He was silver-plattered the easiest conference schedule we've had in decades, despite the SBC doing very well against the current MAC. This is why I don't understand why we don't schedule harder OOC. Make SBC games easy by virtue of having played much harder competition prior to the conference season. If you're going to lose a bunch of games anyway, might as well play teams worth losing to, for the fans and the players. And, you know, pretend like those games matter and have a plan to win them.
March may be all that matters, but you start playing for March in October. Last year we were soft as baby poop for March because every game was built in to be an easy win all the way there, even though we got ambushed at Queens and lost some other games we shouldn't have.