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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 3414823, member: 5832"] This year there were just too many questions. -Front court depth issues were just lost early on it felt like. But if Carlton went bad, we were screwed even if the guards were playing better. -We have depth issues. Two guys sitting on the bench w/ red shirts and another taken away. So any injury is a killer. -While sure - I think we all hoped for more from GIlbert and Vital - they're not really any different from what they've been their entire time here. I think people (Hurley included) misjudged that there was more in the tank when there wasn't. -The freshmen are helpful and are certainly talented. But they're freshmen. Akok has been our best player. But even he hasn't scored the ball a ton. Bouknight looks like he's going to be really, really special - but he's sloppy and handsy on defense and just like Gaffney - there are games where he kind of gets overhwlemed and disappears. Which is TOTALLY normal for freshmen. But we're not Kentucky and even at our best - we never recruited like that anyway. -Oh and we lost our best scorer. Who was gonna be the guy? So even if ALL THAT fell our way - which you know it probably won't - we're MAYBE a bubble team that's teetering on exploding at literally any time. Look I don't like Hurley - I love Hurley - I think he's been great. But I think if you got him behind closed doors and got his honest take - it's what i'm talking about above. And right now he's balancing winning a few extra games now vs. building a program and winning. And figuring out how to not totally embarrass ourselves without compromising the kinds of values and culture he wants to have heading forward with players who are actually good. Integrity is like virginity - once you lose it, you never get it back. And I think that's important. We're not winning the tournament or even *a tournament* this year; and yeah- I think Hurley is totally cool with a record that'd piss most people off. Because all it's about is building a culture, recruiting and getting talent that is going to be part of that next great UConn team on the floor and developing that, period. End of story. All this other stuff is just ego appeasement, frankly and screw that. I'm all on deck for a big step forward next year and surprising a few people in the Big East... then the year after that? That's going to be pretty close to being business as usual around here. But expecting that overnight given where this program has been, the pieces that are here, what their track record is, scholly situations - all of it... asking for RESULTS~! this year is a big ask. [/QUOTE]

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