Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Rich, post: 5127990, member: 9018"] I think Hurley probably knew sometime this Summer that this team had a LOT of holes. But the ingredients were set so he had to make the best of it. The earlier you got knocked out of the tournament this year, the earlier you could get going in portal recruiting. We had to wait until pretty much the end of April/beginning of May when most of the good players were gone. Mahaney was clearly a complete and total misapprehension of talent, probably Hurley's worst coaching UCONN. I wonder what they saw in him, maybe a slightly lesser Spencer? Whatever, he's pretty much a waste of a roster spot at this point. I would not be surprised if he leaves the team at some point and goes back into the portal if for no other reason than to avoid further humiliation once the Big East schedule gets moving. He should have stayed in the WCC, low major is his best home. I want to give these guys time to cook but the more and more I watch the less confident I am that we're gonna avoid a double digit loss season. Feels like a .500 team or worse. And at this point it's tough to see how we're gonna beat St. John's, Marquette, etc. Hell we might lose to Providence which would be intollerable. Come to think of it, this is not dissimilar to what happened to Donovan's post-repeat teams at Florida. Took them a few recruiting cycles to rebuild during which they were mediocre to just OK. [/QUOTE]