This board is a good place to vent frustration, I guess (i.e., picking someone to blame). I think our season is going about the way we should have expected. We lost our best player to graduation. Arriaran, our best shooter, went down to injury for the year. We lost Mergerson (for whatever reason), one of our main hopes for an inside presence. We have great athletes, but no true stars or true pure shooters. We had and have a great coaching staff. I don't buy the cliches about not having heart or character. Of course the players are trying, maybe too hard. But you can't do what you physically can't do. It's 80% in the recruiting and in staying healthy. And recruiting includes a lot of luck and guesswork. I think we may spring another upset or two before the season ends, and that will be fun.