1) How is this showing harm?
2) Without looking it up, name the last 5 'worst loss of bowl season' 2016-2020.
3) Maryland already flipped Ramon Brown before the bowl game. It just seems like the returns from the bowl don't really matter - they're already winning the battle from the coaching change.
4) No one except for VT fans even knows or cares about VT bowl history.

But your last sentence really hit home for me. All of your list is about how we appear - how does VT 'look', when what really matters is not how you look this year, but what the coaches/players/staff do. They may win 3 games next year, but if they do the right things (recruit, coach, train, develop), then it will set them up for years to come.