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Message: [QUOTE="tzznandrew, post: 2500232, member: 168"] Personally, I think you need to keep some things in consideration. First, this board has [I]always[/I] been prone to hysterics. So I think a lot of us see the posters here who are calling for extremes or who immediately jumped off the bandwagon (like, two years ago) with suspicion. Those same people often jumped on and off the wagon throughout the entirety of the Calhoun-era, sometimes multiple times in the same season--seasons that ended in National Championships. So, there's that. Second, you say 3.5 years for a reason. It cuts out a national title. National championships are hard to come by, and you can't really luck your way into them. That has bought KO a grace period in many people's eyes, and it certainly should have. Stability is a good thing. Third, I think a lot of people thought 2016 was a disappointment, but an understandable on in many ways: there were a [I]ton[/I] of new parts KO had to integrate, and while he didn't do it as well as we all would have liked, we [I]weren't[/I] on the bubble like many people seem to think, and they won the AAC tournament. Fourth, last year was a train wreck of injuries. There was a good recruiting class we were excited about, but our PG got injured right away, our 3 did as well. It already had the look of a bad season, and if there weren't injuries and the season went the way it was looking, a lot more of those of us who are more neutral or late to the "time to move on" party would have decisively done so. Fifth, the team lost a lot of players, they didn't seem to like each other, etc, in the off-season. They came into this season with terribly low expectations, as they should have. But KO pulled in some players who didn't seem have bad, and brought in a killer for recruiting purposes. My position then was that if this season showed growth--given all the circumstances--we'd probably be fine with KO going forward. Now, the team looks like a disaster, and the Gilbert injury plays a role in that. But I'm not sure what anyone is seeing [I]now[/I] that they couldn't have foreseen in May. So, all in all, I'm not happy with the state of the program, but realistically it's not as bad as some of the hysterics suggest. I wasn't a fan of how KO was hired, but a title means something, as do injuries. I'm assuming, given the cost of moving on, we'll have KO for another year at minimum, so I'm rooting for the team as is. If, somehow they find the money and move on to a somewhat exciting hire (not Pikeill, but Hurley I can get behind), I wouldn't be upset, though I'd be sad that all the hope I felt about the future of the program from 2013-2016 came to this. [/QUOTE]

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