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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2569161, member: 488"] There are a lot of ways to answer this question, but to me the first time something felt seriously wrong was when we lost to Wagner to start last season. A lot of people chalked it up to youth or inexperience, but youth and inexperience at a program like UConn means you beat Wagner by 15 instead of 50. You don't drop the opener to Wagner if your program is healthy, you just don't. But that's just when I started to wonder. Other people seemed to express real concern much sooner than that, even dating back to the late signing period in 2014. Losing Clark, Mack, etc. triggered a lot of warning bells with people and in hindsight I wonder if they knew about things going on behind the scenes. I remember pessimism being expressed during the 2014 opener that didn't seem compatible with everything else we had learned about Ollie and co. the years before and seemed particularly alarmist given the circumstances. I thought people were very easy on KO last season because of the injuries. This season, I'm not sure he ever had much of a shot without Gilbert and without all the guys that transferred in the off-season. [/QUOTE]