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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2475323, member: 1414"] My God people. The kids coming in fit a profile and a need for the roster we have. Each of them does. Are they McD stars? No. Do you need those players to win? No. We can say Ollie hasn't developed them or that they failed to develop themselves. I really don't know, and unless you are at every practice, neither do any of you. What I can say without hesitation is that [U]Ollie has not gotten the most from what he has[/U]. After the NC team, which overachieved, every other team has underachieved its talent level. Some of that is the guys, but I think most is on the coach who never deployed the guys effectively or put them in positions to succeed. I think we need to step back a bit from the ledge. Are you guys expecting that we should, within a year or so, be challenging Duke or UK for a spot in the top 10 or a #1 seed? It that what drives this lunacy? That's phase three. Phase one: win 21-22 games and make the tournament. Phase 2: win 25-26 games, win the AAC or second place at worst and get a decent seed in the tournament. Phase three: challenge the big guns as a top tier program. We are trying to win more games than we lose, and players like these can certainly take us there, and to phase 2. Once we get to phase two, we can expect more top 40 type players. [/QUOTE]