I think you're blind if you don't see that this team's vastly improved play, heart, grit, and the overall program direction is headed back. Hang withe em is the current prospect, and stomp them will soon be the case. Yo can feel it coming.
As for talent loading necessary to make the latter happen, we currently have the #6 rated recruiting class! And that's against the gloom of sanctions and dirty recruiting fodder. Not supposed to happen, right? Must be a Cane thing (raising middle finger to the world and succeeding anyway).
Seeing Golden jumping up and down shouting "Great to Be" with the entire team rivals Larranaga's Ali shuffle moment IMO - the sheer joy of that scene (Steinbeck) says it all to me - "after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." Yeah, I'm digging this big time. It's destiny.