These threads kill me. I can't believe anyone thought this team would win without Bouknight. This team hasn't gotten worse. Providence is good. The Big East is good. The Akok injury was brutal. The Jackson injury was brutal. And that's not even mentioning the fact that we've lost a lottery pick.
Saying UConn isn't in the A10 and that going 0-3 in the tournament should put him on the hot seat forgets how bad the last few teams before he showed up were. It also forgets that all our upper-classmen—every one—is best case a good A10 player. None of them have the talent to be a star at our level. Which isn't that big of a problem if your actual talent weren't injured. This team doesn't have talented depth. Our past great teams might have their stars or top recruits be injured or miss games and chug along—Rip, Emeka, AJ, Marcus, Dyson—these dudes missed games and we could still win. We're like two or three years away from that from a talent perspective.
Until we get our All American candidate back—or unless Sanogo, Jackson, and Gaffney all make pretty large leaps—we're probably going to lose to every good team. There's really not much Hurley can do.
It's a shame what happened with Bouknight. It's also a shame they lost that Creighton game because if/when he does come back it would be nice to say we were undefeated with him.
