Forgive me if I lapse into Pudge mode here a bit, but the GOAL was never to be ALABAMA... or OHIO STATE... In the Big East, the goal wass to have a PROGRAM that rubs shoulders with your Iowas, your UVAs, not a perrenial Top Ten perhaps but a top 40... Edsall had us on an approach trajectory until, perhaps, his last couple of seasons when clashing with Hathaway (Damn you, Hathaway!!!) the trajectory plateaued and was about to take a dive. AFter FHCRE took the midnight plane to College Park, PPGDL took the yoke and put the whole thing in a tail spin. Can we get out of that tail spin and start gaining altitude again?
When the squad has experience and some depth built up, maybe we can. Will it be too late? It might be - if it takes 4 years, and I don't think Jacobs is wrong to point this out. What is a little bit wrong, is using the occasion of the national championship "Blue Bloods" to make the point, as if that level of football is the goal and anything less than it is a DEATH SENTENCE. We don't need to climb that peak (ooops, switching metaphors). We have to get to something where most non-CT folk can at least say the program is resuscitated and respectable.