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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 5149881, member: 6927"] Most of your analysis is spot on, but the Arkansas program cannot be described as having been "consistently successful with 20 win seasons" prior to Neighbors. The Jimmy Dykes hire in 2014 made even less sense than hiring Adair. He did get them (barely) into the NCAA tournament in his first year, but in none of his 3 seasons did they reach 20 wins. Before that, Tim Collen had only modest success, getting to 2 NCAA tournaments in a 7-year tenure. The Susie Gardner tenure before that was just bad. Arkansas did have some decent teams under Gary Blair in the late 90s (including a flukish run to the Final Four in 1998), but that's a pretty distant memory. Neighbors seemed to have Arkansas turned around, but the success went away as quickly as it arrived. Their best team was in 2021, when they were an NCAA #4 seed, but lost in the first round to Wright State. They were only a 10 seed in 2022 and went to the WNIT in 2023. Arkansas under Neighbors has hit 20 wins only 3 teams in Neighbor's tenure. [/QUOTE]