The team will eventually get better by playing better competition. However it's not going to happen overnight. It's going to take time and lots better recruiting.
People who thought Ash, by virtue of being a better coach than Flood, was going to magically make us competitive against teams that end the season in the top 25 were being extremely unrealistic. Most of the teams that wind up in the top 25 already have great coaching staffs. We're playing catch-up.
We need a few years of much better recruiting, need to keep working on the culture, and we need to get to a point where the majority of our two deep consists of players who have three or more years of great coaching and strength training, with only a couple/few players that contribute w/less than three years in the program.
Our players don't even have one year of great coaching and strength training. Given that top 25 teams are all ahead of us on that, plus they already have really good game day coaches, it's kind of hard for Ash & crew to game-plan so much better to make up for the multi-year coaching gap.
TL;DR: like it or not, everybody has to be patient
