That 7-6 year was an outlier with a horrendous schedule sans Texas/Oklahoma and really only had two wins of note against a good team and an Eric Decker-less Minnesota squad in the bowl game....but for all of those great wins, it created almost negative momentum. Rhoads invented new ways each time to lose to kstate, got 66 put on him by Utah, lost to woebegone Kansas squads, uni, North Dakota state...After 2010, i was more than ready to see him off to Pitt and then after 2012, to Wisconsin...
He didn't lose to UNI and NDSU until 2013. He lost to KU his first year when Mangino was still there and they still had a pulse, then beat them the next 4 years in a row.
Which leads me to the 2014 game at KU. Which is when I was ready to see him go.