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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2460828, member: 1414"] They can beat anybody left on the schedule except Villanova. Not that they should or will, but can. Winning at Arizona or WSU or Cinci is [U]very unlikely[/U]. Aside from that, they have a shot in the other games and will be clearly favored in several of them. It's a blank canvas until they play the games. The season isn't static, nor is the team. It changes day to day and game to game. If your sole snapshot of this team was the first half of the MSU game, what do you think that team could achieve? Well, that's this team at its best. Arkansas at its worst. As for KO, I didn't want us to hire the guy. Most people here were thrilled, but I wanted an experienced guy not tied to Calhoun. Too much baggage to carry. I saw it as an obvious mistake, but JC pretty much forced it. KO exceeded expectations in 2012-14. If he was still the guy he was then, I'd say yeah, he looks like the coach of a power program. He's not. The question is, is it more likely that Kevin can rediscover himself, and become the guy we need him to be or that we can pluck from obscurity, some coach who happens to be the power program HC we need? I'll suggest to you that the odds are very high that whoever replaces Ollie is a downgrade from Ollie. People have to be prepared for that. The odds of landing some 45 year old Tom Izzo or Jim Calhoun is one in a thousand. Competent, you could get competent. Somebody who can win 18-22 games a year. So I root for Ollie to become the Kevin Ollie of four years ago, and to be the man we need. [/QUOTE]

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