Your perspective is weak and flat out wrong. Why do you look at the mediocrity that is current Aztec football and compare to guys like Chuck Long? Shouldn't we all aspire to better when what we are seeing from our football program?
The 2 real points here to me are this-
1) I think we should aspire to become a program like Boise State and TCU have each been. Why shouldn't we? Saying if we go
7-5 that is good because we aren't going 3-9 like with one of our previous crappy coaches? That logic doesn't work for me and I hope it doesn't work for the decision makers in our athletic dept. And influential alumni.
2). This program has leveled off, if not dipped a bit under Rocky Long. I believe, just for conversation, that if Brady Hoke were still here, we would be seeing a much higher level of football with more discipline and less mistakes. Yeah, I know that Hoke isn't here and he isn't coming back. That's not my point. My point is Rocky Long doesn't appear to either have the leadership, discipline, skill, philosophy, resources, or something else- that maybe Brady Hoke did and SDSU needs someone who does. The stakes are too high. San Diego residents and SDSU Alums are too fair weather, bandwagon fans to stay backing either a loser or a mediocre, average, uninteresting team.
I have hearing that SDSU is a sleeping giant and a goldmine waiting to happen for, oh, about 30 years. Please dont throw the Steve Fisher story at me in attempt to say that patience paid off and that he struggled for a good while. Fisher inherited joke of a program that had only downward momentum- if there is any lower for the program to go. Long inherited a program that had buzz, interest was on an upward arc. And he has plateaued it at .500 or just above or below- to me, it's mediocrity. we just lost back to back games to 2 programs that we would have both beaten handily 2 years ago, would have beaten soundly last year (we did to FSU, and both have now passed us by. They're getting better, we are leveling off, or slightly declining. Not good.
If we were well coached, better disciplined, we are at least 4-1 right now.
Of course we let this play out, I hope that I am proven wrong, but I don't see it. And theres going to be an embarrassing 12,000-15,000 people at the last couple of home games. That's unacceptable and should be grounds for change, win or lose.