Ajm1115 said:
i'll go as far as saying perhaps A&M sports history?
Absolutely not, but that's not really what this thread is about.
As for the overall question, I think if you looked at our program in a vacuum you could make a case that perhaps Kennedy has found some decent footing and that we're probably going to hover somewhere between mediocre and pretty good long term. Which, given our history, is pretty good.
But, this isn't a vacuum, and history is mostly irrelevant, and literally every team in our conference with the exception of maybe Arkansas and Kentucky (because they're already as good as you can be as a program) looks like they're on an upward trajectory.
So, even if you're optimistic and think we're staying stagnant talent-wise as a program (even though I think it's a much easier case to make that we're about to take a big dip in the next couple of years,) everyone around us is getting better.
We'll see after next year. Once we gave Kennedy a new deal in 2016, we were never going to do anything until 2019 anyway. Next year is the first time since 2015 that I think there's a halfway realistic chance that we might make a move at the end of the season if things don't go well.
But I keep coming back to this, and I think it's pretty simple:
Is this a basketball program that you want to get behind? And to me that answer is no. We don't play hard all the time, we have players that seem selfish both on and off the court. We had SIX different players suspended at various times last year, including everyone that started our NCAA Tournament game except for Tyler Davis. In a season that could have truly been special, that speaks to a lack of accountability and leadership.