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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4190162, member: 181"] I'll color you 'skeptical.' The patience displayed by your waiting 19 months to make you first post is uncommon and noteworthy. I encourage you to take things one game at a time, during the regular season, the Big East Tournament, and any games played beyond. There's more than enough to keep you engaged for the next 2 months, and we can all revisit the larger themes thereafter. I appreciate your care in choosing words that reflect the high ambitions that so many have expressed here. It is no slur to observe that Dan Hurley has not excelled in all 6 of the items on the list you have offered as requirements to be elite. And I think you have accurately identified where he is demonstrating progress and where he isn't. I hope that nobody viewed him as a finished product when he was hired; to do so would be unrealistic then and now. I'll stick with my phrasing about apparent weaknesses being his "growing edge," and I will remain mindful of the time frame implied by his current contract terms. I do not expect to hear a post-game interview in which the head coach says, "We definitely have the personnel to beat any team in our conference, but I need to improve in pre-game planning, communicating it to the players, and adjusting within games in order for us to perform better against tougher competition and more experienced coaches than I have ever faced. We are all tasked with rising to unprecedented challenges, and our return to preeminence will require success in each one of them. We are fully aware of and working on all. These are young men, and we are living in strange times with many shifting variables, but do not doubt that I as head coach bear the overall responsibility for what you see and how we do. Your continued support is crucial to this." [/QUOTE]

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