Michchamp
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We hit rock bottom in 2008 (for me, the rock bottom lasted all three of RR's years), got a "dead cat bounce" in 2011, and then gradually sunk back to rock bottom in 2014.
It's tough to estimate what week we hit rock bottom... the ND game was bad, but there was hope it would be just one game, and we'd do okay in the conference. The Utah game was bad too; I think ML made the observation at the time that if we lost that game, Hoke would lose the team, so you could make a case for that week.
Certainly things didn't improve by the Minnesota game & DB protests on campus. Once DB resigned though, at least things have been on the upswing more or less.
It's tough to estimate what week we hit rock bottom... the ND game was bad, but there was hope it would be just one game, and we'd do okay in the conference. The Utah game was bad too; I think ML made the observation at the time that if we lost that game, Hoke would lose the team, so you could make a case for that week.
Certainly things didn't improve by the Minnesota game & DB protests on campus. Once DB resigned though, at least things have been on the upswing more or less.