If someone would have told Rex Walters prior to the season USF, minus the services of three starters and many key reserves from last year, would be 5-4 at the nine-game mark of the season, chances would have been pretty good the Dons' eighth-year head coach would have nodded his approval.
The same question posed to him a third of the way through the season might elicit a different response, which might be an indication of how far this young Dons' team has come as much as how far it still has to go to reach a level of play Walters and his staff are comfortable with.