When you have a baseline to build upon, you know where you stand. During the three years of the Moser era and the first two with Shields, we won 17 or 18 games each season. It looked wonderful when compared with the 4 wins during Moncrief's dismal year, but soon we began to be disappointed and want more. And we should have. That number of wins had become the minimum acceptable. We ought to be able to do at least that well each year. So seasons came and went, and we did do better than that two seasons in a row. But then Shields slid below that baseline three seasons out of four, and out he went. And that is only reasonable.
Should we have a new baseline? Maybe, but we don't have it yet. Beard didn't stay, and one season does not make a trend. So we are still waiting for some consistency again.
But maybe, without knowing it, we do have that consistency. Over the last five complete seasons we have 90 wins. Divide 90 by 5 and you get . . . 18 wins. Maybe the baseline is still the baseline.
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