As an old coach used to tell me before a big game, “the hay is in the barn.” For those not familiar with the southern vernacular, this basically translates to: what’s done is done. It means that you know what you’ve got in a certain something. It means that no further preparations or analysis are warranted for the given circumstance, as it will have very little affect in altering the outcome in question. When “the hay is in the barn” the only thing one can do at that point, is observe.
In this particular circumstance, we’ve got two former power-house programs (Miami and FSU) who have basically fallen off a cliff in recent years.