While this article makes me chuckle and chortle everytime I read it....
Think about when it was written...we were in the middle of a 5 loss big ten season...and I think everyone was wondering if we had one good "team" or if we were building a "program".
Losing games to Northwestern because a half-talent like Marcus Taylor has a concussion did not bode well for us.
I will go to my grave believing that Anderson, Hill, Torbert, and Bograkos are as responsible for making us a program as Cleaves, Bell, Mopete, and Granger.
By making a final four last year, they proved all the doubters (like Carty) wrong.
But when Carty wrote this, there was a real possibility of not even going to the
NCAA tournament. We had to scrap and claw our way into the tournament 3 out of the 4 years those guys were there.
Do you realize that if Mo Ager doesn't hit that bomb 3 ptr and send the Minnesota game to overtime two years ago...we probably don't even get to lose in the first round to Nevada?
This article made me angry 4 years ago...and it looks foolish now...but frankly, Carty was perilously close to being spot on. An injury here or there...ya never know.