You have to have hope to continue to watch them. After last night, I'm losing hope. I know we are all competitive and it is frustrating to us as fans but probably worse for the coaching staff and players. I just don't know any more if it is coaching or lack of talent. I like several of our players but maybe my talent evaluation isn't very good. With these kinds of results, how many will end up transferring and those signed asking out of their commitment. As one coach said years ago after a sub 500 season, "good news is we have everybody back and the bad news is we have everybody back". The way things are going I see maybe one win. Even after seeing some Northwestern scores, I'm not even sure of that. Who are our B10 talent on the roster? Do we have anyone coming in that will help us in the future? We just need something positive to happen for our team to feel good about themselves because I'm sure they feel terrible right now.
I did this in a different post, but its worth doing here since people are trying to say we have no talent.
Purdue under Gearlds has had 8 top 100 kids per ESPN/Hoopgurlz ratings, 4 have transferred out.
UMinn had had 5, one transferred out and one is out all season injured. They are roughly as talented as we are. They are 18-3 6-3 in big ten play.
UILL has had 5, one transferred out, one is injured for the year since early December. They nearly doubled us up with their starters sitting out the 4th quarter.
MSU has had 3, one transferred out. They are hovering in the top third of the Big Ten.
IU has 5, anyone think we will be competitive with them?
It's not talent, we have the talent to be about 3-5 wins better than we are right now, but its poorly developed, poorly coached, and stuck in a poor offensive scheme.
