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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2689749, member: 488"] You can't describe my expectations for Hurley as too high until you actually know what my expectations are. I think that, in the long run, you'll be surprised to discover that my expectations for him are amongst the lowest on the board. That's not because I think he's a bad coach, it's because I know hard this is. He's going to need every break he can get, and if that means walking into a team that is much better than expected in year one, I'm certainly going to hold out hope for that outcome. Hurley does not need to build a program. It's already been built for him. He'll inherit a team consisting of two extremely talented freshman (Gilbert and Wilson), a couple top 150 sophomores (Polley/Diarra/Carlton), a top 150 junior (Vital), and a five star senior point guard (Adams). Throw in yesterday's additions, plus anything we'll get from scholarship #13, and there's no reason we shouldn't be good right away. Keep in mind that "good" is subjective and a long way from the final four, but Ollie got fired for a reason: he took a group of players that was supposed to be in the mix and led them to abject hopelessness. It might take Hurley a while to build this program into a powerhouse, but it should not take him long to have us competing for AAC titles. Any notion to the contrary is to give him a benefit of the doubt that was never extended to Ollie. [/QUOTE]