Only in one season did I feel Fran did a bad job. That was the season they lost like their last six or seven games. I haven't seen anything from Fran like this season before. Losing close games is sometimes gonna happen, teams get snakebit yadda, yadda, but bad D, bad O, indifferent players, and lack of hustle. There has to be some bad juju somewhere on this team. Maybe older players being passed up for younger, discontent, I don't know. I just can't think of a reason this team is so inept. There's a lot of laughing and giggling going on on the bench which is fine if your winning, just looks out of place when you're losing at home by 15. Losing Williams (which was strange for a player to transfer with tons of playing time available) might have been the first symptom.
I remember a team with Les Jepson, probably the most unathletic big man ever at Iowa, beat a good Michigan team on guts alone. Fran is not getting Max effort from these guys.