His response when asked if we were winning the war in 1962: "Every quantitative measurement we have shows we are winning this war." In reality, it was a huge disaster even at that point.
We have great exposure, we have great revenue, a great stadium, our own TV station, a contract with ESPN, we play more P-5 teams than ever in our history, we have a NC, we have a Heisman Trophy winner, etc. etc. etc. Every quantitative measurement we have shows we are a big boy.