No school is entitled to success. All schools have to work at it, but I'll grant that it's a lot easier if you are located in a recruiting hotbed, or at least an urban or semi-urban area, or near some attractive destination, like beaches, mountains, etc.

Desirable urban area. Akron doesn't qualify as that. Or if its a situation like BYU when they were in the WAC where they got recruits as the epicenter of a 5-6 million mormon nation out West. All the advantages OHIO has college town, facilities, academics over the MAC are enough to expect a good MAC football team and that is about it. If it was a situation where we had a 60,000 seat stadium and a 60 million dollar budget playing in the MAC then I could understand the attitude that we should go undefeated in the MAC every year. Solich in 10 years in Athens has 2 seasons of 4 wins, 2 seasons of 6-6 and 6 seasons with winning records. His achievement level qualifies as a success. 2011 should have been a MAC title, he came very close. Consistently in the hunt for a MAC title is about where we should be.