[imported_torQQue]

Kentucky basketball will bounce back. All elite teams go through down years every once in awhile. Just take a look at some of the teams this year that are elite programs that are down.

UL, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Arizona, Kansas, North Carolina, Indiani, Kentucky, Washington..

Even though these elite programs are down.. Half will still make the NCAA tournament and may pull off a couple wins while there. Teams like this don't stay down long. You can visit other various message boards and you would think that UK hasn't won a game 10 years. People talk shit about the UK program and how its on a downward spiral. I think its a load of bullshit. Tubby is an excellent coach. Since being at UK he has averaged 26 wins a season. How many other programs can say that. UK is the winningest basketball program ever. Second in national titles and I think they have more NCAA tournament appearences than any other team. They have won more SEC titles than all other SEC teams combined. Having a down year 1 time a century is acceptable. It happens to all the elite programs. Take UNC a few years back. They were down for about 3 years straight. Even missed the tournament a couple times. What happened. They bounced back and won the national title. UL was down for a while. Look what happened? They made a run to the final four last year..

YA, Uk is struggling some this year. But even a down year Tubby will manage to get 20 wins out of this team and a NCAA bid.

Why is UK down? IMO its due to a couple sub-par recruiting classes. This happens to all the best coaches. Recruiting is alot like gambling. You bet on the games (recruits) that have the best odds. Even with the best odds sometimes things just dont go the way you planned and you lose or don't win as much as you thought you would. 8 out of 10 times though you would win.

Like I said the UK program as a whole is fine. Tubby is fine. UK will bounce back and be a dominate program like they always have been.