If they can't finish in the top-half next year with all that they have put into it...ignoring culture...paying kids...win-at-all-costs approach...guys returning for extra years...not sure that they ever will.
No excuse for Indinia to not go into the season as one of the conference contenders on paper...and, in that they won't play anyone until conference play begins, should be easy to masquerade as such until conference play actually begins.
Even with bad coaching, no reason that team should not be in the top half of the conference, and, contending for that matter...they will have one of the oldest and more experienced rosters with essentially everyone of any significance back, and, two highly-rated Academy school recruits.