Landlord
Banned
I tend to look at the program on a coach by coach basis. Yes, I thought Frost and the team would have a better record than they did last year, and they don't get a free pass on all the losses. From my point of view, the program is being run differently now, thus my source of optimism. I also had optimism under Callahan and Bo.
I understand if you want to be cynical and give your roll-eyes emojis to everything, and that's fine.
Personally I don't think of myself as very cynical. I'm actually quite excited about the future and am beyond happy that we finally brought Scott home (about 7 years late imo). But I don't dwell on hypotheticals. I don't really even have an opinion on whether or not we'll be good/better next year - I didn't much this year either, though I obviously thought we'd do better than we did.
All I'm saying is that across different coaching staffs and administrations our program has been defined by a very consistent and transcendent snakebit-ness that so far has reared it's head in Frost's first season as well. It might continue forever, or maybe we've seen the last of it. But it's not silly for people to look at the last almost two decades and then go, "Yeah I'll wait until I see it"