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Message: [QUOTE="Stainmaster, post: 2287177, member: 5260"] Your analogy is flawed. You're trying to divorce (pun intended) the coach's problems from the program as a whole. Excising him alone isn't going to make everything okay again. For better or worse, KO has been inextricably tied to the program. UConn went 16-17 last year, not just KO -- 3 guys and one recruit didn't transfer/ask out of their LOIs from Kevin Ollie, they transferred from/asked out of UConn. It's not only KO that has only one 1 tourney game in the past 3 years; it's UConn basketball for whom that's true as well. Separating KO's performance from the program as a whole may make you feel better because it perpetuates the "we're still a blue blood, bring on Duke/UK" ethos. But what you and others fail to realize is that a coach's influence on the status of the program is far less temporary than you think it is. You can't just can someone and expect it to be a reset. If KO does poorly enough this year to lose his job, the mess his replacement will have to clean up may be insurmountable. [/QUOTE]