Are you in my head? I don’t want to admit to the 3 year turnaround but I think that’s the likely timetable. I also agree, this season was going to be rough with or without Bronco. The Orange Bowl trip was fun, but it wasn’t real, but the Hoos were the the back up plan. Last year the Hoos gimmicked their way into gaudy stats and then crashed and burned with the worst trick play in history. The chances of duplicating that success was always going to be slim.
TE has to create culture and develop players while implementing a new offense and building a defense from scratch. Yes he inherited some talent Wicks and Armstrong. But there’s not any true high end talent outside of them, and I’d argue that Armstrong is not high end talent. He is very good. Yes, TE is starting from a better spot than Bronco did when he took over from London, but it’s not like he got a program on a silver platter. Probably closer to when Groh took over for Welsh or London for Groh.
The ineptitude of the ACC will help him and switching conference formats next year will provide a nice wrinkle as well.