re: Question re: Arkansas Basketball and the Last 20 years / Next 20 years

My realistic perception is that we are a top 30ish program that has looked a lot more like a barely top 150 program since the dawn of this millennium.

People outside the state just don't see how much things have changed since the 90s with our basketball program. From the last few years of Nolan until the hiring of Mike we seriously made every single mistake we COULD have.

Mike won't take us back to where we need to be, but he is an improvement and I personally think if he had been hired to replace Nolan a LOT of bad blood would have been spared and we could have built ourselves back up very quickly. Instead we made some of the worst possible hires. So many recruiting ties were severed by that 10+ year span that we are still suffering though it, I do believe that when Mike moves on we will make a very solid hire based mostly on the foundation he rebuilt, but I don't see us being a consistent tournament team until we have a staff that is better at in game coaching and teaching of fundamentals. Best case for us is Mike lucks out a few years in a row and retires and we carry the momentum forward.