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<blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 132349164" data-attributes="member: 1812660">Can you name a single season at WVU where Bob Huggins has had a good season with at least 4 of his top 6 players on the team being in the program less than 2 years?&nbsp; How about his last 30?&nbsp; How about his entire coaching career?&nbsp; Because this is about the best I can think of and it's a flawed bubble team that is not going anywhere in the tournament on their own if they make it.&nbsp; You think Bob is suddenly going to get good at something he has never done before in his coaching career at age 70?&nbsp; It is like asking a veteran pitcher to suddenly start pitching with his off hand. Sure it is technically the same game, but its an entirely different way of trying to accomplish the same task.&nbsp; Sure it could be learned, but it usually takes a while and rarely does a veteran at the end of their career do it. Otherwise you have to hope that by some combination of recruiting and transfers, Huggins brings in a good set of young players.&nbsp; He then must retain both the best and the majority of them for the next 2 seasons.&nbsp; And then maybe after 2 seasons of investment and development he makes a run at age 72 in the method he has typically used for success as a basketball coach.Neither seem likely despite his past accomplishments.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Bell Tolls for Thee, post: 132349164, member: 1812660"] Can you name a single season at WVU where Bob Huggins has had a good season with at least 4 of his top 6 players on the team being in the program less than 2 years? How about his last 30? How about his entire coaching career? Because this is about the best I can think of and it's a flawed bubble team that is not going anywhere in the tournament on their own if they make it. You think Bob is suddenly going to get good at something he has never done before in his coaching career at age 70? It is like asking a veteran pitcher to suddenly start pitching with his off hand. Sure it is technically the same game, but its an entirely different way of trying to accomplish the same task. Sure it could be learned, but it usually takes a while and rarely does a veteran at the end of their career do it. Otherwise you have to hope that by some combination of recruiting and transfers, Huggins brings in a good set of young players. He then must retain both the best and the majority of them for the next 2 seasons. And then maybe after 2 seasons of investment and development he makes a run at age 72 in the method he has typically used for success as a basketball coach. Neither seem likely despite his past accomplishments. [/QUOTE]

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