I think that the conference realignment mess has made our sense of urgency and our feelings of desperation even greater than they would be in a normal rebuilding situation. However, after all the talk about the attention to detail, nutrition, and strength training I made the mistake of thinking that we would be working toward being a competitive team toward the middle and end of the season. The fact that the team has had so many deflating losses and were just destroyed by Cincy is going to be hard to come back from, but the main thing is how the team feels about the leadership it is getting. It seems clear that the fans don't believe anything that the coach is saying and they aren't going to attend non-competitive games. I feel that next season needs to show a strong turn in the right direction from the beginning of the season. We need to compete in games, develop a competent offense that can sustain drives and score points, and really put more pressure on the opponents in every game. If we continue to present this incompetent offense and continue to lay the onus on the defense to win us games and there is no improvement game to game, he will lose the team as well as the fans and there will be strong pressure for him to be fired at the end of year two. I believe that coaches should get at least three years to turn a program around, but the caveat should be that there is some definite improvement in each of the years and hopefully no stepping back. The Cincy game was a giant step back from where we were in THIS season and there needs to be no repeat of this type of performance. I hope we can close out the season with two strong performances going into the off-season and hopefully we do not see a repeat of this on the road at Memphis. It's certainly not out of the question given how Memphis is playing and how we are playing right now. Like I've said before I'm not giving up on the team or the coaches and I will renew for next year, but I'm really hoping that we get some positive movement we can build on and feel good about like the UCF game.