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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2676338, member: 488"] If Adams leaves, then I'd agree that next season could be as bad. I maintain that the worst coaching job Ollie did at UConn - by far - was in 2016-17. That team had no business missing the tournament, much less finishing under .500 (I know you differed on this subject at the time, I'm interested to see if your perspective has changed at all). Last season, he had very little talent once Gilbert went down. Not so little talent that they should have finished 178th in the country, but I think they would have still been bad even under Hurley. The math in college basketball isn't that complicated - when you have a lot of underclassmen and not many four and five star players, you are going to be bad. Gilbert is the wild card to me. I feel stupid counting on him to be a big part of the team, but then again he's good enough where I'd also feel stupid not expecting him to be. Nobody knows if he can stay on the court and so we could either be talking about 2012 Robbie Hummel (all-conference type player) or 2011 Robbie Hummel (didn't play). The difference there is obviously huge. With Adams, Gilbert, Vital, and Wilson, I think they should be able to get to the tournament despite how raw they are up front. If another couple impact players are added on top of that, then you could be talking about a real team that's back in the national conversation right away. It will be interesting to see how things play out. [/QUOTE]