There's one glaring difference: Under Fulmer, the program was still on a downward slide. Under Dooley, the downward slide has stopped and it's on its way back up. Slowly, sure, but on its way back up nonetheless. Everyone was cautioned that this would happen. You don't get rid of one coaching staff and immediately start getting better with another...at least not usually. There will almost always be a few years where it will get worse before it gets better. The Kiffin experiment was disastrous. If we go straight from Fulmer to Dooley, we're competing for the SEC East this year, IMO. But here's where we are: We're coming off seasons of 7-5 and 6-6, and with a little luck we'll be 6-6 this year. But there's some hope for the future. If Fulmer will still here, we would still be having mediocre seasons, and could we look into the future and say there's hope? I don't think so. We'd be sitting here with a 3-2 record and still have the 4 or 5 year process of turning it around ahead of us.
It's going to take patience. (I say that as someone who hoped for an 8-4 finish this season, so I'm as impatient as anyone...but our situation is what it is.)
A little luck we will be 6-6.....
well hell with a little luck we are 5-0 at the moment and we are not having this conversation. With a little luck Hunter does not blow out an ACL and Bray does not break his thumb on a defensive players shoulder pad. With a little luck I could be coaching the Big Orange and making 1.8 million per year.....with a little luck I could be a millionaire by winning the Powerball for 200 million.
I was afraid when the clamor started for Fulmer to be fired that we would wander through the wilderness that was college football and turn into Alabama under Shula while they were on probation......
When Lameo was hired I was agin it.......(quoting Seargent York) but I was willing to wait and see and I waited and seen I got told we are worthless pieces of flotsam on the college football landscape....well I am better than that and I am sick and tired of losing......