While the lost decade was a bummer; when you put it in perspective I will take our lost decade over any other team in the nations down turn. In our lost decade we still went to bowl games every year (winning many), never had a losing season, still were a TV draw, etc. Even the great Alabama had a 7 year stretch in the not so distant past where they only went to 4 bowl games, going 1-3 in those games, having several losing seasons and losing those 3 bowl games by an average of double digits. Pick any team you want and their down times were worse than FSU's. Look at UT, ND, Michigan etc., all programs that spend/have a ton more money than FSU ever will. ND is a disaster, Michigan hasn't beat their in state rival in I don't know how long and Texas what a s&&& show. I am sure opinions will vary but if you told me FSU would have a 20 year stretch from the 80-00 and then our 01-10 stretch and then what we have currently I would take it every time.