.
I obviously want to win a national championship in 2016. I just don't expect it to happen that quickly.
This is more about specifically what kind of minimum win/loss expectations do you have for the next five seasons. The idea being, if he fails to meet that expectation, you would start souring on him or calling for him to be fired. How patient are you?
Here are mine:
2016: 2 wins minimum
2017: 5 wins minimum
2018 through 2020: a bowl game minimum each season, but at least one 8 win season out of the three.
I realize that those are going to seem like low expectations. But (a) we're in an incredibly tough division in a very tough conference, (b) we have nine conference games now and will soon be unable to schedule Howard for easy wins in non-conference games, (c) I think it's going to take at least five solid years of ever-improving recruiting to build the program up to the point where we can be regularly expected to have a potentially conference-title capable football team each year.
I obviously want to win a national championship in 2016. I just don't expect it to happen that quickly.