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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2736699, member: 488"] It's a post half-made in jest, since it's obviously not reasonable to hold a guy who has done everything the right way responsible for a fan base that is (understandably) overstimulated by the thought of getting back to winning basketball. I also think the reform he preaches is necessary and real. It doesn't surprise me one bit to learn that Adams could be in better shape and I think every essential to the health of a program - from diet, to discipline, to time management, to game prep - has lagged behind the appropriate pace over the last couple years. Ollie was fired for a reason and the process of unlearning bad habits will be a painful one. But Hurley is too good to have his grade scaled, and while his track record has been fairly impeccable when it comes to instilling those things in his players, it's still only the first step, and it's the step I've expressed the least amount of concern over. Every coach worth anything would have started by doing the same thing. We know Hurley is a good coach. The things we don't know - whether he can recruit enough elite level talent here and get the most out of them - is far more significant in the grand scheme and I don't want people to let the coach speak distort the scorecard. This job is still about sales first and foremost. Retaining every player from the Ollie era has been his most important accomplishment to date and snagging another big fish in the process would have meant even more. As of now, our scholarships are staggered in such a way that the immediate future warrants more urgency than people think and the years after that more patience. If that causes me to sound anti-Hurley off the bat, so be it, but the honeymoon ended for me the second he took the job because I don't think we have time for one. [/QUOTE]

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