Paying the price for years of bad recruiting

[hawkIhoops]

Nearly all of those guys left after their sophomore year. They could have developed to make a solid team. Kelly in particular. What we saw in the tourney the other night was not the Jake Kelly that we watched in Carver. He's definitely lost a step or two since his knee injury.

Agree. I don't think we were on the road to being a sweet 16 team, but losing key players exposed our lack of talent and depth. When Freeman left we didn't have a legit PG and lost a much needed scorer. When Peterson and Kelly left we lost our future. Fuller leaving was just icing on the cake and what was left behind were mismatched pieces.

Hard to say what keeping Mr. Davis would have done for the program. Maybe bought a couple more years of 18-19 win seasons, but still no succession plan in place. It doesn't always work, but schools with an aspiring head coach on the bench seem to avoid these "off the cliff"
seasons when the program tanks. We go through these major regime changes where coaches and systems change completely.

 

[koolhandlick]

True to an extent, but you would have to pull from 5-6 teams to have enough talent to compete for the upper half of the conference. Peterson, Kelly and Fuller are the only three losses of note. Palmer, Davis, Tucker, Cougill, should not have been here in the first place. Davis at least had the athleticism, but based on where they ended up, I think it is safe to say they were in over their heads in the big ten.

Kelly and Fuller were the only ones that had the talent to be in the Big Ten.