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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 2539860, member: 5832"] Again the record is just so secondary to me with this team. 10-9 doesn't bug me given the roster, given the schedule, all of it. What i'm worried about is how absolutely out of our depth we look. How totally matched we always look. How the same problems persist year after year. I mean if we're 10-9, and 2-3 of em are blow outs, 2-3 of them are competitive and 2-3 we lose in close contests and whatever... well then we're having a totally different conversation. If we're 10-9 now and push Nova and Wichita hard on the heels of what was a really good effort until the last few minutes of the Arizona game.. hey, things aren't good but we're getting better. But we're not. We're just getting worse. And it's the same story every year. They give you 10 minutes every game where you go 'wow, we ight be figuring it out' or a great game against a bad to middling team where everything looks really great... they give you JUST ENOUGH to kind of hold onto a little bit of hope before they go out immediately thereafter and absolutely get blown out of their shoes. And then it's the same body language, it's the team just going through the motions behind... It's the same offense that's literally leading nowhere. We're honestly not THAT BAD defensively. We can stop good teams and our guard defense is actually really good. But we're outsized, get brutalized on the boards. We don't run. And No - I don't think it's the talent. We're not at mid 00's recruting levels, but we mostly never were before or after and were good. And there's enough talent on this team to warrant playing above the crappy roster construction. We shouldn't have been a losing team in any sense last year - and def. shouldn't be this year either. Then there's just the mind boggling turnover, the inability to develop core players past a point, the rumors of silliness with the coaches off the court, there jsut being heaps of analogies and yeah ra ra without ANY semblance of substance as to what's wrong. And it's all snowballing and taking a bad situation - and uninteresting, albeit underrated conference that fans don't want to come watch... the P5 pressure, the changing landscape, financial constraints, etc... It's all there and just melding into an awful cocktail where what's been going on can't continue. It just can't. Even if it's not as much Ollie's fault as myself, or others on the board think it might be. The buy out sucks, but it won't be as big an obstacle as it appears up front. The issue with it to me is it just severely limits (even more) the program's upward mobility and margin for error. They have to absolutely freaking NAIL the next guy. They 100% can't miss. Because if they do - it's probably over. That to me is more the risk in the buy out than the dollars up front. And I think Benedict is a massive upgrade over previous administrators, but the fact remains even if they get a big name and a better fit (like they did with football) it's stil not a guarantee and they're on the clock. But they are even if they stick with Ollie, if not moreso. So it's not a good option, but it's certainly the least bad one. But they've gotta tee it high and let it fly at this point. [/QUOTE]

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