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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4946791, member: 71"] This. And this. I cannot understand why so many people have to think in absolutes. Yes, KO stopped recruiting, stopped coaching, basically stopped caring about the product that he had full rsponsibility for. That doesn't mean that for every second he worked here as a coach this was the case. Did we have a coach on the floor many different times during our better seasons (teams designed to have a veteran PG as our leader, especially in critical game moments)? Yes. This was an advantage by design, and it wasn't exclusive to that one team. If one is being intellectually honest, they would need to accept that our comeback in the first half against Villanova happened with Bazz on the bench with two fouls. There is more than enough to criticize KO on for his time here as a head coach but the first two seasons that he was in charge should not be criticized. He had his finger on the pulse of the 2014 tournament team better than any coach I had seen, was able to motivate the team and get them to have enough confidence in themselves to bring home the title. If you want to blast KO for basically mailing it in (possibly putting in effort even less than that) his last few years, please do, but you may have to get in line behind me as I've thrown a lot of criticism his way and on occasion will continue. That doesn't mean that everything he did here was bad. [/QUOTE]