“I believe we have 27 ACC-caliber football players on our roster today,” Mendenhall said.

http://www.dailyprogress.com/cavalierins...8af47.html


“I want to play the worst power-five team that we can play... That’s what the ACC requires, you have to play one other power-five [team in nonconference play]... I want to find the worst one we can play, so we can get another win... I want to find three other games that are close and beatable.”

http://www.dailyprogress.com/cavalierins...458bb.html


“If you were in business, it would be less than taking over a start-up. It would be a program that was in bankruptcy."

http://www.dailyprogress.com/cavalierins...b8652.html

Well then. I'm not sure that'll inspire the other 2/3's of your troops when you ask them to lay it out on the line for you in the fall coach. If my math is correct, he's also admitting that he's swung and missed on some of his own recruits, because it's not as if he inherited zero ACC level guys.