We are not a declining program. The success of the 90's is what made it a "premier" coaching destination. The UT Nation endured many mediocre years under Majors and beyond that for that matter. With only short blasts of national relevance from time to time. Most of you do not remember the 70's and 80's. 7-4 and 8-3 was the norm. What most of you refuse to acknlowledge because of your ideology that a coach can take an empty stable and immediately make conference and national contenders out of them. In the words of the great Herbstreet, we have not been nationally relevant since 2001. That goes back long before Dooley. Win/Loss stats show we have only marginally improved this 3 years. Much less if you count that DD was hired literally moments before signing day. And we are not through the 3rd season yet. A close examination will show that he has cleaned up, sent people packing, and rebuilt the quality of recruits in a very short span of time. He made a choice for DC that has a system the same as Bama and cannot be learned in one season effectivley. Once recruits are selected for that system and they learn it, then...well you see how often teams score on them. It may seem like a bad hire now, but I am willing to bet one or two more years of patience will show we are once again natioanlly relevant an in contention for titles once again. Comparatively speaking, how many titles did PF have relative to the years he coached. I also remember Orange Bowls where Nebraska waxed our butts with CPF and Peyton Manning, among other games we choked. UF always had our number and it wasn't until Richt showed up that UGA started competing with us in recent years. The problem with most of you wanting immediate gratification is that none of you elect to remember or admit that save for one NT and a very few SEC titles back to 1992 that we have actually lived with awesome teams underperforming at the most critical times. The only reason those bevy of coaches lasted as long as they did was the demise today's sports media has imparted on the average life of a head coach with al their meddling, and these idiotic post game interviews we feel are owed to us. Bet the Bear didn't put up with that crap. My vote is to adhere to the 5 year plan, whether painful or redemptive and see where it leads us. Any coach deserves a 5 year plan regardless, unless he violates certain rules of coarse.
