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Ross has been successful at every level of the game: high school, college, and the NFL. Army went from zero to two wins in his first year, and doubled their win total from last year to this year with four. He gets it!

Next year will be even tougher as they have scheduled Notre Dame and Texas A&M. But I have confidence in Ross. Army has also had to play catch-up with facilities and the way the football players fit in to the regular West Point regimen of Army training. This could not be turned around over night. Incremental improvement is the name of the game. Ground was broken for the new indoor practice facility in November.

Go Army!

Sorry pal, talent goes a long way towards wining games. If you don't have grade A talent, then you make the best out of what you have. Neither new practice facilities, nor a coach that has been great in the PAST will do the trick. This is now, not then. Four wins in a season (given where they were) is a marked improvement. But, it still is a lousy season given that they just didn't lose to Navy, they were not even competitive.

Look, there are size and weight limits for cadets, regardless of whether they play football or not. Well, they stretch those limits for the football program, but not enough to ever ever have an offensive line of 300 lb players and a defense. Moreover, the talent needed to compete with a Notre Dame is not going to West Point and piss away a potential NFL career. Those are the limitations.

Hence, why the option is the best bet for the cadets. The longer you have the ball, the more your defense is off of the field and the less it is exposed. If you look at Army's best seasons (in recent times) you will see they all had that in common. Ball control.

Hopefully, Ross gets the point (he was an option coach, after all) and gets cracking with shaking the program up and getting rid of the last vestiges of the prior regime.