Originally Posted by Bucketnight
If we remain in the A10 and need a new coach because we have gone to 4 consecutive tournaments and had an Elite 8 run in each of those 5 year runs, we would be a tremendous program. How many programs can point to better?
It's great to have aspirations, but if you're thinking that's failure I think you are setting yourself up for a lot of frustration.
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The problem here is that you are forgetting Archie's first 2 years. none his fault, but he had a program with a good recruiting class coming in that all bailed. scrapped together a couple of middling seasons gets his recruits in and finally makes the dance. great run, but he left his successor in potentially the exact same predicament and there is no guarantee we will hit a coaching home run each one of those periods. My issue is not with Archie leaving. Mine is with timing that could leave us with another huge roster hole and, after 6 years, uncertainty as to whether we had an internal succession plan. My hope is that one of the internal guys is ready and ww keep some continuity for our program, especially the players and recruits.I do not want a trough every 4-6 years in hopes that we can crawl back out. And my hope is that our recruits didnt just choose UD because of Archie, but saw the great program and university here and choose to remain flyers. That is how we sustain the program.