I'm generally an optimist too. The team should be pretty good and fun to watch next year. This years team pretty much went as Uthoff went. He was a good player for Iowa, but they appear that they will have a lot more offensive options next year. Williams, Moss, Cook, Wagner, Kriener, and Pemsl all seem to have more fire power than Clemmons, Gesell, and Woodbury. Cook will only a true freshman, but he is one strong guy, and he appeared to play within the system his high school team had for him. I don't know how strong Kriener and Pemsl are but they aren't skinny guys. Didn't Kriener and Pemsl play for the same summer league team that Woodbury did? If they did they are probably well founded on the defensive aspects of the game. Woodbury did pretty good defensively when he was a true freshman. Fran and the coaching staff have done good jobs with a lot less talent, and about the same experience.