I too was very patient. When the sky was falling on here the last couple of years, I was one of the few that preached patience. I like nothing more than to see it work out for Arth.
That being said, my measure of improvement is the team being more competitive than they were in his first year and I am not much seeing it. In year three we should be seeing kids brought in for Arth's first season that are competitive against their MAC counterparts. I don't expect them to be at the top of the MAC but they shouldn't be getting regularly embarrassed. The junior college immediately to the east was in a very similar situation to ours a year earlier, hired a young up and comer and they've gone 2-10, 7-6, 3-1 and 4-4 since his hire. That was my expectation and hope for Arth.