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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2129675, member: 488"] This is such a clown post. First, you're wrong on the Calhoun number. Calhoun missed the tournament twice in his final six years alone and 2012 only got in because they did a good job of gaming the RPI that year. Second, you just doubled Ollie's tournament misses in one swoop. No reasonable person blames him for missing the tournament in 2013 when they were, you know, banned. If we're going to talk about him missing it next year let's just go ahead and say he'll have missed 7 out of 9 years if he misses the next three after that as well, or that if he wins another championship next year that will be 2 in 6 years which will put him on pace to win 10 by the time he's done. There are plenty of reasons to critique Ollie, but you are not even pretending to be objective. And if you want my opinion, these last two years he has under-achieved. But last year was not a failure by any means, and 2015 was the result of losing four starters, battling attrition the entire season, and having no depth. I'll give him a pass for that year. This season no such pass can be given, but even still it is fair to point out the fact that we lost two key contributors early and our star point guard just as we seemed to be turning things around. I'm not a fan of ultimatums, especially with coaches who have already accomplished great things. Thing are too fluid for "you have to win x games" to be a reasonable criteria. I'm more interested in the trajectory and the context. He's going to have to own the disaster of last season, but there are too many unknowns to cast sweeping judgement at this time. Some of the anger, I think, is the distortion of frustration. I know what I watched this season and it was horrible. But it is important to take a bird's eye view of the situation instead of honing in on the optics of today. [/QUOTE]

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