Now, I could be wrong, but I'm 56% sure that both of the referenced seasons were before 2004. The job Ferentz did in rebuilding this program is absolutely incredible. What Spider is talking about is maintaining success and trending in the right direction.
You have to look at it in cycles. There's rebuilding, which was 99-03. After that you are just building. You can be great at one or the other, or you can be great at both. He clearly was great in rebuilding this program. I think it's very fair to question how he has done in continuing to build it.
The op should say potential instead of expectations. In 08 09 and 10 the only team we played that was better then us was 09 ohio state because we had a back up qb. There was 5 to 10 teams that were as good or close but they were the only team that was better. We might never have that much talent for 3 strait years again. To bad Kirk doesn't know when to try to slow a game down to keep it close and when to speed it up to try to pull away. The more talent we have the more careful he is because he doesn't want to make a decision that costs us the game.
