NTG, imagine yourself in 2004. Texas beats Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Big step for a program that hadn't won much until then.
Yet, lots of people could see as early as the final second of that game that Texas was going to be loaded in 2005. I didn't hear anyone saying "But they were Rose Bowl Champions!"
No, I don't think this is as easy as your pretending it is. I see us as in a similar position as we were at the end of 2004. We're loaded. Sark has done a better job at accumulating talent than Mack Brown did. Sark has the portal so that's part of the difference. The other I suppose is that talent is across the board, in every single position group. We were still starting Billy Pittman in 2005.