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“I don’t know that I could verbalize ‘significant improvement,’” Hobbs said. “There are many ways, obviously, this coming season could go where we say, ‘Hey, we did really well.’ That’s not necessarily wins. We want wins, obviously. We’d like to get to a number of wins where we can start thinking about whether we are going to be bowl eligible, and I think there is an opportunity in the first half of the season for us."
Hobbs said there is no “red line” or magic number for wins he is looking for as a metric of improvement – “I don’t think you can approach it that way. Seasons have ebbs and flows.” – but he did mention a desire for Ash and the program to break through and achieve a milestone win similar to the pair of victories over ranked conference opponents Steve Pikiell and the men’s basketball team scored this past winter.
“What we would love to have is a signature win where it is very clear that, ‘Boom, this program is going somewhere,’” Hobbs said. “We’ve had that in basketball. Even with whatever the record is in basketball, folks have seen our trajectory, and that’s what Year No. 4 is about for our football program. Showing our fans that we’re on the right trajectory."
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“I don’t know that I could verbalize ‘significant improvement,’” Hobbs said. “There are many ways, obviously, this coming season could go where we say, ‘Hey, we did really well.’ That’s not necessarily wins. We want wins, obviously. We’d like to get to a number of wins where we can start thinking about whether we are going to be bowl eligible, and I think there is an opportunity in the first half of the season for us."
Hobbs said there is no “red line” or magic number for wins he is looking for as a metric of improvement – “I don’t think you can approach it that way. Seasons have ebbs and flows.” – but he did mention a desire for Ash and the program to break through and achieve a milestone win similar to the pair of victories over ranked conference opponents Steve Pikiell and the men’s basketball team scored this past winter.
“What we would love to have is a signature win where it is very clear that, ‘Boom, this program is going somewhere,’” Hobbs said. “We’ve had that in basketball. Even with whatever the record is in basketball, folks have seen our trajectory, and that’s what Year No. 4 is about for our football program. Showing our fans that we’re on the right trajectory."