It's all about building the right team and not wasting seasons on DII players.
Coach L had stiffs on his teams. Plenty of them. Need I bring up the fact the he started Jesus Urbina against Duke in 2007 again?
The point I was making is that we call the 1999 team a success because they made it to the NCAA tournament that year and the 2016 team a failure because they finished middle of the pack in the A10 without really understanding the context between those rebuilds. That 1999 team did not have an at-large worthy resume (was in fact 4-6 in the OOC).
And let’s be honest, the struggles this year are coming from the players we thought were going to be some of our strongest contributors (Otis, Mar, Reuter), not from our sophomores or freshmen or people who have left (although we miss Newman last year and this year).