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Not sure what you mean. by skeptic
Maybe I am being obtuse, but ND is already the equivalent of Michigan and Texas in the example listed above. If you are saying that paying for a new coach may not get ND any closer to the Promised Land, I suppose that anyone would have to concede the point. But those of us who have tired of BK (or never warmed up to him in the first place) would argue that making even a failed effort to exceed the current, regrettable standard would be preferable to blithely accepting it, as has been done for a decade now.