After 2013 season:
https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20140111/SPORTS/801259590 "“The future’s bright. That’s what I told our team last night, that the groundwork’s laid and the future’s bright and we’re looking forward,†Malzahn said on Friday. “I’m excited. Once I get over the feeling of when you lose a championship game that close, you put that behind you and move forward. We’ll work extremely hard to get back there and try to redeem ourselves."
After 2014 season:
https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.ssf/2014/11/gus_malzahn_future_is_bright_f.html ""Here's the deal with our goal," Malzahn said. "Our goal was to win 10 games and we didn't do it. We're going to go to a bowl and we'll do everything in our power to lead these seniors out. But I will tell you this: the future is bright. We'll rebound and we'll be ready next year.""
After 2015 season:
https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/i...malzahn_believes_future_bright_at_auburn.html ""As far as the future goes, the future is going to be very bright at Auburn," Malzahn said. "This bowl game we're playing a very good team, and our goal is to win a bowl game, to get some momentum. If you look at our roster, we have a lot of young guys that will come back. Recruiting is going very well. Even though this year we had some losses, they were close, so that just tells me that it's going to be a short period of time we're going to get this thing going in the right direction.""
After 2016 season:
https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.ssf/2016/11/live_updates_gus_malzahn_discu_1.html "-- On offensive woes (two of three worst outputs of Malzahn's career in last three games): Says team was banged up, but young and talented and has a bright future."
After 2017 season:
https://www.al.com/auburnfootball/index.ssf/2017/12/gus_malzahn_future_stability.html ""I'm very blessed to be the head coach of the Auburn Tigers," Malzahn said. "I'm really looking forward to the future. Any time you have stability, especially in this day and time in college football, I think it gives you an advantage. We've got a very stable program right now. The future's very bright. I think it does nothing but help with all of the above.""
I'm still waiting on when we will get better and to see this bright future. I don't think there is enough time to go back and find out how many times we had a good week in practice.