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Mere math alone indicating that we should win a title once in 13 years in a 13 team league, then being disappointed that we haven't won a title in 11 years is truly, truly an unreasonable and inflated expectation.
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Does that mean that Purdue, Indiana, Northwestern, Rutgers, and Maryland should all win the B1G every fourteen years or so? Should AMC have outsold Ford and GM every three years? Or, is it possible that there are structural differences that cause results to be non random, thus leading to the B1G to be dominated by OSU and Michigan, and to AMC trailing consistently?
My belief is that success breeds more success and failure breeds more failures. I believe that to turn a consistently bad team into a consistent winner takes time, perhaps many years. How many is required? I'm certainly open to considering alternative answers, but I think that zero is the wrong answer. Whatever you think of Solich, I think you'd agree that in his time, many pieces have been put in place to make Ohio a consistent winner in years ahead.
At this point I'm enjoying this season, and rooting for this to be the MAC year.