How many successful years does Charlie Strong need before he's considered for another good P5 job?
How many successful years has he had overall?
He's in his 3rd successful season in 8 years. And
none of those seasons included major college competition in the Big East or AAC. Also I don't consider a 7-6 mark against the likes of Missouri St and Rutgers a mark of excellence. That may explain his losing record at Texas when he suddenly was faced with a major college schedule.
How many winning P5 seasons has he had?
None in my opinion.
Although the Big East's basketball prowess gave them some muscle they were a weak football conference not much difference from the weak AAC. Strong's UL 11-2 (Big East) record in 2012 and 12-1 in (AAC) 2013 look impressive until you look at who they actually played. When UL moved to the ACC in 2014 they added about 3 losses per year. Yes, Strong was gone but now they were playing Miami, Clemson, FSU etc instead of Rutgers, Connecticut, and Eastern Kentucky.
2012 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE RECORD: 11-2
DATE OPPONENT
9-2-12 KENTUCKY (Sun.) WON 32-14
9-8-12 MISSOURI STATE WON 35-7
9-15-12 NORTH CAROLINA WON 39-34
9-22-12 at Florida International WON 28-21
9-29-12 at Southern Miss WON 21-17
10-13-12 at Pittsburgh WON 45-35
10-20-12 SOUTH FLORIDA WON 27-25
10-26-12 CINCINNATI (Fri.) WON 34-31 (OT)
11-3-12 TEMPLE WON 45-17
11-10-12 at Syracuse LOST 26-45
11-24-12 CONNECTICUT LOST 20-23 (3OT)
11-29-12 at Rutgers (Thur.) WON 20-17
SUGAR BOWL @New Orleans, LA
1-2-13 Florida WON 33-23
UF was a bowl game not part of the "schedule".
2013 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE RECORD: 12-1
DATE OPPONENT
9-1-13 OHIO (Sun.) WON 49-7
9-7-13 EASTERN KENTUCKY WON 44-7
9-14-13 at Kentucky WON 27-13
9-21-13 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL WON 72-0
10-5-13 at Temple WON 30-7
10-10-13 RUTGERS (Thur.) WON 24-10
10-18-13 UCF (Fri.) LOST 35-38
10-26-13 at South Florida WON 34-3
11-8-13 at Connecticut (Fri.) WON 31-10
11-16-13 HOUSTON WON 20-13
11-23-13 MEMPHIS WON 24-17
12-5-13 at Cincinnati (Thur.) WON 31-24 (OT)
RUSSELL ATHLETIC BOWL @Orlando, FL
12-28-13 Miami FL WON 36-9
