re: So when do we actually start giving O some credit?

First of all interim doesn’t count you are running someone else’s system.

Second you don’t get to claim credit for righting the ship after a Troy like loss if you ran the ship into the iceberg in the first place.

The real question is O the 10-25 HC who managed to lose to Moo State by the largest margin in the history of the rivalry, lose to Troy while handcuffing your OC after claiming for months you had learned your lesson and would let coaches coach. And the coach with a command structure so dysfunctional it required the AD to call you and your Coordinators into an unprecedented in the history of college football meeting.

Or the HC after the meeting and hitting the iceberg who beat Aub and bunch of teams who were even more dysfunctional and fired their coaches.