A decade of above .500 football. Many of our peers would hope for 1 or 2 years of above .500 football in a decade.
we were 62-60 from 2001-2010. Yes that's technically above .500, but basically that's a .500 team. You can call it above .500, I just wanted to provide color on exactly how far above 500. That includes 32-48 in ACC play, good for 10th of 12 in the conference over that stretch.
A few other points:
1) Only UNC and Duke had a worse record than us over that decade. UVA was also 2 games over .500. Thus, most of our peers (i.e. the other ACC teams) would be hoping for much better than that. Note: Syracuse was also worse, so we were tied for 10th-11th out of 14 with UVA over that stretch of time.
2) Our record on its own isn't proof of what Lobo has or hasn't done. As crazy as it sounds, one of the coordinators can make a team either better or worse than it would have otherwise been with an average replacement. In our best stretch (2006-2008), our defense was far superior to our offense all three years and carried us. A prevailing (but far from unanimous) thought is that with a better offense to match the D, we could have won more games, especially in 2008.
3) I will grant you that going over.500 was better than our past history by leaps and bounds. In fact, so much so that 99.9% of the Wake fan base is still in full support of Grobe even after two straight seasons without a bowl game (when 70 teams go), and his worst year in year 10 of his contract. You won't see that at many schools. It speaks volumes to what he's done.
However, Lobo is still taking heat, because much (most) of the fanbase senses that we could produce even better results than we have if we change the OC position. It could probably be worse. But there are dozens of coaches at even less prestigious schools whose offenses have performed consistently better with lesser talent.