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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 2440796, member: 6927"] ... including an interesting bit on how two consecutive Elite 8 losses to UConn led, indirectly, to the player exodus crisis: [INDENT][B]In 2015-2016, seven players left the program by the end of the season. What were you thinking after each player left? What, if anything, did you change after the dust had settled? What did you learn from that experience?[/B] We lost to UConn twice in the Elite 8, and I got a little obsessed with trying to figure out what was wrong. What was wrong was that UConn was really good, and a lot better than us at the time. I went on a journey of trying to find one missing ingredient, which led to a series of decisions that created the spot we were in. Every time a kid left I was thinking that I always had the belief that we had people who wanted to be at Kentucky. The first two left and I figured they gave it their best and it was time to move on. I thought it was a positive, but after seven (players left) and the program was really close to melting down, I took a look at myself.[/INDENT] [URL="http://womenshoopsworld.com/2017/11/27/coachs-chair-matthew-mitchell-university-of-kentucky/"]Coach’s Chair: Matthew Mitchell, University of Kentucky[/URL] [/QUOTE]