Following a second two-win season in three years, there could be some question about whether head football coach Steve Mooshagian will return for his fourth year next fall. But everything indicates that he return for another season, despite his team struggling in the win-loss column for another season.

“At the end of every year we evaluate all aspects of every program on campus and football is no different,” athletic director Terry Wanless said. “However, we are always looking for ways to improve.”

Wanless said the athletic department does a student evaluation as well, and he likes the progress of the program.

The student-athletes have improved academically in the past two years and the off-field problems football had in the past have diminished immensely.

“The process in building a football program is different than in any other sport,” Wanless said. “We’ve definitely improved the talent level, and scores have been much more competitive than the past couple years.

“The disappointing thing is there hasn’t been the change in the win-loss record.”

The Hornets should improve next season, returning 50 of 63 players. However, they do lose their top two quarterbacks in Chris Hurd and Brad Tredway.

Wanless said the goal is for a program to have at least 35 to 40 juniors and seniors. Even though this year’s team had 40 of those players, only 13 were seniors, and the majority of them were transfers. Only Matt Logue, Dustin Nicolodi and Mason Mitchell were seniors who were around more than two years.

“We do have some small examples of other teams here that have improved over time, and hopefully football is next,” Wanless said.

The teams he was referring to were the basketball teams and the women’s soccer team, all of which have made improvements over the past three seasons. The men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams made the Big Sky Conference tournaments last year, while the women’s soccer team made their tournament this season.