re: 21-5 or this?

All anyone wants from the football team is 6-8 wins with regularity. Can that happen? Maybe, but you must get recruiting rolling to do that. And that means top 15-20 classes stacked on top of each other.

To go more than that in the West you better have an elite (usually mobile) QB who can carry your team beyond its talent level.

Other than football, there's not a better athletic dept. as a whole in the entire conf right now.

If you include football, then Alabama and Florida are easily ahead of Arkansas right now, but that's it, even with a shitty football program.