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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 5033074, member: 44"]
It all depends and how you define competitive. With the roster improvements we've seen in the off-season, we should be be able to be the worst teams of the P4 and maybe be in games against the bottom third of the P4. That's competitive.

But being a fringe top 25 team consistently? That's actually a pretty high standard. First, we have to incrementally beef up our roster.  As we continue to improve will be able to stretch and get better players, which in turn will help us to continue to improve.  But being a consistent top 25 team means that we have to have completed that process and sustained it for a while.  Just a wild ass guess, but I would say minimally that would take four cycles, so 16 years.  I'm not sure that you can be "consistently successful" just through the portal. Bringing in a team of mercenaries annually you will undoubtedly have hits and misses.  Meanwhile, your developmental pieces are likely getting rated by the big boys.

Don't get me wrong, we can have a whole lot of enjoyable football in between now and then as we continue to grow, but football improvement isn't easy. Success requires too many quality pieces.
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