If we had achieved mediocrity, we could maybe criticize the acceptance of such, but we're not even "middling" right now as we head into the 4th year of Collins, as we've now said "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
The challenge of changing course is a tough one, but in college football, where accumulated recruiting cycles are the primary determinant of success, letting a series of bad years stack up creates a horrendous outcome, and an attempt to avoid that negative trend is clearly the lesson to be learned from the actions of schools like Florida, LSU, and a few years ago, Ugag. You just don't want to get behind the eight ball if you're serious about competing well.
The question is, after years of irrelevance while sitting in a recruiting hotbed, are we remotely serious about competing well?