While I agree with this -- Mike Williams, Corey King, 3 true freshmen starting LBs, Malik Rosier, Robert Knowles, Zion Nelson, Feagles and Baxa, to name a few -- I still think there was enough talent to expect to beat most of the teams we've lost to over the past decade.
Really, more often than not, since Butch left, this team has endured bad recruiting, bad evals, bad roster management, bad development, and bad game-day coaching. If not all at the same time, enough bad that it offset the good to the point where we grossly under-performed against the competition we played.