This the seventh annual version of this post, and in the previous six I was left to reconcile a handful of different thoughts as I prepared my season preview. I was always focused on the present, but there was this undercurrent (with varying degrees of intensity) that was always flowing just beneath the surface, and it always asked one question: What is the future of this basketball program?
I navigated these waters best I could, defending Kennedy one month and roasting him the next, but it always seemed to cloud my judgement of the program as a whole.