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Overall, probably not. But for non-football reasons. by IrishJosh24

Setting aside the academic cheating, probation, vacated wins, overseeing the death of a student, insane sideline displays (e.g., turning purple on TJ Jones the Saturday after his father's death, shoving Grimes), general unpleasantness, lack of integrity (e.g., blame-shifting, throwing players under the bus, "Zero. None. Absolutely none."), and the fact that he does not, and has never, "gotten" ND (and has instead worked steadily to undermine its traditions and uniqueness) . . .

Your question appears to be whether he could do anything in the next three seasons, short of winning a national championship, that would render his tenure "successful." On that question, and focusing only on football success, I'd have to say "yes." There is a "way/scenario" for him to achieve football success without winning a national championship.

For example, if he led us to the playoffs next year and beat Alabama/Clemson/Georgia/Ohio State in the semis, and then lost a close game in the final to another powerhouse, that would certainly change my outlook of him as a football coach. If he repeated that sort of result in 2022 and 2023 before departing, it would be hard to describe that run as unsuccessful, even though he fell short of the ultimate goal (in the same way that 1989 to 1993 is generally seen as a successful period of ND football, even though we never won a title).

For me, however, he will never be able to overcome all the other issues. I've said it before, but winning games won't really fix what's wrong here.