Over the hump & Consistency

Sustainable? That’s a good question. I think we will probably only be able to attain 8-1 every 5-7 years. However I think it is reasonable to expect us to win at least two OOC games every year. Most years I’d say we probably don’t beat a Michigan like team to start the year OOC. I think we can sustain a level above Colorado for the near future 10 or so years, and we should be able to go 7-5 or better most years. However to think we can repeat what we’ve done so far this year is pretty lofty.

I think overall we’ll have a better program than OSU, WSU, Arizona, Colorado and Cal. We should be in the same ball park as UCLA, Washington, Arizona St, and Stanford. But over a ten year span I don’t see us being able to compete with Nike U and USC. We’ve definitely upgraded our facilities and that could pay off but we are who we are, and I think we are in the upper 1/3 of the PAC12 most years. With a few good years mixed in, but who knows what happens if we lose KW. I’ll ask my question in another post about BB v. FB and sustainability.

I’m ecstatic with this year and in most years think 7-8 wins before a bowl game is realistic, anything in the 9,10,11 win range is a great year.

Not yet. I think the evidence to date would say we are build and re-build program not a re-load program. That’s no disrespect to our team. Very few teams actually re-load. Look at our most competitive years recently: 2004 (huge senior class on both sides of the ball), next really great year? 2008 perhaps not coincidentally 4 years later, after that 2010/2011, after that 2014/2015. That’s a consistent 3-4 year groove from my perspective. Not sure why it happens, but that’s how it appears to me. Of course I’d love to have a well-oiled machine that was consistent, and maybe with stability at OC we could get there, but I don’t see proof we’re there yet. Time will tell.

I’ll take being very competitive every 3-4 years over what a lot of other schools have. I’d certainly take a truly amazing 11-12 win seasons every 4 years  mixed with a few 6-7 win seasons over 8-9 wins every year. That’s where Nebraska was with Pellini over the last 7 years and they hated it.

Great post @sacklakecity and I believe congrats are in order for your first here. I think next year is going to be tough. Think of all the key players we will be losing:

Booker
Wilson
Paul
Aiono
Carter
Hackett
Scott

….just to name a few.

FYI @sacklakecity you can see TWO names under each user’s avatar. Just like twitter, we can have a regular screenname which is different than our username (the one with the hashtag). So if you look at Gad Valley Ute, his actual hashtag is @maximumkungfu. If you take one right, it will be in RED, just like the Utes.