Hasn't made much difference who our coach was.
Spurrier through 3 years was 11-13 in conference play. Beamer is 10-14.
This is why I've argued we should just give Beamer 10 years and see what happens. We've got nothing to lose. Most likely we'll end up being who we always have been, regardless of coach. Maybe we get lucky and something clicks for Beamer down the road. What might take 4 or 5 years somewhere else could realistically take a decade here.
If we fire Beamer after Year 5 if he underperforms, the most likely scenario is that his replacement will perform about our historical mean.
The 10 year plan is radical, I know, but we've been playing football for 130+ years and here sit about where we always have been.
I think we will ALWAYS regress to our mean, no matter what. We've had a few blips of success...1984, the 9 win seasons under Holtz, 2011-2013, Mushcamp's and Beamer's 9 win seasons...but we always regress back to our mean. We've also had times of total failure...1991, the back-to-back 1-21 seasons, 2015, 2020...but we've always regressed back to our mean.
We've actually had more good-to-really good years than we've had completely awful years. It's just that we've had far and away more simply mediocre seasons.
I can just about guarantee if we gave Beamer a solid 10 years, we'd have the same usual ups and downs we always do and end up back where we always end up.
