That doesn't suddenly mean that he gets a pass for being awful for those 3 years. You obviously don't view the W-L of those years through the same lense as you do now, but they have to be good enough to justify it going forward. So we won't know if it was justified for a few years, so see you then I guess. Or just do your best to enjoy the ride, whether that means wishing upon a star and hoping the prospects blossom and there's money to supplement them with FAs, or whether it means being a kyle and giving only a passing mention to anything positive while expecting everything that could go wrong will go wrong.