Yes. Vastly improved.
If you paid any attention at all to the last couple of years it is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer. It is not the players that caused their troubles, it is the staff. And this one is vastly superior in their handling of the players they have and the schemes they run. There are a lot of people on here, and they know who they are, that grossly underestimated what UM had with regard to potential. I never thought they were as bad as some of the "experts" around here made them out to be. Give them our schedule and they are also 5-0, it is that simple.
This will hurt some feelings around here, too, but the effort we have seen on the field of late will not be enough to beat either of the two teams that played in Oxford tonight. It is that simple. Are we capable of elevating that effort to another level? I would hope so, but nobody knows that yet. To say that we can or will is purely speculation. All we have to go on at present is what we have seen on the field so far. And that will not cut it the rest of the way. As we have heard quite often lately, a lot of questions will be answered by midnight next Saturday.