No. Not when we were losing them by 50 points and now we are losing close games and the opponent plays it's starters the whole game. Peel the onion.
I guess I forgot to count the moral victories.
This is where you and I differ. I think the "we're getting closer" argument is misleading. The point margins, when one throws out the OOC blowouts like Nicholls St., or UCA, really aren't overwhelmingly better than Embree's. Admittedly, they are better, but still woeful.
2011 PF: 162, PA: 354, or an average loss of 21 points in P12 play.
2012 PF: 155, PA: 431, or an average loss of 31 points in P12 play
2013 PF: 183, PA: 354, or an average loss of 19 points in P12 play
2014 PF: 263, PA: 387, or an average loss of 13 points in P12 play
2015 PF: 177, PA: 291, or an average loss of 13 points in P12 play.
Is losing by 2 TD's better than losing by 3? Yeah, I guess. When push comes to shove, CU comes up short 9 out of 10 times. That kind of "success" is hard to justify. In the end you look at W-L, not margin of losses. I think Embree wanted to succeed badly, but simply was not equipped for the task at hand. But he won more than MikMac in P12 play.
I think you overstate how far Embree was down, and overstate how much "progress" MikMac has made. Embree's teams got crushed in 2012, no doubt, but MikMak's ability to keep from losing by a larger point margin is cold comfort when CU virtually never wins in league play. Just one man's opinion.