No reason we can't be a rising program, BUT

One of two things has to happen. We have to get a good coach to stay, or our AD has to get consistently good at picking coaches. Chasse has not shown that he is up to the latter task, and we have not accomplished the former, which is not the AD's fault, for the most part. We got a fair coach to stay (Shields), so we came that close. We got a really good coach for one year, so we came that close. Past that, we have mostly whiffed.