No of course, it takes good coaching and Cig (at least so far) has proven to be incredibly special. I am implying what we are witnessing has never been done. A rebuild in the pre-portal version of college football required time. You could turn a team around in the early years and even have a decent team in year one, but nothing like this.
Let me put it this way....if Coach Wilson would've come in and taken IU to a bowl game in year 1, we would've put a statue up. Hep merely gave hope to a team that everyone thought was hopeless and that was enough for us to enshrine him into the lure of IU football. No team has ever been gawd awful, had what we thought was the better half of their gawd awful team enter the portal and yet 10 1/2 months later be 7 games into the first season of a super conference and not trailed ONE SECOND of a game! That simply doesn't happen if a coach doesn't bring along his entire staff, players and bring in other talented players, which wasn't possible until the last few years with the portal. That is why I say this is different from anything else we have seen but I can see other programs replicating this as time goes on. Will it be as successful or become commonplace? I doubt it but only time will tell.
All I know is this.....take yourself back to the night of Saturday November 25th of last year. Purdue just carried the bucket off the field. Our coach had a massive buyout attached to his contract that made it feel like a real possibility we were going to be stuck with him for at least another season. We knew players were going to be going into the portal and our recruiting class was not going to change our fortunes. There wasn't one thing positive to look at. On Nov 26th we fired CTA and the days after were just players jumping ship, as to be expected. We hired Cig on Nov 30th but on Nov 29th, there is NO WAY any of us could remotely envision what we are seeing less than a year away. Like our fearless leader, it's completely insane.
