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Message: [QUOTE="KevMonstah, post: 2967349, member: 327"] Many good posts in this thread. I consider this season a miserable failure, but that's because I bought into what they could do, given full lineup back, depth added via health, recruits, and hughes eligible, and expected improvement. Of which there was none. A ways through the season, it was pointed out, "everyone back from a lousy offense is still a lousy offense." But I guess it's relative: if the regular season sucks and they limp into the tourney and do well, the season's a success. If the regular season is great and the tourney sucks, the season's a failure. They need to match regular season with tourney perf, and the SU fan is looking for a solid regular season (one loss OOC, at least 11-7 ACC) and a good postseason performance (ideally the ACC semi-finals, and then to the sweet 16 with a chance, if they play a good game, to get to the elite 8). That is maybe asking a lot, but that's the bar of success for SU fans. As for the team, yes, I'd like to see more than a zone D. I'd like to see 'players' recruited, not 'zone athletes', I'd like to see better rebounding, I'd like to see an offense that has a low post option, because there is something to be said for "ya know, instead of bricking every outside shot and going scoreless for 5+ mins, how about trying a shot from inside? you need to ability to playcall an almost certain score, and this offense hasn't had that for awhile." And I'd like to see better than iso-dribbling and forcing a shot. Move around. And I want to see some player development. I'm not asking for much. And JB has his option to quit when he's ready, to which he's said in the past, it's probably going to be a "that's it, I'm done", skipping the farewell tour. If they are planning a succession, it almost has to be Red, because they are not going to get an agreement with example Nate Oats that, "well, quit your job at UB the moment JB retires, because here's a wink-wink agreement that you got it". Never happen. You'd have to be an AD at a Big Ten or SEC school with a big football program to consider doing that. I expect Wildhack is not that much of a slime. Either it's Red, or it's a full-blown search when JB quits, there's not really much else to do, unless you can convince your future head coach to accept a current assistant coach on the staff. What a crappy way to end the season, but not an unexpected one. I swapped Baylor in as soon as Frank was out. Kev [/QUOTE]

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