re: Alright, I'm done. Anderson needs to go.

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In basketball, Mike has had to keep guys he probably would not have due to the APR, one guy flunking out can do far more damage to the program than in football. The other issue is he was forced to keep all the guys who Pel signed in his first class, 5 total or 39% of the team in one class. None of those guys had offers from him while at Mizzou, Madden was the only one I can recall him having interest in, Young he had no interest in. All of this basically set the timeline back one year, year 3 and he has only 2 recruiting classes on campus and has added 2 transfers to make up for that first class.

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Dale, you pretty much said what I was thinking as I was reading. MA's style and philosophy probably takes longer to implement than most other coaches. Add to what you said about the players he inherited the fact that to run his system, you have to have 8, 9 or 10 guys that can all do it and do it equally well. He's at a point where he probably has half or just over half that number. Another year of getting players that fit his system and he'll have the depth he needs. Even if the players he inherited were good players, if they don't fit his system, they make the system fall apart.

It's easier said than done, but I truly believe, given time, MA will have Arky winning and in the tourney with a brand of basketball that is exciting 90% of the time and head scratching 10% of the time, but in the tourney none the less.