No. That program has been scummy since Harbaugh was on the hot seat in 2020 and decided to go rogue. They should've been forced to vacate all their titles since then
Playing a good New Mexico team that will actually show up and care is more interesting than a disappointed mediocre Big 12 team with a mystery grab bag of players and motivations.
I'm all for what if being said here, but it also comes across as managing on field expectations for his program never being anything more than a perennial C-tier bowl team.
42-3
41-3
42-13
This is what we don't want to happen.
Annual C-tier bowl win vs a team with a bunch of opt outs being the ceiling is what we don't want to happen. Too much to ask, I know.
We have roughly the same level of talent as most of the big ten outside of a handful of teams. We're not suffering from lack of recruiting or NIL. We've been able to retain our own players and even grab a few outside the program that have helped.