don't matter? So what if the games were six weeks ago, they were this season. The games are still relevant to what happens to us in the future. The same coaches that allowed those games to happen will be back next year. If you want to make an argument that there has been improvement, I don't care. Improvement from really crappy is not important to me. Show me that where we are at as a team is where we should be.

Also, most fans standard is higher than "pretty OK." I want the coaches to be working the players in practice at a level that they are executing plays well, that they aren't getting penalties for things that should have been dealt with by week 2, and that they have the stamina to play longer than a few plays before they have to be subbed out. I want coaches that are teaching skills, mindsets, and buidling up athletes in a way that the older players are coached up enough that they are beating out freshman and sophmores for starting positions. In the first year or two, having a lot of freshman starters tells people that the coaches are willing to put the best player on the field, but in years three and four, when that is still happening, it tells me that these coaches never properly coached up the players over the last four years. It is certainly not because these coaches out recruited their ealy seasons because they didn't.

You point to the point margin in this game and on paper it looks pretty good. But we didn't pass the eye test, and that was against a team that lost 48 to 5 last week to Eastern Washington.