The Future? Here's my thing: Coaches use to get 4-5 years to turn a program around. That rarely happens any more. With the portal, it CAN HAPPEN so much quicker. Tennessee for instance. But Mario has been given an extremely long leash. This alone isn't necessarily a bad thing, but here's the thing: Top Croots wanna play for a winner, but now it's deeper than that. With all the jockeying for position with conference realignment, where exactly do we land? Are we even attractive to the SEC, BIG, or wherever? That said, if we're not in a top notch conference, we won't land top notch talent no matter how good of a crooter Mario may be. Mario, via his track record, has his most success by being able to attract some pretty dang good talent. If we don't land in a big boy football conference, Mario may not be the guy. If we do, and he's able to stack talent and hire the right staff to coach it, and he's given that long leash, we may be a decent program in the long run. IDK. I think a lot of the CIS sentiment with Lane vs. Mario, was Lane would be a quick fix, but Mario would be better long term.
That's kinda where we're at except I think most did expect us to win games like MTSU, Duke, . . .
