Originally Posted by
bshrader
Jason, you eluded to this yesterday, that thinking about what college basketball has become is just a nightmare. And it is. A total nightmare. Because we can no longer look at a team in terms of progression and stability in the future. As it stands with the current parameters, college basketball is a year-by-year platform. My guess is that the staff took this into account, and calculated that Theo gives us the best chance to win THIS year, and I agree with that thought process. Is that throwing the future by the wayside? Yes, but the current landscape essentially forces you to do so. It forces you to look at each season in a vacuum.
Yup. Good luck to college basketball.
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