I think Kenneth's friend is on to something.
I posed this question earlier in the season, suppose this is what the regents want - cruising along and winning just enough to justify the course, while ever so slightly distancing itself from the program's 'Thug U' reputation? After all, these corduroy/pant-suit academics are producing an ever increasing amount of college kids who think socialism is a dandy idea for America these days.
I tried to stay optimistic. Chided my Gator and Noles friends after last season that Miami would out recruit them. Thought the O-line and Rosier would get better this off season. I was hopeful one of the other QBs working under a HC previously known as a "QB whisper", would be ready to emerge, after watching for a year.
I hoped the shake-your-head loses weren't the same type you could point to by some great looking Georgia Teams over the past decade and a half. I hoped a 745% coach in the SEC would translate very easily in a substantially weaker conference, and build as SEC type team like Clemson did.
After this debacle of a season, I thought 'OK, we really have to find an OC", now we're looking for a DC too.
Not sure how many years I have left waiting for us to really mean, "We Back."