Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
I agree with Byrne. And we have made progress as an athletic dept. The question is whether Dan is a "once in a lifetime coach" and I don't think he is and I believe we can do better than what we are getting.

If you think Dan is a once in a lifetime coach you're way off.
I didn't say Dan was. He was saying that the only way it happens sooner than in a generation is IF you got a once in a lifetime coach. Then you might get to that point in 10 years WITH all the other things helping as well. But in all fairness for the majority of our lives of the posters on this board he is pretty close to once in a lifetime guy. At a minimum he was hoping for someone to raise the floor over the first 5 years. Dan exceeded that to a good degree. In fact, looking at weak schools in Power 5 conferences there are not many better over his first 7 years. Very few.

He also knew we had to completely reboot our brand and restructure how we can attack positioning ourselves through the first decade as an average to above average program. Dan has done that and I have said this to you before it was going to take a min of a decade to get the structure right. I don't know if Dan is going to be the guy to lead us entering the second phase but he has far exceeded the first phase of what we are trying to accomplish.