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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 2568669, member: 1001"] Can't look at just the season for the answer. In truth, it was 2010 when "things started to go downhill". There is of course irony in the fact that we've won two national championships since things started going downhill. 2009 was the final season of vintage UConn greatness as we knew it. A great wire-to-wire team, in the Top 25 the whole season, beating up on nearly every Big East team, a fully-loaded roster, multiple future NBA players. 2010 was a huge disappointment, as was 2012 but there was still a ton of talent on the roster. 2011 was an awesome but freak season - that wasn't a great team. We went .500 in the Big East. [LIST] [*]After the 2012 season JC's retirement and the sanctions took things up a notch. Losing Drummond, Lamb, Oriakhi, Roscoe in one season really hurt our talent and depth. [*]2013 - We lost all that talent and replaced it with Nolan, Omar and Tolksdorf. Our final season in the Big East was already a below-average roster in terms of talent. [*]2014 - a subpar recruiting class (Facey, Brimah, Samuel), Omar was never the same after a good freshman year, a disappointing first regular season in the AAC (12-6) but the most amazing NCAA title run in history. I will never wrap my mind around the fact that [I]that [/I]team won a national championship. [*]2015 - lost a ton of production (Bazz, Daniels, Giffey, Kromah, Olander) and brought in Purvis (now eligible), D. Hamilton and Rubin. [*]2016 - Lost Boat, upped our trend of relying on grad transfers (Gibbs and Miller). Added Larrier as a transfer and Adams and Enoch on paper made up our best recruiting class since 2012. Still a fair amount of talent in the program. [*]2017 - a full, good recruiting class, Top 10 nationally, that turned to junk. Meant to be the foundation that solidified the program after four shaky seasons with transfers, grad students and early departures. Our best recruiting class in a long time. Unfortunately, the best player got hurt and two others transferred out along with Enoch. [*]2018 - A very weak recruiting class, three 3-star kids and a grad transfer who makes Shonn Miller look like Blake Griffin and another who makes folks pine for Rob Garrison. Lost the only Top 50 recruit in the class. [/LIST] We all like to bash KO and most of this is his fault too but there is a major problem with the recruiting and talent in this program. We just brought in three 3-star frontcourt kids (Carlton, Whaley, Polley) who wouldn't have had a prayer at getting a scholarship from UConn a decade ago - and they're playing relatively big roles as freshmen. Once Gilbert got hurt it meant Adams was the only PG on the roster (Anderson doesn't count in my book). The only shooter we've signed in the last five years was a headcase who left after one season, and wasn't that great of a shooter anyway. So to sum it up, it's a team short on talent and experience with dreadful in-game coaching. [/QUOTE]

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