After watching the spring game, I have a feeling that we won't be winning any time soon. 2 years before we are competitive.
We were competitive immediately. Golden had the team (a team that was done, absolutely bottomed out in 2010, with massive position and depth holes, gaping talent, strength and mentality issues, which was also subjected to a criminally low standard of coaching and development) in every game, and ONE f-ing play away from winning every one of them.
That same team quit on Shannon (multiple games where they quit within the first couple possessions ) for four years.
This was a team that had declined to the point that every opponent, from awful Maryland to BC, was not only light years more physical, but faster!
It will take some time, we won't even have a quarterback until 2013, if we are fortunate.
The team was way coached up.
Saban didn't take over a disaster at Bama (nor did Meyer, or these other successful coaches).
You just can't let a program that was already in steady decline (with Coker) languish for four years with a staff that didn't even know what the score was or the clock during games.
Stop the opponent on 4th and long ONCE per game, and we go 12-0 last year.