He's not lying to himself, he simply understands the history of our program and the difficulty of the challenge we face. The honesty lies in understanding where we've come from and where we are, not setting an absurd bar for normalcy that no coach could ever attain here....at least, not yet. Building a foundation can look messy, and in our program its going to involve steps forward and backward, we have to have the fortitude to whether the tough years...again, that's not to say we sit back and accept 3-4 win seasons...but we have to understand that will happen on the road to where we want to be. Even 5 and 6 years into the building progress. We have to be smarter than most fans, because we have to be able to see deeper than just a win-loss chart...its about progress in terms of absolute quality of play on the field. And in absolute sense, that play on the field is improving...because our talent and coaching (which sets the parameters of our foundation) are getting better, albeit very slowly.
The lie that's being told here when someone claims the team isn't showing strong signs of improvement, because they can't see it reflected in the win column. That's a shallow understanding of the game of football. Ultimately, yes, any coach has to win games to show he's achieving something, and Rhoad's will be measured by the bar at the end of 2015 or 2016. Along the way, its necessary to look at ALL the measures of progress...not JUST that final tally of wins.
