re: Ok. Excluding who the next coach is or whatever.

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Really, the only complete mess the new coach will have on his hands will be to overhaul strength & conditioning (Herb is the worst S&C coach in the conference) and fumigate the losing culture from our program and instill some mental toughness.

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THIS ^^^ will be the biggest issue a new coach has to face in righting this ship, other than the O-line (and D-line to a lesser extent).

It's crazy how much worse a culture of losing can make a team and players individually, just see some of these long-term losing teams in the NFL and all their early draft picks somehow forgetting how to play football. It's taking the Lions about 10 years to slowly dig out of that losing culture that was their franchise for so long and they're STILL not all the way past it. Idk if the Browns will ever be able to be good, even if the owners and coaches are changing.

Luckily that hasn't set in here completely and seems to be less existent in the college football universe, but the bit that's crept in over the years will have to be removed before we can really reach full potential.

The lines are an equally daunting issue, but that can be repaired by recruiting line-heavy classes at first and bringing in some top-tier coaches, i.e. fixes that are palpable and quantifiable.